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The Alone Alternative

The Alone Alternative
  • Author(s): Linda MacDonald
  • Location(s): London, Devon, Isles of Scilly
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Former classmates Edward and Marianne, now fifty-five, have experienced a turbulent few years having lost contact with each other and suffered painful disruption to their home lives. Reunited again, this time through Twitter, they set about a search for...

The Alpine Retreat

The Alpine Retreat
  • Author(s): Sarah Goodwin
  • Location(s): Swiss Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Relax. Recharge. Run for your life. High in the secluded Swiss Alps, Élan Peak Wellness Retreat promises luxury, rejuvenation, and exclusivity ― an influencer’s paradise. A select group of celebrities, corporate bosses and social media stars arrive, eager to...

The Amateur

The Amateur
  • Author(s): Chris Bohjalian
  • Location(s): Westchester
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

1978. In the sleepy New York suburb of Tallmadge, eighteen-year-old Mira Winston is beguiling, talented, and full of youthful recklessness. She spends her summer perfecting her swing at her parents’ country club – and continuing her long-running affair with...

The Amateur Spy

The Amateur Spy
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): Amman
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Freeman Lockhart is working for his old friend Omar in Amman, Jordan. And spying on him too. Hoping to prevent his own secrets from ever coming to light, Freeman has agreed to report back on his friend to a...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  • Author(s): Michael Chabon
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He...

The Amazing Racist

The Amazing Racist
  • Author(s): Chhimi Tenduf-La
  • Location(s): Colombo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eddie trusted, an english school teacher in colombo, wants to spend his life with menaka rupasinghe, a vibrant sri lankan beauty, but her orthodox terror of a father stands in his way. If eddie wants to wed menaka, it...

The Amazing Story of the Man who cycled from India to Europe for Love

The Amazing Story of the Man who cycled from India to Europe for Love
  • Author(s): Per J Andersson
  • Location(s): Asia, Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appears before an Indian street artist known locally as PK and asks him to paint her portrait...

The Amber Keeper

The Amber Keeper
  • Author(s): Freda Lightfoot
  • Location(s): Russia, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Early / mid 20th Century

Set against the backdrop of revolutionary Russia, The Amber Keeper is a sweeping tale of jealousy and revenge, reconciliation and forgiveness. English Lake District, 1960s: A young Abbie Myers returns home after learning of her mother’s death. Estranged from...

The Amber Pendant (The Rose Muddle Mysteries)

The Amber Pendant (The Rose Muddle Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Imogen White
  • Location(s): Brighton, Hove
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Edwardian Era

When Rose Muddle is plucked from the workhouse to become a maid in a grand mansion, she discovers that her new mistress has secret plans for her – plans which involve a strange amber pendant with extraordinary powers. But...

The Ambivalent Corpse

The Ambivalent Corpse
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): The present

In the first novel in the Roger and Suzanne mystery series, private detective Roger Bowman and his girlfriend scientist Suzanne Foster find themselves traveling through Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina to solve a baffling and grotesque murder case. Parts...

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