- Location(s): Michigan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist–compassionate, uncannily wise Grace–This I Know is a luminous coming-of-age story from an astonishing new voice. Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Present looking back
Abe and Jane have been together for fifty years: as two among the thousands of starry-eyed young lovers in Central Park, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as an artist and a writer whose careers were taking flight. Now, Jane...
This Is a Soul: An American Doctor’s Remarkable Mission in Ethiopia
- Location(s): Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Passionately written by journalist Marilyn Berger, This is a Soul is the moving and inspiring story of Dr. Rick Hodes, an American doctor living in Ethiopia, who has devoted his life to caring for the sickest of the sick...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 20th Century
Intended for early reading years, but the illustrations are delightful for all ages…. Following the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek’s beloved and nostalgic children’s...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
‘Steeped in longing and spiked with pitch perfect 80s detail . . . Gorgeous’ ANNA HOPE Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together like they were keeping a secret;...
- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now –...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their triple decker...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But...
- 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....
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