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J’adore Paris

J’adore Paris
  • Author(s): Isabelle LaFleche
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When chic Parisian lawyer Catherine Lambert lands her dream job as intellectual property director for Christian Dior, she is on top of the world. She’s prepared to embark on the ride of her life in the world of fashion,...

Jasmine and Fire

Jasmine and Fire
  • Author(s): Salma Abdelnour
  • Location(s): Beirut
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Post 1980s

As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then- even as she...

Jasmine Nights

Jasmine Nights
  • Author(s): S P Somtow
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

This is the story of a 12-year-old Thai boy called Mr Little Frog. The year is 1963 and he lives on the family estate in Bangkok. He refuses to accept that he is Thai, eats English food, speaks only...

Jaws

Jaws
  • Author(s): Peter Benchley
  • Location(s): The Atlantic Ocean, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on unwary holiday makers. The first sign of trouble – a warning of what was to come...

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)....

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