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Healing Rhinos and Other Souls

Healing Rhinos and Other Souls
  • Author(s): Stephanie Rohrbach
  • Location(s): Bush-veld, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

Healing Rhinos and Other Souls tells the story of a much respected if unorthodox vet, a family man who loved and understood nature and all her creatures, a reluctant businessman, a somewhat exuberant driver, a humble person, a great...

Heart and Seoul

Heart and Seoul
  • Author(s): Jen Frederick
  • Location(s): Seoul
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Korean adoptee living in the middle of Indiana, Hara Wilson has never felt a true sense of belonging – until a data breach from a DNA matching service reveals the name of her biological father. Hara knows that...

Heart and Soul

Heart and Soul
  • Author(s): Maeve Binchy
  • Location(s): Dublin, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem during the usually turbulent teens. Now Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming;...

Heart Healer

Heart Healer
  • Author(s): Leslie Bowes
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Romance
  • Era(s): time-travel

Catherine Andrews is an English woman living in the 1800s. Her father sells her to Blake Von-Clyer to be his wife to pay off debts owed to Mr. Von-Clyer. Catherine soon finds out Blake is a cruel and horrible...

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories
  • Author(s): Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi (Translator)
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
  • Era(s): Various

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize A PEN Translates Award winner In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Praised for their...

Heart Land

Heart Land
  • Author(s): Kimberly Stuart
  • Location(s): Silver Creek, Iowa
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2018

A story of reconnection, lost love, and the power of faith, Heart Land follows a struggling fashion designer back to her small Iowa hometown as she tries to follow her dreams of success and finding true love. Grace Klaren...

Heart of Darfur

Heart of Darfur
  • Author(s): Lisa French Blaker
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the heart-breakingly honest and tender account of a nurse’s struggle to help in the middle of the humanitarian disaster that is Darfur.

Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness
  • Author(s): Joseph Conrad
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th Century

River steamboat captain Charles Marlow has set forth on the Congo in Africa to find the enigmatic European trader Mr. Kurtz. Preceded by his reputation as a brilliant emissary of progress, Kurtz has now established himself as a god...

Heart of Glass

Heart of Glass
  • Author(s): Ivy Ngeow
  • Location(s): Macau (Macao), Chicago
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Crime, Miscellaneous, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Heart of Glass is a pacy literary thriller set in the 1980s’ disco era. It is exotic and noirish popular fiction. Li-an is a con artist and talented Chinese American musician in Chicago’s Chinatown. With accomplice Dallas, she drugs...

Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

In 1840s Cornwall, 25-year-old Sarah Govier supports herself and her illegitimate son, Jory, on the income from Talvan, the granite quarry she inherited from her father. But businessmen Kinver Landry has good reason for wanting Talvan and will stop...

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