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Old Sins Never Die

Old Sins Never Die
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): Scotland, London, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Never look back…Treason is deadly While in the Lake District, journalist Emmeline Kirby and jewel thief/insurance investigator Gregory Longdon overhear a man attempting to hire international assassin Hugh Carstairs, a MI5 agent who went rogue. They race back to...

Old World Murder

Old World Murder
  • Author(s): Kathleen Ernst
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Trying to leave painful memories behind her, Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start. She’s the new collections curator at Old World Wisconsin, an outdoor ethnic museum showcasing 1870s settlement life. On her first day, Chloe meets with an...

Oleander Girl

Oleander Girl
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...

Oligarchy

Oligarchy
  • Author(s): Scarlett Thomas
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas’s fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege and peer pressure. When Natasha, daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives for her first day at an all-girl boarding school, she finds herself thrown into a world...

Olive Kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Strout
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olive Kitteridge might be described by some as a battle axe or as brilliantly pushy, by others as the kindest person they had ever met. Olive herself has always been certain that she is 100% correct about everything –...

Olive Virgins

Olive Virgins
  • Author(s): Katerina Nikolas
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Quentin and Deirdre eagerly embark on their first olive harvest under the critical eye of the carping old crone next door and the unwanted attentions of her parrot. Mail order Masha has achieved silicone fame in her glamorous new...

Olives – A Violent Romance

Olives – A Violent Romance
  • Author(s): Alexander McNabb
  • Location(s): Jordan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The fragile peace is holding. Behind the scenes, the Israelis are competing for dwindling water resources as Jordan and Palestine face drought. Daoud Dajani has the solution to Jordan’s water problems and is bidding against the British for the...

Olivia

Olivia
  • Author(s): Dorothy Strachey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The classic novel about a teenage girl’s infatuation with her headmistress at a boarding school in nineteenth-century Paris A Penguin Classic A groundbreaking, passionate, and subtle story of first love, Olivia–based loosely on the author’s own life–was first published...

Olivia and Prince Oliver’s Penguins

Olivia and Prince Oliver’s Penguins
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): The Falkland Islands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1960s

There’s a king penguin dynasty happening at the Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary on the Falkland Islands. What do you think will happen to Princess Olivia, Olly and Olivette, and to Piper-the-Penguin? What about the grown-ups, Olivia and Harry? What...

Olivia, Prince Oliver and the Penguin Chicks

Olivia, Prince Oliver and the Penguin Chicks
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): The Falkland Islands
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1980s

More characters, both human and penguin, enter this final story of the Prince Oliver Penguin trilogy. Love is in the air, but everything is set to change with the occurrence of the 1982 Falklands War. What will happen to...

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