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What Belongs to You

What Belongs to You
  • Author(s): Garth Greenwell
  • Location(s): Sofia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to...

What Comes After

What Comes After
  • Author(s): Joanne Tompkins
  • Location(s): Washington State
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a mysterious pregnant girl emerges out of the woods and into the lives of those same boys’ families–a moving and hopeful novel about...

What Doesn’t Kill Us

What Doesn’t Kill Us
  • Author(s): Ajay Close
  • Location(s): Leeds
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Later 1970s

A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England’s industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.   It’s the eve of...

What Doesn’t Kill You

What Doesn’t Kill You
  • Author(s): Laura E James
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger – but how strong can one person be? Griff Hendry knows what it is to be strong. After a turbulent past, he’s dedicated himself to saving lives, working as a coastguard along...

What Eden Did Next

What Eden Did Next
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Dublin, France, Wexford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five years after the death of her firefighter husband, Eden knows better than anyone that life can change in an instant. Now, instead of the future she had planned with Andy, she has Lila – the daughter he never...

What Edward Heard

What Edward Heard
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Historical, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Renaissance to WWI

The Trenches shattered his hearing, But the Painting will change him Forever. In Venice in 1566, Francesco paints a portrait of the woman he loves. In 1916, Edward Jamison returns to England from the trenches of the Western Front....

What Every Body Is Saying

What Every Body Is Saying
  • Author(s): Carla Vermaat
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Synopsis Cornwall, a warm, sunny day in August. Cyclists pass on the Camel Trail near Padstow. For a young family, their happy life comes to a sudden halt with a horrific find in the mud on the river bank....

What Evil Hides

What Evil Hides
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Kay Hunter Book 15) A man’s body is found in a Kentish hop field, his brutal death marked by horrific injuries. As Detective Kay Hunter begins to investigate, the case quickly reveals itself to be anything but routine....

What Happened at the Abbey (The Strathbairn Trilogy)

What Happened at the Abbey (The Strathbairn Trilogy)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): late Victorian

When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own. Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at...

What Happened to Greece… And Now What?

What Happened to Greece… And Now What?
  • Author(s): Panayiotis Katsaros
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

To outsiders, the collapse of the Greek economy in 2009 seems to have come out of nowhere. This succinct book, however, proves that it was the inevitable result of decades of political conflict, mismanagement, and greed at the domestic...

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