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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...

Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants
  • Author(s): Sara Gruen
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The Great Depression, 1929. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and utterly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits in the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth: a second-rate travelling circus...

Water Moon

Water Moon
  • Author(s): Samantha Sotto Yambao
  • Location(s): Japan, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see only a cosy ramen restaurant. And just the chosen ones – those who are lost – will find a place to pawn...

Water Music

Water Music
  • Author(s): Margie Orford
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s Rosa. There’s trees outside. Get me help. Please. A terrified young woman leaves a phone message for her grandfather. He promised he’d protect her, but now she’s disappeared. A little girl, only three years old, is found half-dead...

Water Street

Water Street
  • Author(s): J P Maxwell
  • Location(s): Liverpool, Ireland, London, New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Fiction
  • Era(s): Victorian

Liverpool 1863. The American Civil War comes to the British Empire’s second city and the world’s richest port. Confederate Commander Banastre X. Dunwoody has a plan to turn the conflict by securing advanced warships, but the U.S. Government is...

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