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Beneath the Darkening Sky

Beneath the Darkening Sky
  • Author(s): Majok Tulba
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the day that Obinna’s village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination. Along with his older brother he finds himself thrown into a truck when the soldiers leave,...

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
  • Author(s): Maaza Mengiste
  • Location(s): Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Beneath the Lion’s Gaze opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and...

Beneath the Lion’s Wings

Beneath the Lion’s Wings
  • Author(s): Marie Ohanesian Nardin
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After years of focusing on her career and neglecting her love life, Victoria meets a handsome gondolier while vacationing in Venice and decides to take another chance on romance. Victoria Greco has given up on finding love. A thirtysomething...

Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World

Beneath the Moon: Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World
  • Author(s): Yoshi Yoshitani
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Powerful and universal retellings of seventy-eight divine stories, legends, and myths from around the world, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration from acclaimed artist Yoshi Yoshitani. Many of the lessons we learn are shared stories passed among cultures and...

Beneath the Shadows

Beneath the Shadows
  • Author(s): Sara Foster
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits a cottage on the isolated North Yorkshire moors, they leave London behind to try a new life. However, a week later, Adam vanishes, leaving their baby daughter on the doorstep. The following year, Grace...

Beneath the Snow

Beneath the Snow
  • Author(s): C J Carver
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s been a long, hard winter in the small Alaskan town of Lake’s Edge – and things are about to get even tougher. Lisa McCall, a young research scientist, has vanished in the wilderness in the middle of a...

Beneath the Streets

Beneath the Streets
  • Author(s): Adam Macqueen
  • Location(s): London, Exmoor
  • Genre(s): LGBTQ+, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970s

It is February 1976, and the naked corpse of a shockingly underage rent boy is fished out of a pond on Hampstead Heath. Since the police don’t seem to care, twenty-year-old Tommy Wildeblood – himself a former ‘Dilly boy’...

Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface
  • Author(s): Denver Murphy
  • Location(s): St Albans
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): present

A mysterious dalliance, an apparent suicide, and a female detective who shouldn’t be underestimated. A teenage boy is found hanged in a secluded area of parkland. A consensus quickly emerges within the police that it is a tragic case...

Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface
  • Author(s): Kaira Rouda
  • Location(s): Pacific Ocean, Santa Catalina Island
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a weekend voyage, the power-hungry children of an aging billionaire are unprepared for a storm of deceptions in a novel about ruthless family ambition by USA Today bestselling author Kaira Rouda. You are cordially invited to an overnight...

Bengali Girls Don’t Lie

Bengali Girls Don’t Lie
  • Author(s): L A Sherman
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Born in a remote village during her country’s liberation war, a Bangladeshi girl moves to England with her parents and struggles for freedom and identity while growing up in a mixed neighborhood. Caught between the world of her white...

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