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Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America

Henry: A Polish Swimmer’s True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America
  • Author(s): Katrina Shawver
  • Location(s): Kraków (Kraków)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1930s-1950s, WWII,

Poland, 1942. Henry Zguda was at home in the water. But one night in May, the German SS arrested the celebrated competitive swimmer in Kraków for the sole crime of being Polish. Two weeks later, he was far from...

Her Dark Lies

Her Dark Lies
  • Author(s): J T Ellison
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fast-paced and brilliantly unpredictable, J.T. Ellison’s breathtaking new novel invites you to a wedding none will forget–and some won’t survive. Jutting from sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic setting for a wedding. In...

Her Darkest Hour

Her Darkest Hour
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Colmar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

‘You and me – we’re sisters, not enemies. We’ve got a real enemy at our door and we need to focus on that – together, united. I don’t want to be fighting you as well.’ In the small French...

Her Deadly Friend

Her Deadly Friend
  • Author(s): Rachel Sargeant
  • Location(s): Gloucestershire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Set in 2018

Her Deadly Friend – the closer she gets, the more people die When you shake off a bully… But she comes back into your life… It’s an absolute killer. The Suspect Bullied by Steph Lewis at school, then betrayed...

Her Final Hour

Her Final Hour
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Vale of White Horse
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller

(Detective Mark Turpin Book 2) What if the perfect friend was hiding a deadly secret? When a championship jockey discovers the body of a young woman during a cold morning’s training ride, the local racing community is shocked to...

Her Heart for a Compass

Her Heart for a Compass
  • Author(s): Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York
  • Location(s): Ireland, London, New York City (NYC), Scotland, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s/70s

London 1865 In an attempt to rebel against a society where women are expected to conform, free-spirited Lady Margaret Montagu Scott flees her confines and an arranged marriage. But Lady Margaret’s parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, as...

Her Hidden Genius

Her Hidden Genius
  • Author(s): Marie Benedict
  • Location(s): Paris, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Rosalind Franklin has always been an outsider–brilliant, but different. Whether working at the laboratory she adored in Paris or toiling at a university in London, she feels closest to the science, those unchanging laws of physics and chemistry that...

Her Kind

Her Kind
  • Author(s): Niamh Boyce
  • Location(s): County Kilkenny
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

‘Gripping … a story of loss, ambition, misogyny, family love and what it means to belong … evocative and atmospheric’ Irish Times 1324, Kilkennie: A time of suspicion and conspiracy. A place where zealous men rage against each other...

Her Last Breath

Her Last Breath
  • Author(s): Alison Belsham
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Current day

The body count is rising…and the clock is ticking. When a young woman is attacked and left fighting to survive in hospital, the police are pulled into a race against time to save her life. But just 24 hours...

Her Last Holiday

Her Last Holiday
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Gozo, Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You come to Soul Shrink to be healed. You don’t expect to die. Two years ago, Fran’s sister Jenna disappeared on a wellness retreat in Gozo that went terribly wrong. Tom Wade, the now infamous man behind Soul Shrink...

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