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Songs from the Violet Cafe

Songs from the Violet Cafe
  • Author(s): Fiona Kidman
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Era(s): 1940s

New Zealand, 1943. Violet Trench crosses Lake Rotorua with a small boy, Wing Lee, but rows back alone. Twenty years later, the same body of water is the scene of an event that will have lasting repercussions for Violet...

Songs in Ordinary Time

Songs in Ordinary Time
  • Author(s): Mary McGarry Morris
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960

Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 – the last of quiet times and America’s innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her...

Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from West Africa and the Caribbean

Songs in the Shade of the Cashew and Coconut Trees: Lullabies and Nursery Rhymes from West Africa and the Caribbean
  • Author(s): Nathalie Soussana
  • Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Gabon, Jamaica, Republic of the Congo
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Songs about children playing in the schoolyard, sisters braiding each other’s hair at the beach, and parents dancing late into the night mesh together thanks to the music. A wide array of styles–nursery rhymes from Gabon, lullabies from Cape...

Songs in Ursa Major

Songs in Ursa Major
  • Author(s): Emma Brodie
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s/early 1970s

A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969, alive with music, sex, and the trappings of fame. Raised on an island off Massachusetts by a mother...

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me
  • Author(s): Selçuk Altun
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

After the death of his overbearing mother, the privileged Arda reclines in his wealth, reflecting on his young life, and on the life of his father, the famous mathematician Mürsel Ergenekon, who was murdered on Arda’s fourteenth birthday. While...

Songs of Enchantment

Songs of Enchantment
  • Author(s): Ben Okri
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

Myth and naturalism are combined in the story of Azaro, the spirit-child who lives in an impoverished African village, and the upheavals that he and his family face

Sons of Rome (Rise of Emperors #1)

Sons of Rome (Rise of Emperors #1)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

‘A page turner from beginning to end … A damn fine read’ Ben Kane. Four Emperors. Two Friends. One Destiny. As twilight descends on the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its former self....

Sons, Daughters

Sons, Daughters
  • Author(s): Ellen Elias-Bursać (Translator), Ivana Bodrozic
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ivana Bodrozic’s latest award-winning novel tells a story of being locked in: socially, domestically and intimately, told through three different perspectives, all deeply marked and wounded by the patriarchy in their own way. This is a story of hidden...

Sooley

Sooley
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the summer of his seventeenth year, Sam­uel Sooleymon gets the chance of a lifetime: a trip to the United States with his South Sudanese teammates to play in a showcase basket­ball tournament. He has never been away from...

Sophia’s Secret

Sophia’s Secret
  • Author(s): Julie Ryan
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Romance, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary with flashbacks

This is the second book in the Greek Island Mystery series. Although each book is intended to be read as a standalone, some of the characters from the first book, ‘Jennas’s Journey’, do make an appearance. Kat has never...

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