- Location(s): Northern Virginia
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kay Scarpetta #27 Two mauled bodies in the woods. Two top secret autopsies. The most chilling case of Scarpetta’s career . . . In this thrilling new instalment of the #1 bestselling series, chief medical examiner Dr Kay Scarpetta...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks – places that lie on the margins, left behind. A Britain in the cracks of the urban facade where unexpected life can flourish. Welcome to UNOFFICIAL...
Unraveled: A Novel about a Meltdown
- Location(s): Iceland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2008
After a 12-year absence from Iceland, Frida returns home with her husband Damien, a suave and sophisticated British diplomat who has just been made Ambassador to Iceland. It is summer 2008, and the global economy is on shaky ground....
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
A mesmerizing, heart-breaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. For six-year-old...
Until they bring the Streetcars back
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Calvin Gant is in high-school senior in St. Paul in the late 1940s. All the conflicts of a young boy are present and meets a young girl who is being abused at home. He has a growing sense that...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human’ Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the...
- Location(s): Tōhoku
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): March 11, 2011 Tsunami
Running through my ruined town, pack flapping winglike against my back. Plowing through blocks strewn with heaps of refrigeratorsblackboardsbicyclestaxis bustedpianosshelvedesksstairs allmixedtogether in a marshland grave. In March 2011, a massive tsunami devastates Japan. Kai, a biracial teen from a...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when, full of optimism, she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one...
- Location(s): Malta, Northamptonshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
When 51 year old Judith lost Giorgio, she lost her life in Malta – joy, love, her income, her own space, and her circle of friends. She even lost the view from her sun-warmed balcony of the sparkling blue...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
A group of story-tellers are disappearing one by one. A young woman is haunted by her past. A serial killer has one target he is desperate to hunt down. Veerle is trying to lie low, to live as ‘normal’...
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