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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...

Under The Stars

Under The Stars
  • Author(s): Linn B Halton
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katherine Dale’s life is in a state of chaos. She has just been made redundant from her job as an accountant and she finds herself with no career, no direction in life and no relationship to fall back on....

Under The Stars

Under The Stars
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th/21st Century

Audrey Fisher has struggled all her life to emerge from the shadow of her famous mother by forging a career as a world-class chef. Meredith Fisher’s glamorous screen persona disguises the trauma of the tragic accident that haunts her...

Under the Tamarind Tree

Under the Tamarind Tree
  • Author(s): Nigar Alam
  • Location(s): India, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century / 2019

A story of love tested to its limits by moral dilemmas, and the beauty and fragility of childhood friendships. 1964 — Karachi, Pakistan. Rozeena will lose her home — her parents’ safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors...

Under the Udala Trees

Under the Udala Trees
  • Author(s): Chinelo Okparanta
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Inspired by Nigeria’s folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is eleven...

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