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Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler

Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
  • Author(s): Sinclair McKay
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In the crucible of the Second World War, Saint Petersburg – then known as Leningrad – stands as a testament to human endurance. As the Nazis encircle the city, intent on annihilating its 1.5 million inhabitants, the narrative plunges...

Saint X

Saint X
  • Author(s): Alexis Schaltkin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister Alison vanishes from the luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X on the last night of her family’s vacation. Several days later Alison’s body is found in...

Saints and Sinners

Saints and Sinners
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited...

Saints at the River

Saints at the River
  • Author(s): Ron Rash
  • Location(s): South Carolina, Tamassee
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When a twelve-year-old girl drowns in the Tamassee River and her body is trapped in a deep eddy, the people of the small South Carolina town that bears the river’s name are thrown into the national spotlight. The girl’s...

Saints of the Shadow Bible

Saints of the Shadow Bible
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Rebus is back on the force, albeit with a demotion and a chip on his shoulder. A 30-year-old case is being reopened, and Rebus’s team from back then is suspected of foul play. With Malcolm Fox as the investigating...

Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam

Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam
  • Author(s): Diane Stanley
  • Location(s): Iraq
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th century

Forty years before the boy was born, a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians thundered out of the west and conquered his native land. They had succeeded because his people, ever at war with one another, had not fought together to...

Salamanca

Salamanca
  • Author(s): Dean Francis Alfar
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Dean Alfar’s first novel is about the sorcery wrought by love, lust, and literature, by friendship, family, and the Filipino nation. Salamanca streaks across decades and spaces, tracking the stormy relationship between polymorphous-perverse Gaudencio Rivera, whose passions ignite prodigious...

Salem Falls

Salem Falls
  • Author(s): Jodi Picoult
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tall and handsome, Jack St. Bride has everything going for him, until a string of lies resulting from a student’s crush leaves his reputation in tatters and forces him to leave his hometown. Arriving in the town of Salem...

Salem’s Lot

Salem’s Lot
  • Author(s): Stephen King
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Salem’s Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings – but not more than in any other town its size. Ben...

Salep and Ginger

Salep and Ginger
  • Author(s): Jane Gundogan
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A heartwarming, romantic comedy in the style of Notting Hill and Sleepless in Seattle. Ginger Knox thought she was living her best rom-com life. She had the job, the apartment in Notting Hill (adjacent), and an honest to God...

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