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The Secret Society of Salzburg

The Secret Society of Salzburg
  • Author(s): Renee Ryan
  • Location(s): Salzburg, Germany, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

At first glance, Austrian opera singer Elsa Mayer-Braun has little in common with the young English typist she encounters on tour. Yet she and Hattie Featherstone forge an instant connection–and strike a dangerous alliance. Using their friendship as a...

The Secret Speech

The Secret Speech
  • Author(s): Tom Rob Smith
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Tom Rob Smith’s first book, Child 44, enjoyed unprecedented attention and acclaim (as did its youthful author), so it was inevitable that the appetite for that novel’s successor would be keen. Now it’s here, and The Secret Speech, largely...

The Secret Stealers

The Secret Stealers
  • Author(s): Jane Healey
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards1

A female American spy in Nazi-occupied France finds purpose behind enemy lines in a novel of unparalleled danger, love, and daring by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Beantown Girls. Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and...

The Secret To Falling in Love

The Secret To Falling in Love
  • Author(s): Victoria Cooke
  • Location(s): Greater Manchester, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lifestyle journalist and thirty-something singleton Melissa hashtags, insta’s and snapchats her supposedly fabulous life on every social media platform there is. That is until she wakes up on her birthday, another year older and still alone, wondering if for...

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
  • Author(s): Celeste Fletcher McHale
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“The Secret to Hummingbird Cake celebrates strong women and stronger ties. Its humour, poignancy, and a dash of sass will touch the heart.”* In the South you always say “yes, ma’am” and “no, ma’am.” You know everybody’s business. Football...

The Secret War of Julia Child

The Secret War of Julia Child
  • Author(s): Diana R Chambers
  • Location(s): Asia, Burma (Myanmar), China, India, Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Before she was Julia Child, the famed “French Chef” who stole hearts, she was Julia McWilliams. Thirty years old and directionless, Julia took a job working for America’s first espionage agency, years before cooking or Paris entered the picture....

The Secret Ways of Perfume

The Secret Ways of Perfume
  • Author(s): Cristina Caboni
  • Location(s): Florence, France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home,...

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
  • Author(s): Christopher Scotton
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man’s view of human...

The Secrets Between Us

The Secrets Between Us
  • Author(s): Thrity Umrigar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge...

The Secrets of Strangers

The Secrets of Strangers
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café – their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is...

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