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The Chinese Bandit

The Chinese Bandit
  • Author(s): Steven Becker
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1947

That summer they hanged a fat man at the Western gate as a warning and example to all. Kao was a traitor, a thief, a pimp, a black marketeer—and Jake Dodds’s partner. So what if he traded stolen military...

The Chinese Emperor’s New Clothes

The Chinese Emperor’s New Clothes
  • Author(s): Ying Chang Compestine
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Ming Da is only nine years old when he becomes the emperor of China, and his three advisors take advantage of him by stealing his stores of rice, gold, and precious stones. But Ming Da has a plan. With...

The Chocolatier

The Chocolatier
  • Author(s): Jan Moran
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken over the mysterious death of her husband, Celina Savoia, a second-generation chocolatière, resolves to take their young son to Italy’s shimmering Amalfi coast to introduce him to his father’s family. Just as she embarks on...

The Choice

The Choice
  • Author(s): Nicholas Sparks
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

#1 New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a new tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we’ll never have to make. Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a...

The Chosen

The Chosen
  • Author(s): Chaim Potok
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1940s

In 1940s Brooklyn, New York, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a Modern Orthodox Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father: Danny is the brilliant son and rightful heir to a Hasidic...

The Chosen

The Chosen
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Lowry
  • Location(s): Cornwall, Dorset
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1912

One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms,...

The Chosen Maiden

The Chosen Maiden
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...

The Chosen Man

The Chosen Man
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Book 1 in The Chosen Man Trilogy Spring 1635, a storm and pirate raid interrupt wily rogue and Genoese merchant Ludovico da Portovenere’s voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam, disrupting his plans and entangling others in a papal conspiracy that...

The Christmas Bookshop

The Christmas Bookshop
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Carmen has always worked in her local department store. So, when the gorgeous old building closes its doors for good, she is more than a little lost. When her sister, Sofia, mentions an opportunity in Edinburgh – a cute...

The Christmas Highland Lodge

The Christmas Highland Lodge
  • Author(s): Julie Shackman
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fall in love with the Christmas romance of the year, full of love and second chances! Lottie Grant loves the festive season so much that she works at the incredibly successful Christmas shop, Christmas Crackers, in her pretty Scottish...

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