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One Summer

One Summer
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1927

Britain’s favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre stage, and, in five eventful months, changed the world for ever. In the summer of 1927,...

Ordinary Wolves

Ordinary Wolves
  • Author(s): Seth Kantner
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the tradition of Jack London, Seth Kantner presents an Alaska far removed from majestic clichis of exotic travelogues and picture postcards. Kantner’s vivid and poetic prose lets readers experience Cutuk Hawcly’s life on the Alaskan plains through the...

Oregon Hill

Oregon Hill
  • Author(s): Howard Owen
  • Location(s): Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the headless body of Isabel Ducharme, a college student is found hanging on a tree branch in the South Anna River of Richmond, Virginia, Willie Mays Black knows this will be a big story for his newspaper

Orient

Orient
  • Author(s): Christopher Bollen
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Suspenseful and haunting, Bollen’s thrilling novel Orient is a provocative take on the troubled American dream, in the vein of Lionel Shriver or AM Homes. At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the hustle of New York...

Overseas

Overseas
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): France, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th Century and Modern

‘…a heady blend of wit, charm, and romantic sizzle, all wrapped around a tantalizing mystery.’ Anne Fortier, New York Times bestselling author When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a...

Paradise

Paradise
  • Author(s): Toni Morrison
  • Location(s): Oklahoma
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of PARADISE. Spanning the birth of...

Pepper Pike: A Milan Jacovich Mystery: 1 (Milan Jacovich Mysteries)

Pepper Pike: A Milan Jacovich Mystery: 1 (Milan Jacovich Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Les Roberts
  • Location(s): Cleveland
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

ntroducing Milan Jacovich (pronounced MY-lan YOCK-ovich), Cleveland’s favorite private eye. Milan, an ex-cop, Vietnam veteran, and former football player, is a private investigator with a master’s degree, a taste for klobasa sandwiches and Stroh’s beer, and a knack for...

Philadelphia Noir

Philadelphia Noir
  • Author(s): Carlin Romano
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories

Residents of Philadelphia have been nagging Akashic Books for years to see their own entry in the award-winning Noir series. The time has finally arrived – but the city must beware as there may be no recovery from the...

Pineapple Street

Pineapple Street
  • Author(s): Jenny Jackson
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This unputdownable debut follows three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with money, one who married into it, and one who wants to give it all away. Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected,...

Pittsburgh Noir

Pittsburgh Noir
  • Author(s): Kathleen George
  • Location(s): Pittsburgh
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories

Pittsburgh has recently been called `the most liveable city in America’ – yet the old image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forth grit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirty industrial centre is part of...

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