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Built on Sand

Built on Sand
  • Author(s): Paul Scraton
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Berlin: long-celebrated as a city of artists and outcasts, but also a city of teachers and construction workers. A place of tourists and refugees, and the memories of those exiled and expelled. A city named after marshland; if you...

Bullet Train

Bullet Train
  • Author(s): Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa (translator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Five killers find themselves on a bullet train from Tokyo competing for a suitcase full of money. Who will make it to the last station? An original and propulsive thriller from a Japanese bestseller. Satoshi looks like an innocent...

Bullets in the Sand

Bullets in the Sand
  • Author(s): A J Aberford
  • Location(s): Malta, North Africa
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Inspector George Zammit Series Book 2 When Inspector George Zammit, of the Maltese Pulizija, reluctantly agrees to help his old friend, the former Libyan militia leader, Abdullah Belkacem, his quiet life is turned upside down. George is thrown...

Bullets, Butterflies, and Italy

Bullets, Butterflies, and Italy
  • Author(s): John Meyer
  • Location(s): Siena, Amalfi Coast, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zack Curtis truly dreads his thirtieth birthday. Estranged from his family and friends, he hopes his trip to Italy will lift his spirits and trigger the inspiration for a happier life. But he soon offends an elusive mobster who...

Bulls, Bands, and London

Bulls, Bands, and London
  • Author(s): John Meyer
  • Location(s): Pamplona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neil Jarvis believes that the wild and sexy Jordan is the best thing in his otherwise predictable life. So when she mysteriously disappears in England after their first big fight, he drops everything in order to search for her...

Bunny

Bunny
  • Author(s): Mona Awad
  • Location(s): New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other. Seriously. Bunny. Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest...

Burden of Desire

Burden of Desire
  • Author(s): Robert MacNeil
  • Location(s): Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): World War I

Set against a vivid backdrop of a world at war, “Burden of Desire” opens with a cataclysmic explosion that provides the novel’s extraordinary central metaphor. The blast and its aftermath, which devastates Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917, rocks the...

Burial Ground

Burial Ground
  • Author(s): Michael McBride
  • Location(s): Peru
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When the body of Hunter Gearhardt washes up on the banks of a seasonal river outside of Pomacochas, Peru, with only samples of vegetation, a handful of feathers, two black- and gray-streaked rocks, and a golden headdress of indeterminate...

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree

Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
  • Author(s): Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for...

Buried Deep

Buried Deep
  • Author(s): Penny Grubb
  • Location(s): North Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Surrey-based Damien Marks has no idea that his wife has employed a private investigator to check up on him. And she has no idea that a police team in York sees his inexplicable behaviour in a far more sinister...

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