- 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...
This is Where the Serpent Lives
- Location(s): Pakistan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Moving from Pakistan’s sophisticated cities to its most rural farmlands, This Is Where the Serpent Lives captures the extraordinary proximity of extreme wealth to extreme poverty in a land where fate is determined by class and social station. Daniyal...
- Location(s): Nigeria, Atlanta
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1905 and 2005
2005 In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying...
- Location(s): Italy, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two strangers—generations and oceans apart—have a chance to save each other in this moving and suspenseful novel about family secrets and the ineffable connections that lead us to one another. In a small Northern Italian village, nine-year-old Luca Taviano...
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