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Drifts

Drifts
  • Author(s): Natasha Burge
  • Location(s): Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 1990s - 2020

Natasha Burge was born and grew up in Saudi Arabia, where her family lived for more than half a century. Through various departures and returns – a year at boarding school in New England, university in London, a small...

Drive

Drive
  • Author(s): James Sallis
  • Location(s): Arizona, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s...

Driven

Driven
  • Author(s): James Sallis
  • Location(s): Phoenix
  • Genre(s): Children, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West and founded a successful business back in Phoenix. But walking down the street one day, he...

Driving over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia

Driving over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Chris Stewart has been a sheep shearer and a drummer for Genesis, and decided he wanted to relocate to the Sierra Nevada. His book chronicles his adventures – the terrain and the locals – doing up his ramshackle house....

Dubai Wives

Dubai Wives
  • Author(s): Zvezdana Rashkovich
  • Location(s): Dubai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dubai Wives follows eight women as their lives come together at poignant intervals. We meet Jewel, a beautiful but frustrated wife to her powerful Emirati husband, Tara, a devout Muslim with a passionate secret, and Liliana, a tragic dancer...

Dubai, 1 City 2 Different Tales

Dubai, 1 City 2 Different Tales
  • Author(s): Northern Empress
  • Location(s): Dubai
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

You will instantly be taken to the other side of the world because this book offers an extraordinary glimpse into unjust, cruelty and suffering in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. These factual short story collections allow you to witness the...

Dulci’s Legacy

Dulci’s Legacy
  • Author(s): Margaret Pinard
  • Location(s): Cape Breton Island
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

She knew high school would be difficult, but not like this… Dulci Oyselle is a 13-year-old girl living on Cape Breton Island, excited about the new experiences that await her in high school. Starting a Celtic music club and...

Dust Devils

Dust Devils
  • Author(s): Roger Smith
  • Location(s): Cape Town
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A rich white man is murdered in Cape Town, his coloured mistress is witness to the murder. She runs back to her husband and children but the murderer is on to their whereabouts and hounds them. A complex and...

East of India

East of India
  • Author(s): Erica Brown
  • Location(s): Sumatra
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940-45

India, 1940. When Nadine learns that the Indian woman she thought her nanny is, in fact, her mother, she rebels against her English father and he arranges for her to be wed to an Australian merchant many years older....

Eclipse (Twilight 3)

Eclipse (Twilight 3)
  • Author(s): Stephenie Meyer
  • Location(s): Forks, La Push, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

ella?’ Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened...

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