What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): modern
Kristin Newman spent much of her twenties and thirties buying dresses to wear to her friends’ weddings and baby showers. Not ready to settle down and in need of an escape from her fast-paced job as a sitcom writer,...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Meet Arthur and Ben. ARTHUR is only in New York for the summer, but if Broadway has taught him anything, it’s that the universe can deliver a showstopping romance when you least expect it. BEN thinks the universe needs...
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
You’re supposed to be thrilled when you find a ring in your boyfriend’s sock drawer, right? But Laurel Everett’s just left wondering… ‘what if?’ Specifically, what if she’d taken up her work crush, Drew, on his offer of a...
- Location(s): The Sudan, Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety...
- Location(s): Rutland
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Present day
Early one typically quiet Sunday morning, two men fishing on Rutland Water discover a body on the rocks below the ‘drowned’ church which is one of Rutland’s icons. Det Inspector Caroline Hills, recently arrived from London’s Metropolitan Police, and...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
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