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The Collectors

The Collectors
  • Author(s): Megan Easley-Walsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Historical
  • Era(s): Victorian

From the best-selling author, an all new historical mystery! Inheriting a secret was just the beginning… In London in 1872, Amelia Borchardt inherits a seat among a secret society. They call themselves “The Collectors”. For centuries, they have kept...

The Collector’s Daughter

The Collector’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): Luxor, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s / 1970s

An unforgettable discovery In 1922, Lady Evelyn Herbert’s dreams are realised when she is the first to set foot inside the lost tomb of Tutankhamun for over 3,000 years. A cursed life But the months after the discovery are...

The Colletta Cassettes

The Colletta Cassettes
  • Author(s): Bruno Noble
  • Location(s): Liguria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Espionage, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1978

It’s the 1978 World Cup. 16-year old Sebastian hopes to meet a girl on a family holiday in Italy; reporter Peter Kentish to interview Bravo, ex-CIA, on the CIA’s complicity with the Mafia. Colletta is a beautiful medieval village....

The Colonel and the Eunuch

The Colonel and the Eunuch
  • Author(s): Dylan Levi King (Translator), Mai Jia
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 4 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero: a literary masterpiece, available in the English language for the very first time. The boy grows up in...

The Colonel’s Lady

The Colonel’s Lady
  • Author(s): Laura Frantz
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1779

In 1779, when genteel Virginia spinster Roxanna Rowan arrives at the Kentucky fort commanded by Colonel Cassius McLinn, she finds that her officer father has died. Penniless and destitute, Roxanna is forced to take her father’s place as scrivener....

The Colony

The Colony
  • Author(s): Audrey Magee
  • Location(s): County Kerry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mr Lloyd has decided to travel to the island by boat without engine – the authentic experience. Unbeknownst to him, Mr Masson will also soon be arriving for the summer. Both will strive to encapsulate the truth of this...

The Colony

The Colony
  • Author(s): Christiana Spens
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Dystopian, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary/future

Lena, a photographer, takes up an offer to escape to a friend’s retreat on a remote Scottish island, where she meets like-minded new friends. But as birds start washing up on the beaches, and the spiritual teachings of the...

The Color of a Lion’s Eye: Memories of Africa

The Color of a Lion’s Eye: Memories of Africa
  • Author(s): Jane F. Bonin
  • Location(s): Niger, Malawi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

These twenty-four vignettes about a woman’s sojourn as a Peace Corps worker in Malawi and Niger, Africa place the author among the best writers of contemporary travel literature. With heightened awareness of her surroundings, including a description of a...

The Color of Air

The Color of Air
  • Author(s): Gail Tsukiyama
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1935

Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai’i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with...

The Color of Heaven

The Color of Heaven
  • Author(s): Julianne MacLean
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A deeply emotional tale about Sophie Duncan, a successful columnist whose world falls apart after her daughter’s unexpected illness and her husband’s shocking affair. When it seems nothing else could possibly go wrong, her car skids off an icy...

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