- Location(s): Vienna, England, Germany, Poland, Prague
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): World War Two
Three friends. Two sides. One memory. Vienna. 1936. Three young friends – Leo, Elsa and Max – spend a perfect day together, unaware that around them Europe is descending into a growing darkness, and that events soon mean that...
When Turtles Come Home: A Memoir on Life in the Philippines
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
When Victoria Hoffarth was at graduate school in the U.S., her lecturer, the anthropologist Margaret Mead, once told her class, “There are so many varied places in the world. It is incumbent upon us to search for one where we most...
- Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana,a Reese Witherspoon Book Club...
- Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among...
- Location(s): Trinidad and Tobago
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the...
- Location(s): Shanghai, London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
England, the 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Millennium Eve and six people gather on a London rooftop. Recently married, Frankie Blue watches with his wife, Veronica, as the sky above the Thames explodes into a kaleidoscope of light. His childhood companion, Colin, ineptly flirts with Roxy,...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1963
1963, Mexico, Maine. The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on a father’s wages from the Oxford Paper Company. Until the sudden death of Dad, when Mum and the four closely connected Wood...
- Location(s): Northumberland, North of England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): 1992 and the Present Day
Four best friends. One of them is dead. Are their secrets safe? Uni friends Stacey, Paula, Bev and Valentina used to be inseparable until one weekend before graduation when nothing was ever the same again. Thirty years later, reunited...
- Location(s): Corfu, Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s to contemporary
Corfu, 1942: To sixteen-year-old Sarah Batis, the Nazis are a distant danger—of far greater threat is the opposing needs of her heart and her people. Tradition demands that Sarah marry a Jewish man. Only Sarah has fallen in love...
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