- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1920s
The brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against the immersive backdrop of 1920s Shanghai. In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . . . A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 17th Century
Rome, 1650. The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling. Donna Olimpia Maidalchini has long kept Pope Innocent X under her thumb,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the award-winning author of Wonder Valley and Visitation Street comes a serial killer story like you’ve never seen before–a literary thriller of female empowerment and social change In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles,...
- Location(s): Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. Delighted by a surprise invitation, Miriam Macy sails off to a luxurious private island off the coast of Mexico with six other strangers. Surrounded by miles of open water...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cannabis kingpin Burl Spoon has reigned over the Jackson County area for three decades, building a powerful backwoods empire. But behind a well-run organization, his personal life is crumbling–his daughter can’t stay clean; his son has hated him since...
They are Trying to Break Your Heart
- Location(s): Balkans, Khao Lak
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s / 2004
DISASTER WILL BRING THEIR LIVES TOGETHER In 1994, Marko Novak’s world is torn apart by the death of his best friend, a young soldier in the Bosnian war. In 2004, human rights researcher Anya Teal is following a tenuous...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Agatha Christie’s international mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not...
- Location(s): Yemen
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Novella
- Era(s): late 20th century
They Die Strangers, a novella and thirteen short stories, is the first full-length work of the distinguished Yemeni writer Mohammad Abdul-Wali to appear in English. Abdul-Wali died tragically in an aviation accident, and his stories were collected after his...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1961
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions...
- Location(s): Helsinki, Baltimore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Family dysfunction, digital technologies and animal rights activism in Helsinki and Baltimore. Winner of the Finlandia Prize in 2014.
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