- Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): 1985
In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...
The Year I Lay My Head In Water: Swimming Scandinavia in Search of a Better Life
- Location(s): Scandinavia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laying your head in water is what you do when you’re having a bad day. The water is where you go when you need time to think. It’s where you go when you reach a crossroads in your life....
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+, Mystery
- Era(s): 1978
It is 1978 in the Twin Cities, and Kevin Doyle, a high school senior, is a marginal student in love with keggers, rock and roll, and–unbeknownst to anyone else–a boy in his class with thick eyelashes and a bad...
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn’t have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote Alaska leave at the first...
- Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
What if – to find yourself – you had to run away? Last year was meant to be when Holly got her happy-ever-after. But stuck in a job that’s going nowhere, and a relationship that feels more like it’s...
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
- Location(s): Portugal
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The world’s threats are universal like the sun but Ricardo Reis takes shelter under his own shadow. Back in Lisbon after sixteen years practicing medicine in Brazil, Ricardo Reis wanders the rain-sodden streets. He longs for the unattainably aristocratic...
The Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-making Machine
- Location(s): Beirut
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
It’s bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist spends his days in his father and uncle’s bakery, admiring the female customers, observing the many colourful characters, and listening in on fascinating grown-up conversations about everything from jaundice to the...
- Location(s): Bath, Paris
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
As young women, Lise and Emma had the kind of friendship people dream about. While Lise’s own family was distant and disengaged, Emma’s was welcoming and warm, and for the first twenty-six years of their life, growing up together...
- Location(s): Mexico, Mexico City
- Genre(s): In Translation, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
An epic and heartbreaking love story that will leave no one untouched. Like Fuentes’s masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action in this novel begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City. From 1905 to...
- Location(s): Concarneau, Brittany
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 20th century
The story is set in the small seaside town of Concarneau, which is left shaken when a local man is shot dead by a mystery assailant hiding in a deserted house. Fear sweeps through the town, which soon falls...
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