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The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set
  • Author(s): Mary S Lovell
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French...

The Road from Belhaven

The Road from Belhaven
  • Author(s): Margot Livesey
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 19th century

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland Growing up in the care of her...

The Road From Elephant Pass

The Road From Elephant Pass
  • Author(s): Nihal de Silva
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Brand new 14th edition direct from publisher in Sri Lanka. now a major motion picture. The exciting story of an Army captain who has to escort a Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) female terrorist across hostile territory dangerous...

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 1)

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 1)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Generally modern

The Road Less Taken (Book 1) is a Collection of Unusual Short Stories . . . Theodore Jerome Cohen’s first serious attempt to write a short story for publication was in 1962 while he was working in Antarctica. The...

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 2)

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 2)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern (including WWII)

Theodore Jerome Cohen’s first collection of unusual short stories met with such an unqualified success that he was persuaded to prepare a second set of equally enjoyable stories about the adventure we call “life.” This book continues his penchant...

The Road to Cromer Pier

The Road to Cromer Pier
  • Author(s): Martin Gore
  • Location(s): Cromer, Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 to current

Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after thirty years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run...

The Road to Dalton

The Road to Dalton
  • Author(s): Shannon Bowring
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves the community reeling. In the aftermath, their problems, both small and large, reveal a deeper understanding of...

The Road to Jerusalem

The Road to Jerusalem
  • Author(s): Jan Guillou, Anna Paterson (translator)
  • Location(s): Varnhem, Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, In Translation
  • Era(s): 12th century

The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an aristocratic Swedish family. THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM covers his childhood and education at the Cistercian monastry of Varnhem. There he is taught the...

The Road To Lichfield

The Road To Lichfield
  • Author(s): Penelope Lively
  • Location(s): Lichfield
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father’s house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love...

The Road to the Country

The Road to the Country
  • Author(s): Chigozie Obioma
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Epistolary, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

At first the vision is grainy―like something seen through wet glass. But slowly it clears, and there appears the figure of a man. When a country is plunged into civil war, two brothers on either side of it are...

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