- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isn’t it? Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn – and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful....
Saving Our Skins: Building a Vineyard Dream in France
- Location(s): Dordogne
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Frost can be fatal to a fledgling wine business… gorgeous glitter with a high price tag. On a winter’s day it is beautiful, but on a spring day after bud burst it spells devastation. For Sean and Caro Feely,...
- Location(s): South Side (Chicago)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her...
- Location(s): Baghdad
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 2003
The Baghdad zoo was once home to more than six hundred magnificent animals. But after the war in Iraq began in 2003, the city faced widespread destruction.When U. S. Army Captain William Sumner was asked to check out the...
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Escape to Switzerland Book 1 A holiday – or the chance of a lifetime? Stacy can’t believe her luck when her best friend Emily invites her on a holiday to Switzerland. The girls arrive at the Lakeside Hotel with...
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror
- Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In...
Savushun: A Novel about Modern Iran
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Savushun (pronounced “sa-voo-shoon”) is a folk tradition, surviving in Southern Iran from an undateable pre-islamic past, that conjures hope in spite of everything. The novel chronicles the life of a Persian family during the World War II Allied occupation...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Georgian Era
Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his...
- Location(s): Wales
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Dylan is struggling. Since he started high school, everything has become too much to handle. Now he’s been expelled and is forced to move to the tiny village in Wales where his grandad lives. But when Grandad invites Dylan...
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