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Thirty-Eight Days of Rain

Thirty-Eight Days of Rain
  • Author(s): Eva Asprakis
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“What matters more, your place as a daughter or as a mother?” Androulla is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and...

Thirty-One Bones:

Thirty-One Bones:
  • Author(s): Morgan Cry
  • Location(s): Jávea (Xàbia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fictional El Descaro is inspired by Javea. When Effie Coulston drops dead on the floor of her bar in a small Spanish town mid-business meeting, her daughter Daniella feels it’s her duty to return for the funeral. But Daniella...

Thirty-Three Days

Thirty-Three Days
  • Author(s): Stephen B King
  • Location(s): Perth
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2016 but includes times travel from the future

Jenny is a lonely university lecturer who’s consciousness has traveled back in time to her younger body to try to save the future of the world. A young microbiologist is going to release a genetically modified wheat that will...

This Blinding Absence of Light

This Blinding Absence of Light
  • Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1971

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim...

This Burns My Heart

This Burns My Heart
  • Author(s): Samuel Park
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1960s

In this extraordinary (Chicago Tribune) and compelling love story set in postwar Korea in the 1960s, an unhappily married woman struggles to give her daughter a good life and to find love in a society caught between ancient tradition...

This Christmas in Paris

This Christmas in Paris
  • Author(s): Sophie Claire
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

What could be more magical than Christmas in Paris? When Carys is offered the chance to run a little French café, she leaps at the chance to discover an exciting city where she can dream big. Meanwhile, struggling journalist...

This Close to Okay

This Close to Okay
  • Author(s): Leesa Cross-Smith
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller.” On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home...

This Could Be Everything

This Could Be Everything
  • Author(s): Eva Rice
  • Location(s): Notting Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1990

It’s 1990 and the streets of Notting Hill in London are filled with colour, life and the pulse of music from around the world. But behind the front door at 51 St Quentin Avenue, nineteen-year-old February Kingdom is Not...

This Cursed House

This Cursed House
  • Author(s): Del Sandeen
  • Location(s): Louisiana, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1960s

Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon family has always been a little different. Light-skinned enough to pass as white, they’ve always felt superior to their black peers, ensconced in their palatial but decrepit New Orleans mansion. Meanwhile in Chicago, Jemma Barker...

This Dark Road to Mercy

This Dark Road to Mercy
  • Author(s): Wiley Cash
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as “a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns...

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