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The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
  • Author(s): Lori Nelson Spielman
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Ravello, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter has found lasting love. Some, like second-born Emilia, the happily-single baker at her grandfather’s Brooklyn deli, claim...

The Stark Beauty of Last Things: A Novel

The Stark Beauty of Last Things: A Novel
  • Author(s): Celine Keating
  • Location(s): Montauk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Stark Beauty of Last Things is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area under looming threat from a warming climate and overdevelopment. Now outsider Clancy, a thirty-six-year-old claims adjuster scarred by his orphan...

The Starless Sea

The Starless Sea
  • Author(s): Erin Morgenstern
  • Location(s): Underworld
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners,...

The Starlings of Bucharest

The Starlings of Bucharest
  • Author(s): Sarah Armstrong
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Moscow Wolves Series Book 2) The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves. Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when...

The Start of Me and You

The Start of Me and You
  • Author(s): Emery Lord
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s been a year since it happened—when Paige Hancock’s first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for two years, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school . . . and she...

The Startup Wife

The Startup Wife
  • Author(s): Tahmina Anam
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes everything. Dreaming big, together...

The State We’re In

The State We’re In
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What are the odds that the stranger sitting next to you on a plane is destined to change your life? Especially when they appear to be your opposite in every way. She’s a life-long optimist, looking for her soul...

The States

The States
  • Author(s): Norah Woodsey
  • Location(s): Galway
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tildy Sullivan is the middle child in an elite yet fading Manhattan family. Her quiet practicality hides her deep, profound longing for childhood summers in western Ireland. She also carries a secret regret. After her mother’s death, she’s persuaded...

The Stationery Shop of Tehran

The Stationery Shop of Tehran
  • Author(s): Marjan Kamali
  • Location(s): Tehran
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

1953, Tehran. Roya loves nothing better than to while away the hours in the local stationery shop run by Mr. Fakhri. The store, stocked with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of writing paper, also carries translations...

The Staycation

The Staycation
  • Author(s): Cressida McLaughlin
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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