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The One from the Other

The One from the Other
  • Author(s): Philip Kerr
  • Location(s): Munich, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1940s,

The Opal Desert

The Opal Desert
  • Author(s): Di Morrissey
  • Location(s): New South Wales
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Opal Desert is the story of three women from different generations with unresolved issues in their lives who meet in the fictitious NSW town of Opal Lake. Kerrie, in her 40s, has just lost her famous sculptor husband...

The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): Tennessee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920-1940

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a classic from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a...

The Orchardist

The Orchardist
  • Author(s): Amanda Coplin
  • Location(s): Pacific Northwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

At the turn of the twentieth century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his children. One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the...

The Orphan Master

The Orphan Master
  • Author(s): Jean Zimmerman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Set in New Amsterdam in the mid-17th century, Zimmerman’s nicely flowing narrative is animated by robust characters who thrive on the edges of civilization. Hardy Dutch colonists are the main inhabitants of this bustling community, but traders and adventurers...

The Orphan Master’s Son

The Orphan Master’s Son
  • Author(s): Adam Johnson
  • Location(s): North Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Citizens of our beloved Democratic Republic of North Korea! Imagine the life of an orphan boy from nowhere who is plucked from his orphanage by the military, to be trained as a tunnel assassin, a kidnapper, a spy. He...

The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl
  • Author(s): Philippa Gregory
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1500s

The Other Child

The Other Child
  • Author(s): Charlotte Link
  • Location(s): London, Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern, 1970s, WW2

In the northern seaside town of Scarborough, a student is found cruelly murdered. For months, the investigators are in the dark, until they are faced with a copy-cat crime. The investigation continues apace, yet they are still struggling to...

The Other Family

The Other Family
  • Author(s): Joanna Trollope
  • Location(s): London, Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Richie leaves his first wife and child (without going through the process of divorce) and goes off to live with another woman,and with her he fathers three daughters. His untimely death reveals the legal ramifications of his actions, and...

The Other Hand

The Other Hand
  • Author(s): Chris Cleave
  • Location(s): England, Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely...

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