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Veronika Decides to Die

Veronika Decides to Die
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): Ljubljana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has...

Vintage Murder

Vintage Murder
  • Author(s): Ngaio Marsh
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1930s

A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novels. New Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer wanted to celebrate his wife’s birthday in style. The piece de résistance would be...

Wai-nani

Wai-nani
  • Author(s): Linda Ballou
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Turn of 18th Century

Voice from Ancient Hawaii is a meticulously researched account of the Hawaiian Islands around the time of Captain James Cook. The major theme of the novel is the dismantling of the social hierarchal system based on kapu (taboo) that...

Wait for Me, Jack

Wait for Me, Jack
  • Author(s): Addison Jones
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1950s

Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples, shift up a class. Optimistic and full of plans,...

Walden

Walden
  • Author(s): Henry David Thoreau
  • Location(s): Concord
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1840s

One of the great books of American letters and a masterpiece of reflective philosophizing. Accounts of Thoreau’s daily life on the shores of Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts, are interwoven with musings on the virtues of self-reliance and individual...

Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp

Walking with Glenn Berkenkamp
  • Author(s): Glenn Berkenkamp
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In 35 guided mindfulness walks, Glenn Berkenkamp invites us to discover how we sense, move, think, and feel in our bodies–and engage a greater sense of presence and being in our lives. Like any contemplative practice, through walking we...

Weak at the Knees

Weak at the Knees
  • Author(s): Jo Kessel
  • Location(s): French Alps
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

We got so busy living life that we forgot to live our dreams.” Danni Lewis has been playing it safe for twenty-six years, but her sheltered existence is making her feel old ahead of time. When a sudden death...

What I Was

What I Was
  • Author(s): Meg Rosoff
  • Location(s): Suffolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

I’d been kicked out of two boarding schools and the last thing I wanted was to be here, on the East Anglian coast, in a third. But without St Oswald’s, I would not have discovered the fisherman’s hut with...

What it Was

What it Was
  • Author(s): George Pelecanos
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1972

Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank “Hound Dog” Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for...

Where Things Come Back

Where Things Come Back
  • Author(s): John Corey Whaley
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

John Corey Whaley of Springhill wrote a coming-of-age novel about a teen named Cullen Witter, the disappearance of his brother Gabriel and the sudden fame his small Arkansas town receives after a visitor spots a woodpecker considered extinct. “Where...

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