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The Weekend Away

The Weekend Away
  • Author(s): Sarah Alderson
  • Location(s): Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they’ve faced it all – be it Orla’s struggles as a new mother or Kate’s messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to...

The Weekend Guests

The Weekend Guests
  • Author(s): Liza North
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

FIVE OLD FRIENDS. A REUNION TO DIE FOR . . . A weekend on the wild, beautiful Dorset coast. Seven adults, six kids. A nanny: the ultimate special treat. It should be perfect: old friends, a stunning house, champagne...

The Weekenders

The Weekenders
  • Author(s): David F Ross
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century / 1960s

Glasgow, 1966: Stevie ‘Minto’ Milloy, former star footballer-turned-rookie reporter, finds himself trailing the story of a young Eastern European student whose body has been found on remote moorland outside the city. How did she get there from her hostel at...

The Weeping Lady Conspiracy

The Weeping Lady Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Alexandra Walsh
  • Location(s): Pembrokeshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical, Time Slip
  • Era(s): Present day and early Tudor

Christmas has come to Marquess House and, with it, an unexpected mystery for Perdita and Piper to solve. Will they be able to reunite sisters whose story has been lost to the past? The Convent of Llyn Cel Island,...

The Weight of a Mustard Seed

The Weight of a Mustard Seed
  • Author(s): Wendell Steavenson
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

The Weight of a Mustard Seed is the intimate, startling and gripping account of the slow destruction of a man, his family and his country. General Kamel Sachet was a decorated hero of the long Iran-Iraq war and a...

The Weight of Ink

The Weight of Ink
  • Author(s): Rachel Kadish
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1660s & early 21st century

Set in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a...

The Weight of Our Sky

The Weight of Our Sky
  • Author(s): Hanna Alkaf
  • Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1969

A music loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Melati Ahmad looks like your typical...

The Weight of Snow and Regret

The Weight of Snow and Regret
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gauffreau
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1927-1968

For over 100 years, no one wanted to be sent to the Sheldon Poor Farm. By 1968, no one wanted to leave. Amid the social turmoil of 1968, the last poor farm in Vermont is slated for closure. By...

The Weird Sisters

The Weird Sisters
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

This is the “delightful” (“People”) “New York Times” bestseller that’s earned raves from Sarah Blake, Helen Simonson, and reviewers everywhere-the story of three sisters who love each other, but just don’t happen to like each other very much… Three...

THE WELCOME HOME DINER

THE WELCOME HOME DINER
  • Author(s): Peggy Lampman
  • Location(s): Detroit
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Betting on the city of Detroit’s eventual comeback, cousins Addie and Samantha decide to risk it all on an affordable new house and a culinary career that starts with renovating a vintage diner in a depressed area of town....

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