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Hanna’s Daughters

Hanna’s Daughters
  • Author(s): Marianne Fredriksson, Joan Tate (translator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and earlier

Anna has returned from visiting her mother. Restless and unable to sleep, she wanders through her parents’ house, revisiting the scenes of her childhood. In a cupboard drawer, folded and pushed away from sight, she finds a sepia photograph...

Hannah Coulter

Hannah Coulter
  • Author(s): Wendell Berry
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry’s seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman character in its telling. Hannah, the now-elderly narrator, recounts the love she has for the land and for her community. She remembers...

Hannah’s War

Hannah’s War
  • Author(s): Jan Eliasberg
  • Location(s): New Mexico, Germany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s (Germany), 1945 (USA)

“Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah...

Happily Never After

Happily Never After
  • Author(s): Rachel North
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I wouldn’t miss this wedding for the world. It will be my last chance to put a stop to it… A small group of family and friends head to a beautiful, secluded location in the mountains of Mallorca for...

Happily Never After

Happily Never After
  • Author(s): Phoebe MacLeod
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s looking for writing inspiration, but she may just find Mr Right… Laura Spalding has life all worked out: a flourishing writing career, a lovely home, a cute dog, and a handsome boyfriend Angus. Then, plot twist, Angus walks...

Happiness

Happiness
  • Author(s): Aminatta Forna
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

LONGLISTED FOR JHALAK PRIZE 2019 Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city,...

Happy and You Know It

Happy and You Know It
  • Author(s): Laura Hankin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After her former band shot to superstardom without her, Claire reluctantly agrees to a gig as a playgroup musician for overprivileged infants on New York’s Park Avenue. Claire is surprised to discover that she is smitten with her new...

Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes

Happy as Larry: A New York Story of Cults, Crushes and Quaaludes
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1970s

After her beloved dad suddenly dies, teenage Saskia gets a crash course in growing up in after-hours New York. Her downwardly mobile family move from Gramercy Park to the seedy Upper West Side. Her mom becomes increasingly nihilistic and...

Happy Birthday, Turk!

Happy Birthday, Turk!
  • Author(s): Jakob Arjouni
  • Location(s): Frankfurt
  • Genre(s): Crime

Kemal Kayankaya is a Turkish PI working in Frankfurt. Ilter Hamul comes ot him asking to investigate the death of her husband.

Happy Hour: And Other Philadelphia Cruelties

Happy Hour: And Other Philadelphia Cruelties
  • Author(s): Tony Knighton
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): present

  A young grifter steals an overcoat. As he discovers forty-thousand dollars in its inside pocket, the coat’s owners come after him.The action never stops as his pursuers seem to be both ahead and behind him at all times,...

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