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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...

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...

Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)

Rico Stays (Pigeon-Blood Red #3)
  • Author(s): Ed Duncan
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After enforcer Richard “Rico” Sanders stepped in to protect his girlfriend from a local mob boss’s hot-headed nephew, all hell broke loose. When the smoke cleared, the nephew had vanished and three goons lay dying where they’d stood. Fighting...

River Queens: Saucy Boat, stout mates, spotted dog, America

River Queens: Saucy Boat, stout mates, spotted dog, America
  • Author(s): Alexander Watson
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two men and a spotted dog restore a vintage Chris-Craft motor yacht and launch across the American Heartland from Texas to Ohio. The restoration, the people they met along the way, and life in an America which few know...

Riversong

Riversong
  • Author(s): Tess Thompson
  • Location(s): Oregon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

a colorful cast of endearing small-town characters and takes you on a journey that will make you believe in the possibilities of life – even in the face of overwhelming adversity and unimaginable grief. Lee Tucker is the kind...

Roll ’em Mister Bones

Roll ’em Mister Bones
  • Author(s): Mark Stewart-Jones
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Martin Bonehouse sits in his hotel room in New Orleans writing a book about the city. This book will be a welcome departure from his shocking fiction debut, the far-reaching consequences of which have had a hand in his...

Route 66

Route 66
  • Author(s): Billy Connolly
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Billy Connolly, music-lover, biker, and scourge of the beige and the bland the world over, has dreamed about taking a trip on the legendary Route 66 since he first heard Chuck Berry belting out one of the greatest rock...

Rules of Civility

Rules of Civility
  • Author(s): Amor Towles
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year- old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit,...

Saints of New York

Saints of New York
  • Author(s): R J Ellory
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

‘Saints of New York pulls no punches with a gritty and unsettling narrative that cements Ellory’s reputation as a rising star of crime fiction… uncompromising and utterly compelling.’ (WATERSTONES BOOKS QUARTERLY )

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