Rocking the System: Fearless and Amazing Irish Women Who Made History
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
The stories of twenty Irish feminists who rocked the system and changed history, told by one of Ireland’s leading writers for young people. Twenty illustrated essays on Irish women, historical and contemporary, who have defied cultural norms around femininity...
- Location(s): Crete, Greece
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1823 to 1830
In January 1823, four mourners stand over the shrouded body of the exceptional female rebel, Rodanthe. Each suffers the loss of a daughter, friend, lost love or valued ally. Her injured papa, Mathaios, kneels at her graveside, begging forgiveness...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 20th century
David Rodinsky lived above a synagogue in the heart of the old Jewish East End of London, and sometime in the late 1960s he disappeared. His room, a chaos of writings, annotated books and maps, gramophone records and clothes,...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Novella, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): renaissance
Rodrigo Borgia’s long-time mistress, Vannozza, tells her story of twenty years with the most powerful man in Italy with shameless honesty. Despite wild rumours, salacious gossip and being replaced in Rodrigo’s bed by a woman young enough to be...
- Location(s): Prague, Budapest, Munich, Vienna
- Genre(s): Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): Contemporary
Who is The Cobra, a shadowy character with major connections to the worlds of espionage and art theft? The answer to this question is the key to finding the leaders of a mysterious worldwide political conspiracy with its roots...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Crime
Set between Fowey and St Mawes. A lawyer’s body is found on the beach in the small Cornish village of Porthaven, staked out with a tarred bag over its head, just as the peak summer season gets underway. When...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Accompanied by photographer Anaik Frantz, Francois Maspero embarked on a journey along the RER, the express subway which leads through the Paris suburbs. Getting off the train at each stop, he and Frantz present a picture of daily life...
- Location(s): Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
Why is the land so important to Cassie’s family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she’s black—to show...
- Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Modern
Twelve-year-old Astrid has always done everything with her best friend Nicole. So when Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, she assumes Nicole will too. But Nicole signs up for dance camp with a new friend instead, and so...
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