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Beautiful Shining People

Beautiful Shining People
  • Author(s): Michael Grothaus
  • Location(s): Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagano
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Future
  • Era(s): Future

This world is anything but ordinary, and it’s about to change forever… It’s our world, but decades into the future… An ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There...

Beautiful Ugly

Beautiful Ugly
  • Author(s): Alice Feeney
  • Location(s): The Hebrides
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife as she’s driving home to share some exciting news. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing....

Behind Putin’s Curtain

Behind Putin’s Curtain
  • Author(s): Stephan Orth
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

“In the late summer of 2016,” writes award-winning travel writer Stephan Orth, “a journey to Russia feels like visiting enemy territory.” In this humorous and thought-provoking book, Orth ventures through that vast and mysterious territory to uncover the real,...

Believe Me

Believe Me
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Claire Wright likes to play other people. A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in...

Beneath the Same Heaven

Beneath the Same Heaven
  • Author(s): Anne Marie Ruff
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Dubai, Pakistan, San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

Kathryn, an American woman, and Rashid, a Pakistani-born Muslim man, seem to have bridged the divide between Western and Islamic world views with their marriage and two American-born children. But everything changes when Rashid’s father is suddenly killed by...

Benediction

Benediction
  • Author(s): Kent Haruf
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE. One long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado. As old friends pass in and out to voice their farewells and good wishes, Dad’s wife and daughter work to make...

Between the Orange Groves

Between the Orange Groves
  • Author(s): Nadia Marks
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th/21st Century

In a small village, set among the wild mountains of Cyprus, two families of different faiths share a seemingly unbreakable friendship based on mutual respect and deep affection. Mothers and daughters share their daily secrets, fathers and sons support...

Big Sister

Big Sister
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Varg Veum #18 Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in...

Birthright

Birthright
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...

Black Hearts (The Skelfs Book 4)

Black Hearts (The Skelfs Book 4)
  • Author(s): Doug Johnstone
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Death is just the beginning… The Skelf women live in the shadow of death every day, running the family funeral directors and private investigator business in Edinburgh. But now their own grief interwines with that of their clients, as...

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