Bailiúchán: 10 Day Short Loan

Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life's p...

2008. The house Maxine and Seb have just bought was a bargain - a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye, it needs a lot of work but Max couldn't resist it. Now they are in, though, nothing seems to be going right - and as the problems mount up, Max starts to doubt her relationship as...

Sick and tired of being passed over for promotion at 35, Beatrice Archer is done with the corporate hamster wheel and all the 'rules' that go along with it. She's moving to the middle of nowhere, to a place no one knows her name and she's going to break all the damn rules along the way. Drinking ...

Even in a family of strong individualists like the Ryans, Kyle has stood out as a lone wolf. For years he's gone his own way, joining the DIA rather than the CIA, and disagreeing with his father's politics. Now he's missing in an African country on the brink of a coup. His last message to his han...

Off the coast of Maine, on an island shrouded by mist, lives a novelist Jason Lorraine and his teenage daughter Lisa. After the sudden death of Lisa's mother, Jason becomes reclusive and protective. Lisa is forbidden to see Jamie, the charming fisherman's son who has quickly become her closest co...

From her reflections on African American life and hardship in 'Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie' to her revolutionary celebrations of womanhood in 'Phenomenal Woman' and 'Still I Rise', and her elegant tributes to dignitaries Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela ('On the Pulse of Morni...