The Gambia: The Untold Dictator Yahya Jammeh’s Story
- Location(s): The Gambia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
It contains firsthand account information of some of the alleged murders, tortures, and disappearances that had taken place under the administration of Gambia’s iron fist dictator President Yahya Jammeh. The author had interviewed a wide range of sources-some of...
- Location(s): Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Inspired by the true story of an African childhood lived on the edge of destitution, award-winning Elizabeth Laird’s The Garbage King takes readers on an unforgettable emotional journey. When Mamo’s mother dies, he is abandoned in the shanties of...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Graphic Novel
- Era(s): Present
A beautiful story of healing and growth through mindfulness and gardening. Joanna is a high-powered finance consultant who’s been signed off work after having a nervous breakdown. Seeking more than just something to pass the time, she travels to...
- Location(s): Azerbaijan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Gunel is a young, truly loving, and devoted Azerbaijani woman. As a result of a drastic transformation of life circumstances, Gunel and her family, her husband, and their two little children need to immigrate to the United States. They...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s, 1990s, and contemporary
At his beloved Nonno Paolo’s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Murder and mystery set in Rome, The Garden of Evil is the sixth title in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s stunning Italian crime novels.
- Location(s): Maremma
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Set in the Maremma region of Southern Tuscany, this novel tells the story of two families against the backdrop of a rapidly transforming country. The Biagini are local ranchers, while the wealthy Sanfilippi belong to Rome’s upper middle-class. When...
The Garden Party and Other Stories
- Location(s): New Zealand
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): late 20th century
Written during the final stages of her illness, “The Garden Party and Other Stories” is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield’s last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories featured, many of...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Two people, one city, different times; connected by a memoir. Can love exist in a city destined for decades of misery? Adnan leads a weary existence as a bookshop owner in modern-day, war-torn Baghdad, where bombings, corruption and assault...
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): AD 216 - AD 274
This is the story of Mani, a forgotten figure, but whose name is yet, paradoxically, on everyone’s lips. When using the words “Manichean” or “Manichaeism” one rarely thinks Mani, painter, doctor and Eastern philosopher of the third century, called...
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