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Cross the Line

Cross the Line
  • Author(s): James Patterson
  • Location(s): Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city’s police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross...

Crossbones

Crossbones
  • Author(s): Nuruddin Farah
  • Location(s): Mogadishu (Mogadiscio), Somalia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The last book in the Past Imperfect trilogy. A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region’s...

Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents
  • Author(s): Jane Jackson
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1800s

Appalled by the number of deaths caused by exploding steam boilers, Santo Julian is developing an entirely new and safe engine. His backer is Richard Vaughan, heir to Frederick Tregarron, owner of Gillyvean estate. Desperate to prove the viability...

Crossed Bones

Crossed Bones
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Morocco, Penzance
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern , 1620s

This is a fictional account of a pirate raid which occured off of the Cornish coastline in the 1600s, but is actually based on historical facts that have been meticulously researched. 60 villagers are captured and stolen off to...

Crossers

Crossers
  • Author(s): Philip Caputo
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 20th Century and early 2000s

When Gil Castle loses his wife, he retreats to his family’s sprawling homestead out west, a forsaken part of the country where drug lords have more power than police. Here Castle begins to rebuild his life, even as he...

Crossfire

Crossfire
  • Author(s): Jeanette Windle
  • Location(s): Bolivia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Sara is unexpectedly swept up in a real romantic maelstrom by Nicolas, whom she has only known for under a month. He whisks her away to the family estate in Bolivia shock ingly she discovers his family is involved...

Crossing Borders

Crossing Borders
  • Author(s): Michael Ferris
  • Location(s): Austria, World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Cultural misunderstandings, crazy and dangerous situations, inter-cultural friendships, love and disappointment and the excitement of exploring. “Crossing Borders” tells the story of living and becoming an adult in a foreign country away from friends and family. This narrative is...

Crossing Purgatory

Crossing Purgatory
  • Author(s): Gary Schanbacher
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

A contemporary view on what it was like building the American Dream in the mid 19th Century. Grief and moving West are central to the novel. Definitely a haunting read.

Crow Moon

Crow Moon
  • Author(s): Suzy Aspley
  • Location(s): The Trossachs
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Crime, Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the crow moon rises, the darkness is unleashed… Martha Strangeways is struggling to find purpose in her life, after giving up her career as an investigative reporter when her young twins died in a house fire. Overwhelmed by...

Cuba and the Night

Cuba and the Night
  • Author(s): Pico Iyer
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

This is the love story between an international photojournalist and a young Cuban woman, as seen through the photographer’s eyes, the complexities of a relationship in the broadest sense, and life in Cuba.

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