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WEAVING DREAMS IN OAXACA

WEAVING DREAMS IN OAXACA
  • Author(s): Karen Samuelson
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Visiting Oaxaca, Mexico, Frankie, a New York City professional dancer, grapples with trading her career in the spotlight for a lifestyle involving a mate and children. And visiting professor Mac finds himself jettisoned into an identity crisis after facing...

Web of Evil

Web of Evil
  • Author(s): J A Jance
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hopping mad after her termination from a high-profile anchor job, Ali Reynolds returns to her Arizona hometown and vents her outrage on a personal blog, but when her estranged husband is found dead in Palm Springs, Ali finds herself...

Wedding Cake to Turin

Wedding Cake to Turin
  • Author(s): Lynda Renham
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

When Charlotte is sent by her boss to deliver a wedding cake to Turin little does she know what she will be letting herself in for. Torn between feelings for her boyfriend and a new man that she meets...

Wedding Games

Wedding Games
  • Author(s): Evie Alexander
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Castle Leod, Inverness
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Say “I do” to Scotland’s wedding of the year! Wedding bells are finally ringing for Rory and Zoe! But setting a date and saying yes to the dress is a lot more complicated when their mothers are mortal enemies...

Weep for the Dead

Weep for the Dead
  • Author(s): Tom Becket
  • Location(s): Bordeaux, South West France, The Gironde Estuary
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

CORRUPTION, BETRAYAL, MURDER and REDEMPTION as Capitaine Celestine Courbet fights for justice against those closest to her; the Bordeaux Police Force; and the ruthless, deadly Vietnamese mob. The story races from the backstreets and ancient cemetery of old Bordeaux...

Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child
  • Author(s): Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Weep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap...

Weep Not, Refugee

Weep Not, Refugee
  • Author(s): Marie-Thérèse Toyi
  • Location(s): Burundi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The book is a novel on the problems of refugees from Burundi. Kigeme, a Burundian secondary school girl, must flee to Wirodi for her safety, due to the outbreak of the Hutu- Tutsi war in Burundi. On her way...

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe

Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe
  • Author(s): Katja Hoyer
  • Location(s): Weimar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919-1939

From bestselling historian Katja Hoyer comes a gripping story of life during the rise and reign of Hitler through the eyes of the people of Weimar *One of the most anticipated books of 2026 according to the Sunday Times,...

Welcome Me to the Kingdom

Welcome Me to the Kingdom
  • Author(s): Mai Nardone
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Bangkok, 1980. As the decades pass, figures fall in and out of the relentless city: Pea and Nam, who arrive in search of a better life; a Thai Elvis impersonator and his only daughter, Pinky; Benz, Tintin and Big,...

Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Welcome to Glorious Tuga
  • Author(s): Francesca Segal
  • Location(s): South Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sail to the tropical paradise where secrets don’t stay hidden for long … Zoologist Charlotte Walker has taken up a fellowship on the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study the endangered gold coin tortoises in the...

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