- Location(s): Worcester
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
The most romantic day of the year turns into a nightmare… Having returned from a date with her new boyfriend, Lydia is fatally attacked in her home. A burglary gone wrong or a planned assault? Detectives from Heart of...
Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond
- Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In this powerful call to action, Oscar-nominated film star Don Cheadle and human rights advocate John Prendergast shine an unsparing spotlight on the genocide in Darfur — a targeted ethnic extermination chillingly described as “Rwanda in slow motion.” The...
Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
From celebrated author Jane Yolen comes this inspiring collection of folktales from around the world, all featuring strong female heroes. These fifteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, bold, brave women–and not one damsel in distress! There is...
Not Quite Lost: Travels without a Sense of Direction
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 20th and 21st century
In Not Quite Lost, Roz Morris celebrates the hidden dramas in the apparently ordinary. Her childhood home, with a giant star-gazing telescope on the horizon and a garden path that disappears under next door’s house. A tour guide in...
Not Quite Paradise: An American Sojourn in Sri Lanka
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
A chronicle of life on the resplendent island, combining the immediacy of memoir with the vividness of travelogue and reportage Adele Barker and her son, Noah, settled into the central highlands of Sri Lanka for an eighteen-month sojourn,...
- Location(s): Devon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This is the story of a drowning, a heatwave and a painting that shouldn’t exist. The death of octogenarian sea swimmer Maud Smith doesn’t excite much interest in the Devon seaside town of Dormouth, but it changes the lives...
- Location(s): Nottingham
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ice hockey romance, but make it Nottingham. Widowed historian Cariad Baker is trying to keep her life small: two grieving children, one half-finished book about the Dark Ages, and absolutely no romantic complications. Then Adam King moves in next...
- Location(s): Chicago
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 2020s
Not the Trip We Planned is friendship fiction set in Chicago and will appeal to readers who like quirky humor and older characters who are willing to get into some good trouble. Chickie and Maddy’s unexpected adventure highlights how...
- Location(s): Kansas
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Earlier 20th Century
When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African...
- Location(s): London, Bayswater, Carnaby Street, Park Lane, Soho (London)
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Era(s): Contemporary and 1960s London
Eloise is an erratic, faded fashionista. Bradley is a glum but wily teenager. In need of help to write her racy 1960s memoirs, the former ‘shock frock’ fashion guru tolerates his common ways. Unable to remember his name, she...
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