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Orbital

Orbital
  • Author(s): Samantha Harvey
  • Location(s): Space
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning...

Orchid Blooming

Orchid Blooming
  • Author(s): Carol Van Den Hende
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A childhood tragedy followed her into adult life. Will she ever claim real happiness again? Kind and generous, twenty-seven-year-old Orchid Paige will never forget that day. Living as best she can after witnessing her parents’ fatal accident, the beauty...

Orchid House

Orchid House
  • Author(s): Cindy Coloma
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Love in a foreign land. A decaying hacienda full of secrets. And a woman searching for the story of her life. A funeral and some family business–that’s what Julia Bentley expects when she travels to the Philippines to bury...

Ordinary Grace

Ordinary Grace
  • Author(s): William Kent Krueger
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1961 / 2001

New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the soda counter of Halderson’s Drugstore, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was...

Ordinary Human Failings

Ordinary Human Failings
  • Author(s): Megan Nolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

Set in 1990s, ambitious reporter Tom Hargreaves stumbles across a scoop: a dead child on a London estate, with the suspicion of one reclusive family of Irish immigrants swirling in the background.

Ordinary Love

Ordinary Love
  • Author(s): Marie Rutkoski
  • Location(s): Manhattan, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s no such thing as an ordinary love story When Emily catches sight of Gennifer Hall at a party, she is transported back to the moment they fell in love as teenagers. Their connection was electric, and they thought...

Ordinary People

Ordinary People
  • Author(s): Diana Evans
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

South London, 2008. Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning, on the brink of acceptance or revolution. Melissa has a new baby and doesn’t want to let it change her but, in the crooked walls of a...

Ordinary Saints

Ordinary Saints
  • Author(s): Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin
  • Location(s): Ireland, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you imagine it? I’d say to them. Can you imagine me there in the front row in Saint Peter’s Square? The lesbian sister of a literal saint. Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now...

Oreo

Oreo
  • Author(s): Fran Ross
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Oreo has been raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note. Oreo’s quest is to find...

Origin

Origin
  • Author(s): J T Brannan
  • Location(s): Antarctica, Geneva
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

For millennia it has lain there undiscovered. Now the time has come… Research scientist Evelyn Edwards always knew the Antarctic held deep secrets but the discovery of a 40,000 year old body buried under the ice caps surpasses even...

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