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Fractured Destinies

Fractured Destinies
  • Author(s): Raba'I Al-Madhoun
  • Location(s): West Bank, Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

Palestinian-Armenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her daughter Julie has been tasked with her dying wish: to take her ashes...

Fragments of a Dream

Fragments of a Dream
  • Author(s): Ruth Larrea
  • Location(s): Hydra
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966 and present day

Is it too late for a second chance at love? Rosie doesn’t think so. When her marriage ends close to retirement, she plans to find Angelos, the charismatic young Athenian she fell for as a naive 19-year old. But...

Frankenstein

Frankenstein
  • Author(s): Mary Shelley
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): 1810s

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Frankenstein in Baghdad
  • Author(s): Ahmed Saadawi
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and give them...

Frankie and Stankie

Frankie and Stankie
  • Author(s): Barbara Trapido
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950 to 1980

Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa, where racial laws are tightening. They are two little girls from a dissenting liberal family. Big sister Lisa is strong and sensible, while Dinah is weedy and...

Frankissstein

Frankissstein
  • Author(s): Jeannette Winterson
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with...

Frankly in Love

Frankly in Love
  • Author(s): David Yoon
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank loves Joy. Joy loves Frank. At least, that’s what they tell their parents . . . Frank Li is caught between his parents’ expectations and his own California life. Frank’s parents emigrated from Korea, and have pretty much...

Franny and Zooey

Franny and Zooey
  • Author(s): J D Salinger
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her. The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey...

Fraud

Fraud
  • Author(s): N S Brooks
  • Location(s): London, British Virgin Islands, Scotland, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Two suspicious deaths lead Will and Jay Slater and their old adversary, Inspector Dawkin, into the murky world of big business and government corruption. With fraud at the heart of the case, and hunted by a dangerous assassin, the...

Fray

Fray
  • Author(s): Chris Carse Wilson
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A MISSING PERSON MYSTERY LIKE NO OTHER I am not gone. Mum is not gone. We are here. We are hidden. A father who is trying to rescue his lost wife. Their child, desperately searching the wild forests and...

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