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Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum
  • Author(s): Mo Yan
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each...

Red Sparrow

Red Sparrow
  • Author(s): Jason Matthews
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A Russian honey trap agent targets a young CIA operative to uncover a senior-ranking mole at the heart of the Russian Intelligence service. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin’s Russia, the country she...

Red Water

Red Water
  • Author(s): Jurica Pavičic, Matt Robinson (Translator)
  • Location(s): Croatia
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1989 onwards to 2017

The story begins in 1989 on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. The investigation into a young woman’s disappearance falters as Yugoslavia plunges into a fratricidal war. Another three decades will pass before the truth is revealed. Inspector Gorki Šain, haunted by his...

Red Winter

Red Winter
  • Author(s): Dan Smith
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1920

It is 1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and...

Redemption

Redemption
  • Author(s): Jack Jordan
  • Location(s): Nevada
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

AARON has just been released from jail after causing the death of a boy in a hit-and-run. Now a free man, all he wants to do is leave his troubled past behind him. EVELYN, consumed by grief and rage, has...

Relative Fortunes

Relative Fortunes
  • Author(s): Marlowe Benn
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1920s

In 1920s New York, the price of a woman’s independence can be exorbitant—even fatal. In 1924 Manhattan, women’s suffrage is old news. For sophisticated booklover Julia Kydd, life’s too short for politics. With her cropped hair and penchant for...

Remains of Inncocence

Remains of Inncocence
  • Author(s): J A Jance
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Sheriff Joanna Brady must solve two perplexing cases that may be tied together in New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance’s thrilling tale of suspense that brings to life Arizona’s Cochise County and the desert Southwest in all its beauty...

Rendezvous in Cannes

Rendezvous in Cannes
  • Author(s): Jennifer Bohnet
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Behind the parties and the champagne at the glitzy, glamorous Cannes Film Festival, two very different women are starring in their own real-life dramas. Will Anna, newly in love with Leo, be able to reconcile her present-day happiness with...

Rendezvous Tahiti

Rendezvous Tahiti
  • Author(s): William Stephan
  • Location(s): French Polynesia, Tahiti, World
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1960sa/1970s

Author William Stephan returns from the Vietnam War and stumbles upon the job of a tour guide, that takes him around the world, in the heyday of Pan Am and when cabin attendants were still hostesses. In Tahiti he...

Reservation Blues

Reservation Blues
  • Author(s): Sherman Alexie
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Seattle, Washington State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

Only Big Mom can help when you’ve made a deal with the Devil. Robert Johnson, legendary blues man, arrives at the Spokane Reservation looking for relief. Thomas Builds-the-Fire shows him the way and finds himself owner of the great...

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