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Object Lessons

Object Lessons
  • Author(s): Anna Quindlen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is the 1960s, in suburban New York City, and twelve-year-old Maggie Scanlan begins to sense that despite the calm surface of her peaceful life, everything is going strangely wrong. When her all-powerful grandfather is struck down by a...

Objects in a Mirror are Closer than they Appear

Objects in a Mirror are Closer than they Appear
  • Author(s): Katherine Weber
  • Location(s): Geneva
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Oblomov

Oblomov
  • Author(s): Ivan Goncharov
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1859

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia’s dying aristocracy – a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic...

Observation Deck

Observation Deck
  • Author(s): Bea W Meyer
  • Location(s): Panama Canal
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

In her humorous trademark style the author describes places, people, and events as they evolve along a journey to the Panama Canal. Her log book from ‘Observation Deck’ is that of an avid observer with a zest for situations...

Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy 2)

Occupied City (Tokyo Trilogy 2)
  • Author(s): David Peace
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

In occupied Tokyo a man arrives at a bank talking of a dysentery outbreak, which he has been sent to treat. He administers a potion, and they fall dead. He robs the bank and disappears. Nothing has ever happened...

Oceans Away

Oceans Away
  • Author(s): Ady Vaal
  • Location(s): Angola, Egypt
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Set in Angola and Egypt, this amazing collection of short stories offers readers an insightful glimpse into the worlds of ordinary people who are oceans away. Featuring stories that cover a wide range of emotions and topics, these poignant...

Oceans on Fire

Oceans on Fire
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, Guam, Marshall Islands, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Nathalie Thompson’s cameraman doesn’t show up at the airport alarm bells start to ring. But, with a TV commission on the table and a job to do she sets off across the world to make a documentary on...

Octavio’s Journey

Octavio’s Journey
  • Author(s): Miguel Bonnefoy
  • Location(s): Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Compact but kaleidoscopic fable of Venezuela from a stunning new voice in the magical realism tradition. “His body might have been hewn from a tree trunk; his heart would last for a hundred years. And, like a tree, he...

Odd One Out

Odd One Out
  • Author(s): Lissa Evans
  • Location(s): The Midlands
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Some are born odd, some achieve oddness and some are just in the wrong place at the wrong time… Netta Lee had always felt like the odd one out growing up. But when, as an adult, she returns to...

Oddjobs

Oddjobs
  • Author(s): Heide Goody, Iain Grant
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

It’s the end of the world as we know it, but someone still needs to do the paperwork. Incomprehensible horrors from beyond are going to devour our world but that’s no excuse to get all emotional about it. Morag...

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