Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
- Location(s): Maryland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Through every family run memories which bind it together – despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone – Cody, a flawed devil,...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Fox is the sole survivor of a terrible accident involving his family, he becomes an outcast yet finds love of a sort with Georgie, a woman who is as adrift as he.
- Location(s): Disneyland
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Casey (short for Acacia, but don’t call her that) is spending a few summer days with her parents at Disneyland. Just like they do every summer. Except this summer is different. Casey’s best friend has dumped her. She starts...
- Location(s): London, Madeira
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1420s-2000s
Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...
- Location(s): Germany, Togo, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja’s harrowing story...
- Location(s): Anchorage
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Carla Richards is a lot of things: a weary waitress at Anchorage’s premiere dining establishment, Mexico in an Igloo; an aspiring artist who secretly makes erotic dolls for the extra income; a divorcee who can’t quite detach from her...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Peek beneath the surface of an extraordinary small-town opera company, and get to know a fabulous cast of characters: determined fl irts, a lusty singing gaucho, ingenious manipulators, a bipolar ketchup heiress, devious lovers, and some very determined ghosts....
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
This is a wry and immensely colourful account of a young man’s adventures as a safari leader in Botswana. Scared of heights, unfamiliar with the gym and terrified of an innocuous little tree-frog, high school drop-out Peter’s rapport with...
- Location(s): Staffordshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 19th Century
Ava Banks spends the summer on Rudyard Lake in England. While contemplating how her life has changed in the past year, she develops a strange connection with love on the prairie in the 1800’s through a series of dreams....
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
- Location(s): Mexico City
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 2000s
This book recounts Hernandez’s electrifying journey through the far-off slums, glittering fashion parties and rapturous religious rituals of one of the world’s most exciting megacities – the seething urban valley known as ‘D.F.’ to the locals. In vivid, intimate...










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