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The Yellow Dog

The Yellow Dog
  • Author(s): Georges Simenon
  • Location(s): Concarneau, Brittany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 20th century

The story is set in the small seaside town of Concarneau, which is left shaken when a local man is shot dead by a mystery assailant hiding in a deserted house. Fear sweeps through the town, which soon falls...

The Yellow House

The Yellow House
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Europe, Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

Greece 1976: On a tiny island fringed by turquoise seas, Carly waits in a sun-drenched yellow villa, counting down the days until her most precious possession is returned to her. It is all she has left from her old...

The Yellow Room

The Yellow Room
  • Author(s): Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A corpse – somewhat charred around the edges – has been discovered in the linen closet of the Spencers’ fabulous Maine retreat. No one has a clue as to who she is or how she got there. Certainly not...

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
  • Author(s): Lewis Buzbee
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Various

November, a dark, rainy Tuesday, late afternoon. This is my ideal time to be in a bookstore. The shortened light of the afternoon and the idleness and hush of the hour gather everything close, the shelves and the books...

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
  • Author(s): Michael Chabon
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1990s/2000s

The novel supposes that in 1940 the American Congress passed the Sitka Settlement Act to allow persecuted Jews of Europe to seek refuge, in Alaska, and that they would access to this land for 60 years. A book redolent...

The Yield

The Yield
  • Author(s): Tara June Winch
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he...

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
  • Author(s): Anton Di Sclafani
  • Location(s): Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930

It is 1930, the midst of the Great Depression. After her mysterious role in a family tragedy, passionate, strong-willed Thea Atwell, age fifteen, has been cast out of her Florida home, exiled to an equestrienne boarding school for Southern debutantes....

The Youngest Suspect

The Youngest Suspect
  • Author(s): Peggy Mohan
  • Location(s): Gujarat
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

2002. The communal pogrom that indelibly altered the course of Gujarat. Set in the tense post-riots years, The Youngest Suspect is the story of Adil and, yes, of Gujarat. Adil and seventeen other young men are arrested in Ahmedabad,...

The Zanzibar Wife

The Zanzibar Wife
  • Author(s): Deborah Rodriguez
  • Location(s): Oman
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Oman. The ancient land of frankincense, wind-swept deserts, craggy mountaintops and turquoise seas. Into this magical nation come three remarkable women, each facing a crossroad in her life. Rachel, an American war photographer, who is struggling to shed the...

The Zenith

The Zenith
  • Author(s): Duong Thu Huong
  • Location(s): Vietnam

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