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Idle Grounds

Idle Grounds
  • Author(s): Krystelle Bamford
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1989

On a bright summer day in 1989 New England, Abi, three years old, vanishes from her aunt’s secluded home. Upstairs, her young cousins are looking out of the window. Something is unfolding in the distance at the edge of...

If Only I Could Tell You

If Only I Could Tell You
  • Author(s): Hannah Beckerman
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A twist that will break your heart . . . An ending that will put it back together Audrey’s family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never...

Illywhacker

Illywhacker
  • Author(s): Peter Carey
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Impostor: An Alexander Gregory Thriller

Impostor: An Alexander Gregory Thriller
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): County Mayo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s a killer inside all of us… After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only one person emerges unscathed. Forensic psychologist Doctor Alexander Gregory has a reputation for being able...

In Every Mirror She’s Black

In Every Mirror She’s Black
  • Author(s): Lola Akinmade Akerstrom
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A timely and arresting debut novel about what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Perfect for fans of Queenie and Americanah. Three Black women building new lives in Stockholm become linked in unexpected ways to...

In Other Words

In Other Words
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love...

In the City by the Sea

In the City by the Sea
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Hasan is eleven years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the...

In the Garden of Stone

In the Garden of Stone
  • Author(s): Susan Tekulve
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920-1970s

The story begins in War, West Virginia and spans from 1924 to the 70?s. Sixteen year old Emma gets rescued by Caleb when her home is destroyed in an accident and the two eventually marry. Generational and observant, this...

In the Land of the Long White Cloud

In the Land of the Long White Cloud
  • Author(s): Sarah Lark
  • Location(s): Christchurch
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, longs for a family of her own-but nearing her late twenties, she knows her prospects are dim. Then she spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand’s honorable bachelors...

In the Shadow of Gotham

In the Shadow of Gotham
  • Author(s): Stefanie Pintoff
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

At the dawn of the twentieth century, a deranged killer is on the prowl. New York, 1905. After losing his fiancee in the General Slocum ferry disaster, Detective Simon Ziele transferred to a country town north of Manhattan in...

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