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Looking for Lucie

Looking for Lucie
  • Author(s): Amanda Addison
  • Location(s): Norwich
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Looking for Lucie is a contemporary YA novel that explores identity, self-discovery, and newfound friendship as an 18-year-old girl sets out to uncover her ethnic heritage and family history. “Where are you really from?” It’s a question every brown...

Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case

Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case
  • Author(s): Elsa Drucaroff, Slava Faybysh (translator)
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Political, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

A key figure in the politics and literature of Argentina, Rodolfo Walsh wrote his iconic Letter to my Friends in December 1976, recounting the murder of his daughter Victoria by the military dictatorship. Just a few months later, he...

Five Stories

Five Stories
  • Author(s): Ellen Weinstein
  • Location(s): Lower East Side
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Five children, from five different cultures and in five different decades, grow up in the same building on the Lower East Side of New York City. Jenny Epstein and her family arrive on a steamship from Russia in the 1910s....

Heart, Be at Peace

Heart, Be at Peace
  • Author(s): Donal Ryan
  • Location(s): Nenagh
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, the local...

The Liars

The Liars
  • Author(s): Katherine Fleet
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I thought I saw her today. Down by the water. It was her hair I noticed. Do you ever see her, Lex? Does she haunt you too? I haven’t been back to Eos since I first met my step-sister,...

Manhunting in Manhattan

Manhunting in Manhattan
  • Author(s): Amy Killingbeck, Saoirse Cussane
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Erotica, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finding herself single in her forties after making the move to New York, or more accurately, suburban New York, Lilith feels trapped. This wasn’t the life she’d envisaged for herself. … Until something started to shift. With a newly...

The Missing Family

The Missing Family
  • Author(s): Tim Weaver
  • Location(s): Dartmoor, London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One family… On a beautiful summer’s day, at a remote lake in the middle of Dartmoor, three members of the Fowler family take a dinghy out onto the water, leaving mother Sarah at the shore. Less than sixty seconds...

Paper Names

Paper Names
  • Author(s): Susie Luo
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

Taut, panoramic and powerful; Paper Names is an unforgettable debut about the long shadows of our parents, the ripple effects of our decisions and the ways in which our love transcends difference. Outside a New York apartment building, an...

The Fox

The Fox
  • Author(s): Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates (Translator)
  • Location(s): East Iceland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavík police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end...

How to Make a Bomb

How to Make a Bomb
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Cadiz, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal...

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