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The River Why

The River Why
  • Author(s): David James Duncan
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan’s sweeping novel is a coming-of-age comedy about love,...

The River’s Song

The River’s Song
  • Author(s): Suchen Christine Lim
  • Location(s): Singapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Ping, the daughter of Chinatown’s Pipa Queen, loves Weng, the voice of the people, but family circumstances drive them apart. Ping is forced to leave suddenly for the USA, where she creates a different life for herself. Many years...

The Riviera

The Riviera
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Nantucket
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The journey is only as good as its end… It’s been a hard journey, but Lizzie Lambert’s life is a Provençal dream come true. Her business is wildly successful, and with her little boy and the love of her...

The Riviera Express

The Riviera Express
  • Author(s): TP Fielden
  • Location(s): Devon
  • Genre(s): Adventure
  • Era(s): 1950s

Gerald Hennessey – silver screen star and much-loved heart-throb – never quite makes it to Temple Regis, the quaint Devonshire seaside town on the English Riviera. Murdered on the 4.30 from Paddington, the loss of this great man throws...

The Riviera House

The Riviera House
  • Author(s): Natasha Lester
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939 / present

When Remy discovers she’s mysteriously inherited a house on the French Riviera, she drops everything to go there, desperately seeking answers and an escape from her broken heart. There, she’s shocked to find a catalogue of the artwork known...

The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set
  • Author(s): Mary S Lovell
  • Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur)
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Château de l’Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French...

The Road from Belhaven

The Road from Belhaven
  • Author(s): Margot Livesey
  • Location(s): Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 19th century

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland Growing up in the care of her...

The Road From Elephant Pass

The Road From Elephant Pass
  • Author(s): Nihal de Silva
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Brand new 14th edition direct from publisher in Sri Lanka. now a major motion picture. The exciting story of an Army captain who has to escort a Liberation Tigers of Tamil eelam (LTTE) female terrorist across hostile territory dangerous...

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 1)

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 1)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Generally modern

The Road Less Taken (Book 1) is a Collection of Unusual Short Stories . . . Theodore Jerome Cohen’s first serious attempt to write a short story for publication was in 1962 while he was working in Antarctica. The...

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 2)

The Road Less Taken: A Collection of Unusual Short Stories (Book 2)
  • Author(s): Theodore Jerome Cohen
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern (including WWII)

Theodore Jerome Cohen’s first collection of unusual short stories met with such an unqualified success that he was persuaded to prepare a second set of equally enjoyable stories about the adventure we call “life.” This book continues his penchant...

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