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Return to Blood

Return to Blood
  • Author(s): Michael Bennett
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two murders. Two decades apart. One chance to get justice. Hana Westerman has left Auckland and her career as a detective behind her. Settled in a quiet coastal town, all she wants is a fresh start. The discovery of...

Return to Kilcraig

Return to Kilcraig
  • Author(s): Rosemary Gemmell
  • Location(s): West of Scotland
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The legacy of her beloved grandmother’s cottage in the Scottish village of Kilcraig seems like the ideal solution after Christy Morrison’s recent trauma. Until the threats begin. Can she trust her heart and allow herself to fall in love...

Return to Latvia

Return to Latvia
  • Author(s): Ann Goldstein (translator), Marina Jarre
  • Location(s): Latvia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Building upon her celebrated autobiography Distant Fathers, Italian author Marina Jarre returns to her native Latvia for the first time since she left as a ten-year-old girl in 1935. In Return to Latvia—a masterful collage-like work that is part travelogue, part...

Return to Nisa

Return to Nisa
  • Author(s): Marjorie Shostak
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

The story of two women-one a hunter-gatherer in Botswana, the other an ailing American anthropologist-this powerful book returns the reader to territory that Marjorie Shostak wrote of so poignantly in the now classic Nisa: The Life and Words of...

Return to the City of Ghosts

Return to the City of Ghosts
  • Author(s): Julian Sedgwick
  • Location(s): Shanghai, The Yangtze
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1920s

The thrilling conclusion to the Ghosts of Shanghai by the award-winning author of the Mysterium trilogy, for fans of Philip Pullman, Susan Hill and Robin Stevens. Ruby is on a mission to rescue the boy she loves: Charlie has...

Return To The Go-Go

Return To The Go-Go
  • Author(s): William Peskett
  • Location(s): Pattaya, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Return to the Go-Go is the second volume of insights by Pattaya veteran Khun Pobaan into everyday life in Thailand’s extreme city. The first collection, If You Can’t Stand the Fun, Stay Out Of The Go-Go, gathered together essays...

Return to the Parthenon

Return to the Parthenon
  • Author(s): Graham Bishop
  • Location(s): Cythera (Kythira)
  • Genre(s): Crime

When HMS Mentor sank off the island of Kythira in 1802, 17 crates of sculptures prized off the Parthenon on the orders of Lord Elgin went to the bottom of the sea. Later they were all salvaged and taken...

Return to Valetto

Return to Valetto
  • Author(s): Dominic Smith
  • Location(s): Umbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village—and a hub of resistance and refuge during World War II—centuries of earthquakes, landslides, and the lure of a better life have left it neglected. Only ten residents remain,...

Revelation

Revelation
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 16th Century

(The Shardlake Series Book 4) The fourth novel in the Shardlake series. Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are...

Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos

Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos
  • Author(s): Donna Andrews
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Every year, Yorktown, Virginia, relives its role in the Revolutionary War by celebrating the anniversary of the British surrender in 1781. This year, plans include a re-enactment of the original battle and a colonial craft fair. Meg Langslow has...

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