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Storm Child

Storm Child
  • Author(s): Michael Robotham
  • Location(s): Lincolnshire
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The storm is coming… The most painful of Evie Cormac’s memories have been locked away, ever since she was held prisoner as a child – a child whose rescue captured hearts and headlines. Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven’s mission is...

Storm in a D Cup

Storm in a D Cup
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Erica Cantelli thought her days of having to fight for her relationship were over but a storm is brewing… Storm in a D Cup is the third hilarious and incredibly uplifting book in The Husband Diet series following The...

Storming Heaven

Storming Heaven
  • Author(s): Denise Giardina
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1921

Annadel, West Virginia, was a small town rich in coal, farms, and close-knit families, all destroyed when the coal company came in. It stole everything it hadn’t bothered to buy — land deeds, private homes, and ultimately, the souls...

Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front: Fighting with Hitler’s Latvian SS

Stormtrooper on the Eastern Front: Fighting with Hitler’s Latvian SS
  • Author(s): Mintauts Blosfelds
  • Location(s): Latvia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

Following the conquest of his native Latvia by the Nazis, the author was given the stark choice: service in the SS or forced labour in a slave camp. So he ‘volunteered’ to fight for the Nazis. He describes his...

Stormy, Misty’s Foal

Stormy, Misty’s Foal
  • Author(s): Marguerite Henry
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

A raging storm slashes across. Water is everywhere The wild ponies and the people must battle for their lives. In the midst of the storm, Misty-the famous mare of Chincoteague-is about to give birth. Paul and Maureen are frantic...

Stowaways

Stowaways
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Maybe we love people because they won’t let us know them.’ A summer’s evening in Manhattan. Nothing – not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore – can undo the heat’s...

Straight Man

Straight Man
  • Author(s): Richard Russo
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1990s

In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo’s protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust...

Stranded in the Seychelles

Stranded in the Seychelles
  • Author(s): Bev Spicer
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Present

Bev and Carol are back and looking for a new adventure! This time, they fly off to the Seychelles to teach students of the National Youth Service. They are provided with a beautiful house on Mahé and commute to...

Strange as This Weather Has Been

Strange as This Weather Has Been
  • Author(s): Ann Pancake
  • Location(s): West Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Set in present day West Virginia, Ann Pancake’s debut novel, Strange As This Weather Has Been, tells the story of a coal mining family— a couple and their four children— living through the latest mining boom and dealing with...

Strange Bedpersons

Strange Bedpersons
  • Author(s): Jennifer Crusie
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Tess Newhart knows her ex-boyfriend Nick Jamieson isn’t the right guy for her. He’s caviar and champagne; she’s takeout Chinese pot stickers. He’s an uptight Republican lawyer; she was raised in a commune. He wants to get ahead in...

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