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How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
  • Author(s): K M Jackson
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

USA Today bestselling author K.M. Jackson delivers a hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally. Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot....

How to Order the Universe

How to Order the Universe
  • Author(s): Maria José Ferrada, Elizabeth Bryer (translator)
  • Location(s): Chile
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1970s & 1980s

TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH BRYER For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D’s life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father’s trade, M convinces him to take her along...

How to Pronounce Knife

How to Pronounce Knife
  • Author(s): Souvankham Thammavongsa
  • Location(s): Laos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa’s debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and asks her father to help her pronounce a tricky word, a simple exchange with unforgettable consequences. Thammavongsa is a master...

How to Raise an Elephant

How to Raise an Elephant
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Crime

In this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects. Precious Ramotswe loves her dependable old van. Yes, it sometimes...

How to Read the Air

How to Read the Air
  • Author(s): Dinaw Mengestu
  • Location(s): Ethiopia, Nashville
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jonas, fresh from a failed marriage, is desperate to make sense of the ties that have forged him. How can he dream of a future when he can’t make sense of his past? He hits the road, tracing the...

How to Sell a Haunted House

How to Sell a Haunted House
  • Author(s): Grady Hendrix
  • Location(s): Charleston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters...

How to Solve Murders Like a Lady

How to Solve Murders Like a Lady
  • Author(s): Hannah Dolby
  • Location(s): Hastings, St Leonards
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Violet Hamilton is no ordinary lady… She is a Lady Detective, who spends her time solving mysteries and unveiling scandals in the bustling seaside town of Hastings and St Leonards, a popular spot for the Victorian middle classes. But...

How to Stop Time

How to Stop Time
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and historical

‘I am old. That is the first thing to tell you. The thing you are least likely to believe. If you saw me you would probably think I was about forty, but you would be very wrong.’ Tom Hazard...

How to Survive in the North

How to Survive in the North
  • Author(s): Luke Healy
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Graphic Novel, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 20th century

1912…Captain Robert Bartlett sets sail aboard the Karluk, flagship of the Canadian Arctic Expedition. The journey ahead would be one of the most treacherous ever, with the loss of the ship and subsequent deaths of the crew. The survivors,...

How We Disappeared

How We Disappeared
  • Author(s): Jing-Jing Lee
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 / 2000

Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked. Only three survivors remain, one of them a tiny child. In a neighbouring village, seventeen-year-old Wang Di is bundled into the back of a...

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