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Falling in Love

Falling in Love
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli. Now, many years later, Flavia...

False Allegiance

False Allegiance
  • Author(s): Nick Thacker
  • Location(s): Massachusetts, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Gambia / Senegal border
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Someone wants Jake Parker dead. He’ll find out why, or die trying… Ex-army, ex-police, widowed husband, estranged son. Jake Parker has no family, no one to care if one of the government-contract jobs he takes goes wrong. So he’s...

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part 1

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part 1
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France, England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (post 2007)

Buying a country estate in France seemed such a simple thing to accomplish. When Beth, her irascible husband Jack, and their two fat dogs set off, little do they know that it will become such an extraordinary adventure. Surviving...

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part II

Fat Dogs and French Estates – Part II
  • Author(s): Beth Haslam
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern (post 2007)

With six failures so far, and six more properties to see, Beth, her irascible husband, Jack, and their two fat dogs continue their hunt for a country domaine in France. As tensions rise, Beth’s anxieties switch from house-hunting failures...

Fieldwork

Fieldwork
  • Author(s): Mischa Berlinski
  • Location(s): Northern Thailand
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A deep and rich novel set among the hill tribes of Northern Thailand. A suspense story blending anthropology and Christian missionaries, it almost feels autobiographical. The thread that keeps the book together is the main character’s, almost obsessive, attempt...

Find and Seek New York

Find and Seek New York
  • Author(s): Sally Roydhouse
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

When a child steps outside their ordinary world and travels to a foreign city or country, an adventure awaits. In Find and Seek New York a small boy arrives in the city of New York with his family, willing...

Five Down

Five Down
  • Author(s): Tom Sibson
  • Location(s): York
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Now

Following a horrific murder in a sleepy suburb of York, a local journalist receives a cryptic clue from someone claiming to be the killer. The clue hints at where the next murder will take place. Teaming up with the...

Flight Of The Shearwater

Flight Of The Shearwater
  • Author(s): Alan Jones
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1940s

Flight of the Shearwater: Book 2 in the Sturmtaucher Trilogy, a powerful and compelling story of two families torn apart by evil. With Poland divided between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Union of Soviet Republics, the increasingly confident Third Reich...

Flowers Over the Inferno

Flowers Over the Inferno
  • Author(s): Ilaria Tuti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a quiet village surrounded by the imposing Italian Alps, a series of brutal assaults take place. Police inspector Teresa Battaglia is called in when the first body is found. Soon more victims are discovered – all horrifically mutilated...

Follow Me In

Follow Me In
  • Author(s): Katriona Chapman
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Graphic Novel
  • Era(s): Modern (early 2000s)

Recounting a life-changing trip to Mexico, Follow Me In is Kat Chapman’s memoir and coming-of-age story, interspersed with pages of her travel sketchbook and her explorations of the mosaic of cultural and bio-diversity that make Mexico such a special...

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