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Whatever It Takes

Whatever It Takes
  • Author(s): Joy Wood
  • Location(s): Nottingham, Greece
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE WIFE: Lorna lives with her husband in her dream home, loves socialising and has a passion for the finer things in life. THE HUSBAND: Dan owns a successful accountancy business, enjoys golf and exercise, and loves Lorna deeply....

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)

Wheel of Fortune (Detective Louis Martelli, NYPD, Mystery/Thriller Series) (Volume 6)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Brooklyn, Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Even as a child, Katlyn Lundquist was drop-dead gorgeous. She also was willful. In her teens, perhaps out of spite, she created her own name and persona. As she grew up, she readily accepted money and gifts from her...

When A Hyena Laughs: A Somalian Novel

When A Hyena Laughs: A Somalian Novel
  • Author(s): Abdi Sheik-Abdi
  • Location(s): Somalia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

I found myself thoroughly entranced by this quiet, slow gentle storytelling — all the more violence in the death of Habib (not described) at the end, which makes its impact as symbolic of the violation of the country (by...

When Adam Met Evie

When Adam Met Evie
  • Author(s): Giulia Skye
  • Location(s): The Kimberley
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When former Olympic Swimmer, Michael Adams—now reluctantly Canada’s hottest reality TV star— insults his fake showbiz wife on social media, he escapes the ensuing scandal and jumps on the first flight to Australia. Desperate to experience ordinary life again—if...

When All Is Said

When All Is Said
  • Author(s): Anne Griffin
  • Location(s): County Meath
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘I’m here to remember – all that I have been and all that I will never be again.’ At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He’s alone, as usual -though...

When Blood Runs Cold

When Blood Runs Cold
  • Author(s): Daniella Bernett
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

If the answer is a lie…The truth is murder Journalist Emmeline Kirby is reeling from the recent discovery that her parents were murdered while on assignment when she was five. She flirts with danger as she sets off on...

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge
  • Author(s): Chanrithy Him
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975-1979

In the Cambodian proverb, “when broken glass floats” is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell...

When Every Road Whispers My Name

When Every Road Whispers My Name
  • Author(s): Maria Vano
  • Location(s): United States (USA), England, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000-2021

One middle-aged woman with no money, three suitcases, a big dream, and a desire to see it all, sets out to live her best solo life. Calling on memories from her teen years when she lived in Rome, Italy,...

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena’s War

When Fishes Flew: The Story of Elena’s War
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): WW2

This first new novel in two years from the Nation’s Favourite Storyteller is a sweeping story of love and rescue – an unforgettable journey to the Greek island of Ithaca, and back in time to World War Two… Australian-Greek...

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
  • Author(s): Le Ly Hayslip
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside...

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