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Sleepwalker

Sleepwalker
  • Author(s): Karen Robards
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

It’s not that Micayla Lange is afraid of the clinking she hears coming from the first floor of the empty McMansion she’s housesitting for her uncle Nicco. She’s a cop, after all. It’s just that finding out her boyfriend...

Sleepwalking Land

Sleepwalking Land
  • Author(s): Mia Couto
  • Location(s): Mozambique
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An old man and a young boy, refugees from a civil war, seek shelter in a burnt out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they discover a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the...

Sleuth on Safari

Sleuth on Safari
  • Author(s): A R Kennedy
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A bargain deal on a safari + one dead body = An adventure no one could plan for. Naomi and her estranged sister are off on a trip of a lifetime—an African safari, a bucket list trip for Naomi...

Slightly Sinful

Slightly Sinful
  • Author(s): Mary Balogh
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW1

Meet the Bedwyns–six brothers and sisters–men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality….Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle...

Slough House

Slough House
  • Author(s): Mick Herron
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘A gripping thriller’ Ian Rankin Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ‘slow horses’, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses...

Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones

Slow Dancing on Dinosaur Bones
  • Author(s): Lana Witt
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When wayward Californian Tom Jetts rolls his broken-down car into remote Pick, Kentucky, he finds himself in a town among friends, enemies, and lovers who are playing out tales as old as the prehistoric soil beneath their feet. And...

Slow Days, Fast Company

Slow Days, Fast Company
  • Author(s): Eve Babitz
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for...

Slow Motion

Slow Motion
  • Author(s): Jennifer Pierce
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Present day

Westview belongs on a postcard. Quaint, picture-perfect, a tiny New England town steeped in history and traditions. Angela has always been everything people in Westview want her to be. She’s supposed to be happy there, but she’s starting to...

Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe

Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe
  • Author(s): Tom Chesshyre
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of...

Slow Travels in Unsung Spain

Slow Travels in Unsung Spain
  • Author(s): Brett Hetherington
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary (Late 2010s)

This is a warts n’ all trip through some of Spain’s hidden gems: towns, cities, landscapes and cultural highlights that are typically overlooked by foreign tourists but which the Spanish often keep to themselves. Against a backdrop of strikes...

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