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Je t’aime, me neither

Je t’aime, me neither
  • Author(s): April Lily Heise
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Is Paris really the eternal City of Love? Dumped suddenly by her Parisian boyfriend, sultry expat Lily is left wondering if je t’aime still exists. Instead of crying into her glass of wine, she decides to heal her bruised...

Jenna’s Journey

Jenna’s Journey
  • Author(s): Julie Ryan
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When Jenna decides on a whim to go to Greece, she’s trying to escape her failing marriage. Will Greg let her go so easily though? Can she make a new future for herself and how did she get involved...

Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions

Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner
  • Author(s): Francis Nenik, Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
  • Location(s): Germany, Corfu
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Francis Nenik‘s thrilling slice of narrative non-fiction Journey through a Tragicomic Century is about the life of the forgotten writer Hasso Grabner, told with great joy in language and love of absurdity. The journey takes us from the Young...

Joy

Joy
  • Author(s): Jonathan Lee
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Did she jump? Did she fall? Will she wake?’ On an ordinary Friday afternoon in the office, talented young lawyer Joy Stephens plummets forty feet onto a marble floor. In the shadow of this baffling event, the lives of...

Judgment

Judgment
  • Author(s): Joseph Finder
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sharing a one-night stand with a gentle stranger during a moment of weakness, a state superior court judge reencounters the man during a high-profile case and discovers that a conspiracy is threatening her family and federal court prospects. (suspense)....

Judith Paris

Judith Paris
  • Author(s): Hugh Walpole
  • Location(s): Paris, The Lake District
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1720-1930

This is the second in the Herries Chronicles. Set partly in Revolutionary Paris, and partly in romantic Cumbria, Judith Paris is the story of the two very different men who love Walpole’s most delightful heroine. Daughter of Frances Herries...

Juliet

Juliet
  • Author(s): Anne Fortier
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A beautifully crafted novel, following a young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers – Romeo and Juliet. ‘Of all the great love stories ever told, hers is perhaps...

Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)

Just One Evil Act (Inspector Linley 18)
  • Author(s): Elizabeth George
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl’s father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her...

Justified Burden

Justified Burden
  • Author(s): Lori Matthews
  • Location(s): Montana
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Former Navy SEAL, and Personal Security Specialist Rhys Bennett is in Canyon Springs to mend after being shot on his last assignment. His wound has healed and it’s almost time for him to go back to work, but he’s...

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