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Paper Names

Paper Names
  • Author(s): Susie Luo
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn 21st Century

Taut, panoramic and powerful; Paper Names is an unforgettable debut about the long shadows of our parents, the ripple effects of our decisions and the ways in which our love transcends difference. Outside a New York apartment building, an...

Paperboy

Paperboy
  • Author(s): Tony Macaulay
  • Location(s): Belfast
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1970s / 2000s

It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he’s got a new job. He’s going to be a paperboy....

Paperboy

Paperboy
  • Author(s): Callum McSorley
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DCI Alison McCoist is back: newly promoted and even less popular. Chuck Gardner is the proud owner of both a confidential paper-shredding business and a serious betting habit. When Chuck finds some scandalous paperwork and McCoist investigates a rat-nibbled...

Paradais

Paradais
  • Author(s): Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

nside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive married woman and mother – while Polo dreams about...

Paradise

Paradise
  • Author(s): Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WWI

Paradise is at once the story of an African boy’s coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of traditional African patterns by European colonialism. It presents a major African voice to American readers...

Paradise

Paradise
  • Author(s): Patricia Wolf
  • Location(s): Surfer's Paradise, The Gold Coast
  • Era(s): Contemporary

DS Walker Thriller 2 Australia’s Gold Coast: On a stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline, a young mother is brutally murdered and her daughter, Gabby, is left in a coma, with her life hanging in the balance. DS Lucas Walker...

Paradise City

Paradise City
  • Author(s): Joe Thomas
  • Location(s): Sao Paulo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mario Leme is a low-ranking detective in the Sao Paolo civil police. Every day on the way to work he sets off early and drives through the favela known as Paraisopolis – Paradise City. It’s a pilgrimage: his wife...

Paradise Corner (Yesterday’s Road #7)

Paradise Corner (Yesterday’s Road #7)
  • Author(s): Mary Minton
  • Location(s): East London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

When newly weds Jessamy and Dr Alistair MacKay set up their dispensary for the poor at Paradise Corner, it is the fulfilment of a long-held dream. They are pioneers in the fight against poverty and disease in London’s East...

Paradise County

Paradise County
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): Kentucky, Shelby County
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Left bankrupt after her billionaire father’s sudden death, Alexandra Haywood returns to Shelby County, Kentucky — that bit of Southern splendor known as Paradise County — to sell the family’s magnificent horse farm. Part of her mission is to...

Paradise, Nevada

Paradise, Nevada
  • Author(s): Dario Diofebi
  • Location(s): Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015

From an exhilarating new literary voice–the story of four transplants braving the explosive political tensions behind the deceptive, spectacular, endlessly self-reinventing city of Las Vegas. On Friday, May 1st, 2015 a bomb detonates in the infamous Positano Luxury Resort...

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