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The Seven Madmen

The Seven Madmen
  • Author(s): Roberto Arlt
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Remo Erdosain’s Buenos Aires is a dim, seething, paranoid hive of hustlers and whores, scoundrels and madmen, and Erdosain feels his soul is as polluted as anything in this dingy city. Possessed by the directionlessness of the society around...

The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig

The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig
  • Author(s): Don Zolidis
  • Location(s): Wisconsin, Janesville
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): 1994

Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God) 1994 The worst thing that’s ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should’ve gotten together. Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing...

The Seventh Passenger

The Seventh Passenger
  • Author(s): Angie Rowe
  • Location(s): China, London, The Atlantic Ocean
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): 1912

When the Titanic sinks it takes with it the crime scene, the witnesses and possibly the murderer. The Titanic’s last stop is at Queenstown, Ireland, where seven first-class passengers disembark. Soon after continuing its voyage, the body of a...

The Seventh Sacrament

The Seventh Sacrament
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Murder and mystery set in Rome, The Seventh Sacrament is the fifth title in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s stunning Italian crime novels.

The Seventh Sinner

The Seventh Sinner
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Peters
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

The Seventh Son

The Seventh Son
  • Author(s): Sebastian Faulks
  • Location(s): London, New York City (NYC), Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young American academic Talissa Adam offers to carry another woman’s child, she has no idea of the life-changing consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire...

The Seventh Veil of Salome

The Seventh Veil of Salome
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century (Golden Age)

Golden Age Hollywood – a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary temptress. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an...

The Seville Communion

The Seville Communion
  • Author(s): Arturo Peréz-Reverte, Sonia Soto (Translator)
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope’s personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened...

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris

The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris
  • Author(s): Leila Marouane
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The protagonist is a handsome, wealthy Parisian bank manager. Born in the Maghreb, his life was once devoted to Sundays with his mother, family reunions, pious sobriety and fervant Islamism. But he’s through with all that. The time has...

The Shaanxi Opera

The Shaanxi Opera
  • Author(s): Jia Pingwa, Dylan Levi King (trasnalator), Nicky Harman (translator)
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From one of China’s most celebrated authors comes a masterful novel about modernity and tradition, love and obsession, and economic change and quixotic dreams—all set against the backdrop of a rapidly urbanizing China. In post–Cultural Revolution China, in the...

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