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Just One Weekend

Just One Weekend
  • Author(s): Catherine Aitken
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A completely captivating romantic comedy about a woman in need of change; a reclusive, broken rock star and the city that never sleeps. What could possibly go wrong? Sandy wants adventure. Bored waiting for her husband to give up...

Just Visiting

Just Visiting
  • Author(s): Dahlia Adler
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reagan Forrester wants out—out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas. Victoria Reyes wants in—in to a fashion design...

Justice By Another Name

Justice By Another Name
  • Author(s): E C Hanes
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set against the backdrop of North Carolina’s powerful hog-producing industry, deputy sheriff Will Moser takes on the most powerful man in the county to discover the truth behind two suspicious deaths.

K-Pop Confidential

K-Pop Confidential
  • Author(s): Stephan Lee
  • Location(s): Seoul
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Big dreams, rivalries and romance collide in this must-read YA novel for K-pop fans everywhere! ‘I’m still giddy over this electrifying, big-hearted, all-kill smash of a debut. I couldn’t put it down.’ BECKY ALBERTALLI, author of Simon vs. the...

Kaaterskill Falls

Kaaterskill Falls
  • Author(s): Allegra Goodman
  • Location(s): New York State, Kaaterskill
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1976

In the summer of ’76, the Shulmans and the Melishes migrate to Kaaterskill, the tiny town in upstate New York where Orthodox Jews and Yankee year-rounders live side by side from June through August. Elizabeth Shulman, a devout follower...

Kabul in Winter

Kabul in Winter
  • Author(s): Ann Jones
  • Location(s): Kabul
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women’s rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in...

Kafka on the Shore

Kafka on the Shore
  • Author(s): Haruki Murakami
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father’s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside...

Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women

Kahani: Short Stories by Pakistani Women
  • Author(s): Aamer Hussein (editor)
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A naive peasant is left with a white man’s baby; a frustrated housewife slashes her husband’s silk pyjamas; a middle-class housewife sees visions of salvation in the tricks of circus animals…In this collection of stories by Pakistan’s finest women...

Kakadu Sunset

Kakadu Sunset
  • Author(s): Annie Seaton
  • Location(s): Darwin, Kakadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Helicopter pilot Ellie Porter loves her job. Soaring above the glorious Kakadu National Park, she feels freed from the heavy losses of her beloved family farm and the questions around her father’s suicide. But when a search-and-rescue mission on...

Kakigori Summer

Kakigori Summer
  • Author(s): Emily Itami
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Autofiction, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sisters Rei, Kiki and Ai have always had to look out for one another – but life has taken them on very different paths. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting herself with an all-consuming job at a...

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