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Grey Bees

Grey Bees
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk (translator)
  • Location(s): Ukraine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): present day

Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine’s Grey Zone, the no-man’s-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that has been dragging on for years, only two...

grk and The Hot Dog Trail

grk and The Hot Dog Trail
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

New York might be the Big Apple, but for Tim it’s sausage city! A priceless golden statue has been stolen and Tim has a vital clue. He follows the trail of hot dogs in a sizzling chase from sleepy...

grk Down Under

grk Down Under
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): Australia, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

When Grk sniffs some succulent sausages, he can’t resist following his nose – and ends up on the other side of the world. He’s in Australia, the land of surfing, sharks and the Red Jelly Gang, a ruthless band...

grk Takes Revenge

grk Takes Revenge
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Era(s): Modern

Tim and Natascha realise to their horror that Max has gone to Paris to confront their first adversary, Colonel Zinfandel, the dictator of Stanislavia. They rush after him, with their intrepid dog Grk. Will Max overstep the mark and...

grk: Operation Tortoise

grk: Operation Tortoise
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): Seychelles
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

When Tim discovers a man badly hurt on a beach, his sun-kissed relaxing holiday in the Seychelles takes on a more dangerous twist. He and Grk are the only ones, it seems, who want to know what happened. They...

Hangover Square

Hangover Square
  • Author(s): Patrick Hamilton
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

The story of unrequited love, George Harvey Bone seeks solace in the sordid low life area of Earls Court. A tremendous piece of writing.

Hausfrau

Hausfrau
  • Author(s): Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • Location(s): Zurich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna was a good wife, mostly . . . Anna Benz lives in comfort and affluence with her husband and three young children in Dietlikon, a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Anna, an American expat, has chosen this life far...

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)

Her Child’s Cry (Boyle and Keneally #3)
  • Author(s): S A Dunphy
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Little Rosie Blake has been taken. Since going missing from the hospital where she was being treated for cancer, Rosie’s distraught parents haven’t heard a word. And time is swiftly running out. They have to find her, and right...

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go: A Novel of Haiti
  • Author(s): Laura Rose Wagner
  • Location(s): Haiti
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 2010

Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go is the vivid story of two teenage cousins, raised as sisters, who survive the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, though they lose the woman who raised them, Manman. They must fend for themselves in...

Hooker Avenue

Hooker Avenue
  • Author(s): Jode Millman
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania, The Hudson Valley
  • Genre(s): Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Queen City Crimes series is inspired by true crimes in the Hudson Valley. Being a Good Samaritan is hazardous. Amid a violent Hudson Valley thunderstorm, Jessie Martin discovers a woman lying unconscious in a roadside ditch. The badly...

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