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Girl Can’t Help It

Girl Can’t Help It
  • Author(s): Max Allan Collins
  • Location(s): Illinois, Iowa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1980's & Present Day

A rock band’s reunion is looking more like a farewell tour in a captivating mystery by New York Times bestselling and award-winning crime master Max Allan Collins. No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction...

Elgol – Adventures from the Isle of Mull

Elgol – Adventures from the Isle of Mull
  • Author(s): Andy Sutherland
  • Location(s): Isle of Mull
  • Genre(s): Children, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2018

Elgol, a young white-tailed eagle makes friends with a boy and two young otters all united in grief with the loss of parents. They form a strong bond of friendship from which they embark on a series of adventures...

Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors
  • Author(s): B A Paris
  • Location(s): Surrey, Bangkok, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’d like to get to know Grace better. But it’s difficult,...

The Other Passenger

The Other Passenger
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): London, East London
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2019

You’re feeling pretty smug about your commute to work by riverboat. No more traffic gridlock or getting stuck on the tube in tunnels (you’re claustrophobic). Now you’ve got fresh air, an iconic Thames view, a whole lifestyle upgrade. You’ve...

West With The Night

West With The Night
  • Author(s): Beryl Markham
  • Location(s): Kenya
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s,

WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham — aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s....

Palm Trees in the Snow

Palm Trees in the Snow
  • Author(s): Luz Gabás
  • Location(s): Equatorial Guinea
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At once an epic family drama and a sweeping love story that spans both an ocean and a generation, Palm Trees in the Snow is an emotionally gripping and historically vivid tale of the secrets that can destroy a...

Belgravia

Belgravia
  • Author(s): Julian Fellowes
  • Location(s): Belgravia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

It is the evening of 15 June 1815, and the Duchess of Richmond has thrown a magnificent ball in Brussels for the Duke of Wellington. The guests include James and Anne Trenchard – who have made their money in...

Dark at the Crossing

Dark at the Crossing
  • Author(s): Elliot Ackerman
  • Location(s): Syria, Turkey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad’s regime. But he is robbed...

Badawi

Badawi
  • Author(s): Mohed Altrad
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

In the Syrian desert, a young boy watches as his mother dies. She was a repudiated woman, abandoned by the boy’s powerful father, leaving Maïouf to his scornful grandmother. Though the Bedouin tribes have stopped their centuries-long travels across...

Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East

Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East
  • Author(s): Patrick Seale
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

This is a book in the finest tradition of investigative scholarship. The research is awesome. . . . Seale’s great strength is his ability to explain the confusing kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy. He understands the game being...

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