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An American Marriage

An American Marriage
  • Author(s): Tayari Jones
  • Location(s): Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The author of Silver Sparrow returns with a stunning novel about race, loyalty, and love that endures. Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and...

An Echo of Scandal

An Echo of Scandal
  • Author(s): Laura Madeleine
  • Location(s): Tangier, Andalusia (Andalucía), Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back to 1920s

In the dead of night, with blood on her hands, she made her escape. Accused of murder, Alejandra flees her home, escaping to the southern edge of Spain, where she faces a life of poverty and destitution. Seduced by...

An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival

An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me about Love, Courage and Survival
  • Author(s): Françoise Malby-Anthony
  • Location(s): KwaZulu-Natal (Natal), South Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Françoise Malby-Anthony never expected to find herself responsible for a herd of elephants with a troubled past. A chic Parisienne, her life changed forever when she fell in love with South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony. Together they founded a...

An Inconvenient Woman

An Inconvenient Woman
  • Author(s): Stéphanie Buelens
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Claire Fontaine learns that her ex-husband Simon is marrying again, to a woman with a teenage daughter, her blood runs cold. She is sure that years ago Simon molested her own daughter and was responsible for her mysterious...

An Italian Home

An Italian Home
  • Author(s): Paul Wright
  • Location(s): Lake Como
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Paul and Nicola, artist and his wife relocate to Lake Como, the warm descriptive writing of the process is beautiful, the locals come to life. A great book to help understand the ways of the people who live around...

An Untamed State

An Untamed State
  • Author(s): Roxane Gay
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day...

An Unusual Grief

An Unusual Grief
  • Author(s): Yewande Omotoso
  • Location(s): Gauteng, Johannesburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you get to know your daughter when she is dead? This is the question that haunts Mojisola as she grapples with the sudden loss of her daughter, Yinka, and the unresolved fractures in their relationship. Mojisola is...

And Then There Was You

And Then There Was You
  • Author(s): Miranda Dickinson
  • Location(s): St Ives
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two lonely people. One song to change their lives… Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes...

Anil’s Ghost

Anil’s Ghost
  • Author(s): Michael Ondaatje
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in...

Animal

Animal
  • Author(s): Lisa Taddeo
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That’s a cruel...

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