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The Book of Ruth, Woven Branches book 3

The Book of Ruth, Woven Branches book 3
  • Author(s): G L Yancy
  • Location(s): South Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The popular Southern saga continues… Six months have passed since Noeware, Georgia experienced the most violent crime in its history, and things are beginning to settle down—or are they? Billy Washington is coming to grips with his friend Allison...

The Book of Safety

The Book of Safety
  • Author(s): Yasser Abdel Hafez
  • Location(s): Cairo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At one interrogation, he encounters Mustafa Ismail: a university professor turned master thief, who breaks into the homes of the great and the good and then blackmails them into silence.Mustafa has dedicated his existence to the perfection of his...

The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets
  • Author(s): M.G. Vassanji
  • Location(s): Tanzania
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1988

In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British colonial administrator, the diary captivates Fernandes, who begins to research the...

The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling...

The Book of Shanghai (Reading The City)

The Book of Shanghai (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Dai Congrong (Editor), Jin Li (Editor)
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Variouss

As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book… When a publisher agrees to let a star author use his company’s attic to write in, little does he...

The Book of Sheffield (Reading the City)

The Book of Sheffield (Reading the City)
  • Author(s): Catherine Taylor (Editor)
  • Location(s): Sheffield
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves. From elegant parks and gardens to brutalist high-rise estates and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between...

The Book of Sisters: Biographies of Incredible Siblings Through History

The Book of Sisters: Biographies of Incredible Siblings Through History
  • Author(s): Katie Nelson, Olivia Meikle
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Throughout History

Queens. Warriors. Witches. Revolutionaries. History is full of sisters making their mark. Meet incredible women in this non-fiction book for kids, from Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret to tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams. Authors (and sisters!) Olivia...

The Book of Stolen Dreams

The Book of Stolen Dreams
  • Author(s): David Farr
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When Rachel and Robert are passed a stolen book by their librarian father, they have to go on the run and protect it at all costs. With their father captured and everyone hunting for the Book, they must uncover...

The Book of Stone

The Book of Stone
  • Author(s): Jonathan Papernick
  • Location(s): Brooklyn, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

A searing psychological thriller set in pre-9/11 Brooklyn in which a family’s dark history and an estranged son’s attempt to find meaning and purpose converge. Matthew Stone has inherited a troubling legacy: a gangster grandfather and a distant father—who...

The Book of Strange New Things

The Book of Strange New Things
  • Author(s): Michel Faber
  • Location(s): Space
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Indeterminate

Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the...

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