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New York Valentine

New York Valentine
  • Author(s): Carmen Reid
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Love is in the air! Personal shopper Annie Valentine has a dream job in the heart of fabulous Manhattan. Daughter Lana is lost in the heat of first love, but has she fallen for a heart-breaker? In London husband...

Next to Love

Next to Love
  • Author(s): Ellen Feldman
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Middle of the 20th Century

Babe, Grace and Millie have been best friends since their first day at kindergarten. Now they are newly married, and the men have gone to war. They thrive on letters from their absent sweethearts, and on the closeness they’ve...

Nightwoods

Nightwoods
  • Author(s): Charles Frazier
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Luce, a young woman, whohas chosen to live as a caretaker in a remote cabin in North Carolina. Happy to be in nature, away from civilisation. But a man from...

No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men
  • Author(s): Cormac McCarthy
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it,...

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago

Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
  • Author(s): Douglas Cowie
  • Location(s): Chicago, Guatemala, Mexico, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/50s

Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie’s reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Chicago, 1947: on a...

Ocean State

Ocean State
  • Author(s): Stewart O'Nan
  • Location(s): Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie – autumn 2009 in the once-prosperous beach town of Ashaway, Rhode Island is the worst of times. Money is tight, Carol can’t stay away from unsuitable men, Angel’s...

October Skies

October Skies
  • Author(s): Alex Scarrow
  • Location(s): Sierra Nevada (United States)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1850s, 2008

2008: Deep in the mountain forests, Julian Cooke stumbles across the rotting remains of a wooden wagon. He’s discovered what’s left of the Preston Group, a convoy of settlers that vanished in the winter of 1856. It’s clear that...

Of Time and the River

Of Time and the River
  • Author(s): Thomas Wolfe
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Era(s): Earlly 20th Century

Old Buildings in North Texas

Old Buildings in North Texas
  • Author(s): Jen Waldo
  • Location(s): Caprock
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Olivia is thirty-two and living back home with her mother in Caprock, small-town Texas. Her therapist is a girl she went to high school with; her promising career in journalism has dwindled to nothing, and she spends her days...

One Stupid Thing

One Stupid Thing
  • Author(s): Stewart Lewis
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It was just one stupid thing that happened… Summer on Nantucket island. Three high school friends drinking warm beer on a rooftop. Everything is cool, until a seemingly innocent game takes a sinister turn, and the course of their...

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