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Standing Alone

Standing Alone
  • Author(s): Asra Nomani
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2003

As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage...

Standing in Another Man’s Grave

Standing in Another Man’s Grave
  • Author(s): Ian Rankin
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A series of seemingly random disappearances – stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back… It’s been some time since Rebus was forced to retire,...

Standing in the Light

Standing in the Light
  • Author(s): Mary Pope Osborne
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1763

Catharine Carey Logan and her family have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life as the Quakers and Delaware Indians share a mutually trusting relationship. Recently, however, this friendship has been threatened by violence against the Indians. Then, Catharine and...

Standoff

Standoff
  • Author(s): Sandra Brown
  • Location(s): New Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A fearless reporter trapped in a volatile siege, two young lovers turned fugitive and a hold up that transforms a small desert town into a powder keg . . . TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico...

Stanley and Elsie

Stanley and Elsie
  • Author(s): Nicola Upson
  • Location(s): Burghclere
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all...

Star Gazing

Star Gazing
  • Author(s): Linda Gillard
  • Location(s): Edinburgh, Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne’s passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love...

Star Stories: Constellation Tales from Around the World

Star Stories: Constellation Tales from Around the World
  • Author(s): Anita Ganeri, Andy Wilx (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Share the wonder of the stars with this delightful storybook collection featuring constellation myths from around the world. For thousands of years people have looked up to the night sky and told stories about the stars. These epic tales...

Star Sullivan

Star Sullivan
  • Author(s): Maeve Binchy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern Era

‘She is the Queen of Fiction and one of the funniest and best-loved storytellers in the world . . . once you read Maeve you are hooked for life’ IRISH TIMES ‘Maeve Binchy’s work continues to inspire … thought-provoking,...

Stardust

Stardust
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1945

Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier returns from war to the news that his filmmaker brother Daniel has died in mysterious circumstances — the papers say it was an accident, but others suspect suicide. Daniel was a heroic figure who helped...

Starling Days

Starling Days
  • Author(s): Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she’s not about to jump but they don’t believe her. Her husband, Oscar is called to...

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