Learning to Fly: A Season with the Peregrine Falcon
- Location(s): Adirondacks
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s
Naturalist and U.S. Air Force pilot P.H. Liotta spent an unforgettable season in the Adirondacks attempting to bridge the chasm between man and nature by teaching orphaned falcons to fly. And he found that in mastering flight, falcons, like...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
Sylvia turns 16 and is involved with in a car accident. Behind the wheel of the other car is a young football player from Argentina. The capricious meeting sets in motion a life that takes unexpected directions. Murder and...
- Location(s): California, Napa Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Having suffered in silence since the tragic death of their young daughter, Lola and Duncan Drummond’s last chance to rediscover their love for one another lies in an anniversary holiday to the gorgeous Napa Valley. Unable to talk about...
- Location(s): Nuneaton, Warwickshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the Sunday Timesbestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye. ‘A smart, agile, immaculately plotted and moving thriller that is unswervingly gripping and scary, and at...
- Location(s): Connecticut
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Welcome to Oldham, CT, a small town rich in Colonial heritage while being utterly contemporary. Situated along the Connecticut River Valley, Oldham bursts with color every fall, as the leaves on its trees evolve into an unmatched palette of...
- Location(s): Samoa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the...
- Location(s): Barcelona, Tangier
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. Azel, the protagonist, is intent on leaving in one way or another. On the brink of despair he...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1945
November 1945. John Russell is walking home through the grey streets of postwar London when his old accomplice, Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin, falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin informs Russell that his masters in Moscow have decided it’s time...
- Location(s): China
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the Village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and...
- Location(s): Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1490s
Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on commissions and failing to complete them. He is in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen months he has been painting murals in...
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