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Judge Savage

Judge Savage
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Promoted young to the position of Crown Court Judge – because of his ability, but perhaps also for certain questions of political convenience – it’s time for Daniel Savage to settle down. Perhaps his marriage is happy enough after...

Juggling Truths

Juggling Truths
  • Author(s): Unity Dow
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Botswanan childhood of Monei Ntuka is shaped by stories from her mother, father, and grandmother as well as from the colonizers and the Christian church in this novel about the tensions between modernization and tradition in postcolonial Africa.

Julia

Julia
  • Author(s): Sandra Newman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1984

London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It’s 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of...

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series

Julia’s Story – Book 1 of the Belleville family series
  • Author(s): J Mary Masters
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Derbyshire, London, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, this is the heartbreaking story of a young girl in love, the secret she must never reveal and the family who betrayed her trust. It’s 1942 and the world is...

Julian

Julian
  • Author(s): Fleur Pierets
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What started as a beautiful act of LGBTQ+ protest art quickly turned to tragedy when Belgian artist and activist Fleur Pierets suddenly and unexpectedly lost her wife Julian P. Boom to brain cancer. In 2017, the soulmates were embarking...

Julie

Julie
  • Author(s): Catherine Marshall
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1934

Inspired, like Christy, by Catherine Marshall’s own life, Julie explores the miracle of faith against a background of small-town America coming of age, with a story—and a heroine—unforgettably powerful and alive.Julie Wallace was only seventeen when her family moved...

Julie of the Wolves

Julie of the Wolves
  • Author(s): Jean Craighead George
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

To her small Eskimo village, she is known as Miyax; to her friend in San Francisco, she is Julie. When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs away, only to find herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness....

Juliet and Romeo

Juliet and Romeo
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1500s

Two young people meet: Romeo, desperate for love before being sent away to study, and Juliet facing a forced marriage to a nobleman she doesn’t know. Fate and circumstance bring them together in a desperate attempt to thwart their...

Juliet Takes a Breath

Juliet Takes a Breath
  • Author(s): Gabby Rivera
  • Location(s): The Bronx, Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hi, my name is Juliet Palante. I’ve been reading your book Raging Flower: Empowering Your Pussy by Empowering Your Mind. No lie, I started reading it so that I could make people uncomfortable on the subway. But I’m writing...

Juliet, Naked

Juliet, Naked
  • Author(s): Nick Hornby
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Annie’s put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she’d like her money back, please. It’s time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north’s answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going...

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