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The Ignorance of Blood

The Ignorance of Blood
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new psychological thriller in the Javier Falcon quartet, that includes THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS and The Blind Man of Seville. The sweltering city of Seville is still recovering from a shocking and unsolved terrorist attack but now a spectacular...

The Iguana Tree

The Iguana Tree
  • Author(s): Michel Stone
  • Location(s): South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Set amid the perils of illegal border crossings, The Iguana Tree is the suspenseful saga of Lilia and Hector, who separately make their way from Mexico into the United States, seeking work in the Carolinas and a home for...

The Illness Lesson

The Illness Lesson
  • Author(s): Clare Beams
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

At their newly founded school, Samuel Hood and his daughter Caroline promise a groundbreaking education for young women. But Caroline has grave misgivings. After all, her own unconventional education has left her unmarriageable and isolated, unsuited to the narrow...

The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke

The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke
  • Author(s): Tina Makereti
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19t Century

James Poneke is a young Maori orphan, raised by missionaries, with a burning desire to travel and explore the world. When an English artist on a tour of New Zealand invites James to return home with him, the boy...

The Imagined Life

The Imagined Life
  • Author(s): Andrew Porter
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1980s

A moving, layered, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve. Driving...

The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places
  • Author(s): William Atkins
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘For all the desert’s dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing was left. It was to aspire to the condition of sand.’ One third...

THE IMMORALIST

THE IMMORALIST
  • Author(s): Nathan Senthil
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He spent years training to kill. Now there is no stopping him. One grim morning, New York is shocked by the gruesome killing of four prominent individuals in the community. A serial killer has lined them up for a...

The Immortals of Tehran

The Immortals of Tehran
  • Author(s): Ali Araghi
  • Location(s): Iran, Tehran
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Poetry
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Torkashvand family reveres their seemingly immortal patriarch, Agha, the trunk of their widely branching, family tree. When we come to the story, Agha is so old that he spends his days sitting in the family orchard, drinking tea...

The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda

The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda
  • Author(s): Thor Hanson
  • Location(s): Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers...

The Impossible Journey

The Impossible Journey
  • Author(s): Gloria Whelan
  • Location(s): Siberia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1934

In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin, in the companion story to...

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