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Shiloh

Shiloh
  • Author(s): Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Marty, a young boy, comes across a puppy he calls Shiloh in the hills behind his home. But Shiloh belongs to Judd, who is the town drunk and a dreadfully cruel person, who beats the dog. But Marty will...

Singles and Spice

Singles and Spice
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A singles’ holiday to India’s Golden Triangle – Taj Mahal, the pink city of Jaipur, tiger-spotting in Ranthambore, the noisy, crowded streets of Delhi – all go to make up a trip that is hot, humid and spicy. Eve...

Slow Train to Guantanamo

Slow Train to Guantanamo
  • Author(s): Peter Millar
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

It is an island more than 1000 kilometres long and was the sixth in the world (before its colonial master Spain) to have a national rail network. Cuba today feels like a nation at the end of a long,...

Still Me

Still Me
  • Author(s): Jojo Moyes
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she...

Stiltsville

Stiltsville
  • Author(s): Susanna Daniel
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s onwards

Against a vivid South Florida background, Susanna Daniel’s Stiltsville offers a gripping, bittersweet portrait of a marriage—and a romance—that deepens over the course of three decades. Called “an elegantly crafted work of art and a great read” by Curtis Sittenfeld (American...

Summer at Castle Stone

Summer at Castle Stone
  • Author(s): Lynn Marie Hulsman
  • Location(s): Ireland, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This summer, lose your heart in Ireland… Shayla Sheridan’s a New York native born into big city luxury, but she’s never really fitted in with the “it” crowd. Desperate to make it as a writer and to finally step...

Sycamore Gap

Sycamore Gap
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Chief Inspector Ryan believes he has put his turbulent history behind him. Then, in the early hours of the summer solstice, the skeleton of a young woman is found inside the Roman Wall at Sycamore Gap. She has...

Terminal City

Terminal City
  • Author(s): Linda Fairstein
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When the body of a young woman is found in a suite at one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan, Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace find themselves hunting for an elusive killer...

The Atlas of Us

The Atlas of Us
  • Author(s): Tracey Buchanan
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Finland, Koh Phi Phi, Krabi, Serbia, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1900s through 2004 to 2014

How far would you go for the one you love the most? A stormy love affair. A secret. A discovery that changes everything … Louise Fenton flies to a devastated Thailand to search for her mother, missing following the...

The Black Notebook

The Black Notebook
  • Author(s): Patrick Modiano
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1960s

Set in Montparnasse, Paris. A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty years previously. Set in the...

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