The Girl, the Ghost and the Lost Name
- Location(s): Australia, World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
If my hair looks like bright green seaweed, it’s because that’s exactly what it is. My eyes, a pair of abalone shells, polished blue by sand. Teeth, two rows of pebbles. And my skin is made of wax. Corpse...
- Location(s): Ontario
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as “the girls.” They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their...
- Location(s): Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Four old friends. Thrown back together after forty years apart. What could possibly go wrong? In the 1970s, The Girls were best friends sharing a house and good times: Zara the famous diva actor, Val the uptight solicitor, Jackie...
- Location(s): Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, and consumed more electricity than New York City, yet it was shrouded in such secrecy that it did not appear on any map. Thousands...
- Location(s): Utah
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and instant USA Today bestseller The Unwedding, a novel of suspense and friendship about three friends who decide to disappear from their lives for a few days while on a trip...
- Location(s): San Juan Islands
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Their reunion just became a crime scene . . . June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime nemesis, Sadie...
The Girls, Alone: Six Days in Estonia
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): contemporary
A resurfacing writer hits the sauna, bares it all, and learns the true meaning of saga. In her latest work, award-winning author Bonnie J. Rough separates from her family for a surprising journey into the difficult past and precarious...
- Location(s): El Chaltėn
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir
- Era(s): Contemporary
The body of a tourist turns up frozen in Patagonia’s largest glacier, killed by a gunshot to the belly thirty years ago. Of course, you have no idea that this will change your life. You’ve lived all of it...
- Location(s): Athens, Calderdale, Snowdonia, Spetses
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1970s
Close friends gather at the graveside of the most favoured of this group of privileged young people. Readers discover than Rosalind who has been jilted in favour of her cousin Lucinda, now the widow must suffer the indignity of...
- Location(s): Vancouver Island, Manhattan
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Vincent is the beautiful bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it’s the...
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