- Location(s): Middle East, Bahrain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
Reluctantly, Vicky and Joe leave their Spanish mountain village to work for a year in the Middle East. How could they know that the Arab revolution was poised to erupt, throwing them into violent events that would make world...
Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Prehistoric
Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
“Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence,...
- Location(s): France, Northern Spain, Santiago de Compostela
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past – for Zoe, the death...
- Location(s): Ghana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Multiple
Trans Atlantic and African slave trades are the subject of Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons (1973) in which a pluralized communal voice speaks through the history of Africa, its wet and dry seasons, from a period of one thousand years....
- Location(s): Newburyport
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They’ve been welcomed by Rebecca Coleman, unofficial former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad, and her teenage daughter Alexa, Katie’s new babysitter....
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Iran is probably the most misunderstood country in the world, and its people are among the most feared. Award-winning travel writer Jill Worrall, with her friend Reza Mirkhalaf, a leading tour manager from Tehran, describe an Iran the world...
Two’s Company at the Forest Light Show
- Location(s): Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): contemporary
One night, one second chance, and a love story waiting to happen Vivacious forestry worker Cha Gilchrist doesn’t usually have flings with buttoned-up guys who dress like her old geography teacher, no matter how secretly attractive she finds them....
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Winner of the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2007. Robin Greaves is an armed robber whose professionalism is put to the test when he discovers his wife has been sleeping with a fellow gang member....
- Location(s): Carmel-by-the-Sea, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1957/2018
Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock’s new star. 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard...
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