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Into the Jungle

Into the Jungle
  • Author(s): Erica Ferencik
  • Location(s): Cochabamba
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it. When the gig falls...

Into the Tangled Bank

Into the Tangled Bank
  • Author(s): Lev Parikian
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lev Parikian is on a journey to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how the British experience nature. Open a window, hear the birds calling and join him. ——— It’s often said that the British are a nation...

Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air
  • Author(s): Ørjan Karlsson, Ian Giles (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bødo, Norway, Røst
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Arctic Mysteries Book 1) When nineteen-year-old Iselin Hanssen disappears during a run in a popular hiking area in Bodø, Northern Norway, suspicion quickly falls on her boyfriend. For investigator Jakob Weber, the case seems clear-cut, almost unexceptional, even...

Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers

Island of Sweet Pies and Soldiers
  • Author(s): Sara Ackerman
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested. Violet Iverson and her young daughter, Ella, are piecing...

Island on the Edge of the World

Island on the Edge of the World
  • Author(s): Deborah Rodriguez
  • Location(s): Haiti, Port au Prince
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover. Charlie, the rootless daughter of American missionaries, now working as a hairdresser in Northern California. But the repercussions of a traumatic...

Istria Gold

Istria Gold
  • Author(s): Mike Downey
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 81AD / WW2 / 2019

From award-winning filmmaker and producer Mike Downey comes an ambitious and atmospheric historical thriller debut, the first in a trilogy starring Marco Mihailić. Set on Croatia’s Istrian peninsula, ISTRIA GOLD explores the turbulent region’s history, culture, and traditions, bringing...

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv

Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Reuben Woolley (Translator)
  • Location(s): Lviv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the author of Death and the Penguin and Grey Bees, now reporting widely on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his home country. Strange things are afoot in the...

Katalin Street

Katalin Street
  • Author(s): Magda Szabó
  • Location(s): Budapest
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1934-1968

In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is played by the four children in which Bálint, the promising son of the Major, invariably chooses Irén Elekes, the...

Keeper of the Way

Keeper of the Way
  • Author(s): Patricia Leslie
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s to 1880s

Book one in a three book series: After news of grave robbing and murder in Dun Ringall, the ancient stronghold of Clan McKinnon on the Isle of Skye, Rosalie realises it is time to share her family’s secrets. Descendants...

Killing the Nerve

Killing the Nerve
  • Author(s): Anna Pazos
  • Location(s): Europe, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Autofiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Not so much autofiction as autojournalism, rising star, Anna Pazos ’book is an exploration of the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. Anna takes us with her on her journey, fleeing the...

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