- Location(s): Ljubljana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has...
- Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novels. New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Turn of 18th Century
Voice from Ancient Hawaii is a meticulously researched account of the Hawaiian Islands around the time of Captain James Cook. The major theme of the novel is the dismantling of the social hierarchal system based on kapu (taboo) that...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1950s
Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples, shift up a class. Optimistic and full of plans,...
- Location(s): Concord
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1840s
One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau’s daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Adventure
- Era(s): Contemporary
In 35 guided mindfulness walks, Glenn Berkenkamp invites us to discover how we sense, move, think, and feel in our bodies–and engage a greater sense of presence and being in our lives. Like any contemplative practice, through walking we...
- Location(s): French Alps
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
We got so busy living life that we forgot to live our dreams.” Danni Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death...
- Location(s): Suffolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
I’d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St Oswald’s, I would not have discovered the fisherman’s hut with...
- Location(s): Washington DC
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1972
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank “Hound Dog” Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for...
- Location(s): Arkansas
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
John Corey Whaley of Springhill wrote a coming-of-age novel about a teen named Cullen Witter, the disappearance of his brother Gabriel and the sudden fame his small Arkansas town receives after a visitor spots a woodpecker considered extinct. “Where...










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