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Under the Heartless Blue

Under the Heartless Blue
  • Author(s): Allyson Stack
  • Location(s): Arizona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

Arizona, 1884, and Vera Palmer, a 23 year old widow from genteel Connecticut arrives in the frontier town of Goose Flat with a prospecting claim and a book-keeping job secured from afar. Little does she know, but the boarding...

Under the Hidden Sun

Under the Hidden Sun
  • Author(s): Mark Kennard
  • Location(s): Denmark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

A beautiful, but naïve young Danish woman becomes trapped in a delusional Nazi’s obsession, and when the man she loves comes back to her everything in her protected world comes crashing down…until she finds a bitter resolve to carry...

Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

Under the Holy Lake: A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
  • Author(s): Ken Haigh
  • Location(s): Bhutan
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1987

Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a...

Under the Ice

Under the Ice
  • Author(s): Rachael Blok
  • Location(s): St Albans
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It is the week before Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans is blanketed by snow. But beneath the festive lights, darkness is stirring. The frozen body of a young girl is discovered by the ice-covered lake. The...

Under the Light of the Italian Moon

Under the Light of the Italian Moon
  • Author(s): Jennifer Anton
  • Location(s): Fonzaso
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever Fonzaso Italy, between two wars  Nina Argenta doesn’t want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is determined...

Under The Palms

Under The Palms
  • Author(s): Kaira Rouda
  • Location(s): Laguna Beach
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Kingsleys Book 2) During a weekend retreat, a powerful family plays a dangerous game of dark secrets and cold-blooded ambition in a novel by Kaira Rouda, USA Today bestselling author of Beneath the Surface. Under the direction of...

Under the Persimmon Tree

Under the Persimmon Tree
  • Author(s): Suzanne Fisher Staples
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Peshawar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Najmah, a young Afghan girl whose name means “star,” suddenly finds herself alone when her father and older brother are conscripted by the Taliban and her mother and newborn brother are killed in an air raid. An American woman,...

Under the Poppy

Under the Poppy
  • Author(s): Kathe Koja
  • Location(s): Brussels
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

From a wartime brothel to the intricate high society of 1870s Brussels, Under the Poppy is a breakout novel of childhood friends, a love triangle, puppetmasters, and reluctant spies. Under the Poppy is a brothel owned by Decca and...

Under the Rainbow

Under the Rainbow
  • Author(s): Celia Laskey
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a group of social activists arrive in a small town, the lives and beliefs of residents and outsiders alike are upended, in this wry, embracing novel. Big Burr, Kansas, is the kind of place where everyone seems to...

Under the Spanish Stars

Under the Spanish Stars
  • Author(s): Alli Sinclair
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day1930s/40s

Amid the vivid beauty of Granada, a woman entrusted with unraveling a family secret will discover the truth about her heritage–and the alluring promise of love… When her beloved grandmother falls ill, Charlotte Kavanagh will do whatever she asks...

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