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The Bear And the Dragon

The Bear And the Dragon
  • Author(s): Tom Clancy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy’s extraordinary new novel. Being President has gotten no easier. Domestic pitfalls await him at every turn and in Moscow someone may have tried...

The Bear and the Nightingale

The Bear and the Nightingale
  • Author(s): Katherine Arden
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): various centuries

In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to...

The Beast

The Beast
  • Author(s): Jude Perera
  • Location(s): Horton Plains
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Four close friends begin a search for the mysterious ‘beast’ in a dark and spooky wilderness, but little do they know that they’ll discover much more about themselves on this beautifully bleak young adult adventure. Love, danger, and the...

The Beast of Buckingham Palace

The Beast of Buckingham Palace
  • Author(s): David Walliams, Tony Ross (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 2120, Future

Fly into a fiery and fantastical future with No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams, in an epic adventure of myth and legend, good and evil, and one small boy who must save the world Illustrated by the artistic genius...

The Beaten Track

The Beaten Track
  • Author(s): Louise Mangos
  • Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...

The Beautiful and Damned

The Beautiful and Damned
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1920s

First published in 1922, The Beautiful and the Damned followed Fitzgerald’s impeccable debut, This Side of Paradise, thus securing his place in the tradition of great American novelists. Embellished with the author’s lyrical prose, here is the story of...

The Beautiful Mystery

The Beautiful Mystery
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables, they tend chickens, they make chocolate. And they sing....

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs

The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs
  • Author(s): Damon Galgut
  • Location(s): Namibia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the its first free elections, Patrick has returned to the country he defended; the place where he fell in love for the first and only...

The Beautiful Strangers

The Beautiful Strangers
  • Author(s): Camille Di Maio
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A legendary hotel on the Pacific becomes a haven where dreams, love, and a beguiling mystery come alive. 1958. Kate Morgan, tethered to her family’s failing San Francisco restaurant, is looking for an escape. She gets her chance by...

The Beautiful Summer

The Beautiful Summer
  • Author(s): Cesare Pavese
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 1930s

It’s the height of summer in 1930s Italy and sixteen-year-old Ginia is desperate for adventure. So begins a fateful friendship with Amelia, a stylish and sophisticated artist’s model who envelops her in a dazzling new world of bohemian artists...

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