The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century
The adventure of the devil’s foot by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in Cornwall one spring , but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Another classic adventure from Sherlock holmes, a great...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Adventure, Glossary
- Era(s): Modern
Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of...
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll
- Location(s): Peru
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 2000s
Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships...
- Location(s): Argentina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Later 19th Century
1872. The pampas of Argentina. China is a young woman eking out an existence in a remote gaucho encampment. After her no-good husband is conscripted into the army, China bolts for freedom, setting off on a wagon journey through...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th Century
Rather than be ‘sivilized’ by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn – the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk – sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on...
The Adventures of Phatty & Payaso
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Children
Phatty the cat loves nothing more than spending his days balanced atop his favorite chair gazing out his windows at Central Park below. Everything is simply fan-tabby-lous until one day when the meanest hawk in the park lands on...
- Location(s): Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The classic story of social justice and outrageous cunning. Robin Hood, champion of the poor and oppressed, stands against the cruel power of Prince John and the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham. Taking refuge in the vast Sherwood Forest with...
The Adventures of Roobie & Radley and The Christmas campervan Rescue
- Location(s): West Highlands
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern day set in West Highlands of Scotland
It’s almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters. Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1997
March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy – or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major...
- Location(s): Afghanistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In her international bestseller The Bookseller of Kabul, award-winning journalist Åsne Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is back in power, and Seierstad...
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