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The Cheesemaker’s Daughter

The Cheesemaker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Kristin Vuković
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

In the throes of an unraveling marriage, New Yorker Marina Maržić returns to her native Croatian island where she helps her father with his struggling cheese factory, Sirana. Forced to confront her divided Croatian-American identity and her past as...

The Chelsea Girls

The Chelsea Girls
  • Author(s): Fiona Davis
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

From the dramatic redbrick facade to the sweeping staircase dripping with art, the Chelsea Hotel has long been New York City’s creative oasis for the many artists, writers, musicians, actors, filmmakers, and poets who have called it home –...

The Chessmen

The Chessmen
  • Author(s): Peter May
  • Location(s): Isle of Lewis
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

THE NEW START. Fin Macleod, now head of security on a privately owned Lewis estate, is charged with investigating a spate of illegal game-hunting taking place on the island. THE OLD FRIEND. This mission reunites him with Whistler Macaskill...

The Chessmen Thief

The Chessmen Thief
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Viking

Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his mother,...

The Chestnut Man

The Chestnut Man
  • Author(s): Soren Svelstrup
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As the leaves fall, he’s coming for you. . . One October morning in a quiet suburb, the police make a terrible discovery. A young woman is found brutally murdered with one of her hands missing. Above her hangs...

The Chestnut Roaster

The Chestnut Roaster
  • Author(s): Eve McDonnell
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1887

From the acclaimed author of Elsetime, shortlisted for the Awesome Book Award, a magical and thrilling adventure. “Starting on All Fools Day, twelve years ago, I remember everything. EVERYTHING. That was a wet Saturday, and that was the day...

The Chibineko Kitchen

The Chibineko Kitchen
  • Author(s): Catriona Anderson (Translator), Yuta Takahashi
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they’ll be expecting you. These are the directions Kotoko has been...

The Chicken Sisters

The Chicken Sisters
  • Author(s): K J Dell'Antonia
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In tiny Merinac, Kansas, Chicken Mimi’s and Chicken Frannie’s have spent a century vying to serve up the best fried chicken in the state – and the legendary feud between their respective owners, the Moores and the Pogociellos, has...

The Child

The Child
  • Author(s): Fiona Barton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers human remains, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but...

The Child in Time

The Child in Time
  • Author(s): Ian McEwan
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980s

On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning, Stephen Lewis, a well-known writer of children’s books, turns his back momentarily. When he looks around again, his child is gone. In a single moment, everything...

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