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The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously,...
2) Kilt trip
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Globetrotter Addie Macrae always follows her wanderlust. As a travel consultant, she jet sets around the world—anywhere but Scotland. But when she’s sent on assignment to help a struggling family-run tour company in the Highlands—and save her own job—Addie packs away her emotional baggage and turns on the professional charm.
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Inspector Rebus novel volume 13
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English
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Sent to a rehabilitation school after a serious mistake, Inspector John Rebus discovers that his classmates are plotting a drug heist and joins forces with Detective Sergeant Siobhan Clarke to investigate ties to an art dealer's murder.
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Stonewycke legacy volume 2
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English
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Allison and Logan Macintyre's marriage had given the promise of a happy future for them and the ancient Stonewycke estate. Yet it was only the beginning of an ongoing journey, as they soon discover.
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Marcus MacPherson is every inch the fearsome Highlander. He's used to men averting their eyes and women cowering before him. He thinks he'll eventually settle down with a nice, obedient bride. Instead, he gets Helen Grant ... Stubborn as the day is long, fearless, and dedicated to raising as much hell as possible, Helen is definitely going to challenge Marcus. And challenge him some more. And then some.
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning--and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she...
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Isabel Dalhousie volume 2
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2005.
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English
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Taking on the running of her niece's deli while Cat is attending a wedding in Italy, Isabel Dalhousie encounters a recent heart transplant patient who is troubled by memories of events that never happened to him.
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Lewis trilogy volume 2
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Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.
9) The rogue
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Devil's Duke volume 1
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English
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Lady Constance Read is independent, beautiful, and in need of a husband -- now. The last man on earth she wants is Evan Saint-Andre, the rogue who broke her heart six years ago.
10) Highland captive
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Sons of Gregor MacLeod volume 4
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2019.
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English
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"Laird Gavin MacKinnon is a changed man - and not for the better. Ever since his young son, Ewan, disappeared two years ago, Gavin has grown callous and bitter. Scouring the countryside, his search leads him to a mysterious woman who maintains the boy is hers. He decides to take them both and ask questions later."--Publisher description.
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Running an island plane service with her grandfather on the remote islands of northern Scotland, Morag McGinty, on the verge of making a huge life change, is marooned on an off-grid island with a visiting ornithologist who has just the right perspective to help her pilot her course.
12) Death of a maid
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English
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Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth is charged with investigating the death of a maid struck down by a bucket of water.
14) Nessie quest
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English
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Twelve-year-old Ru reluctantly joins her parents in Scotland for the summer, where she and new friends Dax and Hammy Beans search for the Loch Ness Monster.
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Penguin
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c2006.
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English
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Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests.
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[Highland Gazette series] volume 1
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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Investigating the death of a 1950s Highlands youth, a seasoned journalist and a receptionist discover links between the killing and a foreign sailor, Scotland's traveling tinkers, and the secretive residents of a neighboring glen.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
18) The Loch
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When his estranged father Angus is put on trial for murdering his business partner, marine biologist Zach Wallace returns to the Scotland he left as a boy to help prove that "something" in Loch Ness was the real cause of the man's death.
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Scottish bookshop mystery volume 1
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English
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Paige Shelton, the author of the Farmers' Market Mysteries and the Country Cooking School Mysteries, presents the first book in an exciting new cozy mystery series set in Scotland.
20) Clear: a novel
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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An impoverished 1840s Scottish minister tasked with evicting a hermit from his island home ends up forming an unlikely connection with the man as the pair navigate language, loss and the legacy of forced displacement.
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