How Coffee Saved My Life: And Other Stories of Stumbling to Grace
- Location(s): Uruguay
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Based on the author’s true life experiences, ‘How Coffee Saved My Life’ is a funny, tragic, provocative and touching story of a rich, white, North American overachiever who spends a year in Uruguay in hopes of becoming a more...
- Location(s): Congo (Democratic Republic of), United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan’s beloved coming-of-age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm below fifteen year-old Copper as he gazes out into the city of his childhood. Struck by...
- Location(s): London, The Hebrides
- Genre(s): Fiction, Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The perfect couple Meeting Albie gave Beth a fresh start – a chance to leave her past behind. Now she has her new husband; an ambitious, talented young neurosurgeon. The perfect marriage Their marriage gives Beth the safe haven...
- Location(s): The Peloponnese
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
The sequel to the novel A Saint For The Summer. Bronte McKnight is in the early days of her love affair with charismatic doctor Leonidas Papachristou. But as Bronte tries to live and love like a Greek, the economic...
- Location(s): South Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th Century
A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn’s How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age, published in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a mining community in rural South...
- Location(s): Boston
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Boston was nothing like South Carolina. Up there, colored folks could go anywhere they wanted. Folks didn’t wait for church to dress in their fancy clothes. Fancy was just life. Mama was a city girl . . . and...
- Location(s): North York Moors
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Maybe he wasn’t there because of the lights – maybe they were there because of him…’ It’s been over eighteen months since Molly Gilchrist has had a man (as her best friend, Caro, is so fond of reminding her),...
- Location(s): Rome, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew that coming out to his Muslim family would be messy, but he wasn’t expecting it to end in an airport interrogation room. Now, he’s telling his side of the story to the stern-faced officer....
- Location(s): Kyoto
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto. Florentyna begins a new job as a tour...
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