- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2011
A young media activist at the time of the uprising, Eid chronicles in this book his experience growing up in Assad’s Syria, surviving a sarin gas attack on his home town, picking up arms against the government, and the...
- Location(s): Burundi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
One man’s amazing story of how God protected and provided for him in the midst of the Burundian civil war and brought him to a place of grace, forgiveness and restoration. Theodore Mbazumutima was forced to flee from his...
- Location(s): Spain, Canada
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s-to present day
My Cousin’s Cousin follows the lives of playboys Emil and Rafael whose carefree existence is disrupted by the arrival of their much younger cousin Ino. Over the next few years, the seemingly glamorous lives of all three will change...
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s and 2017
An era-defining novel about the relationship between a fifteen-year-old girl and her teacher ALL HE DID WAS FALL IN LOVE WITH ME AND THE WORLD TURNED HIM INTO A MONSTER Vanessa Wye was fifteen-years-old when she first had sex...
- Location(s): Kabul
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Contemporary
In August 2021, as the Taliban approached the gates of Kabul, twenty-one women writers in Afghanistan came online in their WhatsApp chat group: they asked what news others had heard and if everyone was safe. These women had been...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th cent
Now a major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and “Eddie” from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man). In 1943 in a sleepy town...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A dazzling debut novel about a young woman’s difficult coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim patriarchal norms and a debilitating neurological condition. The mysterious affliction leaves her unable to...
- Location(s): Uganda
- Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure
- Era(s): 1990s
Vanessa Henman, a plucky but accident-prone white writer, flies out to Uganda for an African writers’ conference. She also means to visit her former cleaner, Ugandan Mary Tendo, now the successful Executive Housekeeper of Kampala’s Sheraton Hotel. But Mary...
- Location(s): Estonia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Some people have said this book is romantic and maybe it is: a young lost American college grad falls in love with an intriguing European journalist and embarks on a journey that restores his faith in himself and the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1884
A high society fraud and a scrappy swindler team up to take down Gilded Age New York in this tale of intrigue, drama, and female friendship. The Grand Duchess Marie Charlotte Antonie of Würrtemberg–a turmoil-plagued Germanic nation with closely...
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