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Updated February 21, 2023
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Velvet was the night
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite seeks escape from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger filling the latest issue of Secret Romance. She is deeply envious of her neighbour, a beautiful art student apparently living the life...

Set in Mexico City

Once upon a river
Setterfield, Diane
Paper Book
'I was completely spellbound' - Ruth Hogan, author of The Keeper of Lost Things 'Setterfield is a master storyteller' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe Some say the river drowned her... Some say it brought her back to life On a dark...
A game of thrones
Martin, George R. R.
Paper Book
HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series. Kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars, lords and...

Set in Westeros

Free fire
Box, C. J.
Ebook
Joe Pickett, recently fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a visit from the governor. Governor Rulon - a devious but down-home politico - has a special request, one Joe knows he can't refuse. For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz...

Set in Yellowstone National Park

The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. First published in 1990, David Wenzel's comic book adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was an immediate success and has become one of the best-loved graphic...

Set in Middle Earth

The house of the spirits
Allende, Isabel.
Paper Book

Set in Latin America

One hundred years of solitude
García Márquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been one of the literary giants of the past century; his body of work is an undisputed cultural landmark and a touchstone for countless readers and writers alike. One Hundred Years of Solitudeis a true classic, a timelessly fascinating and intricately...

Set in Colombia

Wild from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
Oprah's Book Club 2.0 inaugural selection: A powerful, blazingly honest memoir - the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again.
For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
Paper Book
One of the greatest novels of the 20th century by one of the greatest writers in American history High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer on the...

Set in Spain

Walking the Bible : a journey by land through the five books of Moses
Feiler, Bruce S.
CD
Is the Bible just an abstraction or a real living entity? This book aims to answer the question. Part adventure story, part archaeological detective work, part spiritual exploration, this is the account of Bruce Feiler's perilous 10,000 mile journey across the Middle East in search of the roots of...
The salt path
Winn, Raynor
Paper Book
Bring nature into your home with the inspiring true story of hope and the healing powers of the natural world, in one of the most talked about books of the decade FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'This is what you need right now to muster...

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