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Under A Tuscan Sky

Under A Tuscan Sky
  • Author(s): Karen Aldous
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Olivia Montague’s grandmother passes away, she decides it’s finally time to make some changes in her own life. So she breaks up with her ‘going nowhere’ boyfriend and embarks on a journey to her Nonna’s home in Tuscany....

Under Chad’s Spell

Under Chad’s Spell
  • Author(s): Michael Varga
  • Location(s): Chad
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Charlene, a 23-year-old from chilly Minnesota, volunteers to go to Chad, Africa with the Peace Corps in the turbulent 1970s. Young and full of ideals, she hopes to ease the lives of Chadians, but worries about what prompted her—inexperienced...

Under Currents

Under Currents
  • Author(s): Nora Roberts
  • Location(s): North Carolina, Blue Ridge Mountains
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century and early 2000s

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they’ve come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Zane Bigelow grew up...

Under Heaven

Under Heaven
  • Author(s): Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): 8th Century

An epic historical adventure set in an alternate 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines and emperors set against a majestic and unforgiving landscape....

Under Occupation

Under Occupation
  • Author(s): Alan Furst
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1942

Occupied Paris, 1942. In the dark, treacherous city, the German occupying forces are everywhere-and so are French resistance fighters, working secretly to defeat Hitler. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking...

Under the Almond Trees

Under the Almond Trees
  • Author(s): Linda Ulleseit
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Three women. Three unprecedented dreams. One learns independence when she is widowed and must lead men. Another desires a career in a man’s field. The third wants only a traditional family—until her husband refuses to pay for their daughter’s...

Under the Blue

Under the Blue
  • Author(s): Oana Aristide
  • Location(s): Europe, Türkiye (Turkey), United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end...

Under The Cold Stones

Under The Cold Stones
  • Author(s): Dan McNay
  • Location(s): Illinois
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

A woman’s homecoming to a small town in Illinois turns into a dangerous and desperate battle for survival as she uncovers the truth about her past. Estranged from her family for over twenty years and having blanked out many...

Under the Egg

Under the Egg
  • Author(s): Laura Marx Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather’s painting, she discovers what seems to be an old Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That’s great news for Theo, who’s struggling to hang onto her family’s two-hundred-year-old townhouse...

Under the Great Plum Tree

Under the Great Plum Tree
  • Author(s): Sufiya Ahmed, Reza Dalvand (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

An unlikely friendship between Miss Bandari and Mr Magarmach forms when the pair meet under the great plum tree, deep in the heart of India. Mr Magarmach is old and his hunting days are over but Miss Bandari loves...

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