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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...

Solea

Solea
  • Author(s): Howard Curtis (Translator), Jean-Claude Izzo
  • Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Marseilles Trilogy, 3) The third and final installment in the remarkable Marseilles Trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo), Soleacontinues Jean-Claude Izzo’s distinctive brand of vibrant crime writing, skillfully evoking a time and place that has captured the hearts and imaginations of...

Solenoid

Solenoid
  • Author(s): Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter (Translator)
  • Location(s): Romania
  • Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Based on Cărtărescu’s own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist’s life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples...

Solsbury Hill

Solsbury Hill
  • Author(s): Susan M Wyler
  • Location(s): North York Moors, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The windswept moors of England, a grand rustic estate, and a love story of one woman caught between two men who love her powerfully—all inspired by Emily Bronte’s beloved classic, Wuthering Heights. Solsbury Hill brings the legend of Catherine...

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