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The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
  • Author(s): William Atkins
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘For all the desert’s dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing was left. It was to aspire to the condition of sand.’ One third...

THE IMMORALIST

THE IMMORALIST
  • Author(s): Nathan Senthil
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He spent years training to kill. Now there is no stopping him. One grim morning, New York is shocked by the gruesome killing of four prominent individuals in the community. A serial killer has lined them up for a...

The Immortals of Tehran

The Immortals of Tehran
  • Author(s): Ali Araghi
  • Location(s): Iran, Tehran
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Poetry
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Torkashvand family reveres their seemingly immortal patriarch, Agha, the trunk of their widely branching, family tree. When we come to the story, Agha is so old that he spends his days sitting in the family orchard, drinking tea...

The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda

The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda
  • Author(s): Thor Hanson
  • Location(s): Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers...

The Impossible Journey

The Impossible Journey
  • Author(s): Gloria Whelan
  • Location(s): Siberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1934

In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin, in the companion story to...

The Impostor

The Impostor
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain’s leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked...

The Improbability of Love

The Improbability of Love
  • Author(s): Hannah Rothschild
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When lovelorn Annie McDee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man, she has no idea what she has discovered. Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous...

The Incomers

The Incomers
  • Author(s): Moira McPartlin
  • Location(s): West Fife
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966

Mission-raised Ellie Amadi expects to live a dream life when she and her son Nat leave home in West Africa to join her white, estate factor, husband James in the Fife mining village of Hollyburn. In 1966 Fife, mixed...

The Indelible Stain

The Indelible Stain
  • Author(s): Wendy Percival
  • Location(s): Hartland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

This is the second book in the Esme Quentin genealogy mystery series Esme Quentin’s arrival in north Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Troubled by the woman’s...

The Indian Bride

The Indian Bride
  • Author(s): Karin Fossum, Charlotte Barslund (translator)
  • Location(s): India, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...

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