- Location(s): Berlin
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1989
Wallflower is four hours in the life of Molly Lenzfeld, sixteen-year-old New Yorker in Berlin. It’s Thanksgiving Day 1989, two weeks after the fall of the Wall. Molly, the daughter of a German-Jewish mother who fled the Nazis in...
- Location(s): Manhattan
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): early 21st century
After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Current, about a bushfire
Ideal for children transitioning from picture-books-only to text-only books.Wally, a young Australian water dragon, and his beloved friend, the little mouse called Pinky, are caught in an emergency. A terrible bushfire is raging and threatening to kill all in...
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Current
Wally, a young Australian water dragon, meets Pinky, a little pink mouse. Will he eat her for dinner, or become her saviour, when a venomous red-bellied black snake slides into the billabong? What will happen when all of Pinky’s...
Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story
- Location(s): Lebanon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1982
One night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, Christian militia members entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and began to massacre hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians. Ari Folman was one of...
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Traveling solo as a woman certainly has its ups and downs, but Melissa Burovac will be the first to tell you to embrace the adventure as you encounter it. Facing her fortieth birthday as a single woman in a...
- Location(s): England, South East Asia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
An extraordinary, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies –...
- Location(s): United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 19th-21st Century
The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘A towering achievement’ New York Times ‘As vital as air’ Guardian ‘This novel is alive’ Tess Gunty Following the...
- Location(s): United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Nature, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Alone on a remote mountaintop one dark night, a woman hears a mysterious voice. Propelled by the memory and after years of dreaming about it, Jini Reddy dares to delve into the ‘wanderlands’ of...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life,...
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