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Havana Run

Havana Run
  • Author(s): Les Standiford
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

John Deal has spent many years trying to reinstigate the building company, which his Father ran into the ground. He is offered a project in Havana but it is not what he anticipates: the prospect of a jail break....

Have You Eaten Rice Today?

Have You Eaten Rice Today?
  • Author(s): Apple Gidley
  • Location(s): Australia, England, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Dual time 1950s and 2010s

The Emergency rubles through the jungles, the kampongs, and towns as the communist uprising in 1950s Malaya adds poignancy to the salutation, ‘have you eaten rice today?’ when hunger drives some terrorists to surrender. Simon Frampton returns to Malaya...

Haveli

Haveli
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fisher Staples
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The world of Newbery Honor book “Shabanu” is vividly re-created in this novel of a young Pakistani woman’s heartbreaking struggle against the tyranny of custom and ancient law. Shabanu, now a mother at 18, faces daily challenges to her...

Haven

Haven
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): County Kerry, Skellig Michael (Great Skellig)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 7th Century

Three men vow to leave the world behind them and start anew . . . In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks –...

Haven of Swans

Haven of Swans
  • Author(s): Colleen Coble
  • Location(s): Upper Peninsula, Michigan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A beautiful woman stands by the side of the road, barefoot and bleeding, a child in her arms. Someone just tried to kill her, but she wouldn’t recognize him if she saw his face. She doesn’t even remember her...

Havoc

Havoc
  • Author(s): Christopher Bollen
  • Location(s): Luxor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eighty-one-year-old Maggie Burkhardt has left it all behind. After the death of her husband and the tragic loss of her daughter Julia, she fled her native Wisconsin and has spent the last five years ping-ponging between the world’s luxury...

Hawk at the Crossroads

Hawk at the Crossroads
  • Author(s): A J Aberford
  • Location(s): Greece, Italy, Malta, Türkiye (Turkey)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 3 They call him ‘The Hawk’ Turkey is the new powerbroker in the eastern Mediterranean and The Hawk sits in Istanbul, pulling the strings. But why should any of this concern a Maltese...

Hawk’s Justice

Hawk’s Justice
  • Author(s): Jim Ross
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A KILLER IN THE COURTS When High Court judge William Ryland is found dead inside the Royal Courts of Justice, it seems like a tragic accident. But young, high-flying lawyer Tom Hawk suspects there’s more to his death than meets...

Hawkfall

Hawkfall
  • Author(s): George Mackay Brown
  • Location(s): Orkney Islands
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

This collection of sharply-etched fables, dealing with death, legend, love and violence create an Orcadian world that spanning myth and reality – a world set firmly between the sea and the sky – a collection of islands which are...

Hawks Mountain

Hawks Mountain
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Sinclair
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Rebecca Hawks has come home to remember who she was before the lure of life as a social worker in a big city nearly destroyed her-and might, still. She’s moved back to her family’s namesake mountain in West Virginia,...

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