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  • Author(s): Amanda Quick
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Welcome to Burning Cove, California where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer . . . Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include headshots for aspiring celebrities or nightly calls to take snaps of grisly...

Close Your Eyes and I’ll Be There

Close Your Eyes and I’ll Be There
  • Author(s): Tulu Lahiri
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early / mid 20th century

This is a book of innocence – of a time of enchantment in a world now gone. It is through the eyes of a young person, learning and observing life with her grandfather in the land of old Bangladesh...

Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter

Clotel: or, The President’s Daughter
  • Author(s): William Wells Brown
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): around 1800

First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress, here called Currer, and their two daughters,...

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land
  • Author(s): Anthony Doerr
  • Location(s): Idaho, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th Century/contemporary

Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of...

Cloudburst: A Jack Courtney Adventure

Cloudburst: A Jack Courtney Adventure
  • Author(s): Wilbur Smith
  • Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Brand new Wilbur Smith series for readers of 10+ – starring fourteen-year-old Jack Courtney. Share the adventure with a new generation this Christmas! Jack Courtney has lived in the UK his whole life. But this summer his parents are...

Clouds Over Alexandria

Clouds Over Alexandria
  • Author(s): Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
  • Location(s): Alexandria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In the 1970s, once-cosmopolitan Alexandria was at the forefront of the clash between Nasser’s socialist-era principles and the burgeoning fundamentalist movement. Five idealistic students find themselves caught up in this tangled web, as their leftist activism makes them a...

Clouds over the Montagne Noire

Clouds over the Montagne Noire
  • Author(s): Catherine Parr
  • Location(s): Languedoc Roussillon
  • Genre(s): Fiction

When tragedy strikes Lynne and Alex Stevens decide to make a fresh start in an idyllic wine producing village in the South of France. But even before they move in they unwittingly make enemies. Who hates them enough to...

Clovenhoof

Clovenhoof
  • Author(s): Heide Goody, Iain Grant
  • Location(s): Birmingham
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): Present day

Charged with gross incompetence, Satan is fired from his job as Prince of Hell and exiled to that most terrible of places: English suburbia. Forced to live as a human under the name of Jeremy Clovenhoof, the dark lord...

Clover Blue

Clover Blue
  • Author(s): Eldonna Edwards
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, beautifully written story of a young boy’s search for identity. There are many things twelve-year-old Clover Blue isn’t sure of: his exact date...

Club Dead

Club Dead
  • Author(s): Charlaine Harris
  • Location(s): Jackson
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): early 21st century

There’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with – at least voluntarily – and that’s Bill. But recently he’s been a little distant – in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss Eric has an idea where...

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