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Hot to Go

Hot to Go
  • Author(s): Kristen Bailey
  • Location(s): England, Mallorca, Seville
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The vacation ended. The heat didn’t… Meet Suzie Callaghan: French teacher, newly single, newly heartbroken. After an awful break-up, she heads to Mallorca for a much-needed holiday with her cousins, expecting sun, sangria, and siestas. She isn’t expecting to...

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon
  • Author(s): Imogen Edwards Jones
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well-mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules...

Hotel Florida

Hotel Florida
  • Author(s): Amanda Vaill
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Spanish Civil War

Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid’s chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is...

Hotel Iris

Hotel Iris
  • Author(s): Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man...

Hotel of Secrets

Hotel of Secrets
  • Author(s): Diana Biller
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Later 1800s

It’s Ball Season in Vienna, and Maria Wallner only wants one thing: to restore her family’s hotel, the Hotel Wallner, to its former glory. She’s not going to let anything get in her way – not her parents’ three-decade-long...

Hotel Portofino

Hotel Portofino
  • Author(s): J P O’Connell
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A heady historical drama about a British family who open an upper-class hotel on the magical Italian Riviera during the ‘Roaring 20s’. Hotel Portofino has only been open a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its...

Houdini and the séance murders

Houdini and the séance murders
  • Author(s): Cristopher Farran
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

Harry Houdini together with Arthur Conan Doyle, are both in Italy, and have to work together to solve a murder that happens before their very eyes during a séance. Two big egos grapple with being in charge of this...

House at Number 10

House at Number 10
  • Author(s): Dorothy Johnston
  • Location(s): Canberra
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

House Calls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost

House Calls by Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost
  • Author(s): Keith Billington
  • Location(s): Northwest Territories
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960s

A newly married and newly graduated pair of nurses immigrate to Canada (from the UK) and take over the operation of a nursing station in a remote northern village.

House in the Hills

House in the Hills
  • Author(s): Erica Brown
  • Location(s): The Douro Valley
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): th Century

A young girl’s loss will shape her future… and her dreams When Catherine Rodriguez’s father marries and her mother commits suicide, she is sent to live with her aunt above the rich vineyards of the Douro valley in Portugal....

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