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Bud, Not Buddy

Bud, Not Buddy
  • Author(s): Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Location(s): Michigan, Flint
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

It’s 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud’s got a few things going for him: He has his own suitcase full of special things. He’s...

Bug Hollow

Bug Hollow
  • Author(s): Michelle Huneven
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s onwards

Summer, California, 1970s. Sally Samuelson is eight years old, and the course of her family’s life is about to change. When Ellis, her older brother, tragically fails to return from a week up the coast, the world of the...

Bunny

Bunny
  • Author(s): Mona Awad
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest...

Burned

Burned
  • Author(s): Ellen Hopkins
  • Location(s): Nevada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It all started with a dream. Just a typical fantasy, but for a girl raised in a religious–and abusive–family, a simple dream could be the first step toward eternal damnation. Now Pattyn Von Stratten has questions. Questions about God,...

Burnt Mountain

Burnt Mountain
  • Author(s): Anne Rivers Siddons
  • Location(s): North Carolina, Atlanta
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp – Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her...

Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man

Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man
  • Author(s): Robert McCloskey
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to...

Bury the Past

Bury the Past
  • Author(s): Jen Pitts
  • Location(s): New Orleans
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

When the detectives show up in Thibodeaux Mansion’s courtyard, Sammy is relieved they’re not there for her. But to her surprise, they need to see Ruby, her next-door neighbor. Even more shocking, Ruby asks Sammy to come with her...

Burying Leo

Burying Leo
  • Author(s): Helga Gruendler-Schierloh
  • Location(s): Detroit, Augsburg
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late Twentieth Century

After having been sexually assaulted during an audition, Ingrid, an aspiring young German singer and songwriter, wants to report the crime. However, her mother is vehemently opposed to getting the police involved. Instead, she talks her daughter into spending...

Butcher’s Crossing

Butcher’s Crossing
  • Author(s): John Williams
  • Location(s): Colorado
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher’s Crossing he meets a...

By the Shores of Silver Lake

By the Shores of Silver Lake
  • Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Location(s): South Dakota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The Ingalls family has seen both joy and hardship since the end of On the Banks of Plum Creek. Mary has been left blind from a battle with scarlet fever, and a new sister, Grace, has been born. Pa...

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