- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
For several decades a brutal army of rebels has been raiding villages in northern Uganda, kidnapping children and turning them into soldiers or wives of commanders. More than 30,000 children have been abducted over the last twenty years and...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
An enthralling literary debut that tells the story of a young girl’s coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet–a story of obsession and the quest for perfection, trust and betrayal, beauty and lost innocence....
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years. Joyfully polyphonic and vibrantly...
- Location(s): California, Arizona, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
This novel first appeared under the title “Daughters” When Mattie and Nora’s mother, the brilliant, troubled, and world-renowned Norwegian painter Ingrid Olssen, was on her deathbed, there was one promise she asked her daughters to make: Burn it all....
Girls Behind the Camera (6 Chelsea Walk)
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1895, Victorian Era
Cecily is enchanted when she meets photographer Rosalind, and soon longs to learn more about this “art of the future” and become a famous photographer herself. Believing Rosalind to be the perfect match for her widowed father, Cecily conspires...
- Location(s): India, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her...










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