- Location(s): New South Wales, Great Ocean Road, Victoria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Live-in boyfriend, perfect career and great friends, it seems like Georgia is only a Tiffany box away from her happily ever after. But when she arrives in Australia for her best friend’s wedding and is faced with the bridezilla...
- Location(s): Maryland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century onwards
Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America’s great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is the same book as: The Beautiful Things that Heave Bears Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father’s life, Stepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind,...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1929
In “Children of Wrath” Willi Kraus tackles the case of the Kinderfresser, the vicious Child-Eater of Berlin. Turning the clock back two years from The Sleepwalkers, the story starts out in the fall of 1929, the last days of...
- Location(s): Iceland, Reykjavik
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When a shipowner is found dead, tied to a bed in one of Reykjavik’s smartest hotels, sergeant Gunnhildur Gisladottir of the city police force sees no evidence of foul play but still suspects things are not as cut and...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Lae 1930s
It’s 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco’s Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Journalist, Robin Gifford, takes the Old Silk Road, Route 312 and hitches, rides lifts, and taxis and shares his experiences and thoughts.
- Location(s): Florida, Madeira, Poland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and WW2
What could be dangerous about the idyllic, picturesque island of Madeira? Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic, would seem to be a perfect destination for technology journalist Karl Lustig and his wife, Shira Markham. But, Karl, on his...
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“Put on your Borsalino and swing those hips, baby.” Charming, poetic, delightful and humorous travel and life stories about extraordinary Milanese women, men who have succumbed to their temptation, and the art of living your own dolce vita no...
Chique Secrets of the Dolce Amore
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
When we talk about “the city of love”, most of us immediately think of Paris, Venice, Rome or another famous metropolis whose romantic stories we know from movies and novels. But to Barbara Conelli, none of them are the...
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