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Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE
  • Author(s): Lorraine Gibson
  • Location(s): Africa, Afghanistan, India, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 1857 to present day

Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity. A conflicted character – militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist – he was one of the 20th century’s most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding fame not once,...

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa
  • Author(s): Joseph Farrell
  • Location(s): Samoa, Upolu
  • Genre(s): Biography, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint’s...

Rocco and the Nightingale

Rocco and the Nightingale
  • Author(s): Adrian Magson
  • Location(s): Picardie (Picardy)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1960s

When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government minister,...

Rock and a Hard Place

Rock and a Hard Place
  • Author(s): Angie Stanton
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 21st century

One day while watching the Interstate exit for her dad’s long awaited return, Libby’s life is rocked when Peter Jamieson steps off his tour bus and into her life. After a couple chance meetings with Peter, Libby breaks away...

Rock Hard

Rock Hard
  • Author(s): Nalini Singh
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

In New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh’s newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from nothing and a shy woman who has a terrible secret in her past… Wealthy businessman...

Rock Hard (Danny Lancaster Book 4)

Rock Hard (Danny Lancaster Book 4)
  • Author(s): Bill Todd
  • Location(s): Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Danny Lancaster gets a call from an old friend it’s a chance to swap his troubles in Brighton for a sunshine reunion in Gibraltar. He hasn’t seen Pogo since Afghanistan. They have war stories to retell, beers to...

Rock the Boat

Rock the Boat
  • Author(s): Beck Dorey-Stein
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Old friends discover how much has changed (and how much has stayed the same) when they reunite in their seaside hometown for one unforgettable summer—a clever and poignant debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of From...

Rocket Boys

Rocket Boys
  • Author(s): Homer Hickam
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

“Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn’t know my home town was at war with itself over its children, and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and...

Rocking the System: Fearless and Amazing Irish Women Who Made History

Rocking the System: Fearless and Amazing Irish Women Who Made History
  • Author(s): Siobhán Parkinson, Bren Luke (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The stories of twenty Irish feminists who rocked the system and changed history, told by one of Ireland’s leading writers for young people. Twenty illustrated essays on Irish women, historical and contemporary, who have defied cultural norms around femininity...

Rodanthe’s Gift

Rodanthe’s Gift
  • Author(s): Yvonne Payne
  • Location(s): Crete, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1823 to 1830

In January 1823, four mourners stand over the shrouded body of the exceptional female rebel, Rodanthe. Each suffers the loss of a daughter, friend, lost love or valued ally. Her injured papa, Mathaios, kneels at her graveside, begging forgiveness...

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