- Location(s): Gabon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When he was a boy, Luc’s mother would warn him about the “mock men” living in the trees by their home — chimpanzees whose cries would fill the night. Luc is older now, his mother gone. He lives in...
- Location(s): Burgundy-Franche-Comté
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s - later 2010s
Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and become inseparable. Years later, a car is pulled up from the bottom of a lake, with a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist with an...
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1914 - 1918
An elegant memorial to the victims of the Armenian genocide–from the award-winning author of The Brick House. A New York Times Notable Book that imagines the lives of several sufferers of the twentieth century’s first genocide. Anaguil, an Armenian...
Three Apples Fell from the Sky
- Location(s): Armenia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate....
- Location(s): Borneo
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1942
When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith’s...
- Location(s): Rome, Sperlonga, Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins. Emma, an American expat living in Rome for twenty years, can’t count on her ex-husband to help out with the kids when things get tough. Dario Rinaldi, famed plastic surgeon...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party – a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to...
- Location(s): Belgium, Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): World War I
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is...
- Location(s): Florence
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
Kathy Courage has never visited the famous Italian city of Florence before, so she’s thrilled when she and her boyfriend Neil are invited there for a wedding. Unfortunately, with Neil’s constant complaining and his teenage children in tow, it’s...
- Location(s): Baltimore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting...
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