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Deep Blue Trouble

Deep Blue Trouble
  • Author(s): Steph Broadribb
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Her daughter Dakota is safe, but her cancer is threatening a comeback, and Lori needs JT – Dakota’s daddy and the man who taught Lori everything – alive and kicking. Problem is, he’s behind bars, and heading for death...

Deliver Me

Deliver Me
  • Author(s): Malin Persson Giolito, Rachel Wilson-Broyles (Translator)
  • Location(s): Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the internationally bestselling author of Quicksand, a brilliant, gut-wrenching story of childhood friends torn apart by gang violence and class differences. Dogge is from affluent Rönnviken in Stockholm. Billy lives in the concrete towers of Våringe, a few hundred...

Devastation Road

Devastation Road
  • Author(s): Jason Hewitt
  • Location(s): Czech Republic, Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2

Spring, 1945: A man wakes in a field in a country he does not know. Injured and confused, he pulls himself to his feet and starts to walk, and so sets out on an extraordinary journey in search of...

Dictator

Dictator
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 58-43 BC

There was a time when Cicero held Caesar’s life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero’s life is in ruins. Exiled, separated from his wife and children, his possessions confiscated, his...

Die Liebe sucht ein Zimmer

Die Liebe sucht ein Zimmer
  • Author(s): David Safier
  • Location(s): Warsaw
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1942

Im Warschauer Ghetto 1942 erklingt aus einer kleinen Seitenstraße Musik, Gelächter und Applaus. Ein Theaterstück feiert Premiere, eine heitere Musikkomödie namens «Die Liebe sucht ein Zimmer». Die junge Schauspielerin Sara wartet nervös auf ihren Auftritt. Mit leuchtenden Augen schaut...

Dinner with Edward

Dinner with Edward
  • Author(s): Isabel Vincent
  • Location(s): Manhattan, Roosevelt Island
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Earlier 2000s

A charming, tender and life-affirming memoir of a woman’s unlikely bond with a 93-year-old widower With its delicious food, warm jazz, and stunning views of Manhattan, Edward’s home was a much-needed refuge for reporter Isabel Vincent. Her recently widowed...

Diplomatic Impunity

Diplomatic Impunity
  • Author(s): Jaya Gulhaugen
  • Location(s): Vienna
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1956

It is the time of the Hungarian Revolution and the KGB loom ominously in the background. Gilman family has just arrived and are getting settled in the city, he a CIA agent and Peggy, is wife, Mother and amateur...

Disappearance of a Scribe

Disappearance of a Scribe
  • Author(s): Dana Stabenow
  • Location(s): Alexandria
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 47BC

Alexandria, 47BC. Cleopatra – seventh of her name, avatar of the goddess Isis, ruler of the Kingdom of Egypt – watches over her city. The war is over, but Alexandria, that once great beacon of learning and commerce, has...

Disobedient

Disobedient
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Fremantle
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1600s

Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumptuous new palaces and lavish wealth on display. A city where women are seen but not heard. Artemisia Gentileschi dreams of becoming a great artist. Motherless, she grows up among a...

Distress Signals

Distress Signals
  • Author(s): Catherine Ryan Howard
  • Location(s): County Cork, The Mediterranean
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Did she leave, or was she taken? The day Adam Dunne’s girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that...

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