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Texas Destiny

Texas Destiny
  • Author(s): Lorraine Heath
  • Location(s): West Texas
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Old West (late 19th century)

She was his brother’s wife… Arriving on the Fort Worth train, Miss Amelia Carson, mail-order bride, had never met Dallas Leigh, the Texan she promised to marry. The tall cowboy at the station wasn’t Dallas. He was Houston, Dallas’s...

That Old Cape Magic

That Old Cape Magic
  • Author(s): Richard Russo
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jack and Joy Griffin are back on Cape Cod – where they spent their hope-filled honeymoon – for a wedding. Cracks are begining to show in Jack’s peaceful family life and thirty-four year marriage. He’s driving round with his...

The Accidental Connoiseur

The Accidental Connoiseur
  • Author(s): Lawrence Osborne
  • Location(s): California, France, Italy
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

An irreverent journey through the wine world, indeed it is. Encompassing some historical detail, he visits several wineries and has some wry observations.

The Accursed

The Accursed
  • Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Author(s): Mark Twain
  • Location(s): Hannibal
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1840s

An idyllic snapshot of a boy’s childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author’s work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s....

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson

The Audacity Of Sara Grayson
  • Author(s): Joani Elliott
  • Location(s): Maryland, London, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens when your mother’s dying wish becomes your worst nightmare? What happens when the world’s greatest literary icon dies before she finishes the final book in her best-selling series? And what happens when she leaves that book in...

The Baker’s Daughter

The Baker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sarah McCoy
  • Location(s): El Paso, Germany
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking...

The Beach House

The Beach House
  • Author(s): Beverley Jones
  • Location(s): Oregon, Pacific Northwest
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The perfect place to hide. Or so she thought . . . When Grace Jensen returns to her home in the ocean-front town of Lookout Beach one day, she finds a body in a pool of blood and a...

The Bean Trees

The Bean Trees
  • Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Taylor Greer moves from her home state of Kentucky in the hope of avoiding the fate of her contemporaries. As soon as she can, she buys a car and en route “out of Kentucky” she is handed a baby...

The Beatitudes

The Beatitudes
  • Author(s): Lyn LeJeune
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Various

“Social workers Hannah “”Scrimp”” Dubois and Earlene “”Pinch”” Washington have just started their own business, Social Investigations, to solve the murders of ten foster children in New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans Police Department, the Catholic Church, and local...

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