- Location(s): Kentucky, New York City (NYC), Washington DC
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current back to 1850
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and injustice across American history Kentucky,...
- Location(s): Seattle
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2012
Horse Bite is the story of Dave and his efforts to find a bit of permanence in the balance of the things we create and the things we do to sustain ourselves. His journey jumps between morning pit stops...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th century
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud, starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
LONDON – SYDNEY You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most. The atmosphere on board the inaugural non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. Numerous celebrities are rumoured to be among the passengers in...
Hostage to Freedom: The Search for the Siren
- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Adventure
- Era(s): 2002
On a balmy day near noon on Tuesday, February 14, 1764 the East Indiaman ‘The Siren’ came to grief on Brutus Reef in the Sulu Sea. Onboard a rich cargo of 250,000 cases of Ming Dynasty porcelain lay buried...
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): Modern
Recovering from an unhappy marriage, personal trainer Malik relocates to the village of Kalabola, nestling snugly in the armpit of Sri Lanka’s largest lake, which spreads its tentacles, octopus-like, between Colombo and Kalutara. Do octopuses have armpits? Possibly not....
- Location(s): Minnesota
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cub reporter Emerald Malloy is assigned to gather “church food” recipes from the owner of Hot Dish Heaven, a café in a small town in the Red River Valley. Upon her arrival, she learns of a local, unsolved murder....
- Location(s): New Jersey
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Low-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars bite the dust; she finds herself lumbered with a policeman’s...
- Location(s): California, Israel
- Genre(s): Suspense
- Era(s): 1980's
After her assignment in Australia goes sour, Israeli Intelligence agent Hannah Chaya joins her boyfriend Rudy in the sleepy town of Wolf, California. But she brings with her, demons from Munich that Rudy’s trying to get away from. When...
- Location(s): Soho (London)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
‘Hot Stew reads like a great night out in a city that never sleeps’ Jan Carson ‘Fiona Mozley not only fulfills her promise but surpasses it. Her new stew is such a steaming, fuming mix of life, lust and...
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