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The Sojourners

The Sojourners
  • Author(s): T L Hughes
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Sojourners is a coming of age novel (fiction) set in the 1980s – a journey through Europe with vivid imagery, poetry and references to great songs of that era throughout. From the book cover – “Filled with colorful...

The Solace of Leaving Early

The Solace of Leaving Early
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana...

The Solace of Water

The Solace of Water
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Byler Younts
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1956

After the loss of her young son, Carver, an African-American preacher’s wife named Delilah Evans moves with her family from Montgomery, Alabama, to Sinking Creek, Pennsylvania, for a fresh start. The last thing she could have imagined was becoming...

The Soldier’s Home

The Soldier’s Home
  • Author(s): George Costigan
  • Location(s): France, England, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

The Soldier’s Home’ is the stunning sequel to the bestselling debut, ‘The Single Soldier’, by renowned actor and writer George Costigan. The war is over and his home was re-built … but a home is just a set of...

The soldier’s Wife

The soldier’s Wife
  • Author(s): Margaret Leroy
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom...

The Solemn Lantern Maker

The Solemn Lantern Maker
  • Author(s): Merlinda Bobis
  • Location(s): Manila
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

From the award-winning author of Banana Heart Summer–“ wonderful debut… resembles Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street and is destined to be a hit among book club members”*–comes a wondrous tale of hope, secrets, and family devotion. It’s...

The Sóller Solution

The Sóller Solution
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Back for the third time in the 3R series, the team have to deal with three seemingly unconnected coincidences as they answer a call for help from Sam’s old boss. When Sam Martínez gets a call from Tony Theakston,...

The Solo Honeymoon

The Solo Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Laura Murphy
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Honeymoon is not a book about grief. There is grief in it, a whole truckload of grief, but it will not offer advice. I’m twenty-eight, what do I know? Instead, it will be primarily the story of my...

The Someday Jar

The Someday Jar
  • Author(s): Allison Morgan
  • Location(s): Phoenix
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fans of Sophie Kinsella and the Shopaholic series will fall in love with Lanie Howard—young, fabulous, and desperate to transform her life—in this funny, quirky, and endearing story about finding perfect happiness in life’s most imperfect moments. WHEN LIFE...

The Somerset Tsunami

The Somerset Tsunami
  • Author(s): Emma Carroll
  • Location(s): Somerset
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1700s

A sinking boat . . . A girl in disguise . . . A disappearing sea . . . When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother, Gem, she’s only having a bit of...

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