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into the wreck

into the wreck
  • Author(s): Susannah Dickey
  • Location(s): Belfast, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you mourn someone you never really knew? Three siblings – Anna, Gemma and Matthew – will have to work that out quickly. Monday is the day of their gentle, but distant, father’s funeral, and for the first...

Invitation to Die

Invitation to Die
  • Author(s): Helen Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Twenty-six-year-old Emily Castles is out of work… again. So when famous romance author Morgana Blakely offers her a job helping out at a conference in London, Emily accepts. Just as eagerly, American blogger Winnie Kraster accepts an invitation from...

Iran Awakening

Iran Awakening
  • Author(s): Shirin Ebadi
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1979 onwards

The book is essentially a memoir of Shirin Ebadi’s life from the time she enters Tehran University and graduates as the top Law student up to when she she was representing the reporter Akbar Ganji as his lawyer.

Island Practice

Island Practice
  • Author(s): Pam Belluck
  • Location(s): Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Recent

Nantucket Island.This book is the study of a 67-year-old Nantucket doctor and his anachronistic approach to medicine.

It All Began in Monte Carlo

It All Began in Monte Carlo
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Malibu, Monte Carlo
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Down in Monte Carlo, thefts of jewels keep Sunny and Mac well occupied.

It’s Just Love

It’s Just Love
  • Author(s): Jessica E Larsen
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Serene Ramos is a self-confessed, “straight-laced” Filipina teenager who loves rules and order, but puts on a bad-girl act at school to satisfy her more extroverted identical twin, Trinity. The two of them start playing a dating game where...

Jozi Gold

Jozi Gold
  • Author(s): Leanna Hunt
  • Location(s): Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

When Jozi, as Johannesburg, South Africa’s city of gold is affectionately known, was chosen as the main venue for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, it produced an atmosphere of mingled excitement and anxiety. Along with the promise of national...

Just Between Us

Just Between Us
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Dorset, London, Lyme Regis
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 2020

Lost. Missing. Murdered? And both her husbands are suspects… Kylie Gillingham’s disappearance has gripped the nation: the woman with a shocking secret – married to two men at the same time – is missing, presumed dead. And both her...

Karma and Other Stories

Karma and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Rishi Reddi
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Era(s): Various

Short stories set mainly in Boston

Königskinder

Königskinder
  • Author(s): Gernot Gricksch
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1970s -2000s

Zuerst die gute Nachricht: Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die eine große wahre Liebe und den einen Menschen, den das Schicksal für uns vorherbestimmt hat. Dummerweise ist das Schicksal manchmal aber etwas schlampig bei der Durchführung seiner Pläne. So...

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