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Words in Deep Blue

Words in Deep Blue
  • Author(s): Cath Crowley
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Years ago, Rachel had a crush on Henry Jones. The day before she moved away, she tucked a love letter into his favorite book in his family’s bookshop. She waited. But Henry never came. Now Rachel has returned to...

Words on Fire

Words on Fire
  • Author(s): Jennifer A Nielsen
  • Location(s): Lithuania
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen transports readers to a corner of history with this inspiring story of a girl who discovers the strength of her people united in resisting oppression. Danger is never far from Audra’s...

Work Trip

Work Trip
  • Author(s): Chloe Ford
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Humour, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

They say you should keep your enemies closer… For Fliss, the prospect of a team building work trip fills her with dread. Mostly because she cannot stand her pushy colleague James, who often attempts to derail her brilliant plans....

Working It

Working It
  • Author(s): Leah Marie Brown
  • Location(s): Alaska, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Falling in love is always in fashion…. With her trust fund and coveted job at Christian Dior, Fanny Moreau believes she has it all. But when her best friend finds a fulfilling new career abroad—and a dreamy relationship with...

World Burn Down

World Burn Down
  • Author(s): Steve Cole, Oriol Vidal (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Carlos’s mother works for IBAMA, Brazil’s Environmental Authority. As head of a specially trained task force, her role is to protect the Amazon from the farmers, loggers and miners who are illegally destroying the precious rainforest. It’s a dangerous...

Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart
  • Author(s): Julia Franck, Imogen Taylor (translator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Autofiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Born in East Berlin, Julia is eight when her actress mother uproots her family of four girls, by different fathers, in search of a better life. Their eventual landing in the remote countryside of Schleswig-Holstein solves no problems for...

Worst Case Scenario

Worst Case Scenario
  • Author(s): Helen Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the...

Worst Case Scenario

Worst Case Scenario
  • Author(s): T J Newman
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with...

Worst. Holiday. Ever.

Worst. Holiday. Ever.
  • Author(s): Charlie Higson
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stan is going on holiday to Italy with his (fifth) best friend Felix and a load of strangers. Stan is absolutely terrified. Luckily, his mum’s given him an emergency list that includes how to survive a shark attack, and...

Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher 15)

Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher 15)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): Nebraska
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska . . . and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire country into submission. But it’s the unsolved case...

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