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The Star of Algiers

The Star of Algiers
  • Author(s): Aziz Chouaki
  • Location(s): Algiers
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

The Star of Kazan

The Star of Kazan
  • Author(s): Eva Ibbotson
  • Location(s): Austria
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1896

In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants’ quarters of a house belonging to three...

The Star of Simbako

The Star of Simbako
  • Author(s): P J Skinner
  • Location(s): Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 1990s

A missing diamond. A civil war mystery. Can a courageous geologist use her skills to unravel the truth? Nursing a broken heart, geologist Sam Harris goes to Simbako in West Africa to work in the diamond fields of Fona....

The Star Side of Bird Hill

The Star Side of Bird Hill
  • Author(s): Naomi Jackson
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

This lyrical novel of community, betrayal and love centres on an unforgettable matriarchal family in Barbados. Two sisters, ages ten and sixteen, are exiled from their US home in Brooklyn and sent to Bird Hill in Barbados after their...

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
  • Author(s): Lori Nelson Spielman
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Ravello, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter has found lasting love. Some, like second-born Emilia, the happily-single baker at her grandfather’s Brooklyn deli, claim...

The Stargazers

The Stargazers
  • Author(s): Harriet Evans
  • Location(s): Hampstead, West Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1950s/1970s

It’s the 1970s, and Sarah has spent a lifetime trying to bury memories of her childhood: the constant fear, the horror of her school days, and Fane, the vast, crumbling house that was the sole obsession of her mother,...

The Stark Beauty of Last Things: A Novel

The Stark Beauty of Last Things: A Novel
  • Author(s): Celine Keating
  • Location(s): Montauk
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Stark Beauty of Last Things is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area under looming threat from a warming climate and overdevelopment. Now outsider Clancy, a thirty-six-year-old claims adjuster scarred by his orphan...

The Starless Sea

The Starless Sea
  • Author(s): Erin Morgenstern
  • Location(s): Underworld
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners,...

The Starlings of Bucharest

The Starlings of Bucharest
  • Author(s): Sarah Armstrong
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Spy
  • Era(s): 1970s

(The Moscow Wolves Series Book 2) The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves. Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when...

The Start of Me and You

The Start of Me and You
  • Author(s): Emery Lord
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s been a year since it happened—when Paige Hancock’s first boyfriend died in an accident. After shutting out the world for two years, Paige is finally ready for a second chance at high school . . . and she...

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