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Two Old Fools in Spain Again

Two Old Fools in Spain Again
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Almería (Almeria), Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

#4 in the bestselling Old Fools series When Victoria and Joe return to their Spanish mountain village, they are still reeling from their year in the Middle East. Sighing with relief, they prepare to settle down to a peaceful...

Two Old Fools in Turmoil

Two Old Fools in Turmoil
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2015

★ New York Times Bestselling author ★ “James Herriot meets Driving over Lemons” When dark, sinister clouds loom, Victoria and Joe find themselves facing life-changing decisions. Happily, silver linings also abound in this, the fifth Old Fools chronicle. A...

Two Old Fools on a Camel

Two Old Fools on a Camel
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Middle East, Bahrain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

Reluctantly, Vicky and Joe leave their Spanish mountain village to work for a year in the Middle East. How could they know that the Arab revolution was poised to erupt, throwing them into violent events that would make world...

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival

Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
  • Author(s): Velma Wallis
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Prehistoric

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe...

Two Solitudes

Two Solitudes
  • Author(s): Hugh MacLennan
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

“Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence,...

Two Steps Forward

Two Steps Forward
  • Author(s): Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist
  • Location(s): France, Northern Spain, Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past – for Zoe, the death...

Two Thousand Seasons

Two Thousand Seasons
  • Author(s): Ayi Kwei Armah
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Multiple

Trans Atlantic and African slave trades are the subject of Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons (1973) in which a pluralized communal voice speaks through the history of Africa, its wet and dry seasons, from a period of one thousand years....

Two Truths and a Lie

Two Truths and a Lie
  • Author(s): Meg Mitchell Moore
  • Location(s): Newburyport
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Truth: Sherri Griffin and her daughter, Katie, recently moved to the idyllic beach town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. They’ve been welcomed by Rebecca Coleman, unofficial former leader of the Newburyport Mom Squad, and her teenage daughter Alexa, Katie’s new babysitter....

Two Wings of a Nightingale

Two Wings of a Nightingale
  • Author(s): Jill Worrall
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Iran is probably the most misunderstood country in the world, and its people are among the most feared. Award-winning travel writer Jill Worrall, with her friend Reza Mirkhalaf, a leading tour manager from Tehran, describe an Iran the world...

Two’s Company at the Forest Light Show

Two’s Company at the Forest Light Show
  • Author(s): Margaret Amatt
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

One night, one second chance, and a love story waiting to happen Vivacious forestry worker Cha Gilchrist doesn’t usually have flings with buttoned-up guys who dress like her old geography teacher, no matter how secretly attractive she finds them....

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