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The Reluctant Baker

The Reluctant Baker
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WARNING: THIS NOVEL WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO ESCAPE TO THE SUN. There is a lazy Mediterranean village full of colourful characters. There is sunshine and wine and a long sandy beach… There are nagging in-laws, jealous neighbours and...

The Reluctant Nude

The Reluctant Nude
  • Author(s): Meg Maguire
  • Location(s): Cape Breton Island
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fallon Frost’s late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous developer plans to bulldoze her old home to make room for a strip mall, the practical, ordered life...

The Reluctant Rebel (A Jacobite Adventure)

The Reluctant Rebel (A Jacobite Adventure)
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Inverness
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1746

There it is again, hope. The defeat and the despair I can stand, but it’s the hope that kills me, as if the Cause wasn’t lost, as if Father hadn’t died in vain. As if any one of us...

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox
  • Author(s): Nancy Rubin Stuart
  • Location(s): Hydesville, Rochester
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

Here is the first authoritative biography of Margaret Fox, the world-famous medium and cofounder of the Spiritualism movement that swept America in the mid-1800s. In 1848, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her sister Katy created rapping sounds by manipulating their toe...

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
  • Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic, The Remains of the...

The Remarkable Feather Waka; a Moriori Tale of Long Ago

The Remarkable Feather Waka; a Moriori Tale of Long Ago
  • Author(s): June Allen
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa), Chatham Islands
  • Genre(s): Mythology
  • Era(s): Pre 19th Century

The Moriori had been living a peaceful life in the Chatham Islands for many centuries before they were almost all killed by a tribe of Maori from New Zealand in the mid 19th Century. Just a few stories remain...

The Remedy for Love

The Remedy for Love
  • Author(s): Bill Roorbach
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the “Storm of the Century” threatens western Maine, Eric closes his office early and heads to the grocery store. In line ahead of him, an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman comes up short on cash, so Eric...

The Removed

The Removed
  • Author(s): Brandon Hobson
  • Location(s): Oklahoma
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Modern

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed...

The Replacement Wife

The Replacement Wife
  • Author(s): Darby Kane
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The #1 International bestselling author of Pretty Little Wife returns with another thrilling domestic suspense novel that asks, how many wives and girlfriends need to disappear before your family notices? Elisa Wright is a mom and wife, living a...

The Replacements

The Replacements
  • Author(s): David Putnam
  • Location(s): Costa Rica
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bruno Johnson, ex-detective with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and an ex-convict, is hiding out from the FBI in Costa Rica, tending bar to support eight children he illegally rescued from abusive homes. Partway through a normal day, Barbara...

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