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Run Wild

Run Wild
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Izzy and Asha need a space to call their own, away from difficult families, the Skull brothers and the trouble they bring. But the derelict building site where they stake their claim already belongs to something else, a wilderness...

Run with the Horsemen

Run with the Horsemen
  • Author(s): Ferrol Sams
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Porter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon...

Runaway Horses

Runaway Horses
  • Author(s): Carlo Frutterro, Franco Lucentini, Gregory Dowling (translator)
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Siena, one of Italy’s most beautiful cities, is feverishly preparing for the Palio, a horse race dating back to the Middle Ages, held every summer in the centre of the town. Tempers flare, rivalries between the competing neighbourhoods intensify....

Runaway Love Story

Runaway Love Story
  • Author(s): Sadira Stone
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She hates average…he’s as average as they come. High school history teacher Doug Garvey is trying to enjoy his last few weeks of summer vacation, but receiving his final divorce decree hits him harder than expected. After a brief...

Running for My Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games

Running for My Life: One Lost Boy’s Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
  • Author(s): Lopez Lomong
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come...

Running Hot

Running Hot
  • Author(s): Jayne Anne Krentz
  • Location(s): Maui
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ex-cop Luther Malone, lifelong member of the secretive paranormal organization known as the Arcane Society, is waiting to meet Grace Renquist. Hired as an aura-reading consultant in the quest for a murder suspect, she’s got zero field experience. She’s...

Running in the Family

Running in the Family
  • Author(s): Michael Ondaatje
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never...

Running Into Trouble

Running Into Trouble
  • Author(s): Elle Spellman
  • Location(s): Bristol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With little over twelve weeks until race day, three women are trying their hardest to focus on their ultimate goal – to run 26.2 miles. For Hannah, it seems near impossible, her first attempt leaving her pained, sweaty and...

Running Mother and Other Stories

Running Mother and Other Stories
  • Author(s): Guo Songfen
  • Location(s): Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Guo Songfen’s short stories are masterful psychological portraits that play with the echoes of history and the nature of identity. One of the few modernists to truly capture the fallout from such events as the February 28th Incident and...

Running on the Roof of the World

Running on the Roof of the World
  • Author(s): Jess Butterworth
  • Location(s): The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

Join 12-year-old Tash and her best friend Sam in a story of adventure, survival and hope, set in the vivid Himalayan landscape of Tibet and India. Filled with friendship, love and courage, this young girl’s thrilling journey to save...

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