Ghosts of Spain: Travels though Spain and its Secret Past
- Location(s): Spain
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
Giles Tremlett starts his journey through Spain, just as the harrowing past of the Spanish Civil War comes to the fore through the discovery of mass graves. This book describe his journey in beautifully written prose, trawling through the...
- Location(s): Iowa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. ‘It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that...
- Location(s): Illinois, Iowa
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1980's & Present Day
A rock band’s reunion is looking more like a farewell tour in a captivating mystery by New York Times bestselling and award-winning crime master Max Allan Collins. No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction...
- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
You think you met her by chance. You’re wrong. Charlotte has it all: the successful career, the loving family. But, secretly, she is dangerously bored of her rigid and structured life. Bianka is a free spirit, always the life...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lucy Hall’s first summer in Paris promises to be idyllic. She’s fallen in love with the city and enjoys her new job as an investigative reporter. When her friend Nina comes to stay, the girls look forward to a...
- Location(s): Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
New York Times bestseller Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is a powerful story about a Chinese immigrant family in Brooklyn. Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them – making a new...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, London, Siena
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
An orphan poses nervously for a Renaissance maestro in medieval Siena, and an artist’s servant girl in seventeenth-century Amsterdam snatches a moment away from her work to lose herself in tales of knights and battles. A woman reading in...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
In the winter of 2001, 29-year-old Walt Steadman survives a shooting in his favorite Boston café that leaves four people dead. In the aftermath, Walt forms two new relationships : one with Ginger Newton, a privileged, reckless, Harvard undergraduate...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Last year, Kika Shores was traveling across the globe without a care in the world. Now she’s stuck at home with her mom, pining for a sexy charmer who lives across the big pond. But then Kika lands a...
- Location(s): Tulum
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
For estranged friends Ashley, Natalie, and Lauren, it’s time to heal the old wounds between them. Where better to repair those severed ties than on a girls’ getaway to the beautiful paradise of Tulum, Mexico? But even after they’re...
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