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The Cabin Faced West

The Cabin Faced West
  • Author(s): Jean Fritz
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Ann Hamilton’s family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton Hill, and life is hard. But when the Hamiltons survive a terrible...

The Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods
  • Author(s): Sarah Alderson
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a cabin in a wood, A woman by the window stood. Glancing out, she thought she heard Footsteps, whistling, something stirred. Hiding here, she fears the night, For what’s done in the dark will come to light. She...

The Cactus

The Cactus
  • Author(s): Sarah Haywood
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

People aren’t sure what to make of Susan Green. Family and colleagues find her prickly and hard to understand – but Susan makes perfect sense to herself. Age 45, she thinks her life is perfect. She has a London...

The Cafe de Move-on Blues

The Cafe de Move-on Blues
  • Author(s): Christopher Hope
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

In White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up in a country gripped by an ‘absurd, racist insanity’. On a road trip thirty years later, Hope goes in search of today’s South Africa;...

The Café on Manor Lane

The Café on Manor Lane
  • Author(s): Amelia Kyazze
  • Location(s): South London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1970s and2011

The Café on Manor Lane A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria,...

The Caged Graves

The Caged Graves
  • Author(s): Dianne K Salerni
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1867

17-year-old Verity Boone expects a warm homecoming when she returns to Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867, pledged to marry a man she has never met. Instead, she finds a father she barely knows and a future husband with whom she...

The Caiman of Iquitos

The Caiman of Iquitos
  • Author(s): Bayard and Holmes
  • Location(s): Peru, Japan
  • Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

In a chilling continuation of their Apex Predator novels, Bayard & Holmes compel us into the darkest corners of the Shadow World. A world where billionaires are not subject to governments and assassins, rogue nations, and terrorists are their...

The Cairo Brief

The Cairo Brief
  • Author(s): Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920

Intrepid reporter sleuth Poppy Denby is invited to attend the auction of the Death Mask of Nefertiti. The auction is to be held on the country estate of Sir James Maddox, a famous explorer and Egyptologist. Representatives of the...

The Calamity Club

The Calamity Club
  • Author(s): Kathryn Stockett
  • Location(s): Oxford MS
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Oxford, Mississippi, 1933. Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one. Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the ‘unadoptable’ girls at the town’s orphanage,...

The Calgary Chessman

The Calgary Chessman
  • Author(s): Yvonne Marjot
  • Location(s): Scotland, New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cas Longmore lives on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, a long way away from her home in New Zealand. She finds a mysterious object hidden in the sand at Calgary Bay and her search to find out more...

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