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The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street
  • Author(s): Karina Yan Glaser
  • Location(s): Harlem
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From New York Times best-selling author Karina Yan Glaser comes one of Times’  Notable Children’s Books of 2017: “In this delightful and heartwarming throwback to the big-family novels of yesteryear, a large biracial family might lose their beloved brownstone home, but win...

The Vanished Bride

The Vanished Bride
  • Author(s): Rowan Coleman
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1845

A young woman has gone missing from her home, Chester Grange, leaving no trace, save a large pool of blood in her bedroom and a slew of dark rumours about her marriage. A few miles away across the moors,...

The Vanishing Act

The Vanishing Act
  • Author(s): Sarah Ward
  • Location(s): Wales
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(A Mallory Dawson Crime Thriller Book 3) Everyone in the family had a secret. Which one has proved deadly? When Mallory Dawson gets a call from a former colleague, Elsa, describing a strange scene, she initially thinks nothing of...

The Vanishing Children

The Vanishing Children
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Amsterdam
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1684

The Dutch Stadhouder, William of Orange, has summoned Master Mercurius — and that is never good news. Mercurius has gained a reputation for himself with William for successfully undertaking diplomatic missions. And William is now paranoid that his own...

The Vanishing Girl of Kabul

The Vanishing Girl of Kabul
  • Author(s): Zahra Joya, Amie Ferris-Rotman
  • Location(s): Kabul
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s to present

When the Taliban first ruled Afghanistan in the 1990s, Zahra Joya disguised herself as a boy simply to attend school. After the US-led invasion, her world transformed. Education, opportunity and freedom flourished. Like many Afghans, Zahra dared to believe...

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde
  • Author(s): Eve Chase
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1959 going forward

When four sisters arrive at Applecote Manor to spend the summer, all is clearly not well. They find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their only daughter, five years before. No one seems any closer...

The Vanishing of Margaret Small

The Vanishing of Margaret Small
  • Author(s): Neil Alexander
  • Location(s): Whitstable
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Dual Time 1960s, Present Day

Rate this book Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her idol, Margaret begins receiving sums of money in the post, signed simply ‘C’. She is convinced it must...

The Vanishing of Ruth

The Vanishing of Ruth
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): Central Asia, Europe, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970's and present day

1976: Ruth English and her lover Marcus, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth’s niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their...

The Vanishing Place

The Vanishing Place
  • Author(s): Zoë Rankin
  • Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

One girl escaped. But the forest took another… A young girl wanders into the small town of Koraha, her hands stained with blood. She won’t speak, but her path is tracked through New Zealand’s unforgiving wilderness to a cabin...

The Vanishing Season

The Vanishing Season
  • Author(s): Joanna Schaffhausen
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She’s an officer in sleepy Woodbury, MA, where a bicycle theft still makes the newspapers. No one there knows she was once victim...

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