Madagascar – The Eight Continent
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
‘Whether meeting a leaf-tailed gecko eye to eye… or describing conservation issues and local customs, Peter Tyson provides the most enjoyable book on the natural and cultural history of Madagascar I have ever read.’ George B. Schaller, Wildlife Conservation...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high...
- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city’s crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman,...
- Location(s): Roosevelt Island
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
In 1887 young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down...
- Location(s): Middle East, South America, Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Close encounters with Carpet Casanovas in Turkey. A quest to meet a wizard-like hermit in the Lebanese mountains. Political intrigue in a Chinese classroom. A marriage proposal on a Nicaraguan chicken bus. Vicariously experience these and other adventures when...
MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
- Location(s): California, Kansas City, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
The Drue family moves from New York to Small Town, USA in the ’70s, and they may never fully fit in. Thirteen-year-old Sandy’s parents encourage her curiosity, her imagination, and her challenge of social conventions – but not without...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
“Main Street” is the 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis that tells the story of Carol Milford, a liberal, free-spirited young woman from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carol meets and marries Will Kennicott, a doctor who convinces her to move back to...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother’s Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover....
- Location(s): Chamonix
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
A life of skiing, snow and sunshine in the French Alps. That was what one British couple had in mind when they gave up the 9 – 5 grind to run a ski chalet in Chamonix. With their toddler...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Thomas has left his turbulent life in the States and made his new home in Kenya. His encounter with lioness Malaika on the edge of the Serengeti could have signalled his death, but what evolves is a spiritual bond...
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