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The Midwife’s Tale

The Midwife’s Tale
  • Author(s): Delia Parr
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830

Martha Cade comes from a long line of midwives who have served the families of Trinity, Pennsylvania, for generations. A widow with two grown children, she’s hopeful that her daughter will follow in her footsteps, but when Victoria runs...

The Mighty Miss Malone

The Mighty Miss Malone
  • Author(s): Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Location(s): Michigan, Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936 / Great Depression

“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful” is the motto of Deza Malone’s family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in...

The Mighty Red

The Mighty Red
  • Author(s): Louise Erdrich
  • Location(s): North Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; Kismet...

The Milkman in the Night

The Milkman in the Night
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Amanda Love Darragh (translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Read this eccentric epic from the author of cult classic Death and the Penguin Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was...

The Miller’s Dance: A Novel of Cornwall 1812-1813 (Poldark Book 9)

The Miller’s Dance: A Novel of Cornwall 1812-1813 (Poldark Book 9)
  • Author(s): Winston Graham
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1812/13

Cornwall 1812. At Nampara, the Poldark family finds the new year brings involvement in more than one unexpected venture. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising – and worrying – news. And Clowance, newly returned from her London...

The Millionaire Plan

The Millionaire Plan
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Love or money, what would you marry for? Once Amber Wynters would have said she’d only ever marry for love, but then her scheming, no good two-timing ex-fiancé, Rod breaks her heart, AND bankrupts her parents. There is no...

The Mine

The Mine
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): Connecticut
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

Fighting the Revolution put him underground! Alec Tinworth joined the Loyalist militia to restore his family’s fortunes after his Connecticut neighbors rebelled against the British Crown. His own luck runs out when he is captured and thrown into the...

The Miner’s Lass

The Miner’s Lass
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919

‘You’re a Dinsdale lass, Ruby. Nothing and no one keeps us lot down.’ A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that seventeen-year-old Ruby Dinsdale has known. Even with her father and younger brother working at...

The Ming Storytellers

The Ming Storytellers
  • Author(s): Laura Rahme
  • Location(s): Beijing (Peking)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th century

It is the 15th Century. At the dawn of the Ming Dynasty, three women’s paths will cross. And of their journey, a tale will be born. An imperial concubine, a Persian traveler and a mysterious storyteller. Three women: One...

The Ministry of Special Cases

The Ministry of Special Cases
  • Author(s): Nathan Englander
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance, earning money when people live longer than they fear. As Argentina’s Dirty War...

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