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Hausfrau

Hausfrau
  • Author(s): Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far...

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Little Rosie Blake has been taken. Since going missing from the hospital where she was being treated for cancer, Rosie’s distraught parents haven’t heard a word. And time is swiftly running out. They have to find her, and right...

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
  • Author(s): Laura Rose Wagner
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2010

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go is the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, though they lose the woman who raised them, Manman. They must fend for themselves in...

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark
  • Author(s): Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s/1970s

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister’s name. Now she is excited to...

Hooker Avenue

Hooker Avenue
  • Author(s): Jode Millman
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, The Hudson Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Queen City Crimes series is inspired by true crimes in the Hudson Valley. Being a Good Samaritan is hazardous. Amid a violent Hudson Valley thunderstorm, Jessie Martin discovers a woman lying unconscious in a roadside ditch. The badly...

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)

Hope For The Railway Girls (Railway Girls #5)
  • Author(s): Maisie Thomas
  • Location(s): Manchester, Leeds
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WWII

Manchester, 1942 A new year brings new hope for the railway girls. Alison’s romance with the charming Dr Maitland is blossoming, but then she is posted away from Manchester. Working in a canteen isn’t part of her plan, nor...

Human Rites

Human Rites
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Sylt
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Judgement is in the eye of the beholder Adrian Harvey, London wine merchant, has lost the Christmas spirit. Someone is stalking him, stealing his post and vandalising his shop. When the police question him after an anonymous tip-off, he’s...

Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol.3)

Hungry Ghosts (Singapore Saga, Vol.3)
  • Author(s): John D Greenwood
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1850s

Set against the development of Singapore in the years 1852-1869, “Hungry Ghosts” (Singapore Saga, Vol. 3) continues the vivid portrayal of the lives of the early pioneers, including Tan Kim Ching, W. H. Read, Habib Noh, Tan Kim Seng,...

I Grew My Boobs in China

I Grew My Boobs in China
  • Author(s): Savannah Grace
  • Location(s): China, Mongolia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2005

SIHPROMATUM (Sip-row-may-tum) is a memoir series of one family’s four-year backpacking adventure around the world. The first installment, I Grew my Boobs in China, is the beginning of an intensely fascinating, sobering, and emotional memoir of Savannah’s introspective and...

I Laugh Me Broken

I Laugh Me Broken
  • Author(s): Bridget van der Zijpp
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fearless novel that tackles a difficult subject, I laugh me broken tells the story of a woman finding the courage to face her genetic heritage.   When Ginny makes contact with her estranged relatives and discovers that her genetic...

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