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Karachi Vice

Karachi Vice
  • Author(s): Samira Shackle
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fast-paced journey around Karachi in the company of those who know the city inside out – from an electrifying new voice in narrative non-fiction. Karachi. Pakistan’s largest city is a sprawling metropolis of 20 million people. It is...

Kartography

Kartography
  • Author(s): Kamila Shamsie
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others’ partners until they rematched in what they call “the fiancée swap.” But as adolescence distances the friends,...

Kashmir

Kashmir
  • Author(s): Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Post 1947

Book 3 of The Partition Trilogy Maharaja Hari Singh rules Kashmir, a Muslim-majority Princely State expected to accede to Pakistan during the partition in 1947. But Hari Singh dreams of a Switzerland-like status for his Himalayan kingdom. Meanwhile, popular...

Kaspar: Prince of Cats

Kaspar: Prince of Cats
  • Author(s): Michael Morpurgo
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket – Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky’s things...

Kat Wolfe Investigates

Kat Wolfe Investigates
  • Location(s): Dorset
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For ages 9-11. Join brave Kat Wolfe and her animal sidekicks in this first mysterious adventure filled with friendship, freedom and a fierce wild cat! Kat Wolfe loves her new home in idyllic Bluebell Bay, especially as it comes...

Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice (Wolfe & Lamb)

Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice (Wolfe & Lamb)
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): Adirondacks, New York State
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Join Kat Wolfe and her best friend Harper Lamb on the winter holiday of a lifetime in Kat Wolfe on Thin Ice – full of mystery, intrigue, snow and huskies, by bestselling author Lauren St John! Kat and Harper...

Kat’s Greek Summer

Kat’s Greek Summer
  • Author(s): Mima Tipper
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 21st Century

Almost-freshman Kat Baker has big plans to train all summer long so she can become the running goddess of her high school. But when she learns her summer will instead be spent exploring her roots in a rustic Greek...

Katabasis

Katabasis
  • Author(s): Rebecca F Kuang (R F Kuang)
  • Location(s): Underworld
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld. Two academic rivals from Cambridge must travel to hell to rescue the soul of their advisor. Getting there was easy. Surviving it – and each other...

Kate Vaiden

Kate Vaiden
  • Author(s): Reynolds Price
  • Location(s): North Carolina, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s / 1940s

Now in her mid-fifties, Kate Vaiden recalls her early life growing up, after the violent death of her parents, an orphan in small towns in North Carolina and Virginia in the 1930s and 1940s

Kate’s War

Kate’s War
  • Author(s): Linda Stewart Henley
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Twenty-year-old Kate is poised to launch into a long-anticipated life of independence when Britain declares war in 1939. After that announcement, her dream of escaping the London suburb she grew up in and pursuing a singing career is quashed:...

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