The Nakamura Letters (Professor Molly Mysteries, #7)
by Frankie Bow
An Indie Next Pick In this atmospheric debut inspired by true events, Inara Erickson finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in her deceased aunt's island estate. As she peels back the layers of secrets it holds, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core.
A Tramp Abroad (Bibliobazaar Reproduction) (Traveller's S.)
by Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad, published in 1880, is Mark Twain's second travel book, a sequel to his immensely popular The Innocents Abroad. Here Twain returns to Europe in the company, as Russell Banks puts it in his introduction, of a genial "goad, guide, and all-purpose straight man" modeled on his friend and real-life traveling companion, Joe Twitchell, who "plays Butch Cassidy to Twain's Sundance, Sancho to his Quixote." The eccentric journey they take through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and other count...
In your heart there will always be a small ache reminding you that a place waits for your return. The dancers pause. The singers call. The fireflies await. Secret desires, unfulfilled longing, and irrepressible humor flow through the stories of Wakako Yamauchi, writings that depict the lives of Nisei, second-generation Japanese Americans. Through the medium of Yamauchi's storytelling, readers enter the world of desert farmers, factory workers, gamblers, housewives, con artists, and dreamers. El...
"Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but his childhood comes to a grinding halt when his mother dies in a car accident. Siddharth soon gravitates toward a group of adolescent bullies, drinking and smoking instead of drawing and swimming."--
My Wife Is an Aloof Beauty 16
by Di Sheng You Yang, Ludmila Lyu, and Reader Reader