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Say Hello to My Little Friend

Say Hello to My Little Friend
  • Author(s): Jennine Capó Crucet
  • Location(s): Miami
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy – a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic. Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes – you...

Say You’ll Remember Me

Say You’ll Remember Me
  • Author(s): Abby Jimenez
  • Location(s): California, Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The perfect guy. The perfect date. Utterly disastrous timing. There might be no such thing as the perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes – all while cuddling a tiny kitten?...

Say You’re One Of Them

Say You’re One Of Them
  • Author(s): Uwem Akpan
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Nothing interests Maman today, not even Jean, her favorite child … She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children have fed sorghum beer.’ These extraordinary stories centre on African conflicts as seen through the eyes of...

SBS: Special Boat Squadron

SBS: Special Boat Squadron
  • Author(s): Iain Gale
  • Location(s): Rhodes, Crete, Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): World War II

A historical adventure chronicling the exploits of the Special Boat Squadron, the seaborne raiders who, by strength and guile, carried out World War Two’s most daring covert operations. From this moment on, you and your men, you don’t exist....

Scalping the Red Rocks

Scalping the Red Rocks
  • Author(s): Greg Lilly
  • Location(s): Sedona AZ
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Something’s askew in the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. The town’s inhabitants are divided by urban growth. Some entrepreneurs try to make a quick buck by selling out the very aspect of the town that drew them: the awe-inspiring...

Scandalous Alchemy

Scandalous Alchemy
  • Author(s): Katy Moran
  • Location(s): Fontainebleau
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Regency

Fontainebleau in 1825 is a glittering international court, rich with intrigue, passion and simmering violence. Lieutenant Colonel Kit Helford must navigate these treacherous waters to deliver the beautiful, self-destructive Princess Royal to her prospective husband. Kit’s childhood friend, Clemency...

Scandalous Lady

Scandalous Lady
  • Author(s): Beth Elliott
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1811

Turkey, 1811 All in the name of love… Before Richard Hartford left their family estate for Turkey to fulfill his lifelong dream of exporing antiquities, he sent his sister Olivia to London for the season, hoping she would find...

Scarborough

Scarborough
  • Author(s): Catherine Hernandez
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary 

Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America; like many inner city communities, it suffers under the weight of poverty, drugs, crime, and urban blight. Scarborough the novel employs a...

Scared to Death

Scared to Death
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Kent, Maidstone
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery, Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Detective Kay Hunter Book 1) When the body of a snatched schoolgirl is found in an abandoned biosciences building, the case is first treated as a kidnapping gone wrong. But Detective Kay Hunter isn’t convinced, especially when a man...

Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis
  • Author(s): Gill Lewis
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Red asks, ‘Will we always be together?’ ‘Always,’ I say. ‘Just you and me in that little boat, watching the scarlet ibis flying back to the Caroni Swamp.’ Scarlet’s used to looking after her brother, Red. He’s special –...

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