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The Waves Take You Home

The Waves Take You Home
  • Author(s): María Alejandra Barrios Vélez
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the...

The Wax Child

The Wax Child
  • Author(s): Olga Ravn, Martin Aitken (translator)
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 17th Century

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her...

The Waxwork Corpse

The Waxwork Corpse
  • Author(s): Simon Michael
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1965

A deadly crime has been dragged to the surface… London, 1965 Charles Holborne, maverick barrister, will never fit in at the Bar; he is too working-class, too Jewish and too dangerous. But that makes him the perfect outsider to...

The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia

The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia
  • Author(s): Thom Wheeler
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Thom Wheeler is not a man to be put off by the prospect of an uncharted, impractical or downright dangerous journey. Having accidentally introduced his old school friend Vicky to Dmitry, the Russian love of her life, at the...

The Way Life Should Be

The Way Life Should Be
  • Author(s): Christina Baker Kline
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life that seems to have, somehow, just happened. She inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her...

The Way Men Act

The Way Men Act
  • Author(s): Elinor Lipman
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melinda is a florist. She doesn’t want to be. She never intended to come home to Harrow, Massachusetts and, if she did, she planned to be married with a great job, not single and designing her former classmates’ wedding...

The Way of Beauty

The Way of Beauty
  • Author(s): Camille Di Maio
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Earlier 20th Century

Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera’s life to unexpected possibilities....

The Way of Love: On The Camino de Santiago

The Way of Love: On The Camino de Santiago
  • Author(s): Angela Leslee
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There must be easier ways to heal and grow, than walking 500 miles across Spain. But it’s hard to imagine one filled with more adventure, laughter and excitement. The author sets off armed with idealistic expectations and a backpack....

The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai, Book 1)

The Way of the Warrior (Young Samurai, Book 1)
  • Author(s): Chris Bradford
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 17th century

August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan – his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates. Rescued by the legendary sword master Masamoto Takeshi, Jack’s only hope is to become a samurai...

The Way of Whisky

The Way of Whisky
  • Author(s): Dave Broom
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Current

An in-depth, personal journey around Japan’s whisky distilleries. Award-winning author and Japanese whisky expert, Dave Broom, tells their story and unveils the philosophy that lies behind this fascinating whisky culture, and how it relates to many Japanese concepts. Dave...

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