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The Healer

The Healer
  • Author(s): Amber Hayward
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Fiction

From the sweltering slums of Rio de Janeiro to the isolated plantations of Brazil, The Healer tells the story of Manoel, a curandero, who inherits an incredible healing power, and the people whose lives he changes forever. But little...

The Healer’s Secret

The Healer’s Secret
  • Author(s): Helen Pryke
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present day, 1930s

All families have secrets. The Innocenti have a secret worse than most. Jennifer’s life isn’t going as she planned. Fired from her job and on the brink of divorce at thirty-one, her only salvation lies at the bottom of...

The Healer’s War

The Healer’s War
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Kitty, a nurse, decides to fly out to join the efforts in the Vietnam war. She tends the wounded and gets to know the local populace in a way that the soldiers never can. She is bequeathed an object...

The Healers

The Healers
  • Author(s): Ayi Kwei Armah
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fiction. African Studies. THE HEALERS tells a story of the conflict and regeneration focused on replacing toxic ignorance with the healing knowledge of African unity.

The Healing Knife

The Healing Knife
  • Author(s): S L Russell
  • Location(s): France, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

To Rachel Keyte death is the enemy. The early loss of her beloved father from heart failure ignited a single-minded determination in her: to save as many patients as she can, and to become a consultant before the age...

The Health of Strangers

The Health of Strangers
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nobody likes the North Edinburgh Health Enforcement Team, least of all the people who work for it. An uneasy mix of seconded Police and health service staff, Mona, Bernard and their colleagues stem the spread of the Virus, a...

The Heart in Winter

The Heart in Winter
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Butte
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

October, 1891. Butte, Montana. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • Author(s): Carson McCullers
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Set in a small Georgia town, a deaf mute, Mr. Singer, loses his best friend (another deaf-mute) to a mental institution. Soon, when Mr. Singer is alone without his companion, four loners in town begin to befriend him. They,...

The Heart Of A Dog

The Heart Of A Dog
  • Author(s): Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and...

The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone, West Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

In a British colony in West Africa, Henry Scobie is a pious and righteous man of modest means enlisted with securing borders. But when he’s passed over for a promotion as commissioner of police, the humiliation hits hardest for...

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