- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians. This is London as you’ve never seen it...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on Paris, New York, and San Francisco, M Sasek presents stylish, elegant London in This is London, first published in 1959 and now updated for the 21st century....
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time–her dad has only 267 days left....
- Location(s): Florida Keys
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Current
When Charlotte and Philip meet, the pair form a deep and instant connection. Soon they’re settled in the Florida Keys with plans to marry. But just as they should be getting closer, Charlotte feels Philip slipping away. Second-guessing their...
This Is Not Propaganda: War Against Reality
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Current
We live in a world of influence operations run amok, a world of dark ads, psy-ops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, Trump. We’ve lost not only our sense of peace and democracy – but our sense of...
- Location(s): Rila Mountains, Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Dystopian
- Era(s): Near-future
Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains, safely away from London State. When an old enemy dies, Lina’s...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
This Is Our World, written by Tracey Turner, is a colourful celebration of our planet’s cultural and environmental diversity – an unforgettable journey that brings the people, customs and wildlife of twenty places around the world vividly to life...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Modern
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides...
- Location(s): Bath
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go...
- Location(s): North Korea
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea, a country locked away from the outside world. This personal, illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides...
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