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The Guilt Trip

The Guilt Trip
  • Author(s): Sandie Jones
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Mystery
  • Era(s): Conteporaryy

Jack and Rachel. Noah and Paige. Will and Ali. Five friends who’ve known each other for years. And Ali, Will’s new fiancée. To celebrate the forthcoming wedding, all three couples are having a weekend get-away together in Portugal. It’s...

The Gulf of Lions

The Gulf of Lions
  • Author(s): Caitlin Shetterly
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reconciling with her husband after a betrayal and recovering from a yearlong battle with breast cancer, Alice longs for an escape from the trials of everyday life. When the opportunity arises for a once-in-a-lifetime camping trip across France, she...

The Guru of Love

The Guru of Love
  • Author(s): Samrat Upadhyay
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Writing of Samrat Upadhyay’s debut story collection, critics raved: “like a Buddhist Chekhov . . . speak to common truths . . . startlingly good” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “subtle and spiritually complex” (New York Times). Upadhyay’s first novel...

The Gypsy Bride

The Gypsy Bride
  • Author(s): Katie Hutton
  • Location(s): Canterbury, Oxfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

‘your Gypsy loves you so much he’s ready to put his head in a noose for you!’ 1922: Harvest time in the Chilterns. A Gypsy falls in love with a lonely girl in a close-knit Evangelical community. Opposed on...

The Gypsy’s Daughter

The Gypsy’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Katie Hutton
  • Location(s): Nottingham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

Harmony ‘Harry’ Loveridge is growing up on a farm in post-war Kent. With a Gypsy for a father, she has had a somewhat unconventional, yet happy life. But Harry has always hoped for more. And with ambitions to go...

The Hacienda

The Hacienda
  • Author(s): Isabel Cañas
  • Location(s): The American South
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Hacienda San Isidro was meant to be Beatriz’s haven, her salvation from an oppressive life with her uncle and his vicious wife. When Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposed, Beatriz dreamed only of the security his estate in the countryside would...

The Haiku Murder

The Haiku Murder
  • Author(s): Fran Pickering
  • Location(s): Matsuyama, Shikoku
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the second book in the Josie Clark in Japan mystery series. The first book is The Cherry Blossom Murder. A haiku-writing trip turns to tragedy when charismatic financier Mr Ando falls from the top of Matsuyama castle....

The Hakawati

The Hakawati
  • Author(s): Rabih Alameddine
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2003

Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. No book this bewitching has ever felt so important; no book this important has ever been so lovingly enchanted. The Hakawati is both a snapshot of...

The Half Life of Valery K

The Half Life of Valery K
  • Author(s): Natasha Pulley
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

The truth must come out. In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of...

The Half-Child

The Half-Child
  • Author(s): Angela Savage
  • Location(s): Pattaya
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Jayne Keeney is a fiesty thirty-something private investigator who has been living in Bangkok for many years. She has been hired to investigate the alleged suicide of a young Australian woman in a seedy Thai coastal town. Maryanne Delbeck...

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