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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Afghanistan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Later 20th/21st Century

“My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream” A woman’s fortitude saves her village from disaster. A teenager explores...

My Story: Blitz

My Story: Blitz
  • Author(s): Vince Cross
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

A book about Edie and her family during the London Blitz in 1940-1941.It gives accounts of the dangers and what life really was like in London during the Blitz.

New Girl in Little Cove

New Girl in Little Cove
  • Author(s): Damhnait Monaghan
  • Location(s): Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): 1980s

When a new teacher arrives in a tiny fishing village, she realizes the most important lessons are the ones she learns outside the classroom. It’s 1985. Rachel O’Brien arrives in Little Cove, Newfoundland seeking a fresh start after her...

Next Year in Havana

Next Year in Havana
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1958 onwards

Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba’s high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country’s growing political unrest – until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate...

Niccolo Rising

Niccolo Rising
  • Author(s): Dorothy Dunnett
  • Location(s): Bruges
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1460s

The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe. Among them, none is bolder or more cunning than Nicholas vander Poele of Bruges, the good-natured dyers apprentice who schemes and swashbuckles his way...

Not a Place on Any Map

Not a Place on Any Map
  • Author(s): Alexis Paige
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Not a Place on Any Map explores the switch-backing emotional terrain of traumas and triumphs, as well as the disparate landscapes where they unfold. In rich, evocative snapshots of Chicago, the desert Southwest, California, New England, and Texas, the book...

Not Forgetting the Whale

Not Forgetting the Whale
  • Author(s): John Ironmonger
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local...

Of Sea and Sand

Of Sea and Sand
  • Author(s): Denyse Woods
  • Location(s): Oman, Iraq, The Empty Quarter
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the jinn-a supernatural...

Old Soul

Old Soul
  • Author(s): Susan Barker
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Fiction

Set in Tokyo, London, New Mexico, Budapest, New York. Berlin, Wales. The woman never goes by the same name. She never stays in the same place too long. She never ages. She never dies. But those around her do....

On the First Day of Christmas

On the First Day of Christmas
  • Author(s): Faith Hogan
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This Christmas, everything will change… When Liv Latimer says goodbye to her fellow nurses and finishes work for the holidays, she’s looking forward to a Christmas to remember with her boyfriend Eddie. But as she leaves the hospital, tragedy...

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