- Location(s): Oregon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Like Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood and Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Brian Doyle’s stunning fiction debut brings a town to life through the jumbled lives and braided stories of its people. In a small town on the Oregon coast...
- Location(s): Manhattan, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Wyeth is a newcomer to New York, a young Black painter who is trying to find his place in the contemporary Manhattan art scene. He shares a studio with his friends and earns money working for a gallery and...
- Location(s): Israel, Palestine
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 1949 and the present
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba–the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people–and...
- Location(s): County Offaly
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
Set around a small family farm on the edge of a bog, a few miles from the river Shannon, Minor Monuments is a collection of essays unfolding from the landscape of the Irish midlands. Taking in the physical and...
- Location(s): Ljubljana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Perhaps Slovenia s most famous novel about WWII, Vitomil Zuptan’s Minuet for Guitar describes the Slovene soldier Berk and his surreal experiences as a guerilla during the Axis occupation of Ljubljana.
- Location(s): Sweden
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
With help from a genie, young Karl Anders Nilsson travels by day and night, beyond the stars, to reach Farawayland. There, his father the King, who has been searching for him for nine long years, tells him his true...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
- Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)
History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...
- Location(s): Northern Thailand
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2018
Featuring never-before-reported details and exclusive interviews with the boys and their coach, the inspiring true story of how twelve members of the Wild Boar Academy Football Club and their coach survived nine days in a labyrinthine cave in Northern...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): early 1990s
The lives of three people are changed by an old man who insists that he is Santa Claus.
- Location(s): Pennsylvania
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s / 1950s
Marly and her family share many adventures when they move from the city to a farmhouse on Maple Hill. Her father is recovering from being a prisoner-of-war. The small town and the varied happenings and activities of country life...
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