- Location(s): Guernsey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and Renaissance
Prepare to be swept away by a heart-warming tale of family relationships and love Three women. Three generations. Sacrifices for love… Who is she really? Nicole is about to find out as she searches for her real mother; the...
Fine Just the Way it is: Wyoming Stories 3
- Location(s): Wyoming
- Genre(s): Fiction
The fantastic new collection of stories from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Shipping News’ and ‘Brokeback Mountain’. ‘Fine Just The Way It Is’ marks Annie Proulx’s return to the Wyoming of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ and the familiar cast of...
- Location(s): Europe, Mannheim
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Can a man change his stars? Can he ever really rise above? These are the questions that plague our mortal souls. Bryce Finley, a 48-year-old Canadian single father with an unfinished university degree, two nearly grown children, and no...
- Location(s): The Philippines
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 1940's
In 1941, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the Philippines and subjected its people to rape, enslavement and murder with an estimated 1 million Filipinos killed during the conflict. In December of 1944, the USA took the islands back...
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
- Location(s): Cambodia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
As a small child Loung Ung enjoyed a carefree childhood in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official. But as the Khmer Rouge took over the city in the mid 70s her family fled their...
- Location(s): Hanoi
- Genre(s): Fiction
Six years ago, Mischa Reese left her abusive husband and suffocating life in California and reinvented herself in steamy, chaotic Hanoi. In Vietnam, she finds satisfying work and enjoys a life of relative luxury and personal freedom. Thirty-five and...
- Location(s): South London, Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): RomCom, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she’s been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
As he takes you through five of the city’s greatest neighborhoods—Montmartre, Montparnasse, the Marais, and more—Baxter shares pithy anecdotes about his life in France, as well as fascinating knowledge he has gleaned from leading literary tours of the city...
- Location(s): Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In this stunning new novel, the award-winning Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves in sprawling Shanghai. Justin is from a family of successful property developers. Phoebe has come to China buoyed...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Through chance, luck and choice, one man’s life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London – in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives *A summer...
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