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The Sweetest Remedy

The Sweetest Remedy
  • Author(s): Jane Igharo
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a woman travels to Nigeria to attend the funeral of the father she never knew, she meets her extravagant family for the first time, a new and inspiring love interest, and discovers parts of herself she didn’t know...

The Sweetness of Tears

The Sweetness of Tears
  • Author(s): Nafisa Haji
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

From Nafisa Haji, author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Writing on My Forehead, comes The Sweetness of Tears, an emotional, deeply layered story that explores the far reaching effects of cultural prejudice, forbidden love, and hidden histories on...

The Sweetness of Water

The Sweetness of Water
  • Author(s): Nathan Harris
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s (American Civil War)

In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation,...

The Swell

The Swell
  • Author(s): Kat Gordon
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mythology
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century / 1970

In places of darkness, women will rise . . . Iceland, 1910. In the middle of a severe storm, two sisters – Freyja and Gudrun – rescue a mysterious, charismatic man from a shipwreck near their remote farm. Sixty-five...

The Swimmer of Auschwitz

The Swimmer of Auschwitz
  • Author(s): Renaud Leblond
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

The extraordinary story of Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine, never imagined that he would one day swim for France at the Olympic Games in Berlin...

The Switch Up

The Switch Up
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Drama queen Fashion guru Spontaneous Looks like Alice ALICE Bookworm Allergic to fashion Planner Looks like Willa LAX Departure Lounge. Two girls board the same flight to London as complete strangers. When the plane touches down, it’s the...

The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange

The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Film director LA insider Impulsive Looks like Alice ALICE Eco warrior LA tourist Cautious Looks like Willa Alice can’t wait to visit Willa in LA – home of Hollywood, where dreams come true. Their plan is to explore...

The Sword of Medina

The Sword of Medina
  • Author(s): Sherry Jones
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 7th century

Before dying, Muhammad left his jeweled sword, al-Ma’thur, to A’isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is against her own people? After 20 years of distrust and anger, can A’isha...

The Swordfish and the Star

The Swordfish and the Star
  • Author(s): Gavin Knight
  • Location(s): Penwith
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Environmental
  • Era(s): Various

The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century....

The Sydney Quartet

The Sydney Quartet
  • Author(s): A J Sendall
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000

This quartet set in Sydney are all stand-alone, full length novels, and can be read in any order. Each has its own main characters, yet share some common secondary characters and locations. Those of you who have read Flank...

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