MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
- Location(s): California, Kansas City, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
The Drue family moves from New York to Small Town, USA in the ’70s, and they may never fully fit in. Thirteen-year-old Sandy’s parents encourage her curiosity, her imagination, and her challenge of social conventions – but not without...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
“Main Street” is the 1920 novel by Sinclair Lewis that tells the story of Carol Milford, a liberal, free-spirited young woman from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Carol meets and marries Will Kennicott, a doctor who convinces her to move back to...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother’s Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover....
- Location(s): Chamonix
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
A life of skiing, snow and sunshine in the French Alps. That was what one British couple had in mind when they gave up the 9 – 5 grind to run a ski chalet in Chamonix. With their toddler...
- Location(s): Kenya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Thomas has left his turbulent life in the States and made his new home in Kenya. His encounter with lioness Malaika on the edge of the Serengeti could have signalled his death, but what evolves is a spiritual bond...
- Location(s): Malaysia (Malaya)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay...
- Location(s): Malibu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s/80s
Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1974
Philippe Petit chronicles the day day in 1974 when he illegally walked across a tightrope suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. As early as the late 60s, in France, Petit resolved to carry out this...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1945
In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS JUST SAID GOODNIGHT. On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to...
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