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In the Town of Joy and Peace

In the Town of Joy and Peace
  • Author(s): Zdravka Evtimova
  • Location(s): Bulgaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Women of action and obstinacy live and struggle with brutality, humour, tenderness and frustration in Radomir, Bulgaria, the Town of Joy and Peace. All inhabit a society where lowness, trickery, networking and criminality rule at numerous levels. They face...

In the Unlikely Event

In the Unlikely Event
  • Author(s): Judy Blume
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Elizabeth
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1987

In her highly anticipated new novel, Judy Blume, the New York Times # 1 best-selling author of Summer Sisters and of young adult classics such as Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, creates a richly textured and moving...

In the Winter Dark

In the Winter Dark
  • Author(s): Tim Winton
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Tim Winton delivers a truly spine-tingling thriller with In the Winter Dark. When a man dreams things from the past, you’d think he’d be able to rearrange them in new sequences to please himself. But no. In my dreams,...

In Their Mother’s Footsteps

In Their Mother’s Footsteps
  • Author(s): Mary Wood
  • Location(s): London, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In Their Mother’s Footsteps is a moving saga set at the eve of the Second World War, by the author of the Breckton series, Mary Wood. Two girls. One horrendous war. The chance to unite a family . ....

In Too Deep

In Too Deep
  • Author(s): Bea Davenport
  • Location(s): Alnwick
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

… The window’s so small I can’t see what happens next. But what I do know is that Kim is dead. And I know this, too – that I helped to kill her. Kim, my lovely, only, best friend....

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
  • Author(s): Redmond O'Hanlon
  • Location(s): Brazil, Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1980s

Redmond O’Hanlon found few experienced adventurers willing to accompany him on his four-month trip up the Orinoco river and across the Amazon Basin. He wondered why… Was it perhaps the fear of contracting dysentery, rabies or river blindness? Or...

In Xanadu

In Xanadu
  • Author(s): William Dalrymple
  • Location(s): Jerusalem, Central Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At the age of twenty-two, William Dalrymple left his college in Cambridge to travel to the ruins of Kublai Khan’s stately pleasure dome in Xanadu. This is an account of a quest which took him and his companions across...

In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams
  • Author(s): Sarah Adams
  • Location(s): Rome KY
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Madison Walker was determined to make it in the culinary world of New York. But with her dreams shattered, she returns home to Rome, Kentucky, where an unexpected chance to rebuild her life awaits her – a head chef...

Inca-tastic Tales

Inca-tastic Tales
  • Author(s): Helen Pugh
  • Location(s): South America
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval

Join the goddess Pachamama and the rainbow Cuychi on an epic journey through Inca-tastic history! You’ll get to meet gods, goddesses, a magician, queens, kings, princes, princesses, kidnappers, warriors, conquerors, treasure hunters, explorers, heroes and 2 volcanoes who are...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • Author(s): Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1861

The true story of an individual’s struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlremains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. This autobiographical account chronicles the remarkable odyssey of Harriet...

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