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The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip
  • Author(s): Alexandre Dumas
  • Location(s): Netherlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

The Black Violin

The Black Violin
  • Author(s): Maxence Fermine
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

The Black Wolf

The Black Wolf
  • Author(s): Louise Penny
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Somewhere out there, in the darkness, a black wolf is feeding. Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montréal, arresting the person behind...

The Blackbird Girls

The Blackbird Girls
  • Author(s): Anne Blankman
  • Location(s): Ukraine, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1986 and 1941

Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history. On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red...

The Bleeding of the Stone

The Bleeding of the Stone
  • Author(s): Christopher Tingley (translator), Ibrahim Al-Koni, May Jayyusi (translator)
  • Location(s): Libya
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone Bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures knows exactly where it is...

The Bletchley Riddle

The Bletchley Riddle
  • Author(s): Ruth Sepetys, Steve Sheinkin
  • Location(s): Bletchley
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

A thrilling middle grade historical adventure from bestselling authors Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin Remember, you are bound by the official secrets act…  It is the summer of 1940. The world is at war. These days, you don’t know...

The Blight Way

The Blight Way
  • Author(s): Patrick F McManus
  • Location(s): Idaho
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Bo Tully, sheriff of Blight county, Idaho — and a fellow who dropped twenty pounds on Atkins — had been thinking about asking out Jan Whittle, his grade-school sweetheart. Problem is, he’s already promised to celebrate his dad’s seventy-fifth...

The Blind Assassin

The Blind Assassin
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood
  • Location(s): Ontario
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable...

The Blind Owl

The Blind Owl
  • Author(s): Sadegh Hedayat
  • Location(s): Iran
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat’s masterpiece, the Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but...

The Blood Miracles

The Blood Miracles
  • Author(s): Lisa McInerney
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Like all twenty-year-olds, Ryan Cusack is trying to get his head around who he is. This is not a good time for his boss to exploit his dual heritage by opening a new black market route from Italy to...

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