- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): contemporary
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she...
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
When eleven-year-old Corinne stumbles into the forest on her Caribbean island home, she rouses a jumbie–a malevolent spirit–who emerges to wreak havoc. Corinne must call on her courage and her friends and use ancient magic to stop the jumbie...
- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1890s
The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as Molly Gloss delivers...
- Location(s): India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
The Jungle Book key characters are Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and Sher Khan, biggest tiger in India. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the cunning black panther, Kaa the python, and his other animal friends teach...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): 2000s
- Location(s): Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Thriller
The Kalahari Typing School For Men
- Location(s): Botswana
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent’ reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case – a man who has been...
- Location(s): West Ireland
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set in fictional Ardnakelty, West Ireland. On a cold night in a remote Irish village, a girl goes missing. Sweet, loving Rachel Holohan was about to be engaged to the son of the local big shot. Instead, she’s dead...
- Location(s): Almaty
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
The Keeper of Antiquities is simultaneously one of the great Russian modern novels and a key to understanding the terrible Stalinist purges of the late 1930s. Set far from Moscow in the remote Kazakhstan capital of Alma-Ata, The Keeper...
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