Hikayat: Short Stories by Lebanese Women
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
This anthology of Lebanese women fiction writers offers a captivating mix of stories by published authors with established reputations, such as Emily Nasrallah, Hanan Sheikh, and Alaweeya Sobh, alongside the narratives of younger women whose voices explore new terrain....
- Location(s): Greece
- Genre(s): Humour
- Era(s): Present
The newly lean Pappas cashes in on his accidental tapeworm weight loss by scamming the villagers with sales of the dodgy Divine Slenderize. Quentin suffers the unwanted visit of Deirdre’s insufferable vegetarian cousin Gertrude, but finds her sausage stuffing...
Hilbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis―that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on...
- Location(s): Los Alamos
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): !940s
Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world’s first nuclear weapon. Their families, abruptly moved to the secret desert base with no explanation, have simple orders: Stand by. Make do. Above all, don’t ask...
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
- Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region–an uplifting and eye-opening...
- Location(s): Kentucky
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a...
- Location(s): The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Set in the fictional village – hill station – of Pushkara in the Himalayas Dreaming of escape from his remote village in the Himalayan foothills, Rabindra entreats the gods to send him an English bride. When a saucy English...
- Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): early 2000s
Michael Palin’s travel books have repeatedly topped the bestseller lists. In this book he is back at his adventurous best tie-ing in with a major BBC TV series. The book/series will travel through many countries little known to the...
- Location(s): Nepal
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Adventure
- Era(s): Modern
When sixteen year old Alexs parents ask him to deliver a mysterious package to their animal research camp in the Nepalese jungle, he and his twelve-year old brother James do not know the trouble they are about to face....
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950 and 1976
1950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives. 1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said,...
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