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The Road to Noeware, Woven Branches book 1

The Road to Noeware, Woven Branches book 1
  • Author(s): G L Yancy
  • Location(s): South Georgia
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Haunted by sins of the past while grappling with the challenges of the present, the citizens of Tennyson County, Georgia, must come to grips with the reality that not all secrets stay buried forever. Allison Edwards, a part-time journalism...

The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country
  • Author(s): Chigozie Obioma
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Epistolary, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

At first the vision is grainy―like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it are...

The Road to Wanting

The Road to Wanting
  • Author(s): Wendy Law-Yone
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Na Ga was always in search of a better life. But now she sits, alone, in a hotel room in Wanting, a godforsaken town on the Chinese-Burmese border. Plucked from her wild life as a rural eel-catcher, Na Ga...

The Road Trip

The Road Trip
  • Author(s): Beth O'Leary
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend’s wedding in rural Scotland. The playlist is all planned and the snacks are packed. But, not long after setting off, a car slams...

The Rock of Tanios

The Rock of Tanios
  • Author(s): Amin Maalouf
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1880s

Tanios was a child of the mountains of Lebanon in the 1880s when the Egyptian Pashas were struggling against Ottoman domination and the British and French plotted with and against each other. Amin Maalouf’s novel, The Rock of Tanios,...

The Roman Holiday Rule

The Roman Holiday Rule
  • Author(s): Andra Loy
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): RomCom, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You can’t fall in love with someone who lives somewhere else and expect a happily-ever-after. Lexi Walker has finally committed to the Italian adventure that she and her late mother dreamed of for years–complete with a meticulously crafted itinerary,...

The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone

The Roman Spring Of Mrs Stone
  • Author(s): Tennessee Williams
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Mrs Stone is rich and famous, and becomes a widow. But as her looks fade and old age creep in, she looks for distraction and dedides to settle in Rome. But she cannt escape the machinations of age and...

The Romanov Bride

The Romanov Bride
  • Author(s): Robert Alexander
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): pre-Russian revolution

As the Russia of Nicholas and Aleksandra rushes full speed toward catastrophe, The Romanov Bride follows the lives of two revolutionary souls, that of Grand Duchess Elisavyeta (or Ella), sister of the tsaritsa Aleksandra, and that of Pavel, a...

The Romanov Empress

The Romanov Empress
  • Author(s): C W Gortner
  • Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to  England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son....

The Room on Rue Amélie

The Room on Rue Amélie
  • Author(s): Kristin Harmel
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

When Ruby first marries the dashing Frenchman she meets in a coffee shop, she pictures a life strolling arm in arm along French boulevards, awash in the golden afternoon light. But it’s 1938, and war is looming on the...

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