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Pause… and Effect

Pause… and Effect
  • Author(s): M E Lange
  • Location(s): US Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

In this coming-of-old-age story, when 52-year-old Lyndsey Barnes abruptly snaps and quits her job, she finds herself unwittingly stepping aboard a menopause-fueled roller coaster that she clings to for dear life as it plummets to the depths of despair...

Perfection

Perfection
  • Author(s): Sophie Hughes (Translator), Vincenzo Latronico
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furniture, sexual experimentation and the city’s twenty-four-hour party scene –...

Plunge – One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary

Plunge – One Woman’s Pursuit of a Life Less Ordinary
  • Author(s): Liesbet Collaert
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Caribbean, The Bahamas, The South Seas
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

Tropical waters turn tumultuous in this travel memoir as a free-spirited woman jumps headfirst into a sailing adventure with a new man and his two dogs. Join Liesbet as she faces a decision that sends her into a whirlwind...

Poisoned Rock

Poisoned Rock
  • Author(s): Robert Daws
  • Location(s): Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

With only five weeks to go before the end of her secondment to the Royal Gibraltar Police Force, D.S. Tamara Sullivan is enjoying life on the Rock. With one murder investigation successfully under their belts, Sullivan and her commanding...

Prospero’s Cell

Prospero’s Cell
  • Author(s): Lawrence Durrell
  • Location(s): Corfu
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1936-1938

A magical evocation of Durrell’s experiences on Corfu – before WW2. A slow sensuous life style – enjoying the elemental pleasures of daily life under the mythical Greek sun. Local villagers, intellectuals, illustrious visitors, all offer food for thought...

Queenie’s Place

Queenie’s Place
  • Author(s): Toni Morgan
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Vietnam War

Queenie’s Place is about the unusual friendship between a 30-something white woman from California and a 50-something black woman raised in the Jim Crow south. Both women are just trying to be themselves. Set in rural North Carolina on...

Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens

Quiet Corners of Paris: Unexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards, Hidden Gardens
  • Author(s): Jean-Christophe Napais
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Quiet Corners of Paris is a beautifully illustrated peek into eighty-one often overlooked, always beautiful, locales: hidden villas, winding lanes, little-known 19th-century passages, serene gardens, and cobblestone courtyards. Some of the places have breathtaking views, others are filled with...

RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO

RAINY DAY RAMEN and the COSMIC PACHINKO
  • Author(s): Gordon Vanstone
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 2010

A delightfully debauched, spiritual quest through a hallucinatory Japan of cursed gaijin houses, seedy hostess bars, a Beatles-themed McDonalds, mysterious internet cafe denizens, and one seriously pissed off cat. After three years in Japan, Fred Buchanan is broke, unemployed...

Rare Singles

Rare Singles
  • Author(s): Benjamin Myers
  • Location(s): Scarborough
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics. Dinah...

Razorblade Tears

Razorblade Tears
  • Author(s): S A Cosby
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops...

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