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The Cranes Dance

The Cranes Dance
  • Author(s): Meg Howrey
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

So begins the tale of Kate Crane, a soloist in a celebrated New York City ballet company who is struggling to keep her place in a very demanding world. At every turn she is haunted by her close relationship...

The Crash

The Crash
  • Author(s): Freida McFadden
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed… Tegan is eight months pregnant, alone, and desperately wants to put her crumbling life in the rearview mirror. So she hits the road, planning to stay with...

The Crazed

The Crazed
  • Author(s): Ha Jin
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Professor Yang, a respected teacher of literature, has had a stroke and it falls to Jian Wan – who is also engaged to Yang’s daughter – to care for him. It initially seems a simple duty until the professor...

The Cretan Runner

The Cretan Runner
  • Author(s): George Psychoundakis
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2

George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. It was not...

The Crete Connection

The Crete Connection
  • Author(s): John Manuel
  • Location(s): Crete
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern / 20 years ago

In rural Wiltshire, England, a six month-old baby disappears from a stroller while its mother is inside a store for just two minutes. A young Englishman begins a summer of adventure on the Greek island of Crete. By pure...

The Cricket in Times Square

The Cricket in Times Square
  • Author(s): George Selden
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One night, the sounds of New York City–the rumbling of subway trains, thrumming of automobile tires, hooting of horns, howling of brakes, and the babbling of voices–is interrupted by a sound that even Tucker Mouse, a jaded inhabitant of...

The Crime of Father Amaro

The Crime of Father Amaro
  • Author(s): Eca de Queiroz
  • Location(s): Portugal
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Father Amaro sours for ever the life of the young AmeliaSet in Leira, Portugal in the 1870s, follows the love affair of young Father Amaro with nubile Am elia, and their interactions with Am elia’s mother, her atheist suitor,...

The Crime Writer

The Crime Writer
  • Author(s): Jill Dawson
  • Location(s): Earl Soham
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk, to concentrate on her writing and escape her fans. She has another motive too – a secret romance with a married lover based...

THE CRIMSON HARVEST

THE CRIMSON HARVEST
  • Author(s): Cheryl Rees-Price
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A rural Welsh community is beset by a series of cruel murders… Putting his wedding plans on hold, Detective Winter Meadows resolves to unmask the serial killer on his patch. The only connection between the victims is the stick...

The Crimson Shamrock

The Crimson Shamrock
  • Author(s): Michael Hughes
  • Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul, San Francisco, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Humour, Suspense
  • Era(s): 2014

Young underemployed man in the East San Francisco Bay gets hired by mysterious tech company. Hilarity ensues. A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb- sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck...

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