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Dark Road to Darjeeling

Dark Road to Darjeeling
  • Author(s): Deanna Raybourn
  • Location(s): Darjeeling, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

No 4 in the Lady Julia Grey series. The honeymoon of Lady Julia Grey and investigator Nicholas Brisbane is interrupted by the arrival of Julia’s sister, Portia, and brother, Plum. Jane, Portia’s former lover is in India, preganant and...

Dark Star Safari

Dark Star Safari
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Travelling across bush and desert, down rivers and across lakes, and through country after country, Theroux visits some of the most beautiful landscapes on earth, and some of the most dangerous. It is a journey of discovery and of...

Das Ewige Leben

Das Ewige Leben
  • Author(s): Wolf Haas
  • Location(s): Graz
  • Genre(s): Thriller

In the Sigmund Freud Clinic there is great uproar…a patient has awoken from a coma. This is Simon Brenner, private detective. The psychiatrists diagnose acute depression caused by his return to his home town Graz. On Shrove Tuesday he...

Daughter of Fortune

Daughter of Fortune
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): California, Chile
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...

Daughter of Siena

Daughter of Siena
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s

The Palio: Siena’s famously dangerous and hard-fought horse race. A year of planning, ten riders, three circuits of the piazza – and all over in a single moment. But this year, for two of the women watching, far more...

Daughter of Smoke and Bone

Daughter of Smoke and Bone
  • Author(s): Laini Taylor
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

The note was on vellum, pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. ‘He never says please’, she sighed, but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called, she always came. In general,...

Daughters of Arabia

Daughters of Arabia
  • Author(s): Jean Sasson
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Era(s): Modern

Readers of Princess Sultana’s extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women’s lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. They were every bit as fascinated by the sequel, Daughters of Arabia. Here,...

Daughters of Iraq

Daughters of Iraq
  • Author(s): Revital Shiri-Horowitz
  • Location(s): Baghdad, Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Daughters of Iraq” is the compelling story of three women from the same family. It is the story of emigration from Iraq to Israel in the early 1950’s as experienced by two sisters: Violet, whom we learn about through...

Daughters of Jerusalem

Daughters of Jerusalem
  • Author(s): Charlotte Mendelson
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind a crumbling facade of seeming normality, secrets begin to stir within the Lux family home. Jean Lux, constrained academic wife and guilty mother, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source. Meanwhile Eve,...

Daughters of the Nile

Daughters of the Nile
  • Author(s): Staphanie Dray
  • Location(s): Egypt, North Africa
  • Era(s): 1st Century BC

Daughters of the Nile is the final volume in Dray’s trilogy about Cleopatra’s daughter, Cleopatra Selene.

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