The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus
- Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Scotland
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something...
- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . . When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better...
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a...
- Location(s): County Wexford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2014
The life you lived. The life you loved. The life you left… For fans of Jojo Moyes and Cecelia Ahern. It started out like any other day for Sarah Lawler; getting the kids ready for school, making the pack...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Are you living the life you imagined? Is there anything you’d have done differently if you could? Those are the questions asked in Kristina Riggle’s unforgettable new novel. In high school, Cami and Anna were as close as they...
- Location(s): Austin, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): currentt
“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”–Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect–but viciously protective–mothers and...
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Revolutionary
Caught between the impossible and the forbidden… As his world erupts in open warfare, Robert Harris’ Quaker faith guides him away from the use of violence for any purpose, even if the war could cost him the freedom to...
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years...
- Location(s): Türkiye (Turkey)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): late 20th century
The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private...
- Location(s): Lisbon
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Twentieth Century
Immerse yourself in mid-twentieth century Lisbon in this gripping tale of passion, danger, and resistance. Against the backdrop of his beautiful city of light and colour, and the darkness of Salazar’s dictatorship, Alvaro comes of age working in a...
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