- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi were recently voted “Least Changed” at their twentieth high school reunion- a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change...
- Location(s): Greece, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
It is 1974. Alexandros is a young man who has left his rural Greek village to come to New York to work in his cousin’s restaurant. The restaurant is in East End, a small seaside village fifty miles from...
- Location(s): Southern Spain
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
If Mills & Boon making A Place in the Sun and casting Ryan Reynolds as the main TV presenter floats your boat, then this riotous, behind-the-scenes, enemies to lovers summer sizzler is definitely for you! He’s a pompous show-off...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Suddenly...
- Location(s): Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
All it takes to change your life is a single moment. A random stabbing on a London bus leaves a young woman widowed and detached from her previous world. Stripped of a future that should have been hers, she...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
When the moon rises high and the stars twinkle, it is bedtime for the baby animals of the Indian forest. But tonight, when the skies turn dark and the night grows stormy, the little ones can’t sleep. SWISH-SWISH! CRACK-TRACK!...
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1990s - Contemporary
The story that unfolds in Vojnović’s hugely popular Slovenian novel is so gripping, that it is quite easy to forget your real surroundings. A Google search takes Vladan Borojević back to the catastrophic events of 1991, when he first...
- Location(s): Tokyo, Boston, Oahu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Diana is young and uneasy in a new relationship when she leaves America and moves halfway around the world to Tokyo seeking adventure. In Japan she takes a job as a nanny to two-year-old Yuki Yoshimura and sets about...
- Location(s): Bahrain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Khadeeja is a child who is forced into womanhood early. She is compelled to marry a man much older than she through arranged marriage and lives a world of hardships from then on. Her mother dies soon after her...
- Location(s): Zagreb
- Genre(s): Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): Various
astern European history is filled with noir-ish and harrowing tales, and Zagreb, the capital city of Croatia, certainly has its fill. Editor Ivan Srsen has curated a diverse, powerful and dramatic group of stories that offer tremendous insight into...
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