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Reading Blue Devils

Reading Blue Devils
  • Author(s): Jon Bennett
  • 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...

Reading in the Dark

Reading in the Dark
  • Author(s): Seamus Deane
  • 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

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
  • Author(s): Azar Nafisi
  • 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...

Reading on Location

Reading on Location
  • Author(s): Luisa Moncada, Scala Quin
  • 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...

Ready Or Not

Ready Or Not
  • Author(s): Ste Sharp
  • Location(s): Felixstowe
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1990s

Luke Redfern is drawn into another life or death adventure, forcing him to make some big decisions. Christmas 1996, and Luke is living in London, gigging with his band, Beachhead. Britpop is in full swing and things are going...

Real Life

Real Life
  • Author(s): Brandon Taylor
  • Location(s): The Midwest
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modn

Wallace has spent his summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. He is four years into a biochemistry degree at a lakeside Midwestern university, a life that’s a world away from his childhood in Alabama. His...

Real Life and Liars

Real Life and Liars
  • Author(s): Kristina Riggle
  • 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...

Reap The Wind

Reap The Wind
  • Author(s): Iris Johansen
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Some would kill to know what Caitlin Vasaro knows. For the secrets she’s kept hidden all her life are the kind that the rich and the powerful will do anything to possess. But not even Caitlin knows how much...

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • 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...

Rebecca’s Children

Rebecca’s Children
  • Author(s): Kate Dunn
  • 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....

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