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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...

The Story of a Brief Marriage

The Story of a Brief Marriage
  • Author(s): Anuk Arudpragasam
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes...

The Story of Ferdinand

The Story of Ferdinand
  • Author(s): Munro Leaf
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? The...

The Story of Lucy Gault

The Story of Lucy Gault
  • Author(s): William Trevor
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

A masterwork. I doubt that I have read a book as moving in at least a decade. A homage to the redemptive power of love’ Independent Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane...

The Story of My Teeth

The Story of My Teeth
  • Author(s): Valeria Luiselli
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

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