- Location(s): Samoa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, and the restrictions of life in her Samoan village.
- Location(s): Nairn
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Where wolves prowl… there be sheep… A spellbinding mystery from a huge talent! Jason has put his past life behind him and is living and working in Nairn, way up in the Scottish Highlands, when he becomes fascinated by...
- Location(s): Kinshasa, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s / 2004
London, 2004. Bijoux has a secret. To the world, she is the obedient child, dutifully attending prayer meetings and following the rigid expectations of her silent and austere Pentecostal aunt, Tantine Mireille. But Bijoux is in love with a...
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city, her city, on...
While I Walk: Solo Adventuring in the Vast, Beautiful World
- Location(s): South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Current Day
Thoughtful and authentic, this powerful memoir explores not only who we are in the world but what the world longs to teach us. Join explorer Rachel Durchslag as she travels and hikes in Nepal, Chile, Japan and beyond. Beautifully...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1980s
The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly’s Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to...
- Location(s): Georgia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together–excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking...
- Location(s): The Sudan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
While The Sun Is Above Us takes readers deep into the extraordinary world of Sudan through the intertwined narratives of two women. In the midst of a bloody civil war, Adut is brutally captured and held as a slave...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can a Hollywood romance work in the real world? Ben Stephens has never been one to mix business and pleasure, but when he lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star, Anna Gardiner, and it turns out she’s as...
- Location(s): Leipzig
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Rico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Every night they roam the streets, partying, rioting,...
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