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Partner Pursuit

Partner Pursuit
  • Author(s): Kathy Strobos
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a workaholic lawyer meets a fun-loving music marketing executive for opposites attract, friends-to-lovers adventures, which partnership will she choose? Workaholic lawyer Audrey Willems is not going to take any chances with her bid to become a partner at...

Party of Liars

Party of Liars
  • Author(s): Kelsey Cox
  • Location(s): Bulverde
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An exclusive black-tie birthday party. A sprawling mansion with a dark past. A body falling from a cliffside balcony onto the starlit outdoor dance floor. One of the guests is dead, and another is a killer – but who...

Party of Two

Party of Two
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she...

Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Border

Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Border
  • Author(s): Aisha Ahmad, Roger Boase
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various centuries

These oral tales were collected in the tribal areas on the Pakistan-Afghan frontier, a region described as the last free place on earth. It was here that the caravan routes from Persia, India and China once converged. With their...

Passage of Tears

Passage of Tears
  • Author(s): Abdourahman A. Waberi
  • Location(s): Djibouti
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of writing–spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables, incantations, and prayers. Djibril’s reminiscences provide a sense of Djibouti’s past and its people, while a...

Passage to Ararat

Passage to Ararat
  • Author(s): Michael J Arlen
  • Location(s): Yerevan
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what...

Passenger 19

Passenger 19
  • Author(s): Ward Larsen
  • Location(s): Bogota, Colombia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen…but for one terrible detail—his young daughter,...

Passing

Passing
  • Author(s): Nella Larsen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

First published to critical acclaim in 1929, “Passing” firmly established Nella Larsen’s prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Irene Redfield, the novel’s protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent...

Passion for Murder

Passion for Murder
  • Author(s): David Pearson
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emotions run high when a Dublin language school becomes the focus of a murder inquiry A young woman’s lifeless body is found in an old shed on the banks of Dublin’s Royal Canal. When detectives find out that the...

Passion in Perugia: A Guido la Vespa Chocolate Affair

Passion in Perugia: A Guido la Vespa Chocolate Affair
  • Author(s): Veronica Bell
  • Location(s): Perugia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Handsome Italian veterinarian Max Borsellino doesn’t know what hit him when Lark Archer smashes her car into his newly-acquired pink Vespa. And Lark, a Canadian student and bird-watching fanatic in Italy, is beside herself when she finds out what...

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