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We Can Make A Life

We Can Make A Life
  • Author(s): Chessie Henry
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led...

We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled

We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled
  • Author(s): Wendy Pearlman
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2011

Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich, an astonishing collection of intimate wartime testimonies and poetic fragments from a cross-section of Syrians whose lives have been transformed by revolution, war, and flight. Against the backdrop of...

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
  • Author(s): David Howarth
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

If this story of espionage and survival were a novel, readers might dismiss the Shackleton-like exploits of its hero as too fantastic to be taken seriously. But respected historian David A. Howarth confirmed the details of Jan Baalsrud’s riveting...

We Fell Apart

We Fell Apart
  • Author(s): E Lockhart
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The invitation arrives out of the blue. In it, Matilda discovers a father she’s never met. Kingsley Cello is a visionary, a reclusive artist. And when he asks her to spend the summer at his seaside home, Hidden Beach,...

We Fought For Ardnish

We Fought For Ardnish
  • Author(s): Angus MacDonald
  • Location(s): Ardnish, Canada, French Alps
  • Era(s): WW2 and after

After joining the the Lovat Scouts at the outbreak of the Second World War Donald Angus Gillies is sent on a mission to the Alps, where he meets Francoise, a young French Canadian SOE agent. The pair immediately form...

We Must Be Brave

We Must Be Brave
  • Author(s): Frances Liardet
  • Location(s): Southampton
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Ellen Parr has always been sure she never wanted children. But when she finds a young girl asleep and unclaimed at the back of a bus fleeing the Blitz in Southampton, everything she once believed is overturned. As she...

We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin
  • Author(s): Lionel Shriver
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now,...

We Played With Fire

We Played With Fire
  • Author(s): Catherine Barter
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

Maggie has witnessed impossible things. But no one believes her, and now her family has taken her away to spend the winter upstate in a remote, freezing farmhouse. Bored and angry, Maggie and her younger sister Kate start to...

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh
  • Author(s): Colwill Brown
  • Location(s): Doncaster
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ask anyone non-Northern, they’ll only know Donny as punch line of a joke or place they changed trains once ont way to London. But Doncaster’s also the home of Rach, Shaz and Kel, bezzies since childhood and Donny lasses...

We Ride Upon Sticks

We Ride Upon Sticks
  • Author(s): Quan Barry
  • Location(s): Massachusetts, Danvers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

In the coastal town of Danvers, MA, home of the original 1692 witch trials, the 1989 Danvers Falcons will do anything to make it to the state finals — even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers....

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