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Sofa Surfer

Sofa Surfer
  • Author(s): Malcolm Duffy
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

15-year-old Tyler’s teenage angst turns to outright rebellion when his family leave London for a new life in Yorkshire. He’s angry with his parents about the upheaval and furious at losing his home. With only the dog to confide...

Sofie Metropolis

Sofie Metropolis
  • Author(s): Tori Carrington
  • Location(s): Queens, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

On her wedding day, right before the ceremony, right there in the Greek Orthodox church, Sofie Metropolis discovered her groom and her maid of honor in each other’s arms. Sofie took this as a sign, and since then, she’s...

Soil

Soil
  • Author(s): Jamie Kornegay
  • Location(s): Cameroon, Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): Modern

An idealistic environmental scientist moves his wife and young son off the grid, to a stretch of river bottom farmland in the Mississippi hills, hoping to position himself at the forefront of a revolution in agriculture. Within a year,...

Sojourn

Sojourn
  • Author(s): Amit Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An unnamed man arrives in Berlin as a visiting professor. It is a place fused with Western history and cultural fracture lines. He moves along its streets and pavements; through its department stores, museums and restaurants. He befriends Faqrul,...

Sola: One Woman’s Journey Alone Across South America

Sola: One Woman’s Journey Alone Across South America
  • Author(s): Amy Field
  • Location(s): South America
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SOLA chronicles the true story of a young woman’s plunge from her pleasant narrow life into a rich foreign continent brimming with Panpipe-playing Zen masters, nighttime motorboat rides redlining through the jungle, hikes to Inca ruins and Patagonian glaciers,...

Solace

Solace
  • Author(s): Belinda McKeon
  • Location(s): County Longford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mark Casey did not expect to fall in love. But from the minute he saw Joanne Lynch across the garden of a Dublin pub, it seemed that nothing else was possible. But Mark is also drawn back – guiltily...

Solar

Solar
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in...

Solar Bones

Solar Bones
  • Author(s): Mike McCormack
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer’s mind how things are constructed – bridges, banking systems, marriages –...

Solar Flare (Dr. Dan Trix Mystery Series 7)

Solar Flare (Dr. Dan Trix Mystery Series 7)
  • Author(s): Rodney Romig
  • Location(s): Germany, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Current

Dr. Dan Trix is considered for the presidency of a prestigious university in Berlin− until he is charged with sexual abuse of a board member. Elaine Newman’s foundation sponsors a seminar to recognize the philanthropy of a local company....

Soldier Boy

Soldier Boy
  • Author(s): Keely Hutton
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1989

It was just a nightmare. All Ricky needed to do was wake up. Just open his eyes. And Kony’s red-eyed beasts with their long claws dripping blood and their fiery breath would have disappeared. His brother would be beside...

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