- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
The Great Depression, 1929. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and utterly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits in the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth: a second-rate travelling circus...
- Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn...
- Location(s): South Africa
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
It’s Rosa. There’s trees outside. Get me help. Please. A terrified young woman leaves a phone message for her grandfather. He promised he’d protect her, but now she’s disappeared. A little girl, only three years old, is found half-dead...
- Location(s): Liverpool, Ireland, London, New Orleans
- Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Fiction
- Era(s): Victorian
Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port. Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is...
- Location(s): Vigo, Galicia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Amid the aroma of the sea and the Galician pines, a young saxophonist is found dead in his swanky flat overlooking the beach. The murder seems to have taken place after an encounter with a lover, but the way...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): Various
Lyric poetry is the most important branch of literature in Slovenia. The six epic lyric poems in this volume are about the mysterious beings known as Waterlings. They pray and chant incantations, engage in song, tell their legends, and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
- Location(s): Netherlands
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2001
Trading life in the fast lane of Johannesburg for that of Rotterdam’s serene Oude Haven, Valerie Poore packs all her worldly possessions aboard the historic Dutch barge Hoop and sets about rebuilding both the boat and her life after...
Wave: A Memoir of Life After the Tsunami
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2004
The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author’s despair: how to live now that her life has been...
- Location(s): West of Scotland, Isle of Lewis, The Outer Hebrides
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Alex is stuck. Stuck in Essex. Stuck in his childhood home. Stuck in a job he hates. The relationship he’d been counting on all these years has finally fallen apart. He’s run out of things to hope for. Anxious,...
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