- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), China
- Genre(s): Biography, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century
Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from the author’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side...
- Location(s): Connecticut
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Modern
Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs,...
- Location(s): Japan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): World War II
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids recounts the exploits of 15 teenage reformatory boys evacuated in wartime to a remote mountain village where they are feared and detested by the local peasants. When plague breaks out, the villagers flee,...
Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
- Location(s): Angola
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 17th century
“The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders.” -Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga...
- Location(s): Sussex Downs, Sussex
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
- Era(s): Present
Is it an accident? Or is it murder? Kent Fisher, an environmental health officer with more baggage than an airport carousel, needs to find out. When he visits Tombstone Adventure Park to investigate a fatal work accident, the details...
- Location(s): England, Syria
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): contemporary
Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asylum from war in Syria. When Aya stumbles across a local ballet class, the formidable dance teacher spots her exceptional talent...
- Location(s): Aubrac, Wales
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Would you reveal your past and risk your second chance at love? Helen Tanner runs her own business, spends her evenings out with friends, anything to avoid memories of the tragedy she left behind. She lives alone and likes...
- Location(s): Sussex Downs
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Present
Why would environmental health officer, Kent Fisher, show any interest in finding Daphne Witherington, the missing wife of a longstanding family friend? The police believe she ran off with Colin Miller, a rather dubious caterer, and Kent has problems...
No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis
- Location(s): South Sudan, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Iraq
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Current
What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left? No Dancing, No Dancing: Inside the Global Humanitarian Crisis follows the return journey of a former aid worker...
- Location(s): Kruger National Park
- Genre(s): Environmental, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Broken-hearted after losing her brother in a terrorist attack, 17-year-old Yael Amar seeks solace on an elephant conservation program in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Catapulted into a world harmonious with nature, and dazzled by her new best friend,...
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