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THE BAKU INHERITANCE

THE BAKU INHERITANCE
  • Author(s): Anne M Kennedy
  • Location(s): Baku
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1890

Hunted by oil spies, a bankrupt oil baron inherits a priceless jewel and a runaway girl. 1890 Baku, Azerbaijan. Anton Sabroski returns from the Orient carrying classified documents for a secret oil project. He finds his father dying and...

The Balkan Route

The Balkan Route
  • Author(s): Cal Smyth
  • Location(s): Belgrade
  • Genre(s): Noir, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After a businessman is brutally murdered in Belgrade, Inspector Marko Despotović digs into the web of corruption that connects the police, politicians, drug dealers and spiritual healers as they battle over the lucrative Balkan heroin route. Can Marko navigate...

The Ball at Versailles

The Ball at Versailles
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1958

The Ball at Versailles is a sparkling, captivating tale of four young women and one life-changing night, from the billion copy bestselling author, Danielle Steel. 1958. The Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will go down in...

The Ballad of Black Tom

The Ballad of Black Tom
  • Author(s): Victor LaValle
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Horror, Novella
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to...

The Ballad of Midnight and McRae

The Ballad of Midnight and McRae
  • Author(s): Jess Lederman
  • Location(s): Arizona, Texas
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 19th and early 20th centuries

For Caleb McRae—devout Baptist, Texas Ranger, hero of the Wild West—life is simple: lawmen bring bad guys to justice and hellfire’s a sinner’s fate. But Caleb’s world turns upside down when he falls in love with the outlaw Henry...

The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz

The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz
  • Author(s): Manuel Ramos
  • Location(s): Denver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s-1990s

Set in the late 1980s or early 1990s in Denver, Colorado, The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz reaches back through time, via Chicano lawyer Luis Móntez, to a night 20 years prior when an ambitious revolutionary, Rocky Ruiz, was gunned...

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
  • Author(s): Carson McCullers
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

McCullers, known for Southern Gothic fiction, was born in Columbus, Georgia. McCullers felt “other” as a young woman growing up in the South, and with outcast characters, she explores that isolation and deep desire for connection in her fiction....

The Ballerinas

The Ballerinas
  • Author(s): Rachel Kapelke-Dale
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day and early 2000s

Thirteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux....

The Ballochbrae Book Club

The Ballochbrae Book Club
  • Author(s): M C Mackay
  • Location(s): Aberdeenshire
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the doorstep of Balmoral Castle, beloved Scottish home of the British Royal Family, four women of a certain age form a book club. There’s just one problem: nobody wants to read the books. Then a body is dragged...

The Balloon Thief

The Balloon Thief
  • Author(s): Aneesa Marufu
  • Location(s): South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Burn the flame. Seek the night. For Khadija, the only escape from her father’s arranged betrothal is the sky. When she spots a rogue hot air balloon fighting against its ropes, she leaps at the chance for adventure. Khadija...

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