The Steel Forest Goes Dark by Finn Woods
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Thriller, Adventure
- Era(s): Present day
On February third at six thirty-two A.M, an aurora filled the sky of Seattle with brilliant hues of green, blue, and dancing purple. It was in the news for less than two hours. When Oz won over a dozen...
The Stench of Honolulu: A Tropical Adventure
- Location(s): Honolulu
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Jak Handey’s exotic tale is full of laugh-out-loud twists and unforgettable characters whose names escape me right now. A reliably unreliable narrator and his friend, who is some other guy, need to get out of town. They have a...
- Location(s): Plymouth
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
A new Second World War novel from best-selling author Diney Costeloe, based on a gripping and moving true story. Plymouth, 1941. As sirens blare all around, the Shawbrook family take refuge in a packed shelter. Bombs have already begun...
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hidden under dust, stacked and forgotten lay the book. Just a pamphlet really, only within its pages it promised to show a way to unlimited wealth right out of the circumstances that surrounded her. It wasn’t hers, she shouldn’t...
- Location(s): Europe, The Mediterranean, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back 20 years
On board a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, Kimberly wakes to discover that her two-year-old son Robert has vanished from the cabin overnight. She and her husband Jason vow to do whatever it takes to bring Robert home. But...
- Location(s): St Kilda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Early 1920s
Wild Isle, Book 2 A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . . It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children,...
- Location(s): North Carolina, Hickory
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1944
It is 1944. Pregnant, alone, and riddled with guilt, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly gives up her budding career as a nurse and ends her engagement to the love of her life, unable to live a lie. Instead, she turns...
- Location(s): Munich
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live with Mama and Papa in Munich. Food is still rationed, though the war ended over ten years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. I have to hide this from my parents....
- Location(s): Egypt, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1936 and 1978
Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archaeological dig in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity. That is until an unbearable tragedy strikes. New York City, 1978: Nineteen-year-old...
- Location(s): Manitoba
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant—and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her—Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards...
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