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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...

The Son

The Son
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SONNY’S ON THE RUN Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. HE’S BEEN LIED TO HIS WHOLE LIFE But then one prisoner’s confession changes everything. He knows...

The Song of Kahunsha

The Song of Kahunsha
  • Author(s): Anosh Irani
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1993

From one of Canada’s brightest literary stars – a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and...

The Song of Kieu

The Song of Kieu
  • Author(s): Nguyen Du
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...

The Song of Silver Frond

The Song of Silver Frond
  • Author(s): Catherine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 1950s

One morning in Singapore more than 50 years ago, a wealthy, respected, handsome Chinese patriarch, head of a large household of three wives and many children and grandchildren, takes a walk by a cemetery. There, a young village egg-seller, Silver...

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