Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
- Location(s): Bhutan
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1987
Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a...
- Location(s): St Albans
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
It is the week before Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans is blanketed by snow. But beneath the festive lights, darkness is stirring. The frozen body of a young girl is discovered by the ice-covered lake. The...
Under the Light of the Italian Moon
- Location(s): Fonzaso
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever Fonzaso Italy, between two wars Nina Argenta doesn’t want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is determined...
- Location(s): Laguna Beach
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Kingsleys Book 2) During a weekend retreat, a powerful family plays a dangerous game of dark secrets and cold-blooded ambition in a novel by Kaira Rouda, USA Today bestselling author of Beneath the Surface. Under the direction of...
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Peshawar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman,...
- Location(s): Brussels
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
From a wartime brothel to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels, Under the Poppy is a breakout novel of childhood friends, a love triangle, puppetmasters, and reluctant spies. Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel. Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to...
- Location(s): Granada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day1930s/40s
Amid the vivid beauty of Granada, a woman entrusted with unraveling a family secret will discover the truth about her heritage–and the alluring promise of love… When her beloved grandmother falls ill, Charlotte Kavanagh will do whatever she asks...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Katherine Dale’s life is in a state of chaos. She has just been made redundant from her job as an accountant and she finds herself with no career, no direction in life and no relationship to fall back on....
- Location(s): New England
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th/21st Century
Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her...
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