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The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • Author(s): Baroness Orczy
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): French Revolution

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. The French Revolution is in full swing...

The Scenicland Radio: A Travel Adventure in Search of the New Zealand Experience

The Scenicland Radio: A Travel Adventure in Search of the New Zealand Experience
  • Author(s): Simon Michael Prior
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

When English city boy Simon follows his girlfriend across the world to her family farm in remotest New Zealand, he has no idea he’ll be force-fed a meal of beetle larva, get pushed off the road by half a...

The Scent Keeper

The Scent Keeper
  • Author(s): Erica Bauermeister
  • Location(s): British Columbia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Erica Bauermeister, the author of the February Reese’s Book Club pick The Scent Keeper, presents a moving and evocative novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of...

The Scent of Cherry Blossoms

The Scent of Cherry Blossoms
  • Author(s): Cindy Woodsmall
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Annie Martin loves the Plain ways of her Old Order Mennonite people, like those revered by her beloved grandfather. Retreating from a contentious relationship with her mother, Annie goes to live with her Daadi Moses in Apple Ridge. But...

The Scent of Empires

The Scent of Empires
  • Author(s): Karl Schlögel, Jessica Spengler (Translator)
  • Location(s): France, Russia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this...

The Scent of Lilacs

The Scent of Lilacs
  • Author(s): Ann H Gabhart
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Life-changing events rarely happen here, and when they do, they are few and far between. But for Jocie Brooke and her family, they happen all at once. Jocie has questions that need answers. As she digs into her family’s...

The Scent of the Gods

The Scent of the Gods
  • Author(s): Fiona Cheong
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The Scent of the Gods tells the enchanting, haunting story of a young girl’s coming of age in Singapore during the tumultuous years of its formation as a nation. Eleven-year-old Su Yen bears witness to the secretive lives of...

The School of Homer

The School of Homer
  • Author(s): Alexander Marriott
  • Location(s): Ithaka (Ithaca)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present

Virgil Colvin, a retired homicide detective, leaves his hometown Chicago to resurrect his honeymoon memories with his dead wife in Ithaca, Greece. There, he befriends the Vathy police chief, Costas Pantakalas, over stories of a shared profession and countless...

The Schoolhouse

The Schoolhouse
  • Author(s): Sophie Ward
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and current

‘The Schoolhouse is taut, gripping and intensely moving right until the very last page. I truly couldn’t put Sophie Ward’s beautifully written novel down’ Susannah Wise, author of This Fragile Earth Isobel lives an isolated life in North London,...

The Scientist of Berlin

The Scientist of Berlin
  • Author(s): Daniel Pembrey
  • Location(s): California, Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller

From LA to Berlin, from present day to the 1940s, journey from glamorous Santa Monica to the deepest darkest corners of Nazi Germany. David Collins, a British private investigator living in LA, is hired by Geoff Hoffman, a billionaire...

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