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Chai, Chai

Chai, Chai
  • Author(s): Bishwanath Ghosh
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Some years ago, a book was published that would change the way one looks at railway junctions forever. Bishwanath Ghosh had got down at Itarsi junction to grab a cup of chai while travelling from Kanpur to Chennai. Sipping...

Chalet Girl plays Cupid

Chalet Girl plays Cupid
  • Author(s): Lorraine Wilson
  • Location(s): Verbier
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A match made on the slopes… After a messy break up that’s left her homeless, jobless and single, temporary chalet girl Emily needs a fresh start! So when best friend Holly asks her to help out before the start...

Chameleon Days

Chameleon Days
  • Author(s): Tim Bascom
  • Location(s): Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1964

In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary...

Chances Are . . .

Chances Are . . .
  • Author(s): Richard Russo
  • Location(s): Martha's Vineyard
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2015 looking back to 60s/70s

One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today–Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and...

Chandra’s Magic Light

Chandra’s Magic Light
  • Author(s): Theresa Heine, Judith Gueyfier (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Chandra and Deena’s family has a smoky oil lamp at home, which makes their baby brother cough. Then one day at the market, the sisters spot a man selling lamps that are powered by the sun instead of kerosene...

Changeling Dream

Changeling Dream
  • Author(s): Dani Harper
  • Location(s): Alberta
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

In times of stress Jillian Descharme has always found calm in her dream of a great white wolf with haunting blue eyes. But she is startled when the visions return and this time seem so real. Late at night...

Changer

Changer
  • Author(s): Matt Gemmell
  • Location(s): Munich, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Techno-thriller: DESTINY CAN BE CHANGED. Jutland, Denmark: a billionaire industrialist seizes control of a top-secret project that the European Defence Agency calls Destiny, manipulating it for his own ends. Edinburgh, Scotland: physicist Neil Aldridge’s life is saved by an...

Chaos Calls to Chaos

Chaos Calls to Chaos
  • Author(s): M D Wigg Jay Heyes
  • Location(s): London, Devon
  • Genre(s): Comedy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A comedy about the exploits of London Curates, Chris, Ravi and Ellie and youth worker Mike, who team up with North Devon Surfer, Storm, to try and control the ambitions of the free lance surfing Archdeacon, or A.D. as...

Chariots on the Highway

Chariots on the Highway
  • Author(s): Limor Moyal
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every year, young men come from all over the world to join the IDF and fight for Israel. They leave everything behind and becoming what known as lone soldiers. Tom, a young man from Kansas, has traveled to Israel...

Charlatan

Charlatan
  • Author(s): Kate Braithwaite
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

1676. In a hovel in the centre of Paris, the fortune-teller La Voisin holds a black mass, summoning the devil to help an unnamed client keep the love of the King of France, Louis XIV. Three years later, Athénaïs,...

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