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The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants

The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1990s

Award-winning author and immigration attorney Orlando Ortega-Medina returns to 1990s San Francisco in The Fitful Sleep of Immigrants, a powerful family drama that plays out within a captivating legal thriller. Attorney Marc Mendes, the estranged son of a prominent...

The Five Wounds

The Five Wounds
  • Author(s): Kirstin Valdez Quade
  • Location(s): New Mexico
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s Holy Week in the town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla is to play Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up...

The Five-Star Weekend

The Five-Star Weekend
  • Author(s): Elin Hilderbrand
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hollis Shaw, creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis, finds her life turned upside down when her heart-surgeon husband is killed in a car accident on a snowy February morning. As Hollis searches for comfort, she discovers...

The Fixer Upper

The Fixer Upper
  • Author(s): Mary Kay Andrews
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

A sassy, sexy, sometimes poignant look at small town Southern life, as only New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews can tell it, The Fixer Upper is a must-read for fans of Fannie Flagg, Sophie Kinsella, the Ya-Yas, and...

The Flight

The Flight
  • Author(s): Julie Clark
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THIS IS THE SAME AS “THE LAST FLIGHT” Claire and Eva lead very different lives, but they have one thing in common – they are both in huge danger and need to disappear. A chance encounter at the airport...

The Florist’s Daughter

The Florist’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Patricia Hampl
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

During the long farewell of her mother’s dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entries into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to...

The Fog Machine

The Fog Machine
  • Author(s): Susan Follett
  • Location(s): Mississippi, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1954-1964

This exploration of prejudice and what enables and disables change is set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1964 and told from three very different perspectives. To Joan Barnes, 12 years old in the summer...

The Follower

The Follower
  • Author(s): Nicholas Bowling
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): N/A

Twin Peaks meets Welcome to Night Vale in this surreal, supernatural thriller by a Costa-shortlisted author “Gripping, compelling and otherworldly” – DAVID QUANTICK When her twin brother goes missing in Northern California, Vivian Owens follows his trail to the...

The Forever Summer

The Forever Summer
  • Author(s): Jamie Brenner
  • Location(s): Provincetown
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Marin Bishop has always played by the rules, and it’s paid off: at twenty-eight she has a handsome fiancé, a prestigious Manhattan legal career, and the hard-won admiration of her father. But with one careless mistake, she’s on the...

The Forgotten Girls: An American Story

The Forgotten Girls: An American Story
  • Author(s): Monica Potts
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): contemporary

Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. Bonding over a shared love of learning, they pored over the giant map in their classroom, tracing their fingers over the world...

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