Things That Crash, Things That Fly
- Location(s): Italian Alps, Greenville
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
As a husband and wife plan an Italian vacation with friends—to visit her family’s Tuscan village—she makes a last-minute addition to the itinerary: she plans to leave him when they return. And her bombshell includes a caveat. He isn’t...
- Location(s): Germany
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Later 20th Century / various
The Palace of the Republic, that once housed the East German parliament, is demolished. A grandmother’s laughter passes from life into memory. Furniture that once made a home is taken to the tip. A friendship drops into silence. Old...
- Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
What goes unsaid can sometimes speak the loudest . . . What makes up a family? For Casey it’s sharing a house with her fiancE, Michael, and his three children, whom she intends to nurture more than she ever...
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary and 60 years ago
Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her....
- Location(s): England, Lincolnshire
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Beginning with their first meeting in over 20 years at their grandfather’s home in Lincolnshire, the two cousins – Eleanor and Lucilla – quickly learn that each has a fascination with unearthing historic artifacts, which will set them off...
Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather’s wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Thinking on My Feet tells the story of Kate’s walking year – shining a light on the benefits of this simple activity. Kate’s inspiring narrative not only records her walks (and runs) throughout a single year, but also charts...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
Our narrator is twenty-four years old when she and her mother arrive in the tiny coastal town of Sailors Beach. Their holiday, she hopes, will be a pause between her life as a student and whatever happens next. Summer...
- Location(s): Charleston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
***2016 Selah Awards Finalist*** ***2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards Semi-Finalist*** … she closed her eyes to this real-life nightmare. The whole city of Charleston seems to be watching, waiting for Northern transplant and recently hired director of tourism, Victoria...
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