- Location(s): Wisconsin
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1890-1910
First published in 1973, this remarkable book about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town has become a cult classic. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910 by a Black River Falls photographer, Charles Van...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Biography, Crime
- Era(s): 1950s-80s
Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill–the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes — and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother’s...
- Location(s): The Galápagos Islands (Galapagos)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2020
Diana O’Toole’s life is going perfectly to plan. At twenty-nine, she’s up for promotion to her dream job as an art specialist at Sotheby’s and she’s about to fly to the Galápagos where she’s convinced her surgeon boyfriend, Finn,...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Police Procedural, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dr Sian Love Mystery Book 2 DNA doesn’t lie. But what if the truth is dangerous? Former police officer and DNA expert Dr Sian Love has settled into running her own detective agency and cohabiting with her partner, Kris....
Wish You Were Here (Graham Swift)
- Location(s): Isle of Wight
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1952
Classic-feeling storytelling with bags of charm. Fans of thrilling animal adventure and enchanting underground worlds will fall in love with Wishyouwas. It’s 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank...
- Location(s): Somerset
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th century
Set in the 17th century, a breathtaking debut, and a potential prize-winner, about the power of women, witchcraft, fury, revenge and the ties that bind us. After witnessing the brutal murder of her mother by witch-hunters, Evey vows to...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
There’s a new witch in town! Life in Brooklyn takes a strange turn when Effie discovers MAGIC runs in the family. A middle-grade graphic novel adventure filled with magical hjinks for fans of Phoebe and Her Unicorn and Making...
- Location(s): Philadelphia, Chicago
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1954
In 1942, six people destroyed Anna Matheson’s family. Twelve years later, she’s ready for retribution. Under false pretenses, Anna has lured those responsible for her family’s downfall onto a luxury train from Philadelphia to Chicago, an overnight journey of...
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