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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
  • Author(s): Amos Tutuola
  • Location(s): Nigeria
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1950s

“My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”, Amos Tutuola’s second novel, was first published in 1954. It tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable...

My Lover’s Lover

My Lover’s Lover
  • Author(s): Maggie O'Farrell
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

From the Costa Award winning Maggie O’Farrell comes the Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller MY LOVER’S LOVER, an intense, unnerving and passionate story of betrayal, loss and love, with all the frisson and psychological intensity of Rebecca. When Lily...

My Michael

My Michael
  • Author(s): Amos Oz
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Thoughtful, self-assured and highly sophisticated, full of the most skillful modulations of tone and texture. A modern Israeli Madame Bovary.–New York Times Book Review Set in 1950s Jerusalem, My Michael is the story of a remote and intense woman...

My Midnight Sun

My Midnight Sun
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Life is good for thirty-year-old Owen Sterling. But when tragedy strikes during his honeymoon in Thailand, the future he’d hoped for is shattered. After time with his family and friends in America does little to ease his pain, Owen...

My Mongolian World: From Onon Bridge to Cambridge

My Mongolian World: From Onon Bridge to Cambridge
  • Author(s): Urgunge Onon
  • Location(s): Mongolia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): early 20th century

The distinguished Mongolian scholar Urgunge Onon’s reminiscences offer a rare insight into the culture and lifestyle of a Daur Mongol in the first half of the twentieth century. Covering the years from his youth to middle age, the author...

My Mother’s House

My Mother’s House
  • Author(s): Francesca Momplaisir
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For fans of Edwidge Danticat, Mehsin Hamid, Kate Atkinson, and Jesmyn Ward: a literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person’s damages can have on the lives of others–told...

My Name Is Emilia del Valle

My Name Is Emilia del Valle
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Chile
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1866

In this spellbinding historical novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father–and...

My Name Is Parvana

My Name Is Parvana
  • Author(s): Deborah Ellis
  • Location(s): Afghanistan
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

  She heard the woman’s boots walk away down the hall. She stood and waited, listening hard to see if the boots would come back. When she was sure she was alone, the girl finally spoke. ‘ Yes,’ she...

My Name Is Rachel

My Name Is Rachel
  • Author(s): Lorna Peel
  • Location(s): The West Country
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

Rachel Harris was abandoned as a baby on the steps of a church-run children’s home, fostered and later adopted. Who was her birth mother and what were the circumstances which led her to give up her baby? Searching for...

My Name is River

My Name is River
  • Author(s): Emma Rea
  • Location(s): Wales, Amazon Rainforest, Brazil
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): contemporary

Twelve year-old Dylan outwits his family and teachers to travel with his new friend Floyd from Wales to Brazil in a mad bid to rescue his dad’s farm from the grip of a global corporation. The friends are soon...

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