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The Stone Goddess

The Stone Goddess
  • Author(s): Minfong Ho
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Twelve-year-old Nakri’s beloved home in Cambodia is shattered when the nation’s capital is overrun by government rebels. Her family is forced to flee, and she and her siblings end up in a children’s labor camp, separated from everything they’ve...

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade

The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade
  • Author(s): Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riveting, entertaining, and richly detailed nonfiction narrative in the spirit of The Orchid Thief, Longitude and Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, this is the first book ever written about Imperial Green Jade — the rare and beautiful stone more precious than...

The Stone of Laughter

The Stone of Laughter
  • Author(s): Hoda Barakat
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

The Stone of Laughter is a virile novel which brings forth the contradictory history of a city under fire through the life and dilemmas of a gay man. It is a bold and radical novel, full of black humor...

The Stopping Place

The Stopping Place
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One wrong turn is all it takes to disappear… Two friends, a hidden trail and a frantic search for the truth. The brand-new gripping thriller from No. 1 bestselling author Carmel Harrington is available to pre-order now. ‘Carmel Harrington...

The Storm

The Storm
  • Author(s): Rachel Hawkins
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

St. Medard’s Bay, Alabama is famous for three things: the deadly hurricanes that regularly sweep into town, the Rosalie Inn, a century-old hotel that’s survived every one of those storms, and Lo Bailey, the local girl infamously accused of...

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)

The Storm (The Lady of the Pier #3)
  • Author(s): Effrosyni Moschoudi
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Historical, Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s & 1980s

When Sofia falls in love, a mourning spirit begins to haunt her… The Storm is the concluding part of the trilogy where the two stories of Sofia and Laura merge into one and redemption seems finally possible… BRIGHTON 1988...

The Storm Keeper’s Island

The Storm Keeper’s Island
  • Author(s): Catherine Doyle
  • Location(s): Arranmore Island (Árainn Mhór)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy

When Fionn Boyle sets foot on Arranmore Island, it begins to stir beneath his feet … Once in a generation, Arranmore Island chooses a new Storm Keeper to wield its power and keep its magic safe from enemies. The...

THE STORM KILLINGS

THE STORM KILLINGS
  • Author(s): Iain Henn
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Violent storms wreak havoc in Tornado Alley. A serial killer exploits the chaos to cover their tracks… When a five-year-old girl reports being saved by a mysterious being in the middle of a tornado, her story is readily dismissed....

The Storm King

The Storm King
  • Author(s): Brendan Duffy
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Nate McHale has assembled the kind of life most people would envy. After a tumultuous youth marked by his inexplicable survival of a devastating tragedy, Nate left his Adirondack hometown of Greystone Lake and never looked back. Fourteen years...

The Story Keeper

The Story Keeper
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Isle of Skye
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1857

From the author of THE UNSEEING comes a sizzling, period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustice set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to readers of Hannah Kent’s BURIAL RITES or Beth Underdown’s THE WITCH FINDER’S...

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