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Things Can Only Get Feta

Things Can Only Get Feta
  • Author(s): Marjory McGinn
  • Location(s): The Peloponnese
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After an Arctic winter, a British recession, and a downturn in the newspaper industry, two journalists and their dog embark on an adventure in the wild and beautiful southern Peloponnese. A perfect plan, except for one thing – Greece...

Things in Jars

Things in Jars
  • Author(s): Jess Kidd
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian times

London, 1863. Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age, is taking on her toughest case yet. Reeling from her last job and with her reputation in tatters, a remarkable puzzle has come her way. Christabel Berwick has...

Things Left Unsaid

Things Left Unsaid
  • Author(s): Courtney Walsh
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married but unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven. The idyllic cottage community harbors some of...

Things That Crash, Things That Fly

Things That Crash, Things That Fly
  • Author(s): Scott Gould
  • Location(s): Italian Alps, Greenville
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 2000s

As a husband and wife plan an Italian vacation with friends—to visit her family’s Tuscan village—she makes a last-minute addition to the itinerary: she plans to leave him when they return. And her bombshell includes a caveat. He isn’t...

Things That Disappear

Things That Disappear
  • Author(s): Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Location(s): Germany
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century / various

The Palace of the Republic, that once housed the East German parliament, is demolished. A grandmother’s laughter passes from life into memory. Furniture that once made a home is taken to the tip. A friendship drops into silence. Old...

Things We Choose To Hide

Things We Choose To Hide
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...

Things We Didn’t Say

Things We Didn’t Say
  • Author(s): Kristina Riggle
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

What goes unsaid can sometimes speak the loudest . . . What makes up a family? For Casey it’s sharing a house with her fiancE, Michael, and his three children, whom she intends to nurture more than she ever...

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
  • Author(s): Jeannie Vanasco
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 60 years ago

Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her....

Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here

Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
  • Author(s): Nancy Wayson Dinan
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather’s wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire...

Thinking on My Feet

Thinking on My Feet
  • Author(s): Kate Humble
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Thinking on My Feet tells the story of Kate’s walking year – shining a light on the benefits of this simple activity. Kate’s inspiring narrative not only records her walks (and runs) throughout a single year, but also charts...

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