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I, Ada

I, Ada
  • Author(s): Julia Gray
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Victorian era, 19th century

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal Highly Commended, Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical...

I, Mona Lisa

I, Mona Lisa
  • Author(s): Natasha Solomons
  • Location(s): Florence, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 16th Century to present

In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
  • Author(s): Maryse Condé
  • Location(s): Salem
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th century

At the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her. She was raised from then on by Mama Yaya, a gifted woman who shared with...

Icarus

Icarus
  • Author(s): Deon Meyer
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can’t take any more tragedy. So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point – a former...

Ice

Ice
  • Author(s): Linda Howard
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): early 21st century

On holiday leave from the service, Gabriel McQueen is sent into a brewing ice storm to make sure that his father’s distant neighbor, Lolly Helton, who has fallen out of contact, is safe and sound. It’s a trip that...

Ice Bound

Ice Bound
  • Author(s): Jerri Nielsen
  • Location(s): Antarctica
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six year old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year’s sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station in Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on earth. The...

Ice Hunter

Ice Hunter
  • Author(s): Joseph Heywood
  • Location(s): Michigan, Upper Peninsula
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Meet Grady Service: a former Marine, renowned tracker, Conservation Officer, and the last person any errant hunter wants to cross. In Ice Hunter, the first of a series of mysteries set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Service defends his turf with the...

Ice Town – (Tuva 6)

Ice Town – (Tuva 6)
  • Author(s): Will Dean
  • Location(s): Värmland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

ONE WAY IN. NO WAY OUT. Deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts.V The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception. When journalist Tuva Moodyson...

Icebound

Icebound
  • Author(s): Andrea Pitzer
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Historical
  • Era(s): 1597

A dramatic and compelling account of survival against the odds from the golden Age of Exploration. Since its beginning, the human story has been one of exploration and survival – often against long odds. The longest odds of all...

Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North

Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
  • Author(s): Horatio Clare
  • Location(s): Finland
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?’ A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly...

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