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Dirt Music

Dirt Music
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Fox is the sole survivor of a terrible accident involving his family, he becomes an outcast yet finds love of a sort with Georgie, a woman who is as adrift as he.

Disneylanders

Disneylanders
  • Author(s): Kate Abbott
  • Location(s): Disneyland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Casey (short for Acacia, but don’t call her that) is spending a few summer days with her parents at Disneyland. Just like they do every summer. Except this summer is different. Casey’s best friend has dumped her. She starts...

Distant Music

Distant Music
  • Author(s): Lee Langley
  • Location(s): London, Madeira
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1420s-2000s

Distant Music comprises four different stories, spanning from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The book starts out in Madeira in 1429, with the backdrop of Portugal as a marine empire, Christopher Columbus features briefly, anti-Semitism is a recurring...

Do They Hear You When You Cry

Do They Hear You When You Cry
  • Author(s): Fauziya Kassindja
  • Location(s): Germany, Togo, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

Like the bestsellers Princess and Not Without My Daughter, Do They Hear You When You Cry? tells the dramatic, compulsively readable story of a woman fighting to free herself from the injustices of her culture. Fauziya Kassindja’s harrowing story...

Dolls Behaving Badly

Dolls Behaving Badly
  • Author(s): Cinthia Ritchie
  • Location(s): Anchorage
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Carla Richards is a lot of things: a weary waitress at Anchorage’s premiere dining establishment, Mexico in an Igloo; an aspiring artist who secretly makes erotic dolls for the extra income; a divorcee who can’t quite detach from her...

Don Juan in Hankey, PA

Don Juan in Hankey, PA
  • Author(s): Gale Martin
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Peek beneath the surface of an extraordinary small-town opera company, and get to know a fabulous cast of characters: determined fl irts, a lusty singing gaucho, ingenious manipulators, a bipolar ketchup heiress, devious lovers, and some very determined ghosts....

Don’t Look BEHIND YOU

Don’t Look BEHIND YOU
  • Author(s): Peter Allison
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

This is a wry and immensely colourful account of a young man’s adventures as a safari leader in Botswana. Scared of heights, unfamiliar with the gym and terrified of an innocuous little tree-frog, high school drop-out Peter’s rapport with...

Double Sunset

Double Sunset
  • Author(s): Kristin Smith
  • Location(s): Staffordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Ava Banks spends the summer on Rudyard Lake in England. While contemplating how her life has changed in the past year, she develops a strange connection with love on the prairie in the 1800’s through a series of dreams....

Down and Delirious in Mexico City

Down and Delirious in Mexico City
  • Author(s): Daniel Hernandez
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

This book recounts Hernandez’s electrifying journey through the far-off slums, glittering fashion parties and rapturous religious rituals of one of the world’s most exciting megacities – the seething urban valley known as ‘D.F.’ to the locals. In vivid, intimate...

Dream of Paris

Dream of Paris
  • Author(s): Paula Martin
  • Location(s): England, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Richards has a dream of going to live and study in Paris, but when Matthew Carlton comes into her life, her dream changes direction. Attraction sparks between them, but Matt’s behaviour is strangely inconsistent. Anna is shocked when...

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