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Boston Cream

Boston Cream
  • Author(s): Howard Shrier
  • Location(s): Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

David Fine is not the kind of guy to go missing. Or so his father tells PI Jonah Geller. A brilliant young surgeon-in-training, devout, devoted to his parents–last seen 2 weeks ago leaving the Boston hospital where he worked....

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
  • Author(s): Jim Yardley
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA-a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent...

Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul

Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul
  • Author(s): John Malathronas
  • Location(s): Brazil
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Brazil is an eclectic nation that evokes images of vibrant carnivals, crowded shanty towns and football on the beach. Shaped by its many cultures, the Portugese, African, Native Indian and European communities have ensured the evolution of a colourful,...

Breaking Light

Breaking Light
  • Author(s): Karin Altenberg
  • Location(s): Dartmoor
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to childhood

Steeped in its bleak and beautiful landscape, Mortford is a place of secrets and memories: of bitter divisions and shattered dreams. Returning to this Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with what he...

Breaking Point

Breaking Point
  • Author(s): Olivier Norek, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a routine kidnapping case goes badly wrong, Capitaine Vincent Coste breaks his golden rule: he starts to take things personally. And with his career hanging by a thread – his resignation letter parked in his superior’s desk draw...

Brief Loves that Live Forever

Brief Loves that Live Forever
  • Author(s): Andrei Makine
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now...

Bright Shiny Morning

Bright Shiny Morning
  • Author(s): James Frey
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders...

Bring Me Back

Bring Me Back
  • Author(s): Taryn Plendl
  • Location(s): Brisbane, Oamaru
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Andy Evans is on the move. For six long, lonely years, he’s been running from his past, leaving his family and his life as a drug-addicted rock star far behind. His latest move takes him to the sleepy seaside...

Broken Dreams

Broken Dreams
  • Author(s): Nick Quantrill
  • Location(s): Hull

Broken Dreams is the first urban thriller from Hull based writer ,Nick Quantrill, featuring private detective Joe Geraghty. Northern gritty realism. A cracking authentic crime thriller Joe Geraghty, Private Investigator, is used to struggling from one case to the...

Broken Ferns

Broken Ferns
  • Author(s): Toby Neal
  • Location(s): Oahu
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The island of Oahu is warm breezes, skyscrapers and green mountains-but a daring young thief is out to make a statement, and Special Agent Lei Texeira’s new career is already on the line. Lei Texeira has made a difficult...

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