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The Sacred Spoils

The Sacred Spoils
  • Author(s): Will Adams
  • Location(s): Southern Italy, Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Rossi & Nero Thrillers Book 1 To the victor go the spoils… Historian Carmen Nero, in southern Italy to help a friend search for ancient riches, is caught up in the murderous schemes of the Calabrian Mafia. Cesco Rossi,...

The Sacred Willow

The Sacred Willow
  • Author(s): Duong Van Mai Elliott
  • Location(s): Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott’s The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural...

The Saddest Girl on the Beach

The Saddest Girl on the Beach
  • Author(s): Heather Frese
  • Location(s): Outer Banks, Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grieving after her father’s death, a young woman seeks solace in an Outer Banks beach town of North Carolina where her best friend’s family runs a small inn. The family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room,...

The Saddle Road Samba (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 7)

The Saddle Road Samba (Noelani Lee Mysteries Volume 7)
  • Author(s): Tom Bradley Jr
  • Location(s): Hawai'i
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

To their classmates in the Waiākea High School class of 1995, they were The Triplets—an insular trio of self-absorbed girls who graduated summa cum laude in condescension. Decades later and several years apart, two of them vanish under identical...

The Safe Keep

The Safe Keep
  • Author(s): Yael van der Wouden
  • Location(s): Overijssel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1961

It’s 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother’s country home, Isabel’s life is as it...

The Safe Place

The Safe Place
  • Author(s): Anna Downes
  • Location(s): South West France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A BEAUTIFUL HOME MIGHT HIDE DANGEROUS SECRETS Emily Proudman has been offered the chance of a lifetime – leave her messy London life, move to a beautiful estate in France and help her boss’ wife take care of their...

The Safety Net

The Safety Net
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigàta...

The Saffron Conspiracy

The Saffron Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Marilyn Baron
  • Location(s): Austria, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Botanist Andreas Bauer, passionate about saffron, plans to reintroduce organic farming of the world’s most expensive spice to a region of Austria now known for its wine. Meeting resistance from vintners, he does research in a local abbey and...

The Saint of Wolves and Butchers

The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
  • Author(s): Alex Grecian
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Travis Roan and his dog, Bear, are hunters: They travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring them to justice. They have now come to Kansas on the trail of Rudolph Bormann, a Nazi doctor and concentration camp...

The Saints of Swallow Hill

The Saints of Swallow Hill
  • Author(s): Donna Everhart
  • Location(s): Georgia, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Where the Crawdads Sing meets The Four Winds as award-winning author Donna Everhart’s latest novel immerses readers in its unique setting—the turpentine camps and pine forests of the American South during the Great Depression. This captivating story of friendship,...

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