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The Redeemer

The Redeemer
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A freezing December night Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a Salvation Army carol concert. Then a shot rings out and one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. A blood-curdling terror Detective Harry Hole and his...

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
  • Author(s): S G MacLean
  • Location(s): Banff
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery

Banff, Scotland, the 1620s. A young man walks unsteadily through the streets. Is he just drunk or is there something more sinister happening? When he collapses in front of two sisters on that dark, wet night, the women guess...

The Regrets

The Regrets
  • Author(s): Amy Bonnaffons
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Reality and dream collide in Amy Bonnaffons’s dazzling, wildly inventive miracle of a love story about an affair between the living and the dead (NPR) For weeks, Rachel has been noticing the same golden-haired young man sitting at her...

The Reign of Greed

The Reign of Greed
  • Author(s): José Rizal
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): late 19th Century

Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (1861-1896) was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor...

The Reindeer Hunters

The Reindeer Hunters
  • Author(s): Lars Mytting
  • Location(s): Butangen, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community. He is drawn to freedom,...

The Reluctant Baker

The Reluctant Baker
  • Author(s): Sara Alexi
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WARNING: THIS NOVEL WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO ESCAPE TO THE SUN. There is a lazy Mediterranean village full of colourful characters. There is sunshine and wine and a long sandy beach… There are nagging in-laws, jealous neighbours and...

The Reluctant Gardener

The Reluctant Gardener
  • Author(s): Marek Z Turner
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Some gardens grow flowers. Some grow secrets. In the small Devon town of Ivybridge, recently widowed Reg Burridge shuffles through his quiet routines, he expects to experience grief, not fear. But when a small act of kindness spirals into...

The Reluctant Nude

The Reluctant Nude
  • Author(s): Meg Maguire
  • Location(s): Cape Breton Island
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Fallon Frost’s late foster mother had done so much to heal the wounds of her damaged childhood. So when a lecherous developer plans to bulldoze her old home to make room for a strip mall, the practical, ordered life...

The Reluctant Rebel (A Jacobite Adventure)

The Reluctant Rebel (A Jacobite Adventure)
  • Author(s): Barbara Henderson
  • Location(s): Inverness
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1746

There it is again, hope. The defeat and the despair I can stand, but it’s the hope that kills me, as if the Cause wasn’t lost, as if Father hadn’t died in vain. As if any one of us...

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox

The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox
  • Author(s): Nancy Rubin Stuart
  • Location(s): Hydesville, Rochester
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid-19th century

Here is the first authoritative biography of Margaret Fox, the world-famous medium and cofounder of the Spiritualism movement that swept America in the mid-1800s. In 1848, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her sister Katy created rapping sounds by manipulating their toe...

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