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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...

Return of a King

Return of a King
  • Author(s): William Dalrymple
  • Location(s): Afghanistan
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In the spring of 1839, the British invaded Afghanistan for the first time. Led by lancers in scarlet cloaks and plumed shakos, nearly 20,000 British and East India Company troops poured through the high mountain passes and re-established on...

Return to the Olive Farm

Return to the Olive Farm
  • Author(s): Carol Drinkwater
  • Location(s): Le Cannet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

After sixteen months of travelling round the Mediterranean in search of the ancient secrets of the olive tree, Carol returns to her beloved olive farm in the south of France, to her husband Michel and his burgeoning family. However,...

Reunited in the Desert

Reunited in the Desert
  • Author(s): Helle Amin
  • Location(s): Jeddah
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

As I approached the house, I was gripped with terror. Call it a mother’s instinct, call it what you will. I knew that something terrible had happened. When I saw that my husband’s car had gone, I feared the...

Revenge

Revenge
  • Author(s): Dana Delamar
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Romance, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The first book in a proposed series. Kate is a young American woman who is married Vince Andretti, who is part of the “family”. she is drawn into a world that she has only heard about from the news...

Revenge of Rome

Revenge of Rome
  • Author(s): Simon Scarrow
  • Location(s): East Anglia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): AD61

(Eagles of the Empire 23) ROME AND BOUDICA. A DUEL TO THE DEATH. AD 61. Britannia is divided. The rebel horde has been defeated. But the leader, Boudica, and her remaining warriors are still at large. With them is...

Revolt

Revolt
  • Author(s): Qaisra Shahraz
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A multi-layered, multi-faceted story of love and loss, finding and losing, and mixed-race marriage, Revolt is the tale of three wealthy sisters and the problems that no amount of money can solve. There is a daughter, abandoned because of...

Revolution Earth

Revolution Earth
  • Author(s): Lambert Nagle
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stephen Connor, trainee Metropolitan Police detective is first on the scene when a cyclist is killed in a seemingly ordinary hit-and-run. Just another tragedy on a London street? Nothing seems to trouble the killer, Big Oil PR Greg Palmer...

Rhodes to Romance

Rhodes to Romance
  • Author(s): Anna Pagram
  • Location(s): Rhodes
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Another compelling contemporary romance from Anna Pagram, RHODES TO ROMANCE follows the trials and tribulations of Amber Dudley as she struggles to come to terms with her sheltered upbringing and her fear of commitment. Dissatisfied with her life in...

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