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The Crab-Flower Club

The Crab-Flower Club
  • Author(s): Cao Xueqin
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Ancient

“The Story of the Stone” (c. 1760), also known as “The Dream of the Red Chamber”, is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao Xueqin’s magnificent saga, “The Dreamer Awakes”, was carefully edited...

The Cracked Spine

The Cracked Spine
  • Author(s): Paige Shelton
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

No. 1 in the series Wanted: A bold adventurer who wants to travel the world from a comfortable and safe spot behind a desk that has seen the likes of kings and queens, paupers and princes. A humble book...

The Crag

The Crag
  • Author(s): Claire Sutherland
  • Location(s): The Wimmera
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will the mountain give up its secrets? While walking on an isolated track in the windswept Wimmera, rock-climber Skye discovers the body of a young woman. The body has injuries that suggest a rock-climbing accident, but it’s been found...

The Crane

The Crane
  • Author(s): Halim Barakat
  • Location(s): Syria, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s / 1960s

In The Crane, the renowned Syro-Lebanese author Halim Barakat creates a narrator who looks back wistfully on a childhood in a small village of Syria, then travels to the United States, and, with his wife, goes through the experiences...

The Cranes Dance

The Cranes Dance
  • Author(s): Meg Howrey
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship...

The Crash

The Crash
  • Author(s): Freida McFadden
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed… Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with...

The Crazed

The Crazed
  • Author(s): Ha Jin
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan – who is also engaged to Yang’s daughter – to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor...

The Cretan Runner

The Cretan Runner
  • Author(s): George Psychoundakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. It was not...

The Crete Connection

The Crete Connection
  • Author(s): John Manuel
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern / 20 years ago

In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure...

The Cricket in Times Square

The Cricket in Times Square
  • Author(s): George Selden
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One night, the sounds of New York City–the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices–is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of...

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