Waheed Rabbani
The Secret Sister
In January 2013, Jonathan Argyriou, a Manhattan-born third generation Greek-American, boards a plane in New York for Athens. Jonathan is…
Golden Earrings
In 1970s Paris, a dejected ballet dancer, Paloma, is living with her grandmother, Mamie, in a townhouse-cum-ballet school. One morning…
The Color of Secrets
In 1993 in Wolverhampton, England, Eva is perturbed upon glimpsing a photograph on a magazine cover. The caption reads: “Mixed…
Code Name: Infamy (Aviator Book 4)
This WWII thriller novel opens much like a war movie might. A lone figure in the black leather uniform of…
The Girl from the Garden
In present-day Los Angeles, Mahboubeh, an elderly woman, sits in her picturesque garden and, while looking through photographs, recollects her…
In the City of Gold and Silver: The Story of Begum Hazrat Mahal
Editors' choice
In 1844, a fourteen-year-old orphan girl dances in the “house of fairies” in Lucknow, Awadh, India. Her beauty and poetic…
Brock’s Assassin: Someone Had to Burn Washington
In 1813, in war-ravaged Niagara, Upper Canada, Lieutenant Westlake of the 1st York Militia is trailing Willcocks, a notorious traitor.…
Matrons and Madams
In 1918 London, 30-year-old nurse Clara hears the long-awaited news: “The war is over!” Having lost her husband in the…
Constantinopolis
In 1452, in the Ottoman city of Edirne, the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmet confers with his trusted general. Mehmet is yearning…
The American Lady: The Glassblower Trilogy
One night in 1910, in the German village of Lauscha, Marie, a creative glassblower, feels as if someone has shoved…
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