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In Little Stars

In Little Stars
  • Author(s): Linda Green
  • Location(s): Halifax, Bradford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two families divided by hate. A love that will not die. Sylvie and Donna travel on the same train to work each day but have never spoken. Their families are on different sides of the bitter Brexit divide, although...

In Matto’s Realm

In Matto’s Realm
  • Author(s): Friedrich Glauser
  • Location(s): Bern
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1920s

Studer investigates when the director vanishes and a child murderer escapes from an insane asylum in Bern, an environment Glauser knew all too well from personal experience. Set in the 1920s, the novel explores the no-man’s-land between reason and...

In Memoriam

In Memoriam
  • Author(s): Alice Winn
  • Location(s): England, Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century / WW1

In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They’re too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle – an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood – not having a...

In Memory of Memory

In Memory of Memory
  • Author(s): Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale (translator)
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

TRANSLATED BY SASHA DUGDALE With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life...

In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story

In Mozart’s Shadow:  His Sister’s Story
  • Author(s): Carolyn Meyer
  • Location(s): Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Nannerl Mozart was a musical prodigy who seemed to have a brilliant future. But once her younger brother, Wolfgang, began composing symphonies at the age of five, her career and talents were utterly eclipsed. Here, at last, is Nannerl’s...

In My Father’s House

In My Father’s House
  • Author(s): Ann Rinaldi
  • Location(s): Virginia, Appomattox
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): American Civil War

Many of the fiercest battles of the Civil War were fought in the home. Oscie Mason knows this all too well. The first shots of the war were fired on her front lawn – a sign of things to...

In My Mosque

In My Mosque
  • Author(s): M O Yuksel, Hatem Aly (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A big-hearted global celebration of mosques and the diverse worshippers that they welcome every day! My mosque feels safe like home. In my mosque, we pray for peace, love and joy. You are welcome in my mosque. Picked by...

In One Brief Moment All Eternity

In One Brief Moment All Eternity
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Cairo, Istanbul (Constantinople), Middle East, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th/19th Centuries

During a time of great turmoil, Gustave Flaubert created literature’s most scandalous heroine: Madame Bovary. He then poisoned her with arsenic. But what if, 175 years later, Emma – and the women history overlooked – could seize the quill...

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
  • Author(s): Yeonmi Park
  • Location(s): North Korea
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2007 onwards

Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually made it to South Korea two years later after a harrowing ordeal, recognized that in order to be “completely free,” she...

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
  • Author(s): Daniyal Mueenuddin
  • Location(s): Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

“In Other Rooms, Other Wonders” illuminates a place and people as it describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. Servants, masters, peasants and socialites, all inextricably bound to each other, confront the advantages and constraints of...

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