Khan, Shubnum
Summary: "Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago. Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KHANaudé, S. J.
Summary: "Daniel is a worldly and urbane journalist living in London. His relationships appear to be sexually fulfilling but sentimentally meager. A young gay man with no relationships outside of sexual ones, he can seem at once callow and, at times, cold to the point of cruel with his lovers. Emotionally distant from his elderly, senile father, Daniel nonetheless returns to South Africa to care for him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NAUWhite, Randy Wayne
Summary: "A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don't think it's a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane. No one, however, is prepared...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECourtenay, Bryce
Summary: Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in South Africa during World War II whose dream is to become a winner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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Summary: A fire in a Copenhagen bookstore leads Commander Gray Pierce into a mystery that is connected to horrific Nazi experiments, an insidious madness affecting Buddhist monks, a possible mythological beast run amok in South Africa, and a century-old plot that threatens to destroy the current world order.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2006