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Wahala

Wahala
  • Author(s): Nikki May
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ronke, Simi, Boo are three mixed-race friends living in London. They have the gift of two cultures, Nigerian and English, though not all of them choose to see it that way. Everyday racism has never held them back, but...

Waist Deep

Waist Deep
  • Author(s): Linea Maja Ernst, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg (Translator)
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around like in the old days. At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But when her friends...

Wait For It

Wait For It
  • Author(s): Jenn McKinlay
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stuck in a dreary Boston winter, Annabelle Martin would like nothing more than to run away from her current life. She’s not even thirty years old, twice-divorced, and has just dodged a marriage proposal… from her ex-husband. When she’s...

Wait for Me

Wait for Me
  • Author(s): Marguerite Martin Gray
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1777-1782 American Revolution

A town besieged by the enemy with just one Sovereign order: wait. Charles Town, South Carolina, 1780 With the inevitable occupation of Charles Town by the British pounding at the gates, Louis Lestarjette braces for possible imprisonment or worse....

Waiting

Waiting
  • Author(s): Ha Jin
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

“In Waiting, Ha Jin portrays the life of Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor torn by his love for two women: one who belongs to the New China of the Cultural Revolution, the other to the ancient traditions of his...

Waiting

Waiting
  • Author(s): Goretti Kyomuhendo
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Set in the seventies during the last year of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s brutal, often surreal rule, Waiting evokes the fear and courage of a small close-knit society uncertain of what the edicts of a madman or the marauding...

Waiting for an Angel

Waiting for an Angel
  • Author(s): Helon Habila
  • Location(s): Lagos
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Lomba is a young journalist living in Lagos under Nigeria’s brutal military regime. His mind is full of soul music and girls and the novel he’s writing. Yet when his room-mate goes mad and is beaten up by soldiers,...

Waiting for Columbus

Waiting for Columbus
  • Author(s): Thomas Trofimuk
  • Location(s): Seville, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 15th Century

He appears out of the sea, washed up naked, in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious, and claiming to be Christopher Columbus, he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville, where astonishingly he starts to reveal the...

Waiting for Gordo

Waiting for Gordo
  • Author(s): Sue Knight
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Miranda arrives in an ocean paradise with husband Jim and most of the usual group for their annual dive holiday. Their daughter is grown up and living on the other side of the world. She and Jim have no...

Waiting for Rain

Waiting for Rain
  • Author(s): Lewis W. Lucke
  • Location(s): Mali
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Waiting for Rain” is the story of a young, novice development professional who leaves the comfort of the United States to live and work in Mali, one of West Africa’s poorest but most interesting and authentically African countries. Mali...

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