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Camino Winds

Camino Winds
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hurricane Leo threatens Florida’s Camino Island, the Governor is quick to issue an evacuation order. Most residents flee but a small group of diehards decide to ride it out. Amongst them is Bruce Cable, proprietor of Bay Books...

Campari Crimson (Franki Amato Mysteries #4)

Campari Crimson (Franki Amato Mysteries #4)
  • Author(s): Traci Andrighetti
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Halloween is looming large in New Orleans, and Private Investigator Franki Amato’s in a gloomy mood. Her boyfriend Bradley has to leave on an extended business trip, and her slacker brother is coming to town with her matchmaker nonna...

Can Anybody Help Me?

Can Anybody Help Me?
  • Author(s): Sinéad Crowley
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

Chilling thriller for fans of Patricia Gibney and Angela Marsons. Online you never really know who you’re talking to. You can never know their true identity or their intentions. Until it’s too late… Recently moved to Dublin and struggling...

Can I Stray

Can I Stray
  • Author(s): Jenna Adams
  • Location(s): Bristol, Seattle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fourteen-year-old Brooke Tyler has spent her whole life waiting for a boy to choose her. Matt is about to go to university, scared to leave behind everything he knows. When both are cast as romantic leads in Romeo and...

Can’t Outrun the Past

Can’t Outrun the Past
  • Author(s): Marvin Cook
  • Location(s): Florida
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Refuge officer Nelson and his mysterious old friend who lives on a houseboat confront unknown assailants in the wild gulf coast of North Florida. These two unlikely partners have to navigate tight knit rural communities, not knowing who to...

Can’t Quit You, Baby

Can’t Quit You, Baby
  • Author(s): Ellen Douglas
  • Location(s): Mississippi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Two women share a Mississippi household for fifteen years, rolling out piecrusts and making conversation. Cornelia is rich, white, and pampered, the mistress of the house, who oversees a seemingly perfect world of smooth surfaces and stubborn silence. Tweet,...

Canary Girls

Canary Girls
  • Author(s): Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war...

Candle in the Darkness

Candle in the Darkness
  • Author(s): Lynn Austin
  • Location(s): Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline’s eyes are opened...

Cane

Cane
  • Author(s): Jean Toomer
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Poetry, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

A literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a powerful work of innovative fiction evoking black life in the South. The sketches, poems, and stories of black rural and urban life that make up Cane are rich in...

Cane River

Cane River
  • Author(s): Lalita Tademy
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s-1900s

Set among the plantations in deepest Louisiana, Cane River follows the lives of five generations of women from the time of slavery in the early 1800s into the early years of the 20th century. From down-trodden, philosophical Suzette, who...

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