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The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
  • Author(s): Stephen Sturgess
  • Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...

The Dawn of Saudi

The Dawn of Saudi
  • Author(s): Homa Pouragari
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

This poignant mystery is about three people whose lives intertwine in a tale that depicts the oppression of women and the human rights abuse under the pretext of religion. Dawn Parnell made the mistake of marrying a Saudi; Sahar...

The Day I Died

The Day I Died
  • Author(s): Lori Rader-Day
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna Winger knows people better than they know themselves with only a glance—at their handwriting. Hired by companies seeking trustworthy employees and by the lovelorn hoping to find happiness, Anna likes to keep the real mess of other people’s...

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust
  • Author(s): Nathanael West
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...

The Day Of The Owl

The Day Of The Owl
  • Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

In the piazza, a man lies dead. No one will say if they witnessed his killing. This presents a challenge to the investigating officer, a man who earnestly believes in the values of a democratic and modern society. Indeed,...

The Day of the Roaring

The Day of the Roaring
  • Author(s): Nina Bhadreshwar
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Don’t miss this award winning debut crime thriller set in Sheffield introducing DI Diana Walker: A grizzly murder has Diana questioning everything she knows, and secrets come to light that threaten to to tear her world apart When the...

The Day Watch

The Day Watch
  • Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are The Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either...

The Daydreamer Detective

The Daydreamer Detective
  • Author(s): S J Petronas
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mei Yamagawa is out of luck and out of money. After five years in Tokyo, she has little to show for it besides a laundry list of unrealized dreams. Left without a choice, she returns to her rural Japanese...

The Days of Abandonment

The Days of Abandonment
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator)
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned...

The Dead American

The Dead American
  • Author(s): Jake Needham
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

They steer a tight ship in squeaky-clean Singapore. No dissent, no opposition, no criticism. It’s like an entire country run by Walt Disney. Disneyland with the death penalty, somebody once called it. A young American software engineer hangs himself...

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