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Bellevue Square

Bellevue Square
  • Author(s): Michael Redhill
  • Location(s): Toronto
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 978-0857302670

Jean lives in downtown Toronto with her husband and two kids. The proud owner of a thriving bookstore, she doesn t rattle easily not like she used to. But after two of her customers insist they ve seen her...

Bellies

Bellies
  • Author(s): Nicola Dinan
  • Location(s): Cologne (Köln), Kuala Lumpur, London, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. Tom and Ming meet on a night out at university and fall hard for each other. It’s not long before they are planning a future and building a life. Then Ming...

Belshazzar’s Daughter

Belshazzar’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Modern day Istanbul, as we follow detectives Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman Armenian as they go about reeling in a killer. Leonid Meyer is found murdered in his flat in Balat, Istanbul’s decrepit Jewish quarter, a swastika daubed...

Benang

Benang
  • Author(s): Kim Scott
  • Location(s): Western Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

A powerful and triumphant novel concerned with the reclaiming of personal and cultural history. The narrator sets out to trace his connection to family and country through the minefield of post colonial Aboriginal history. This writer has the scope...

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899 – 1903

Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899 – 1903
  • Author(s): Stuart Creighton Miller
  • Location(s): The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th and 20th Centuries

American acquisition of the Philippines and Filipino resistance to it became a focal point for debate on American imperialism. In a lively narrative, Miller tells the story of the war and how it challenged America’s sense of innocence.

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45

Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939-45
  • Author(s): Roger Moorhouse
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The human face of Berlin and the inhabitants, well researched and a seering tribute to stoicism, courage and resourcefulness.

Berlin Duet

Berlin Duet
  • Author(s): S W Perry
  • Location(s): Berlin, Europe
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

DIVIDED BY WAR. UNITED BY A SECRET. Berlin,1938. English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish-American photographer Anna Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin’s most elegant hotel as the Nazi shadow rises over Europe. Neither expects they will ever meet...

Berliners

Berliners
  • Author(s): John Simmons, Andrzej Krauze (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 20th century

Berliners is a poem that originated from a conversation in Berlin. After several visits to Berlin, and a recent work assignment there with the German Film Academy, John Simmons became fascinated by the role of the city in 20th...

Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)

Bertie Plays the Blues (#7 44 Scotland Street)
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

Even down to its well-set Georgian townhouses, Edinburgh is a hymn to measure and harmony. But on Scotland Street, domestic accord is in short supply. Matthew and Elspeth welcome three new arrivals, though the joys of multiple parenthood are...

Best Offer Wins

Best Offer Wins
  • Author(s): Marisa Kashino
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Maryland
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How far would you go to get the perfect home? There was a time when Margo thought she knew. But that was before a soul-destroying eighteen months of house-hunting hell. Now she’s not sure. Her life, her marriage, her...

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