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Tennis Shoes

Tennis Shoes
  • Author(s): Noel Streatfeild
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Will the four Heath children continue their family tradition and become tennis champions?  The Heath kids—Nicky, David, and twins Jim and Susan—come from a long line of ace tennis players. Now their dad has decided it’s time to teach...

Terra Nova

Terra Nova
  • Author(s): Henriette Lazaridis Power
  • Location(s): Antarctica, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The year is 1910, and two Antarctic explorers, Watts and Heywoud, are racing to the South Pole.  Back in London, Viola, a photo-journalist, harbors love for them both.  In Terra Nova, Henriette Lazaridis seamlessly ushers the reader back and forth between...

Terrible With Raisins

Terrible With Raisins
  • Author(s): Lynne McVernon
  • Location(s): Symi, England, Florida, Greece, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21C

There’s a big birthday looming. Clair tries hiding from it on the Aegean island of Symi, Greece. Inevitably it catches up with her. But so do a couple of possibilities, interesting, attractive ones…Encouraged, she departs the Greek idyll to...

TfL: The Story of the London Underground

TfL: The Story of the London Underground
  • Author(s): David Long, Sarah McMenemy (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): N/A

When the first passengers climbed aboard the earliest ever underground train in 1863, it would have been impossible to imagine how the London Underground would change and grow over the next 150 years. From smelly steam trains running along...

That Night

That Night
  • Author(s): Gillian McAllister
  • Location(s): Veneto, West Midlands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What would you do to protect your family? ANYTHING. During a family holiday in Italy, you get an urgent call from your sister. There’s been an accident: she hit a man with her car and he’s dead. She asks...

The Louder I Will Sing

The  Louder I Will Sing
  • Author(s): Lee Lawrence
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1985 to present day

What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for? On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence’s mother Cherry...

The Other Lotus Girl

The  Other Lotus Girl
  • Author(s): Daniel A Riddle
  • Location(s): Guildford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day

“An emotional read that kept me on the edge of my seat… a roller coaster ride filled with danger, humor, and lies.” – Readers’ Favorite She escaped the traffickers. Now the real chase begins. It was supposed to be...

The 24 Hour Dating Agency

The 24 Hour Dating Agency
  • Author(s): Mary Jayne Baker
  • Location(s): Yorkshire Dales
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tinder, Hinge, Bumble – thirtysomething journalist Saffie has tried them all. Now she’s wondering whether it’s time to throw in the towel and give up on love for good – and she’s not alone… Saffie’s boss Tamara has been...

The 24-Hour Cafe

The 24-Hour Cafe
  • Author(s): Libby Page
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Welcome to the café that never sleeps. Day and night Stella’s Café opens its doors for the lonely and the lost, the morning people and the night owls. It is many things to many people but most of all...

The Absolute Book

The Absolute Book
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Knox
  • Location(s): London, Auckland, Norfolk, Wye Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down and killed. She believes it so hard she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when...

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