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Meat is Murder

Meat is Murder
  • Author(s): Anne Crosse
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Body parts, missing persons and hungry workers throw an Irish town into confusion in this darkly comic murder mystery. Tired and hungry, and worried about paying the rent, Zofia, a worker in a recycling plant, cannot believe her luck...

Meatless Days

Meatless Days
  • Author(s): Sara Suleri
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the author’s family two years apart, her personal crisis spirals into a wider meditation on universal questions: about being...

Medici Heist

Medici Heist
  • Author(s): Caitlin Schneiderhan
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Welcome to Florence, 1517, a world of intrigue and opulence, murder and betrayal. Sharp-witted conwoman Rosa Cellini arrives in the city the same day that the Medici Pope, Leo X, returns to take up the reins of power. This...

Medicine Walk

Medicine Walk
  • Author(s): Richard Wagamese
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Growing up in the care of the “old man” he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters...

Medusa

Medusa
  • Author(s): Rudie van Rensburg
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kassie has never had to cope with a case like this before, and his emotions are getting the better of him. As a rookie cop he learned to keep his distance from a case, not get emotionally involved, because...

Meeks

Meeks
  • Author(s): Gabriel Tate
  • Location(s): Canada
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): 1979 and 1997

Ranleigh Meeks is twenty-seven, working nights in a Toronto warehouse and living far below his potential. When he discovers a way to experience the life he believes he should have had, the temptation to escape becomes increasingly difficult to...

Meerkat Christmas

Meerkat Christmas
  • Author(s): Emily Gravett
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

A Sunday Times Book of the Year. Sunny wants a white Christmas, with a decorated tree, carols and sprouts for dinner . . . none of which he can see at home in the Kalahari desert. So off he...

Meet Felicity: An American Girl

Meet Felicity: An American Girl
  • Author(s): Valerie Tripp
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Felicity falls in love with a beautiful horse named Penny. When she discovers that the owner is cruel, she is determined to find a way to save Penny.

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
  • Author(s): Janet Beeler Shaw
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1850s

Kirsten Larson is a pioneer girl of strength and spirit growing up on the Minnesota prairie in 1854. Kirsten’s stories begin with her long, dangerous voyage with her family from Sweden to America. At first, Kirsten finds it difficult...

Meet Me At Pebble Beach

Meet Me At Pebble Beach
  • Author(s): Bella Osborne
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Regan is holding a winning lottery ticket. Goodbye to the boyfriend who never had her back, and so long to the job she can’t stand! Except it’s all a bit too good to be true… When Regan gets pranked,...

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