How Much of These Hills is Gold
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 19th century
‘The boldest debut of the year . . . It is refreshing to discover a new author of such grand scale, singular focus and blistering vision’ Observer America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a...
How the Finch Stole Christmas!
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
Meg’s husband has decided to escalate his one-man show of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol into a full-scale production with a large cast including their sons Jamie and Josh as Tiny Tim and young Scrooge and Meg helping as stage...
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the...
- Location(s): Québec
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
How the Light Gets In is the ninth Chief Inspector Gamache Novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. —Leonard Cohen Christmas is approaching, and...
How The One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- Location(s): Barbados
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it’s the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings...
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Across history
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks – those that are honest about the past and those that are not – that offer an intergenerational story...
How To Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will last longer....
How to Be an American in Italy
- Location(s): Italy
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): current
Don’t want to embarrass yourself in front of your Italian host family? Don’t want to stick out like a sore thumb in Sicily (or Florence, or Milan, or Venice)? Don’t want to look like an “ugly American” abroad? Don’t...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Current
In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we...
- Location(s): England, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 15th Century
How to be both is a novel all about art’s versatility. Borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it’s a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s....
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