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Pups on Piste: A Ski Season In Italy

Pups on Piste: A Ski Season In Italy
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Lambert
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

“Highly recommended for dog lovers, ski enthusiasts & adventurous travellers!” Jackie and Mark share a passion for planks. When they married, just thirty-seven weeks after they first met, their ambition was to spend a full season in the Alps....

Pura Vida

Pura Vida
  • Author(s): Bea W Meyer
  • Location(s): Costa Rica
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

What do ostriches and a farm in Alberta have in common with Costa Rica? Not much one would think. In this case, however, they are the reason for an invitation the author and her travel mate are following after...

Pure Poison

Pure Poison
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): County Tipperary
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A humorous whodunnit set in a small town in Ireland When a resident of Magnerstown is found dead, cynical Inspector Robert Carroll poo-poos his younger sidekick James Sayder’s suspicions of murder. He struggles to believe it even when the...

Purgatory Chasm

Purgatory Chasm
  • Author(s): Steve Ulfelder
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The job seems simple. Conway Sax, a no-nonsense auto mechanic with a knack for solving difficult problems, has never liked obnoxious blowhard Tander Phigg. But a promise is a promise. Tander’s a Barnburner, a member of the unique Alcoholics...

Purge

Purge
  • Author(s): Sofi Oksanen
  • Location(s): Estonia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal captors – men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge but...

Purple Jesus

Purple Jesus
  • Author(s): Ron Cooper
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents’ house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, seeks to rob an old...

Purple Shroud

Purple Shroud
  • Author(s): Susan Parry
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The body of a man lies half-hidden in the purple heather, stabbed to death on the North York Moors. Detective Sergeants Nina Featherstone and Hazel Fuller set out to discover his identity and locate the mystery woman who accompanied...

Pursued by Death

Pursued by Death
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

.   When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline ‘YOUNG MAN...

Pushing the Limits

Pushing the Limits
  • Author(s): Katie McGarry
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

“I won’t tell anyone, Echo. I promise.” Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my...

Putney

Putney
  • Author(s): Sofka Zinovieff
  • Location(s): Putney, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house’s colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, teasing, slippery as...

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