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Where the World Ends

Where the World Ends
  • Location(s): St Kilda
  • Genre(s): Children, Autobiography/Memoirs

Every summer Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to hunt birds. But this summer, no one arrives to take them home. Surely nothing but the end of the world can explain why they’ve...

Where They Lie

Where They Lie
  • Author(s): Claire Coughlan
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1960s

Dublin, 1943 Actress Julia Bridges disappears. The last sighting of her is entering the house of Gloria Fitzpatrick, who is later put on trial for the murder of another woman whose abortion she facilitated. But it’s never proved that...

Where We Fall

Where We Fall
  • Author(s): Rochelle Weinstein
  • Location(s): Beech Mountain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

By all accounts, Abby Holden has it all. She’s the mother of a beautiful teenager and the wife of a beloved high school football coach. And all it took to achieve her charmed life was her greatest act of...

Where We Go From Here

Where We Go From Here
  • Author(s): Lucas Rocha
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Henrique has had HIV for three years. Ian has just tested positive. Victor got with Henrique last night and thinks he might have it. Ian, Victor and Henrique must navigate treatment, friendship and love, and eventually learn to trust...

Where We Once Belonged

Where We Once Belonged
  • Author(s): Sia Figiel
  • Location(s): Samoa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, and the restrictions of life in her Samoan village.

WHERE WOLVES PROWL

WHERE WOLVES PROWL
  • Author(s): James Andrew
  • Location(s): Nairn
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Where wolves prowl… there be sheep… A spellbinding mystery from a huge talent! Jason has put his past life behind him and is living and working in Nairn, way up in the Scottish Highlands, when he becomes fascinated by...

Where You Go, I Will Go

Where You Go, I Will Go
  • Author(s): Christina Fonthes
  • Location(s): Kinshasa, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2004

London, 2004. Bijoux has a secret. To the world, she is the obedient child, dutifully attending prayer meetings and following the rigid expectations of her silent and austere Pentecostal aunt, Tantine Mireille. But Bijoux is in love with a...

Whereabouts

Whereabouts
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city The woman moves through the city, her city, on...

While I Walk: Solo Adventuring in the Vast, Beautiful World

While I Walk: Solo Adventuring in the Vast, Beautiful World
  • Author(s): Rachel Durchslag
  • Location(s): South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Current Day

Thoughtful and authentic, this powerful memoir explores not only who we are in the world but what the world longs to teach us. Join explorer Rachel Durchslag as she travels and hikes in Nepal, Chile, Japan and beyond. Beautifully...

While I Was Away

While I Was Away
  • Author(s): Waka T Brown
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Farewell meets Erin Entrada Kelly’s Blackbird Fly in this empowering middle grade memoir from debut author Waka T. Brown, who takes readers on a journey to 1980s Japan, where she was sent as a child to reconnect to...

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