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The Origin Of Murder

The Origin Of Murder
  • Author(s): Jerold Last
  • Location(s): The Galápagos Islands (Galapagos), Ecuador
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Roger and Suzanne take a vacation cruise through the Galapagos Islands, 600 miles west of Ecuador. Suzanne discovers a dead body with a couple of bullet holes in its back floating in the Pacific Ocean and we’re off to...

The Origin Stone

The Origin Stone
  • Author(s): Kathryn Rossati
  • Location(s): Egypt, England
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

Emily Renzi thinks she’s going crazy. After her parents move to a quiet village, she senses that something is off about the house they’re living in. Dreams of strange creatures invade her sleep, and mysterious shapes appear in the...

The Orphan Daughter

The Orphan Daughter
  • Author(s): Cari Noga
  • Location(s): Traverse City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life’s twists and turns. Yet she’s shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she’s now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy. Still...

The Orphanage

The Orphanage
  • Author(s): Serhiy Zhadan, Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler (Translator), Reilly Costigan-Humes (Translator)
  • Location(s): Kyiv
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine If every war needs its master chronicler, Ukraine has Serhiy Zhadan, one of Europe’s most promising novelists. Recalling the brutal landscape of The...

The Orphanage

The Orphanage
  • Author(s): Lizzie Page
  • Location(s): Lavenham
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s

This is the first book in a five-part post-war series set in the pretty village of Lavenham in Suffolk Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948. She was their only hope. Now they are hers. A gritty, heartbreaking and unforgettable story...

The Orphanage Girls Come Home

The Orphanage Girls Come Home
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London, Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910/1919

‘These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.’ – Lancashire Evening Post London, 1910 When Amy is chosen to be a...

The Orphanage Girls Reunited

The Orphanage Girls Reunited
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

The Orphanage Girls come back together in The Orphanage Girls Reunited, the second installment of a moving wartime saga set in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Ellen Abandoned by her...

The Orphanmaster

The Orphanmaster
  • Author(s): Jean Zimmerman
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1663

From a debut novelist, a gripping historical thriller and rousing love story set in seventeenth-century Manhattan It’s 1663 in the tiny, hardscrabble Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now present-day southern Manhattan. Orphan children are going missing, and among those...

The Orphans

The Orphans
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Goa, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Eight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water’s edge when their parents vanished. For hours the children held hands and waited for them to return. But nobody ever came back. Years later, Jess has become a...

The Ossians

The Ossians
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Edinburgh, St Andrews, Dundee, Arbroath, Aberdeen, Inverness, Thurso, Ullapool, Kyle of Lochalsh, Fort William and Glasgow Connor is twenty-four: brilliant, broken, and out of control. He’s the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on...

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