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The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild

The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild
  • Author(s): John Ironmonger
  • Location(s): France, England, Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 18/19/20th/21st century/2061

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES… On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later, strange dreams...

The Many Meanings of Meilan

The Many Meanings of Meilan
  • Author(s): Andrea Wang
  • Location(s): Boston, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A family feud before the start of seventh grade propels Meilan from Boston’s Chinatown to rural Ohio, where she must tap into her inner strength and sense of justice to make a new place for herself in this resonant...

The Many Seas to Guernsey

The Many Seas to Guernsey
  • Author(s): Catherine Taylor
  • Location(s): Guernsey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s WW2

In the last golden years before Europe erupts into WWII a young English writer and a German Roman Catholic priest-in-training meet by chance on the small British island of Guernsey – and are drawn into a forbidden, all-consuming love....

The Map of Bones

The Map of Bones
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): South Africa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1688, 1862

A sweeping story of love, adventure and adversity, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is an epic tale of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land. Olifantshoek, Southern Africa, 1688. When the violent Cape wind blows...

The Map of Salt and Stars

The Map of Salt and Stars
  • Author(s): Zeyn Joukhadar
  • Location(s): Syria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 13th century and 2011

The story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker. It is the summer of 2011, and Nour has just lost her father to cancer....

The Maple and the Blue

The Maple and the Blue
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Dieppe, Egypt, Malta
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

No. 111 Squadron prepare to face the murderous skies over Dieppe… Spring, 1942 The Allies and Fighter Command have gone on the offensive. The French town of Dieppe is selected for the first major assault on the European continent....

The Mapmaker’s Wife

The Mapmaker’s Wife
  • Author(s): Robert Whitaker
  • Location(s): Amazon Rainforest
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry...

The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill

The Maps of Memory: Return to Butterfly Hill
  • Author(s): Marjorie Agosin
  • Location(s): Valparaiso, Chile
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/1980s

In this inspiring sequel to the Pura Belpré Award-winning, “dazzling and insightful” (BCCB) I Lived on Butterfly Hill, thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to a very different Chile and makes it her mission to rebuild her community, and find...

The Marchesa

The Marchesa
  • Author(s): Sarah Dunant
  • Location(s): Mantua
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th/16thCentury

From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesancomes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time....

The Margins

The Margins
  • Author(s): John Wigglesworth
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

They wanted to escape capitalism; instead, they created the perfect business. Only Ethan Hicks knows what happened up on the mountain, for everyone else is dead. Hundreds of them, hundreds of westerners, their bodies yet to be recovered from...

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