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Secrets of the Last Merfolk

Secrets of the Last Merfolk
  • Author(s): Lindsay Littleson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“One of the swimmers plunged underwater with a flick of his long, dolphin-like tail. The other followed, sending an arc of spray shooting upwards, tail slapping against the choppy waves.” In the quiet Scottish seaside village of Dunlyre, Finn...

Secrets of the Pomegranate

Secrets of the Pomegranate
  • Author(s): Barbara Lamplugh
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Passionate, free-spirited Deborah has finally found peace and 
a fulfilling relationship in her adopted city of Granada – but when 
she is seriously injured in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, it is 
her sister Alice who is forced...

Secrets of the Sea

Secrets of the Sea
  • Author(s): Nicholas Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Tasmania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the...

Secrets of the Shipyard Girls

Secrets of the Shipyard Girls
  • Author(s): Nancy Revell
  • Location(s): Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1941

(The Shipyard Girls Series, 3) Sunderland, 1941 As the world war continues the shipyard girls face hardships at home, but work and friendship give them strength to carry on. Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy,...

Secrets of the Sprakkar

Secrets of the Sprakkar
  • Author(s): Eliza Reid
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Biography
  • Era(s): Various

Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman-but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in...

Secrets of Villa Eden

Secrets of Villa Eden
  • Author(s): Amanda Lees
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary /1942

The grand painted arches and turquoise tiles in front of me exactly match those in the photograph in my hand. I’ve found my beloved aunt’s villa. The place she loved – and feared. And the place she tried so...

Secrets Taken to the Grave (The Strathbairn Trilogy)

Secrets Taken to the Grave (The Strathbairn Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Victorian

The Scottish Highlands, 1893. Ingrid Barker arrives back at Strathbairn to attend the funeral of her old employer, Charles McCleod. Every bone in Ingrid’s body screams for her to leave, and as she walks from the graveside, she can’t...

Secrets Under the Sun

Secrets Under the Sun
  • Author(s): Nadia Marks
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Romance, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

Secrets Under the Sun is a stunning romantic mystery by the sea, from Nadia Marks, author of the bestselling Among the Lemon Trees. The truth will surprise you . . . On the island of Cyprus, in the small...

Secrets We Keep

Secrets We Keep
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): West Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The beautiful old Bath House in Ballytokeep has lain empty and abandoned for decades. For devoted pensioners Archie and Iris, it holds too many conflicting memories – sometimes it’s better to leave the past where it belongs. For highflying,...

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the People’s Temple
  • Author(s): Deborah Layton
  • Location(s): Guyana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell. A high-level member of Jim Jones’s Peoples Temple for...

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