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Orphan Train

Orphan Train
  • Author(s): Christina Baker Kline
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s and modern

Orphan Train is a gripping story of friendship and second chances from Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be. Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to “aging out” out of the foster care system. A community...

Other People’s Clothes

Other People’s Clothes
  • Author(s): Calla Henkel
  • Location(s): Schöneberg, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2009

2009. Berlin. Two art students arrive from New York, both desperate for the city to solve their problems. Zoe is grieving for her high school best friend, murdered months before in her hometown in Florida. Hailey is rich, obsessed...

Our Home in Myanmar

Our Home in Myanmar
  • Author(s): Jessica Mudditt
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2012 - 2016

After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk...

Out Of Her Depth

Out Of Her Depth
  • Author(s): Lizzy Barber
  • Location(s): Florence, Fiesole
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary, looking back 21 years

There are summers that could change your life. There are summers that could end it. Meet Rachel. An unassuming young woman from a quiet London suburb. Picture the scene: A summer job at the beautiful Villa Medici in the...

Outcast

Outcast
  • Author(s): Dianne Noble
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Penzance
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A café in Cornwall, October 2014. A frightening phone call to ROSE from her ex-husband Tom. ELLIE, their daughter, has not returned from her gap year. Is living in India helping the Untouchables. Terrified for her daughter’s safety she...

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery

Outerborough Blues: A Brooklyn Mystery
  • Author(s): Andrew Cotto
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Outerborough Blues is the story of a drifter, Caesar Stiles, immersed in a mystery that takes him to the hidden corners of a rapidly changing Brooklyn. The gritty search for a missing art student takes on a mythological sweep,...

Outlander

Outlander
  • Author(s): Diana Gabaldon
  • Location(s): Inverness
  • Genre(s): Time Slip, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s back to 1740s

1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743,...

Over the Water: Essays on Islands

Over the Water: Essays on Islands
  • Author(s): Daunt Books (Publisher)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Outside, the Tyrrhenian Sea laps gently against old stones and Eduardo’s red hibiscus flowers close up for the night. I can hear distant strains of music bounce between the hills and imagine it’s coming from Da Giannino’s. In these...

Overnight to Innsbruck

Overnight to Innsbruck
  • Author(s): Denyse Woods
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Egypt, Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

On an overnight train to Innsbruck, ex-lovers Richard and Frances meet each other by chance many years after their mysterious separation on a train journey through the blistering heat and vast empty expanses of the Sudanese desert. As they...

Owl Song at Dawn

Owl  Song at Dawn
  • Author(s): Emma Claire Sweeney
  • Location(s): Morecambe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Maeve Maloney is a force to be reckoned with. Despite nearing eighty, she keeps Sea View Lodge just as her parents did during Morecambe’s 1950s heyday. But now only her employees and regular guests recognise the tenderness and heartbreak...

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