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The Virgins

The Virgins
  • Author(s): Siddharth Tripathi
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How does one become a man? Three young friends are about to find out. With six unmarried sisters and a perennially drunk father, Pinku, a 19-year-old school dropout, has only one dream left: to marry the plump girl who’d...

The Virtual Kibbutz: Stories from a Changing Society

The Virtual Kibbutz: Stories from a Changing Society
  • Author(s): Elllis Shuman
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): late 20th century

For over fifty years, the magnificent oak tree stood as a solitary landmark in the middle of the valley, witnessing the cool, wet winters and the hot, humid summers. Young pioneers established a new kibbutz nearby, celebrating their collective...

The Visitor (Jack Reacher 4)

The Visitor (Jack Reacher 4)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both forced to resign from the service. Now they’re both dead. Found in their own homes, naked, in a bath full of paint. Apparent victims of an army man. A...

The Visitors

The Visitors
  • Author(s): Rebecca Mascull
  • Location(s): Kent, South Africa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Adeliza Golding is a deaf-blind girl, born in late Victorian England on her father’s hop farm. Unable to interact with her loving family, she exists in a world of darkness and confusion; her only communication is with the ghosts...

The Vixen’s Scream

The Vixen’s Scream
  • Author(s): John Dean
  • Location(s): North Pennines
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Are harrowing screams heard in the night, the cries of a fox, or worse? When a woman from London reports the screams of a girl during the night, knowing better, the local police in the Pennines think nothing of...

The Voice in My Ear

The Voice in My Ear
  • Author(s): Frances Leviston
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The first work of fiction from award-winning poet Frances Leviston offers a frighteningly perceptive slice of contemporary womanhood. Ten women, all called Claire, are tangled up in complex power dynamics with their families, friends, and lovers. Though all are...

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
  • Author(s): Elias Canetti
  • Location(s): Marrakech
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of that place:...

The Volcano Shake (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 5)

The Volcano Shake (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 5)
  • Author(s): Tom Bradley Jr
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Nestled in a tropical rainforest on the edge of a volcano, the Honeycreeper Lodge is an out-of-the-way B&B on the Big Island of Hawai’i, where visitors come to relax and commune with nature. Yet despite this idyllic setting, a...

The Volunteer

The Volunteer
  • Author(s): Jack Fairweather
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): WW2

In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interned at a new concentration camp on the border of...

The Wailoa Waltz (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 6)

The Wailoa Waltz (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 6)
  • Author(s): Tom Bradley Jr
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

For Hawaiian PI Noelani Lee, a typical Wednesday morning begins like any other day. But a bizarre series of events propels her into a case rife with disjointed family dynamics, unsettled scores, and murder. It all starts when an...

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