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Salsa with Me

Salsa with Me
  • Author(s): Roni Denholtz
  • Location(s): Dover (NJ)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Marisol, a librarian and Salsa dance teacher, meets Alejandro, an emergency room doctor when her grandmother is in the hospital. Sparks fly between them, and later on again in her Salsa class. Can these two, who’ve been hurt before,...

Salt and Saffron

Salt and Saffron
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): Karachi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Aliya may not have inherited her family’s patrician looks, but she is as much a prey to the legends of her family that stretch back to the days of Timur Lang. Aristocratic and eccentric-the clan has plenty of stories...

Salt Creek

Salt Creek
  • Author(s): Lucy Treloar
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s

A story of love, duty, hardship and intolerance told by a strong woman in 1850s colonial Australia. Hester Finch’s comfortable life in Chichester, England, could not be further from the hardship her family endured on leaving Adelaide for Salt...

Salt Houses

Salt Houses
  • Author(s): Hala Alyan
  • Location(s): Kuwait, Nablus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1967 onwards

“Reading Salt Houses is like having your coffee grounds read: cosmic, foreboding and titillating all at once. In this magnificent debut, Alyan’s powerful and poetic voice guides us into the dark recesses of history and leads us right up...

Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife

Salt in Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife
  • Author(s): Michele Longo Eder
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

In 2000, Michele Longo Eder began a journal to record what daily life was like for her while her husband and sons were out commercial fishing off the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and northern California. But personal tragedy struck...

Salt Lick

Salt Lick
  • Author(s): Lulu Allison
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Cli-fi, Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): The future

Britain is awash, the sea creeps into the land, brambles and forest swamp derelict towns. Food production has moved overseas and people are forced to move to the cities for work. The countryside is empty. A chorus, the herd...

Salt Sisters

Salt Sisters
  • Author(s): Katherine Graham
  • Location(s): Seahouses
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 1 in the Seahouses Mystery Series What secrets is this seaside village hiding? Izzy’s world is shattered when her sister Amy is killed in a tragic accident. She’s forced to come home from abroad, back to the small...

Salt the Snow

Salt the Snow
  • Author(s): Carrie Callaghan
  • Location(s): Spain, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police,...

Salt to the Sea

Salt to the Sea
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2, 1945

It’s early 1945 and a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged land. Four young people, each haunted by their own dark secret,...

Saltwater

Saltwater
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): County Donegal, London, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...

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