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The Measure of Life

The Measure of Life
  • Author(s): Judith Works
  • Location(s): Rome, Vashon Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994 -2014

A story of love and loss, lies and truth, begins in Rome as Nicole shares a cappuccino and cornetto with her Italian tutor. The meeting sets off a chain of events that upends the course of her life. While...

The Midnight Palace

The Midnight Palace
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter’s Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by assassins, he must ensure the safety of two newborn twins, before disappearing into the night to...

The Midwife

The Midwife
  • Author(s): Tricia Cresswell
  • Location(s): London, Northumberland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

A haunting and moving debut, The Midwife by Tricia Cresswell is perfect for fans of The Familiars and The Binding. 1830. After a violent storm, a woman is found alone, naked, near death on the Northumberland moors. She has...

The Midwife of Venice

The Midwife of Venice
  • Author(s): Roberta Rich
  • Location(s): Malta, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1575

A novel set in the ghetto of Venice and Malta in 1575. Hannah Levi is a Jewish midwife whose husband, Isaac, is being held as a slave by the Knights of Jerusalem in Malta. Hannah needs to raise money...

The Mill River Recluse

The Mill River Recluse
  • Author(s): Darcie Chan
  • Location(s): Vermont
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Disfigured by the blow of an abusive husband, the widow Mary McAllister has spent almost sixty years secluded in a white marble mansion overlooking the town of Mill River, Vermont. Her links to the outside world are few: the...

The Ming Inheritance

The Ming Inheritance
  • Author(s): T Hunt Locke
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Historical and Modern

A six hundred year old legend brought to life~a heart stopping race against history…Phitsanulok, October 1465 AD. The long lost Ming Emperor Jianwen is secretly and finally laid to rest in the northern reaches of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. An...

The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time
  • Author(s): Kaliane Bradley
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Future
  • Era(s): Near future looking back

A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE. A FINGER MEETS A TRIGGER. THE BEGINNING MEETS THE END. ENGLAND IS FOREVER. ENGLAND MUST FALL. In the near future, a disaffected civil servant is offered a lucrative job...

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence
  • Author(s): William Somerset Maugham
  • Location(s): Paris, Tahiti
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads...

The Moonstone

The Moonstone
  • Author(s): Wilkie Collins
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which has been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her 18th birthday. That very night the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid,...

The Moose Paradox

The Moose Paradox
  • Author(s): Antti Tuomainen
  • Location(s): Helsinki
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

VOL #2 Rabbit Factor Trilogy Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen has finally restored order both to his life and to YouMeFun, the adventure park he now owns, when a man from the past appears – and turns everything upside down again. More problems arise when the park’s...

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