The Girl Who Said No to the Nazis: Sophie Scholl and the Plot Against Hitler
- Location(s): Germany
- Era(s): WW2, 1942
How one young student and her friends fought against fascism in Nazi Germany – the incredible story of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. Part of the True Adventures series! Nazi Germany, 1942. As World War Two rages, Sophie...
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
- Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st century
Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen’s jewels be the beginning or the end...
- Location(s): Costa del Sol, Marbella
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
After a passionate fun-filled affair, Kate is abandoned by Rob, her first love. Six years later, stuck in a dead-end job and trapped in a toxic relationship, she somehow escapes to the sunny Spanish Costa del Sol. Here she...
- Location(s): Tehran
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
Young Shiraz lives a lonely life with her stepmother and stepsister, completely unaware of the old woman who lives alone next door…until Shiraz’s runaway yarn ball brings them face-to-face. This beautiful story from Tehran-born Israeli pop star Rita Jahanforuz...
- Location(s): Cairo
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Napoleonic and contemporary
Art historian, Yasmine, is restoring an unsigned portrait of a strikingly beautiful girl from the Napoleonic Era, when she discovers that the artist has embedded a lock of hair into the painting, something highly unusual. The mysterious painting came...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th century
It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in...
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Tale
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in...
The Girl with the Louding Voice
- Location(s): Lagos
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man,...
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
- Location(s): Sunderland, Ryhope, Scarborough
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket, Ada Davidson, housekeeper of the wealthy McNally family’s home, the Uplands, takes her into her care. Sworn to secrecy about the...
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