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The Weeping Lady Conspiracy

The Weeping Lady Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alexandra Walsh
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Present day and early Tudor

Christmas has come to Marquess House and, with it, an unexpected mystery for Perdita and Piper to solve. Will they be able to reunite sisters whose story has been lost to the past? The Convent of Llyn Cel Island,...

The Weight of Ink

The Weight of Ink
  • Author(s): Rachel Kadish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1660s & early 21st century

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a...

The Weight of Our Sky

The Weight of Our Sky
  • Author(s): Hanna Alkaf
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1969

A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical...

The Weird Sisters

The Weird Sisters
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

This is the “delightful” (“People”) “New York Times” bestseller that’s earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don’t happen to like each other very much… Three...

THE WELCOME HOME DINER

THE WELCOME HOME DINER
  • Author(s): Peggy Lampman
  • Location(s): Detroit
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Betting on the city of Detroit’s eventual comeback, cousins Addie and Samantha decide to risk it all on an affordable new house and a culinary career that starts with renovating a vintage diner in a depressed area of town....

The Well and the Mine

The Well and the Mine
  • Author(s): Gin Phillips
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

A novel of warmth and true feeling, “The Well and the Mine” explores the value of community, charity, family, and hope that we can give each other during a time of hardship. In a small Alabama coal-mining town during...

The Western Wind

The Western Wind
  • Author(s): Samantha Harvey
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 15th Century

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2019** 15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove...

The Westing Game

The Westing Game
  • Author(s): Ellen Raskin
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his...

The Whale Tattoo

The Whale Tattoo
  • Author(s): Jon Ransom
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach and tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever he goes. Joe knows that the place he needs to go is back home. Having stormed out two...

The Wharf Butcher

The Wharf Butcher
  • Author(s): Michael K Foster
  • Location(s): Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A serial killer is stalking Tyneside. But there is a pattern to his killings, his choice of victims, his method of slaughter. David Carlisle, a criminal profiler, is brought in to assist DCI Jack Mason with his task of...

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