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Vanilla Beans And Brodo

Vanilla Beans And Brodo
  • Author(s): Isabella Dusi
  • Location(s): Montalcino
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern Day

When Isobel Dusi visited Italy with her Australian husband Lou, little did they imagine that life would change forever. But, utterly besotted with the fragrant warmth and good-natured conviviality of Southern Tuscany, they decided to sell up their lives...

Vanished Imam

Vanished Imam
  • Author(s): Fouad Ajami
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1978

In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the “Hidden Imam,” this modern-day Imam left...

Vano and Niko

Vano and Niko
  • Author(s): Erlom Akhvlediani
  • Location(s): Georgia (Asia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

“Vano and Niko” resembles a catalogue of all the relationships that are possible between people. It is a parable that demonstrates that not only humans but all living beings are engaged in the search for the other. Peter Handke,...

Vanquishing the Viscount

Vanquishing the Viscount
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Keysian
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Regency

Emma Hibbert will never again trust a good-looking man. They offer nothing but heartbreak and humiliation. But her conscience won’t let her abandon a sinfully handsome stranger needing help—even if he ignites an unwelcome passion in her. She soon...

Vantastic France

Vantastic France
  • Author(s): Steve Bichard
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Barry Taylor decides to buy a Farmhouse in France on Ebay without even seeing it, to escape from a boring life in the UK. Cracks soon begin to appear not only with the house but also with other ex-pats...

Varanasi

Varanasi
  • Author(s): Jae Watson
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following the break-up of her relationship and unsure of her life’s direction, Marianne leaves a London still reverberating from the terrorist bombings to travel for a year with the mysterious and beautiful Sara. However, deep into the heart of...

Variations on Night and Day

Variations on Night and Day
  • Author(s): Abdul Rahman Munif
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): mid 1930s to late 1950s

Jordanian-born attorney Munif, former editor of the Baghdad-based monthly Oil and Development , brings his epic Cities of Salt trilogy full circle in its closing volume. Cities of Salt and The Trench , set in the Sultanate of Mooran...

Variations on the Body

Variations on the Body
  • Author(s): Maria Ospina, Heather Cleary (translator)
  • Location(s): Bogota
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

A constellation of short stories illustrates the complex, interrelated lives of women in and around Bogotá, Colombia. In six subtly connected vignettes, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from every level...

Velvet

Velvet
  • Author(s): Huzama Habayeb
  • Location(s): Jordan, Amman
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and destruction of an abusive family life. But now, later in life, something...

Velvet Was the Night

Velvet Was the Night
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1970s

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir thriller about a daydreaming secretary and a lonely enforcer – and the missing woman they are both seeking. 1970s Mexico City: while student protests and...

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