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Breaking the Tongue

Breaking the Tongue
  • Author(s): Vyvyane Loh
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

On the eve of World War II, Claude Lim, a Chinese youth, uncertain of himself and his nationality, is being raised in a family that strongly identifies with the British colonists in Singapore. The family neither speaks nor understands...

Bridge of Sighs and Dreams

Bridge of Sighs and Dreams
  • Author(s): Pamela Allegretto
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War 2

Nazi-occupied Rome sets the stage for Bridge of Sighs and Dreams, where the lives of two women collide in an arena of deception, greed, and sacrifice. Following an allied attack, Angelina Rosini flees to Rome from her bombed-out village...

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)

Bring Her Home (Boyle and Keneally #1)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Cahirsiveen, County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When bright, beautiful Penny O’Dwyer disappears from Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, the local police scour the narrow streets and muddy hills, but find no leads. Jessie Boyle swore she’d never return to Ireland. But...

Building Stories

Building Stories
  • Author(s): Chris Ware
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

In Chris Ware’s own words, ‘Building Stories follows the inhabitants of a three-flat Chicago apartment house: a thirty-year-old woman who has yet to find someone with whom to spend the rest of her life: a couple who wonder if...

Bullets of Palestine

Bullets of Palestine
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Vienna, Jerusalem, Lebanon, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and...

Burning Angel and Other Stories

Burning Angel and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This first collection of stories by Lawrence Osborne perfectly showcases his talent for tension, atmosphere – and characters out of their depth A naïve young linguist sent to the forests of Irian Jaya is manipulated into betraying her mission...

California Sister

California Sister
  • Author(s): Gloria Mattioni
  • Location(s): Bergamo, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A sister’s love versus a cruel fate. A story of fierce love and heartbreaking grief. Claire Waters, an Italian mystery writer living in Los Angeles, rushes to Italy after her older sister’s devastating brain-hemorrhage, determined to restore her health-or...

Call it Sleep

Call it Sleep
  • Author(s): Henry Roth
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother’s arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the ‘Golden Land’. David is hated by his father – an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in...

Call Me Joe

Call Me Joe
  • Author(s): Martin van Es, Andrew Crofts
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The world is on the brink of disaster.The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both more connected, and yet more divided than ever before. Fear and confusion seep into all parts...

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
  • Author(s): Jennifer Worth
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s

The East End in the 1950s, worth describes the hardships and life of a midwife, the real life situations and captures that era to perfection.

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