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On the Fringes

On the Fringes
  • Author(s): Randi Samuelson-Brown
  • Location(s): Cripple Creek
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s

A clairvoyant, a mining swindle and a fresh start. Although Maude has the unusual gift of clairvoyance, she suffers from a bad marriage. Together with her con artist husband Charley, they travel west by train in 1895, to start...

On the Isle of Antioch

On the Isle of Antioch
  • Author(s): Amin Maalouf, Natasha Lehrer (translator)
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, In Translation
  • Era(s): Future

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other. “Lebanese-born French author Maalouf delivers an...

On the Jellicoe Road

On the Jellicoe Road
  • Author(s): Melina Marchetta
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 200s

I’m dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I...

On the Line

On the Line
  • Author(s): Joseph Ponthus
  • Location(s): Brittany
  • Genre(s): Poetry, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Unable to find work in his field, Joseph Ponthus enlists with a temp agency and starts to pick up casual shifts in the fish processing plants and abattoirs of Brittany. Day after day he records with infinite precision the...

On the Move: Poems About Migration

On the Move: Poems About Migration
  • Author(s): Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake (illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Former Children’s Laureates Michael Rosen and Sir Quentin Blake join forces for a personal and uniquely affecting collection of poems about migration. “What you leave behind Won’t leave your mind. But home is where you find it. Home is...

On the Rocks

On the Rocks
  • Author(s): Sawyer Bennett
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Hunter Markham left home to travel the world for fame and glory, finding it as a top ranked professional surfer. Now he’s returned home to the sand and salty breeze of the North Carolina Outer Banks so he can...

On the Run

On the Run
  • Author(s): Iris Johansen
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Watching Frankie grow into a talented and confident young girl has made...

On The Run

On The Run
  • Author(s): Max Luther
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Framed for murder. Out for revenge. Private bodyguard Alex Drayce is on assignment in the States, tasked with protecting a wealthy businessman under threat of assassination. He is presented with the opportunity to make some quick cash for a...

On the Street Where You Live

On the Street Where You Live
  • Author(s): Mary Higgins Clark
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s, 1990s

In the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow, inextricably linked… Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal...

On Top of Nothing

On Top of Nothing
  • Author(s): Leigh Upman
  • Location(s): Mexico, Oaxaca, Wirikuta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four travelers. A dead man’s notebooks. A fifty-year lie. A father who never learned to talk. A daughter who stopped feeling. A boy carrying songs he won’t sing. A friend who never stays. Fifty years after Ray Callahan walked...

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