- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Adventure, Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet… In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland’s glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th century
The clouds of war have ravaged the continent, killing, starving, infecting every soul. The enemy is approaching, the promised bloodshed retribution for sins committed years ago. There is no escape, no choice, but to stand and fight against the...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified at the prospect of going to live with her country cousins. But as she helps with chores around the farm and makes new friends, the sickly, self-centered girl is transformed into confident, independent Betsy....
- Location(s): East Yorkshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On Yorkshire’s gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom, Jacob and Ella hide from their parents’ passionate arguments by playing the ‘Underwater Breathing’ game – until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Don DeLillo’s mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome — the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World — shades into the...
- Location(s): Atlanta
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and...
Undress Me In The Temple Of Heaven
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Adventure
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1986, Susie and her friend Chloe, fresh-faced graduates from Brown University, were inspired by a placemat entitled “Pancakes of Many Nations” to depart on an epic trip around the world, starting with Hong Kong and the People’s Republic...
- Location(s): Loire Valley (Vallée de la Loire)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
‘If you were able, how would you redesign your life?’ Sian Evans is a feisty yet emotionally aloof divorcee with a secret. When her shrink asks her this question she takes it seriously. Giving up her stable home and...
- Location(s): Michigan, Harrison
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1883
Michigan, 1883 In Her Darkest Hours, Is He the Man She Needs? Lily Young longs to find her lost sister or will die trying. Heedless of any danger, she searches logging camps and towns, posing as a photographer’s assistant....
- Location(s): Arkansas, Sussex
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present
The Life Assistance Agency finds itself at a loss after returning from Europe. Leading member Ben is determined to stay away from anything involving Angels, when the phone rings to invite them to write the biography of a self-deluded...
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