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What’s Mine and Yours

What’s Mine and Yours
  • Author(s): Naima Coster
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises...

What’s the Girl Worth

What’s the Girl Worth
  • Author(s): Christina Fitzpatrick
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Catherine Kelly explores the loss she experienced when her Father abandoned her as a child, she navigates her way through Madrid – along the cobble stoned alleys, the splendid sights, the heat filled courtyards in the company of Esteban....

Whatever Comes My Way: Travels in The Netherlands

Whatever Comes My Way: Travels in The Netherlands
  • Author(s): Roger Gaess
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): contemporary

“off-beat and real” from the preface: I’d finally quit New York and now found myself in the Low Countries, unsure what to do with my life. I was a writer/photographer and liked to travel so, Why not take a...

Whatever gets you through the night

Whatever gets you through the night
  • Author(s): Charlie Higson
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little fishing boats bobbing on sparkling blue water under a warm sun. But not...

Whatever happened to Harold Absalon

Whatever happened to Harold Absalon
  • Author(s): Simon Okotie
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Harold Absalon, the Mayor’s Transport Advisor, has gone missing. Down-at-heel detective Marguerite is trying to find him. Aware that his every action is being monitored by those reading the novel, Marguerite’s mind and world is at constant risk of...

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...

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