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Operation Vienna

Operation Vienna
  • Author(s): Michael Ridpath
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction

In a city on the brink of ruin, a single spark could ignite a continent. Vienna, 1931. When a wealthy American is found dead in a burning car in the Vienna Woods, police quickly dismiss it as suicide. But...

Ophelia

Ophelia
  • Author(s): Lisa Klein
  • Location(s): Elsinore, Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Middle Ages

He is Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; she is simply Ophelia. If you think you know their story, think again. In this reimagining of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy, it is Ophelia who takes center stage. A rowdy, motherless girl, she grows...

Opium Dreams

Opium Dreams
  • Author(s): Tom Crowley
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): present day

The war in the Pacific has started. U.S. and Thai intelligence agencies are waging an undercover war with the Chinese state security forces who are dominating the governments of Southeast using the exploding drug trade of the triad crime...

Opposites Ignite: Bangers Tavern Romance 2

Opposites Ignite: Bangers Tavern Romance 2
  • Author(s): Sadira Stone
  • Location(s): Tacoma
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A mismatch sparks the hottest flames. Blue-haired, buxom, and bodacious, server Rosie needs her job at Bangers Tavern, where her work family adores her weirdness and supports her hunt for a tattoo apprenticeship. When too much New Year’s bubbly...

Oracle

Oracle
  • Author(s): Julie Anderson
  • Location(s): Delphi
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and WW2

Justice will be done, but what kind of justice? High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, near the ancient Temple of Apollo, a group of young idealists protest against the despoiling of the planet outside a European governmental conference....

Orange Blossom Days

Orange Blossom Days
  • Author(s): Patricia Scanlan
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a beautiful southern Spanish town, where the sea sparkles and orange blossoms scent the air, the gates of a brand new apartment complex, La Joya de Andalucía, glide open to welcome the new owners. Anna and Austen MacDonald, an...

Orange County Noir

Orange County Noir
  • Author(s): Gary Phillips
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories

These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...

Orange Mint and Honey

Orange Mint and Honey
  • Author(s): Carleen Brice
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Broke and burned-out from grad school, Shay Dixon does the unthinkable after receiving a “vision” from her de facto spiritual adviser, blues singer Nina Simone. She phones Nona, the mother she had all but written off, asking if she...

Orange on a Stoop

Orange on a Stoop
  • Location(s): Jessica Scalise
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Growing up in the 1950s on the grounds of a former orange plantation, Hallie Bentley has learned to dodge snakes, alligators, and the unpredictable wrath of her alcoholic father. But protecting her brother Reb–mute, in love with another boy,...

Oranges in No Man’s Land

Oranges in No Man’s Land
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
  • Location(s): Beirut
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Oranges in No Man’s Land brings Elizabeth Laird’s emotional and gripping adventure to her next generation of fans. Since her father left Lebanon to find work and her mother tragically died in a shell attack, ten-year-old Ayesha has been...

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