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Watch Me Disappear

Watch Me Disappear
  • Author(s): Janelle Brown
  • Location(s): Desolation Wilderness
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot....

Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me
  • Author(s): Daniela Sacerdoti
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Eilidh Lawson’s life is in crisis. Years of failed fertility treatments, a cheating husband and an oppressive family have pushed her to the limits. At the end of her tether, she runs away to the one place she thinks...

Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me
  • Author(s): Nina Lacour
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that’s why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn’t known about...

Watch Us Dance

Watch Us Dance
  • Author(s): Leila Slimani
  • Location(s): Morocco
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Morocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels possible, and Mathilde is determined to celebrate it. Doesn’t she have the right to enjoy life, after dedicating her best years to the war and then to this farm? Looking out...

Watch Your Back

Watch Your Back
  • Author(s): Terri Parlato
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amid the depths of a bleak Boston winter, a recently married couple find their lives and their relationship unraveling after a series of deadly accidents, in this brilliantly twisting domestic thriller perfect for fans of Stacy Willingham, Greer Hendricks,...

Watching the Wind Blow

Watching the Wind Blow
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This story is based on true events that happened to a family member of Sara Alexi in the year 2000. Set in the Aegean sea, under the Mediterranean sun, Watching the Wind Blow is a tale of a girl...

Water & Glass

Water & Glass
  • Author(s): Abi Curtis
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

In the lower depths of a massive submarine, ship’s zoologist Nerissa Crane takes an ultrasound of a heavily pregnant Asian elephant. The elephant conceived off-ship but, it transpires, was forced on board – along with Nerissa and a hastily...

Water Baby

Water Baby
  • Author(s): Chioma Okereke
  • Location(s): Makoko
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’s the Pearl of Makoko and the world is her oyster. In Makoko, the floating slum off mainland Lagos, Nigeria, nineteen-year-old Baby yearns for an existence where she can escape the future her father has planned for her. With...

Water Buffalo Days

Water Buffalo Days
  • Author(s): Quang Nhuong Huynh
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

For a young boy growing up in the hills of Central Vietnam, the days were full of adventure and excitement. Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. Tank was extraordinary. He was fierce and fought off tigers and...

Water Days

Water Days
  • Author(s): Sundar Sarukkai
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 1990s

THE DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN GALVANISES HER FAMILY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD INTO A FRENZY OF QUESTIONS AND UNLIKELY DISCOVERIES. At the cusp of the millennium, in a fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangalore, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi form a...

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