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If You Dare

If You Dare
  • Author(s): Kresley Cole
  • Location(s): Andorra
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1850s

If You Kept a Record of Sins

If You Kept a Record of Sins
  • Author(s): Andrea Bajani, Elizabeth Harris (translator)
  • Location(s): Romania, Italy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH HARRIS A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she’s building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his...

If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska

If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small-Town Alaska
  • Author(s): Heather Lende
  • Location(s): Alaska, Tiny Haines
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Tiny Haines, Alaska, is ninety miles north of Juneau, accessible mainly by water or air-and only when the weather is good. There’s no traffic light and no mail delivery; people can vanish without a trace and funerals are a...

If You Tell

If You Tell
  • Author(s): Gregg Olsen
  • Location(s): Raymond
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors...

If You Want to Make God Laugh

If You Want to Make God Laugh
  • Author(s): Bianca Marais
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

From the author of the beloved Hum If You Don’t Know the Words comes a rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that...

Igloo

Igloo
  • Author(s): Jennifer Burkinshaw
  • Location(s): French Alps, Lancashire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A surprise Christmas holiday in the French Alps should be a dream come true, but not for sixteen-year-old Nirvana. She has an important project to complete at home, and tensions are high with her parents. In desperation, Niv skips...

Ignited in Iceland

Ignited in Iceland
  • Author(s): Victoria Walker
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Iris, an English volcanologist, arrives in Iceland focused solely on her research. But when she meets Siggi, a charismatic local with a complicated past, his passion for showing her Iceland’s geological wonders ignites unexpected feelings. Cautious but drawn to...

Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane #1)

Ignoring Gravity (Rose Haldane #1)
  • Author(s): Sandra Danby
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Rose is adopted and doesn’t know it. ‘Ignoring Gravity’ connects two pairs of sisters separated by a generation of secrets. Finding her mother’s lost diaries, Rose begins to understand why she has always seemed the outsider in her family,...

Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center

Il Bel Centro: A Year in the Beautiful Center
  • Author(s): Michelle Damiani
  • Location(s): Spello
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Michelle Damiani dreamed of living in Italy, she imagined her family as it was in Virginia—her husband filling every moment with work, her teenage son experimenting with sarcasm, her daughter smiling at the scent of lilacs, her baby-cheeked...

Ill Met By Moonlight

Ill Met By Moonlight
  • Author(s): W. Stanley Moss
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Ill Met By Moonlight is the true story of one of the most hazardous missions of the Second World War. W. Stanley Moss is a young British officer who, along with Major Patrick Leigh Fermor, sets out in Nazi-occupied...

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