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The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom

The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest for Ancient Wisdom
  • Author(s): Paulo Coelho
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The 25th anniversary edition of The Pilgrimage, the precursor to The Alchemist. In this gripping story, Paulo Coelho is on a quest for the ultimate in self-knowledge, wisdom and spiritual mastery. Guided by his mysterious companion Petrus, he takes...

The Pillar of Salt

The Pillar of Salt
  • Author(s): Albert Memmi
  • Location(s): Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): World War II

Originally published in 1953 (in English in 1955), The Pillar of Salt the semi-autobiographical novel about a young boy growing up in French colonized Tunisia. To gain access to privileged French society, he must reject his many identities –...

The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth
  • Author(s): Ken Follett
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

The Kingsbridge Novels Book 1 A Mason with a Dream It is 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can...

The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book
  • Author(s): Sei Shōnagon, Arthur Waley (Translator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 10th Century

Japan in the 10th century stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Inside this bubble, a subtle and beautiful world was in operation, and its inhabitants were tied to the moment, having no interest in...

The Pilot’s Daughter

The Pilot’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Audrey J Cole
  • Location(s): Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporar

Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu. Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago. A thousand times she has told herself to...

The Pink Elephants

The Pink Elephants
  • Author(s): P J Skinner
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 1990's

Problems are mounting in the Masaibu project – Can Sam Harris solve them all or will she have to choose? Geologist Sam Harris gets a call in the middle of the night that takes her to the Masaibu project...

THE PIPER’S CHILDREN

THE PIPER’S CHILDREN
  • Author(s): Iain Henn
  • Location(s): Seattle
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A baffling mystery sets an FBI agent on a dangerous path… Park rangers are puzzled when a child is found wandering alone in the middle of a forest near Seattle. Stranger still, he speaks a peculiar language that sounds...

The Piper’s Lament

The Piper’s Lament
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Pakistan, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this explosive thriller, Ridge Walker is plunged into an exotic world, 4000 miles away in the humid hills of Northern Pakistan. During his daring quest to rescue a friend he is held captive by merciless terrorists and with...

The Piper’s Promise

The Piper’s Promise
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When his best friend Thad is arrested for a series of murders he didn’t commit on the wrong side of the planet, the young Scottish adventurer, Ridge Walker, must find the real killer in order to prove his innocence....

The Piranhas

The Piranhas
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their PlayStations and patrolling the streets armed with...

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