- Location(s): Long Island
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
On paper, Sam’s life is on track. She has the perfect fiancé, a stable job, and has returned home to pick out a wedding venue near her family’s Long Island beach house. The last person she expects to see...
- Location(s): Bangladesh
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
A middle grade novel-in-verse about Samira, an eleven-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, who finds peace and empowerment in a local surf club for girls. Samira thinks of her life as before and after: before the burning...
Samu – Shamu: The Sonam Stories: Narratives of Childhood in Bhutan
- Location(s): Bhutan
- Genre(s): Short Stories, Travelogue
- Era(s): early 2000s
On a remote campus in the Black Mountains of the Himalayas, students at the Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Royal University of Bhutan, were asked to recall stories of their childhoods. Suzie Sims-Fletcher, their English lopen, taught them...
- Location(s): New Mexico
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1800s
Set in New Mexico in the early 1800s, “San Mateo’s Axe” tells the story of Victoria Griego y Lucero and her two friends as they struggle to find meaning in a wilderness in which men and women were married...
- Location(s): Mali
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): mid 13th-century
Sanakhou is an exciting tale revolving around historical characters in mid 13th-century Mali. From assassins and thieves, to conspiracies and murders, Sanakhou takes readers on an action-packed adventure with suspense and drama at every turn. The novel relates the...
- Location(s): Adelaide Hills
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
NO ONE CAN RUN FOREVER… Grace is a thief – a good one. But she’s always on the move, always looking over her shoulder, always alone. It’s not the life she wants. Then a run-in with an old associate...
Sandokan: The Tigers of Mompracem
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1849
Would you be the greatest pirate in the South China Sea or would you hang up your sword to be with the woman you love? Malaysia, 1849. The Tigers of Mompracem are a band of rebel pirates fighting for...
Sands of Silence: On Safari in Namibia
- Location(s): Namibia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1989
From the successor to Ruark and Hemingway comes the most lavishly illustrated, historically important safari ever captured in print. Peter Hathaway Capstick journeyed on safari through Namibia in the African spring of 1989. This was a nation on the...
- Location(s): Oman
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): early 2000s
An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. And now the search for answers is leading Lady Kara Kensington; her friend Safia al-Maaz, the gallery’s brilliant and...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Present
Raised in New York by a father whose ideas about right and wrong are highly elastic, Sandie Donovan trains as a jewelry forger, thief and con artist, while developing her talent for disguises. On the run, she returns to...
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