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Missing on Ilkley Moor

Missing on Ilkley Moor
  • Author(s): Ric Brady
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

When a girl disappears, a retired cop makes it his mission to find her… It’s a cold winter day when ex-DCI Henry Ward and his terrier Tessa come across a girl’s hat on Ilkley Moor. Not an uncommon find,...

Missing You

Missing You
  • Author(s): Harlan Coben
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

It’s a profile, like all the others on the online dating site. But as NYPD Detective Kat Donovan focuses on the accompanying picture, she feels her whole world explode, as emotions she’s ignored for decades come crashing down on her....

Mission

Mission
  • Author(s): Paul Forrester-O'Neill
  • Location(s): Pacific Northwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

John hears his mother lie to his father when he is only a child. The lie means that the two do not see each other for two decades. When they meet, the father tells John of the men who...

Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World

Mission Al-Jazeera: Build a Bridge, Seek the Truth, Change the World
  • Author(s): John Rushing
  • Location(s): Qatar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Blending his riveting personal story with innovative ideas about how to win the war on terror, former marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing addresses all the issues he was not allowed to talk about when he was in...

Mission to Morocco

Mission to Morocco
  • Author(s): J R Rogers
  • Location(s): Casablanca, Kenitra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1944

An OSS officer is dispatched on a secret mission to French Morocco to dismantle a Nazi network reporting on the U.S. Navy’s Africa Squadron.

Missionaries

Missionaries
  • Author(s): Phil Klay
  • Location(s): Colombia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America’s long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet, for them, war still exerts a terrible draw – the noble calling, the camaraderie, the...

Mist on the Jungle

Mist on the Jungle
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A lascivious businessman who prefers lady-boys to ladies, a depressed captain who threatens to sink his own ferry, a woman who eats more than food, and a Thai widow finding her late husband’s roots in Crete—these are just some...

Mister Johnson

Mister Johnson
  • Author(s): Joyce Cary
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Johnson, a young native in the British civil service, is a clerk to Rudbeck, Assistant District Officer in Nigeria, and imagines himself to be a very important cog of the King’s government. He is amusingly tolerant of his fellow...

Mister N

Mister N
  • Author(s): Najwa Barakat
  • Location(s): Beirut
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Modern-day Beirut is seen through the eyes of a failed writer, the eponymous Mister N. He has left his comfortable apartment and checked himself into a hotel – he thinks. Certainly, they take good care of him there. Meanwhile,...

Mister Pip

Mister Pip
  • Author(s): Lloyd Jones
  • Location(s): Papua New Guinea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island...

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