- Location(s): Ohio
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
To Hell with high school! The American education system is turned inside out when a frustrated teacher incites his students to stage an uprising. In a poor suburban community in southern Ohio, Dieter Vogel is a failing English teacher...
- Location(s): Derry (Londonderry)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense...
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
- Location(s): Iran
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
“Reading on Location” is a country-by-country guide to the regions and cities made famous by both well-known and cult books. From the quintessential English city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” to the South India of Arundhati Roy’s...
- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. For Mirabelle Zielinski’s children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1903
First published in 1903, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” is the charming and classic children’s novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena...
- Location(s): Carmarthenshire
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Victorian
For centuries generations of the Jenkins family have eked out a living from their Carmarthensire hill farm. But when a fire destroys virtually all of their possessions the Jenkins children are forced to watch their lives crumble around them....