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The Memory of Animals

The Memory of Animals
  • Author(s): Claire Fuller
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt, and the one big mistake that has derailed her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to...

The Memory of Love

The Memory of Love
  • Author(s): Aminatta Forna
  • Location(s): Freetown, Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969 and 1999

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital’s...

The Memory of Old Jack

The Memory of Old Jack
  • Author(s): Wendell Berry
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1952

In a rural Kentucky river town, “Old Jack” Beechum, a retired farmer, sees his life again through the sades of one burnished day in September 1952. Bringing the earthiness of America’s past to mind, The Memory of Old Jack...

The Memory of Tides

The Memory of Tides
  • Author(s): Angelo Loukakis
  • Location(s): Australia, Crete
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

This moving novel of fate and love stretches from the mountains of Crete to the dreams of post-war Australia, is inspired by historical events, and of the Australian soldiers who took part in the Battle of Crete during World...

The Memory of Us

The Memory of Us
  • Author(s): Camille Di Maio
  • Location(s): London, Liverpool
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a...

The Memory of Water

The Memory of Water
  • Author(s): Karen White
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry with a gripping tale of two sisters haunted by one tragic night… On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana...

The Memory Police

The Memory Police
  • Author(s): Yoko Ogawa
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan’s greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river...

The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes – A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery

The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes – A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery
  • Author(s): Daniel Smith
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime
  • Era(s): 1890s

The real-life inspiration for Holmes & Watson and a sensational murder mystery that rocked Victorian Britain. First published as The Ardlamont Mystery in 2018, to great reviews, The Men Who Were Sherlock Holmes: A True-Life Victorian Murder Mystery is...

The Mended Circle

The Mended Circle
  • Author(s): Lyn LeJeune

The Mended Circle traces several generations born of Philo Marie Sonnier, a deranged and brutal Confederate soldier, and an unknown black woman. “Moonlight and The Farmer” -“Josephine Carried By Her Lord” -“Biddie Meets Miss Alice Paul” are just a...

The Mended Circle

The Mended Circle
  • Author(s): Lyn LeJeune
  • Location(s): United States (USA)

The Mended Circle traces several generations born of Philo Marie Sonnier, a deranged and brutal Confederate soldier, and an unknown black woman. “Moonlight and The Farmer” -“Josephine Carried By Her Lord” -“Biddie Meets Miss Alice Paul” are just a...

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