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Bridge of Clay

Bridge of Clay
  • Author(s): Markus Zusak
  • Location(s): Sydney
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A lost typewriter — A dead dog — The bones of the snake that killed it Matthew Dunbar, eldest of five brothers, is on a journey to find them all. Only then can he tell the astonishing story of...

Bridge on the River Kwai

Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Author(s): Pierre Boulle
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), Thailand
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

POWs, after the surrender of Singapore are taken by their Japanes captors to build a bridge. The current edition is a nod to the film, the original title being The Bridge over the River Kwai.

Bridge Over Niger

Bridge Over Niger
  • Author(s): Remo Capra Bloise
  • Location(s): Niger, Niamey
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1965-1970

The United States is financing and building a bridge named after J.F. Kennedy that will span the Niger River in Niamey, Niger-West Africa. The time is between 1965 and 1970, during the Cold War. The bridge has to be...

Bridge to Nowhere

Bridge to Nowhere
  • Author(s): Stephanie Parker McKean
  • Location(s): Three Prongs
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

When son Ron orders his chocolate-loving widowed mother, Michal Allison Rice—better known as “Miz Mike” in Three Prongs, Texas, where misfits fit—to act her age (40-something) and mind her own business, he doesn’t understand that Miz Mike doesn’t find...

Bridge to Xanadu

Bridge to Xanadu
  • Author(s): Stephanie Parker McKean
  • Location(s): Three Prongs
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

From finding a dead body in the dumpster at the sheriff’s office to being straddled by a knife-welding rapist and serial killer, Texas Miz Mike is back in her most gripping and humorous mystery-romance-suspense ever, Bridge to Xanadu. Who...

Briefly, A Delicious Life

Briefly, A Delicious Life
  • Author(s): Nell Stevens
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Historical, LGBTQ+
  • Era(s): 1830s

In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life after the wildness of their Paris days. Witness to this tumultuous...

Bright Burning Things

Bright Burning Things
  • Author(s): Lisa Harding
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Absolutely dazzling’ Marian Keyes ‘On every page there are little shimmering bombs’ Lisa Taddeo ‘Startling, urgent and intimate’ Lisa McInerney ‘I lived every scene as I read’ Donal Ryan Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much...

Bright Lines

Bright Lines
  • Author(s): Tanwi Nandini Islam
  • Location(s): Bangladesh, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A vibrant debut novel, set in Brooklyn and Bangladesh, Bright Lines follows three young women and one family struggling to make peace with secrets and their past. For as long as she can remember, Ella has longed to feel...

Bright Sparks

Bright Sparks
  • Author(s): Traude Ailinger
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

A suspicious death ignites a blame game within a family full of secrets… When an Edinburgh villa goes up in flames, grumpy DI Russell McCord is called in to investigate. Someone died in the fire, and it looks like...

Bright Young Things

Bright Young Things
  • Author(s): Anna Godbersen
  • Location(s): Manhattan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1929

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties. Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town...

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