- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 2174
The year is 2174. The place is Zimbabwe, Africa. Three adventurous children escape their parents’ heavily guarded mansion to explore the dangerous world outside. They soon learn how dangerous it really is. Tendai, the oldest boy, is their leader,...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): 2194
General Matsika’s children steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure–and disappear. In Zimbabwe, in the year 2194, the children’s parents call in Africa’s most unusual detectives–the Ear, the Eye and the Arm–who have powers far beyond those...
- Location(s): Vietnam
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s to 1975
A searing memoir by the award-winning author of Catfish and Mandala offers a portrait of his father’s experiences over the course of three wars–the French occupation of Indochina, the World War II Japanese invasion, and the Vietnam War–as he...
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams’s fourth pulse-pounding adventure featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox. Welcome to Eden. Population: Zero. After she finds out her estranged father and sister are missing from their coastal nature reserve in Madagascar, TV zoologist...
- Location(s): Toronto
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1960s/early 1970s
Marian is determined to be ordinary. She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn’t count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion....