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The Secret to Hummingbird Cake

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake
  • Author(s): Celeste Fletcher McHale
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“The Secret to Hummingbird Cake celebrates strong women and stronger ties. Its humour, poignancy, and a dash of sass will touch the heart.”* In the South you always say “yes, ma’am” and “no, ma’am.” You know everybody’s business. Football...

The Secret Ways of Perfume

The Secret Ways of Perfume
  • Author(s): Cristina Caboni
  • Location(s): Florence, France, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home,...

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth

The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
  • Author(s): Christopher Scotton
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man’s view of human...

The Secretary

The Secretary
  • Author(s): Deborah Lawrenson
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958

Moscow, 1958. At the height of the Cold War, MI6 secretary Lois Vale is on a deep cover mission to identify a diplomatic traitor. She can trust only one man: Johann, a German journalist also working covertly for the...

The Secrets Between Us

The Secrets Between Us
  • Author(s): Thrity Umrigar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel—a poignant and compelling novel in which the former servant struggles against the circumstances of class and misfortune to forge...

The Secrets from the Deep

The Secrets from the Deep
  • Author(s): Satu Rämö, Kristian London (Translator)
  • Location(s): Westfjords
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): 1995 / 2022

1995: A young German woman disappears in the Westfjords of Iceland, but the case is quickly forgotten. After all, it’s not uncommon for foreigners who come to Iceland to vanish, and the police are too busy investigating a fatal...

The Secrets of Blythswood Square

The Secrets of Blythswood Square
  • Author(s): Sara Sheridan
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

You wouldn’t suspect it, but scandalous secrets are being kept on Blythswood Square… 1846. Glasgow is a city on the cusp of great social change, but behind the curtains, neighbours are watching, and rumours of improper behaviour spread like...

The Secrets of Provence

The Secrets of Provence
  • Author(s): Daisy Wood
  • Location(s): Paris, Provence
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940 / Contemporary

Provence, 1940. Thrown out of occupied Paris by the Nazis, brave, beautiful Mathilde finds refuge with her cousin in Provence, where she’s soon drawn into the Resistance movement. Secrecy and subterfuge are her constant companions in her life on...

The Secrets of Strangers

The Secrets of Strangers
  • Author(s): Charity Norman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London café – their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is...

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche

The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche
  • Author(s): M L Longworth
  • Location(s): Aix-en-Provence
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

Provençal Mystery Series #7 One hot summer night, Aix-en-Provence is aflutter with news that controversial author Valère Barbier, who once shared dinners with French presidents and all-night drinking bouts with rock stars, has moved into La Bastide Blanche, a...

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