- Location(s): Central Florida
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
In the fall of 1967, Faye Smith’s family moves to Florida to work in the orange groves, and she has to start a new school… again. She tries out for the track team, knowing her mother would never approve...
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
This is a story of a London you won’t find in any guidebooks. This is a story about what it’s like to exist in the moment, about boys too eager to become men, growing up in the hidden war...
- Location(s): Belfast
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): contemporary
‘They’re dead. They’re all dead. It’s my fault. I killed them.’ Those are the words of Iona Gardener, who stands bloodied and staring as she confesses to the murder of four people in a run-down cottage outside of Belfast....
- Location(s): Birmingham
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Amir has grown up in Alum Rock, Birmingham, under the care of his sensible older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. Alum Rock can be a troubled place, but Amir has managed...
- Location(s): Santa Cruz
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
BEHIND THIS GLASS, EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL On the Santa Cruz waterfront, every house is as perfect as the people inside. Not so for Mitty and Bethel, the oddball pair in the dilapidated bungalow – they are the last...
- Location(s): New Hampshire
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a...
Why Goats Smell Bad and Other Stories from Benin
- Location(s): Benin (Danhomè)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
A collection of nineteen folk stories from the Fon people of Benin, about orphans and twins with magical associations, spirits, animals, royalty, and farmers.
- Location(s): Brandenburg
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Mike doesn’t get why people think he’s boring. Sure, he doesn’t have many friends. (OK, zero friends.) And everyone laughs at him when he reads his essays out loud in class. And he’s never invited to parties. But one...
- Location(s): Cornwall, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Regency
Thrilling Regency romance, set against an Outlander-like background of passion and war, this will delight lovers of Poldarkand Bridgerton. 1819: Cornwall and St Petersburg High society England is awash with gossip and scandal. For Lady Hester, it’s just typical...
- Location(s): Marseilles (Marseille)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
- Era(s): Various
Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France’s second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect allegiance...
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