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Call Me Joe

Call Me Joe
  • Author(s): Martin van Es, Andrew Crofts
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

The world is on the brink of disaster.The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both more connected, and yet more divided than ever before. Fear and confusion seep into all parts...

Cannery Row

Cannery Row
  • Author(s): John Steinbeck
  • Location(s): Monterey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

John Steinbeck’s paean to the Monterey County of his youth, Cannery Row contains an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in Penguin Modern Classics. In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists...

Cape May

Cape May
  • Author(s): Chip Cheek
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1957

September 1957 Henry and Effie, young newlyweds from Georgia, arrive in Cape May, New Jersey, for their honeymoon. It’s the end of the season and the town is deserted. As they tentatively discover each other, they begin to realize...

Capture the Moment

Capture the Moment
  • Author(s): Jim Lammers
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book focuses on sketching buildings and cityscapes from observation using coloured pencil It clarifies the mystery of perspective along with the other aspects of sketching It stresses rapid sketching in the moment allowing the right-brain to take over...

Cartes Postales from Greece

Cartes Postales from Greece
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Week after week, the postcards arrive, addressed to a name Ellie does not know, with no return address, each signed with an initial: A. With their bright skies, blue seas and alluring images of Greece, these cartes postales brighten her life. After...

Cassandra

Cassandra
  • Author(s): Kathryn Gossow
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Is the future set like concrete, or a piece of clay we can mould and change? On a remote farm in Queensland, Cassie Shultz feels useless. Her perfect brother Alex has an uncanny ability to predict the weather, and...

Cemetery Lake

Cemetery Lake
  • Author(s): Paul Cleave
  • Location(s): Christchurch
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

What began as a routine exhumation of a suspected murder victim quickly turns complicated for private investigator Theodore Tate… Theo Tate is barely coping with life since his world was turned upside down two years ago. As he stands...

Chasing Shadows

Chasing Shadows
  • Author(s): Matthew J Evans
  • Location(s): Chichester, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

When DS David Angelis wakes from a coma, his world is turned upside down as he discovers he can see into the minds of others. Is he now a threat to his job, or will he use his supernatural...

Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol.2)

Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol.2)
  • Author(s): John D Greenwood
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1830s

Set against the expansion of Singapore in the years 1834-1854, Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol. 2) continues to vividly portray the lives of the early pioneers of the expanding port city, including Joseph Balestier, Seah Eu Chin, Captain...

Chasing the Light

Chasing the Light
  • Author(s): Jesse Blackadder
  • Location(s): Antarctica
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Last century

A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. It s the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and a territorial race...

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