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Red River

Red River
  • Author(s): Lalita Tademy
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s-1930s

The sequel to Lalita Tademy’s bestselling Cane River, the heartbreaking and compelling story of her family’s experiences of slavery and the American Civil War. Now, in Red River, she takes readers on a new journey: that of her father’s...

Red River Road

Red River Road
  • Author(s): Anna Downes
  • Location(s): Coral Coast, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads,...

Red Sands

Red Sands
  • Author(s): Caroline Eden
  • Location(s): Central Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Caroline Eden is an extraordinarily creative and gifted writer. Red Sands captures the sights, tastes and feel of Central Asia so well that when reading this book I was sometimes convinced I was there in person. A wonderful book...

Red Scarf Girl

Red Scarf Girl
  • Author(s): Ji-li Jiang
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1966

Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. It’s 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a...

Red Sky at Morning

Red Sky at Morning
  • Author(s): Richard Bradford
  • Location(s): New Mexico, Sagrado
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count. In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission...

Red Sky at Morning

Red Sky at Morning
  • Author(s): Richard Bradford
  • Location(s): Santa Fe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

In the summer of 1944, Frank Arnold, a wealthy shipbuilder in Mobile, Alabama, receives his volunteer commission in the U.S. Navy and moves his wife, Ann, and seventeen-year-old son, Josh, to the family’s summer home in the village of...

Red Sky Over Hawaii

Red Sky Over Hawaii
  • Author(s): Sara Ackerman
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Inspired by real places and events of WWII, Red Sky Over Hawaii immerses the reader in a time of American history full of suspicion and peril in this lush and poignant tale about the indisputable power of doing the...

Red Tape and White Knuckles: One Woman’s Motorcycle Adventure through Africa

Red Tape and White Knuckles: One Woman’s Motorcycle Adventure through Africa
  • Author(s): Lois Pryce
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Unafraid of a challenge, Lois Pryce began the kind of adventure most of us could only ever dream of. She put on her sparkly crash helmet, armed herself with maps and a baffling array of visas, and got on...

Redemption Road

Redemption Road
  • Author(s): John Hart
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Over 2 million copies of his books in print. The first and only author to win back-to-back Edgars for Best Novel. Every book a New York Times bestseller. After five years, John Hart is back. Since his debut bestseller,...

Redemption Road: The Quest for Peace and Justice in Liberia

Redemption Road: The Quest for Peace and Justice in Liberia
  • Author(s): Elma Shaw
  • Location(s): Monrovia, Liberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Monrovia during the administration of Liberia’s former president, Charles Taylor, this riveting debut is a story of recovery, atonement, and the continuing quest for peace and justice in a nation plagued by conflict and inequalities since its...

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