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Incognito

Incognito
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Geneva, Egypt, Rome, St Moritz, Türkiye (Turkey), Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

Pope Gregoire XVII was last seen waving to the crowd at Saint Peter’s square from the famous Apostolic Palace window. Despite several layers of tight security, neither the Gendarmerie nor The Entity (the Vatican’s secret service) or the Swiss...

Incorruptible

Incorruptible
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Inspector Ikmen Mystery 20) In the backstreets of Istanbul, a young woman’s body is found. Dumped in a dustbin and covered in cut flowers, she is the victim of a frenzied and vicious stabbing. Inspector Ikmen discovers that the...

Indelible Scars

Indelible Scars
  • Author(s): Pete Harvey
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Joe is young and idealistic, with a thirst for adventure and a desire to make a difference in the world. When given the opportunity to travel to East Timor as an aid worker, he jumps at the chance, with...

Indemnity Only

Indemnity Only
  • Author(s): Sara Paretsky
  • Location(s): Illinois
  • Genre(s): Mystery

Meeting an anonymous client on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. Especially when the client lies and tells V.I. Warshawski he’s the prominent banker John Thayer, looking for his son’s missing girlfriend. But V.I. soon discovers the...

Independent People

Independent People
  • Author(s): Halldor Laxness
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

A huge, humane revelation of a novel is set in rural Iceland in the early twentieth century, written by the Nobel prize-winner dubbed the ‘Tolstoy of the North’. A magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and a man’s...

Indian Captive

Indian Captive
  • Author(s): Lois Lenski
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1758 onwards

Twelve-year-old Mary Jemison took her peaceful days on her family’s farm in eastern Pennsylvania for granted. But on a spring day in 1758, something happened that changed her life forever. A band of warriors invaded the house and took...

Indian Horse

Indian Horse
  • Author(s): Richard Wagamese
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, Modern

Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant resident in a treatment centre for alcoholics, surrounded by people he’s sure will never understand him. But Saul wants peace, and he...

Indiana Bones

Indiana Bones
  • Author(s): Harry Heape, Rebecca Bagley (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Egypt
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Indiana Bones is a shaggy dog with a difference. He’s got superpowers and can sniff out criminals and – with his young friend and owner Aisha – solve mysteries that would flummox the world’s more expert detectives! In their...

Indians on Vacation

Indians on Vacation
  • Author(s): Thomas King
  • Location(s): Greece, Canada, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Indigenous
  • Era(s): present day

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards sent by Uncle Leroy nearly a hundred years earlier, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace Mimi’s long-lost uncle...

Indignation

Indignation
  • Author(s): Philip Roth
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1951

During the second year of the Korean War in 1951, studious, law-abiding Marcus Messner is beginning his sophomore year on the conservative campus of Ohio’s Winesburg College. Marcus has fled from his hometown of Newark, New jersey, trying to...

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