- Location(s): Azerbaijan, Georgia (Asia), Tehran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Russian Revolution (1917-18)
Ali Khan is an Islamic boy from Azerbaijan with his ancestors’ passion for the desert and warrior legends, but his lover Nino, a beautiful Christian girl from Georgia, is the child with a more European sensibility. Close to one...
Alia’s Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
- Location(s): Basra
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2003
The inspiring story of an Iraqi librarian’s courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library before it was destroyed in the war. It is 2003 and Alia Muhammad Baker, the chief librarian of the Central Library in...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale. Now a major NETFLIX series. ‘Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.’ Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
The year is 1946. A stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and forget the horrors he witnessed as a US...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1940
A young girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first love with the help of her favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, in the debut novel from Tony Award-winning playwright Steven Sater....
- Location(s): Northumberland
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
Howard Linskey writing as H A Linskey. Alice Teale walked out of school at the end of a bright spring day. She’s not been seen since. Alice was popular and well-liked, and her boyfriend, friends and family are desperate...
- Location(s): Zermatt
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
The adventure continues with seven year old Alice-Miranda Highton-Smith-Kennington-Jones in multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Harvey’s Alice-Miranda in the Alps. In the twelfth book in the series, Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to Switzerland for a ski break, but discover an evil plan to...
- Location(s): Washington State
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
David, otherwise known as Scrub (don’t ask), isn’t happy about leaving Florida and his friends to summer with his grandmother in “Middle of Nowhere,” Washington. When he arrives at her Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, he isn’t surprised by its...
- Location(s): Burkina Faso
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
All aboard for the Bobo Road! Fatima and Galo load the luggage while their dad Big Ali drives the bus. Help count on bikes, sacks of rice, melons and even goats and chickens as the bus travels past Gurunsi...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn...
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