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Slave: My True Story

Slave: My True Story
  • Author(s): Mende Nazer
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Khartoum
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including...

Slaves in the Family

Slaves in the Family
  • Author(s): Edward Ball
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1776 - 1865

Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family’s slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls’ South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how...

Sleep

Sleep
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Inner Hebrides, Rum
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

All Anna wants is to be able to sleep. But crushing insomnia, terrifying night terrors and memories of that terrible night are making it impossible. If only she didn’t feel so guilty… To escape her past, Anna takes a...

Sleep Baby Sleep

Sleep Baby Sleep
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Annie Schrijver is just twenty-two-years-old. She works in the picturesque Albert Cuyp flower market where her father has a stall. Brimming with personality, she’s always been popular with the customers. But then she goes missing, only to be found...

Sleep Like The Dead

Sleep Like The Dead
  • Author(s): Alex Gray
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No. 8 in the Detective Lorimer Series No one rests in peace. There’s a hitman in Glasgow: unpaid and angry, he’s decided to settle his own debts… Elsewhere in the city, Marianne Brogan can’t sleep. She’s plagued by a...

Sleep No More

Sleep No More
  • Author(s): Greg Iles
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Penn Cage series explores the dangers of obsession in this gripping psychological thriller. John Waters is a successful businessman and a happy family man–but his life comes crashing down around...

Sleep Well, My Lady

Sleep Well, My Lady
  • Author(s): Kwei Quartey
  • Location(s): Ghana, Accra
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Almost a year ago Lady Araba, the head of a self-made fashion empire, was found murdered at her home in Trasacco Valley, the Beverly Hills of Accra. Her driver was arrested and continues to be held in custody, but...

Sleep Well, Siba & Saba

Sleep Well, Siba & Saba
  • Author(s): Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
  • Location(s): Uganda
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Forgetful sisters Siba and Saba are always losing something. Each night, they dream about the things they have lost that day. But one night, their dreams begin to reveal something entirely unexpected . . . .

Sleep with the Lights On

Sleep with the Lights On
  • Author(s): Maggie Shayne
  • Location(s): Binghamton
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull. Her cynicism wavers when a...

Sleeper

Sleeper
  • Author(s): J D Fennell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

Sixteen-year-old Will Starling is pulled from the sea with no memory of his past. In his blazer is a strange notebook with a bullet lodged inside it: a bullet means for him. As London prepares for the Blitz, Will...

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