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Probably the Best Kiss in the World

Probably the Best Kiss in the World
  • Author(s): Pernille Hughes
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jen Attison likes her life Just So. But being fished out of a canal in Copenhagen by her knickers is definitely NOT on her to do list. From cinnamon swirls to a spontaneous night of laughter and fireworks, Jen’s...

PROBLEM AT POLLENSA BAY AND OTHER STORIES

PROBLEM AT POLLENSA BAY AND OTHER STORIES
  • Author(s): Agatha Christie
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Parker Pyne can’t escape his talent of solving people’s problems even when he’s on holiday. In fact his fellow guest Mrs Chester leaps on the opportunity for someone to save her son from an unfavourable marriage. When this story...

Prodigal Summer

Prodigal Summer
  • Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most...

Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams

Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
  • Author(s): Michael Leroy Oberg
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th century

Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk...

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
  • Author(s): Rajeev Balasubramanyam
  • Location(s): Hong Kong, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Professor Chandra is an expert at complex problems. There’s just one he can’t crack: the secret of happiness In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn’t see his life flash before his eyes, but his life’s work....

Project Darcy

Project Darcy
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): London, Steventon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary/Regency

It is high summer when Ellie Bentley joins an archaeological dig at Jane Austen’s childhood home. She’s always had a talent for ‘seeing’ into the past and is not easily disturbed by her encounters with Mr Darcy’s ghost at...

Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary
  • Author(s): Andy Weir
  • Location(s): Space
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Martian. ________________________________________ Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if...

Promise

Promise
  • Author(s): Rachel Eliza Griffiths
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1957

The people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them are born, live and die never having gone more than twenty or thirty miles from houses that are crammed with generations of...

Promise Me Christmas

Promise Me Christmas
  • Author(s): Marguerite Martin Gray
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1784

Would Amy ever see him as anything other than a former Loyalist who destroyed her home? One more building, one more road, one more disaster reconstructed. But George Elliott remains trapped in the past, reliving his role in the...

Promise Me This

Promise Me This
  • Author(s): Cathy Gohike
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 1900s

Michael Dunnagan was never supposed to sail on the “Titanic,” nor would he have survived if not for the courage of Owen Allen. Determined to carry out his promise to care for Owen’s relatives in America and his younger...

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