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What Lies Between Us

What Lies Between Us
  • Author(s): Nayomi Munaweera
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ganga, a young girl, grows up carefree in the midst of her loving family in an old and beautiful house nestled in the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka. Her childhood is like any other–until it isn’t. A cherished...

What Lies Within

What Lies Within
  • Author(s): Clare de Lune
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Serial killer Sophia snatches the “dirty” runaways, drug users and society’s misfits off the street and gets them clean—by turning their remains into soap. But she’s bored with her overbearing partner and it’s time to replace him with someone...

What Noise Against the Cane

What Noise Against the Cane
  • Author(s): Desiree C Bailey
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Poetry

The 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, What Noise Against the Cane is a lyric quest for belonging and freedom, weaving political resistance, Caribbean folklore, immigration, and the realities of Black life in America. Desiree C....

What Red Was

What Red Was
  • Author(s): Rosie Price
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Kate Quaile,’ he said. ‘I like your name.’ Kate frowned. ‘How do you know my name?’ Throughout their four years at university, Kate and Max are inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy...

What She Inherits

What She Inherits
  • Author(s): Diane V Mulligan
  • Location(s): Casco, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Angela Ellis returns to her childhood home on St. Nabor Island, South Carolina, her junior year of college interrupted indefinitely by her mother’s death, she doesn’t know how she’ll ever be able to function in the world without...

What She Knew

What She Knew
  • Author(s): Miranda Rijks
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Current Day

Nine years ago, Stephanie’s flatmate Alison vanished, presumed murdered. When a true crime series wants to interview her, Stephanie is forced to acknowledge her need to answer one burning question – what happened to Alison? But someone doesn’t want...

What She Saw

What She Saw
  • Author(s): Wendy Clarke
  • Location(s): The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Leona lives a quiet life in the Lake District but haunted by images of Ria, finds the past is catching up with her. Meanwhile, her daughter, Beth, is fighting her own demons. When she learns the devastating truth, her...

What She Saw Last Night

What She Saw Last Night
  • Author(s): Mason Cross
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jenny Bowen is going home. Boarding the Caledonian Sleeper, all she wants to do is forget about her upcoming divorce and relax on the ten-hour journey through the night. In her search for her cabin, Jenny helps a panicked...

What Still Burns

What Still Burns
  • Author(s): Elle Grawl
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alexis “Lex” Blake swore she would never return to the town where she’d lost her home and her family in a devastating fire that only she survived and can barely remember. But when her aunt dies, leaving behind a...

What Strange Paradise

What Strange Paradise
  • Author(s): Omar El Akkad
  • Location(s): The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escape untenable...

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