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The Opportunists

The Opportunists
  • Author(s): Yohann de Silva
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Peter Ivanov finds himself stuck with a $50,000 gambling debt, he decides to do something drastic. He heads to Uzbekistan, a little-known country on the edge of the world. But Yury Popov, a former Red Army captain who...

The Opposite of Life

The Opposite of Life
  • Author(s): Narrelle Harris
  • Location(s): Melbourne
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

Lissa Wilson has seen more than enough death in her family, so when people start being savagely killed whenever she has a night out in Melbourne with her beautiful new boyfriend, she’s determined to investigate and to make the...

The Optimist’s Daughter

The Optimist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Eudora Welty
  • Location(s): Louisiana, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

The Optimist’s Daughter is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother...

The Oracle Glass

The Oracle Glass
  • Author(s): Judith Merkle Riley
  • Location(s): Versailles, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Her ability to see the future may prevent her from living in the present… For a handful of gold, Madame de Morville will read your future in a glass of swirling water. You’ll believe her, because you know she’s...

The Oracle of Stamboul

The Oracle of Stamboul
  • Author(s): David Lukas
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1877

Late in the summer of 1877, a flock of purple-and-white hoopoes suddenly appears over the town of Constanta on the Black Sea, and Eleonora Cohen is ushered into the world by a mysterious pair of Tartar midwives who arrive...

The Oracle’s Daughter

The Oracle’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Harrison Hill
  • Location(s): New Mexico, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Turn of the 21st Century

On a cool autumn night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the...

The Orange Girl

The Orange Girl
  • Author(s): Jostein Gaarder, James Anderson (translator), Olga Đorđilović (translator)
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

‘My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I’d hear from him again, but now we’re writing a book together’ To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant...

The Orange Grove

The Orange Grove
  • Author(s): Kate Murdoch
  • Location(s): Blois
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Blois, 1705. The château of Duc Hugo d’Amboise simmers with rivalry and intrigue. Henriette d’Augustin, one of five mistresses of the duc, lives at the chateau with her daughter. When the duc’s wife, Duchesse Charlotte, maliciously undermines a new...

The Orchard

The Orchard
  • Author(s): David Hopen
  • Location(s): Miami, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself Ari Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox...

The Orchard of Lost Souls

The Orchard of Lost Souls
  • Author(s): Nadifa Mohamed
  • Location(s): Somalia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988

It is 1988 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds but still the dictatorship remains secure. Soon, and through the eyes of three women, we will see Somalia fall. Nine-year-old Deqo has left the vast...

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