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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
  • Author(s): Antjie Krog
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990

Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid...

Country Secrets

Country Secrets
  • Author(s): Fiona Walker
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can you ever have a second chance at first love? When Ronnie Percy’s gorgeous on-off lover Blair is forced to deep-freeze their affair for the sake of his sick wife, she’s delighted to be distracted by charismatic neighbour, Kit...

Couples Retreat

Couples Retreat
  • Author(s): Lorraine Brown
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two writers. One pressing deadline. No time for romance… Scarlett and Theo have one bestselling novel to their names: the psychological thriller they wrote together years ago. None of the books they’ve written separately have sold anywhere near as...

Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark

Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
  • Author(s): Deborah Hopkinson
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Children, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go...

Courting Greta

Courting Greta
  • Author(s): Ramsey Hootman
  • Location(s): Healdsburg, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2000's

Samuel Cooke knows most women wouldn’t give him a second glance even if he were the last man on earth. He’s the cripple with the crutches, the nerdy computer genius every female past puberty feels compelled to mother. So...

Courting Miss Hattie

Courting Miss Hattie
  • Author(s): Pamela Morsi
  • Location(s): Arkansas
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 19th century

The news spread like brush fire through the whole county when widower Ancil Drayton announced his intention to start courting Miss Hattie Colfax. She was certainly spirited and delightfully sweet natured, and she’d managed to run her family farm...

Courting Ruth

Courting Ruth
  • Author(s): Emma Miller
  • Location(s): Delaware
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): modern

Courting Ruth is an Amish romance set in Seven Poplars, a fictitious Amish community in rural Delaware that reflects the farms and fields of the author’s Delaware upbringing. Filled with rural imagery, earthy landscapes, and funny farmhouse metaphors, Courting...

Covent Garden in the Snow

Covent Garden in the Snow
  • Author(s): Jules Wake
  • Location(s): Covent Garden
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tilly Hunter has fabulous friends, her dream job as a make-up artist with a prestigious opera company and Felix, her kind and caring husband to be. It looks set to be the most perfect Christmas yet! But when a...

Cover Blown

Cover Blown
  • Author(s): Ian Robinson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Realistic crime fiction set in the unforgiving streets of London An advertising executive is found murdered in her luxury London apartment. DI Nash and DS Moretti quickly exhaust the obvious leads when a near identical killing occurs. Though joined...

Cover of Night

Cover of Night
  • Author(s): Linda Howard
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 21st century

For breathless action, gripping suspense, and intense romance, bestselling author Linda Howard never misses a beat–and her thrilling new novel will have your heart racing. In the charming rural town of Trail Stop, Idaho, accessible to the outside world...

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