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Poetry From The Lady of the Pier

Poetry From The Lady of the Pier
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Sifnos
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Joanna boards a flight from JFK to visit the Greek island of Sifnos again after twenty years. All this time, despite the distance and her life’s circumstances, she’s been holding on to precious memories from an old summer love....

Point of Origin

Point of Origin
  • Author(s): Patricia Cornwell
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Dr Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner and consulting pathologist for the federal law enforcement agency ATF, is called out to a farmhouse in Virginia which has been destroyed by fire. In the ruins of the house she finds a...

Point Zero

Point Zero
  • Author(s): Seicho Matsumoto, Louise Heal Kawai (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kanazawa, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1958

Tokyo, 1958. Teiko marries Kenichi Uhara, ten years her senior, an advertising man recommended by a go-between. After a four-day honeymoon, Kenichi vanishes. Teiko travels to the coastal and snow-bound city of Kanazawa, where Kenichi was last seen, to...

Poison

Poison
  • Author(s): Kathryn Harrison
  • Location(s): Versailles, Madrid, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century

Francisca de Luarac, the daughter of a poor Spanish silk grower, is a dreamer of fabulous dreams. Marie Louise de Bourbon, the niece of Louis XIV, dances in slippers of fine Spanish silk in the French Court of the...

Poison in the Water

Poison in the Water
  • Author(s): Marissa de Luna
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, London
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Career-driven fashion designer Celeste Broady meets the man of her dreams while traveling in Thailand. Alex Renshaw seems to have it all: the charm, the charisma and the wealth. After a whirlwind wedding, they move to Hong Kong and...

Poland

Poland
  • Author(s): James A Michener
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Various

In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically...

Polish Girl; In Pursuit of The English Dream

Polish Girl; In Pursuit of The English Dream
  • Author(s): Monika Wisniewska
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2004-2013

Life is an incredible journey to self-discovery and finding true love. Are you ready for it? An inspirational true story of a strong woman, shared with a refreshing, raw honesty, giving a unique insight into a life of an...

Pomegranate Sky

Pomegranate Sky
  • Author(s): Louise Soraya Black
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Pomegranate Sky is an evocative story of love and lies set against the turmoil of post-revolutionary Tehran. An impressive debut novel, Pomegranate Sky won the inaugural Virginia Prize for Fiction (2009). Living in contemporary Tehran, Layla refuses to bow...

Pomegranates and Olive

Pomegranates and Olive
  • Author(s): Jane Gundogan
  • Location(s): Bodrum
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two men. One is perfect, the other… not so much. How do you choose between the man that you should be with and the man you want? _____________________________________________________________________________ What does a marriage proposal, a bout of projectile vomiting and...

Poor Table Manners

Poor Table Manners
  • Author(s): Steve Sheppard
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

Dawson and Lucy hit Cape Town… and Cape Town hits back When their new employer dies in a road accident on Exmoor and his brother, a South African Government lawyer disappears, Dawson and Lucy are hurriedly recruited back into...

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