- 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...
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...
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