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His Whole Life

His Whole Life
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Hay
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim...

His Wife’s Secret

His Wife’s Secret
  • Author(s): Susan Willis
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

David is still very much in love with his wife, Erin. When he’d bumped into her in the vet’s surgery, he’d remembered her from primary school before she’d emigrated to Australia. After her father died, she’d returned to their...

Hissy Fit

Hissy Fit
  • Author(s): Mary Kay Andrews
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Whether it’s a mystery, sassy women’s fiction, or a combination of the two, New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews always gives her fans a read to remember. And now she’s throwing a Hissy Fit, in the best possible...

History Atlas

History Atlas
  • Author(s): Thiago de Moraes
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Prepare to embark on a global tour through time. You might want to take a map… But this is no ordinary atlas. The maps in History Atlas are rich visual extravaganzas, packed with kings, queens, heroes, villains, inventors, artists...

History of Ash

History of Ash
  • Author(s): Khadija Marouazi, Alexander E Elinson (translator)
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Lead Years of the 1970s and 1980s

An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, brutality, and resistance as told through the first-person prison narratives of a man and a woman History of Ash is a fictional prison account narrated by Mouline and Leila, who have...

History Of The Siege Of Lisbon

History Of The Siege Of Lisbon
  • Author(s): José Saramago
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/12th Century

What happens when the facts of history are replaced by the mysteries of love? When Raimundo Silva, a lowly proof-reader for a Lisbon publishing house, inserts a negative into a sentence of a historical text, he alters the whole...

History of Wolves

History of Wolves
  • Author(s): Emily Fridlund
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Madeline is...

History Reinterpreted: The Myles Standish Hotel

History Reinterpreted: The Myles Standish Hotel
  • Author(s): Patrick Ahearn
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1900s–current

History Reinterpreted, the second published work from celebrated architect and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects Patrick Ahearn, explores the renovation and reimagination of the 1871 Myles Standish Hotel in Duxbury, Mass., as a grand single-family residence. Highlighting...

History: A Novel

History: A Novel
  • Author(s): Elsa Morante
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

HISTORY was written nearly 3 decades after Morante spent a year hiding from the Germans in remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition...

Hit the Bottom and Escape

Hit the Bottom and Escape
  • Author(s): Christopher Walker
  • Location(s): Ghana, Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richard and Graham are in Ghana. Thrust together by Graham’s ill-considered actions the two strike an unlikely friendship, and vow to discover as much as they can about the corner of Africa they find themselves in. They journey onward...

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