Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
- Location(s): Zanzibar, Stone Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1964
It is 1964, a month after independence celebrations in the spice islands of Zanzibar, off the east coast of Africa. A brutal uprising takes place apparently led by a shadowy figure, John Okello. In the capital, Stone Town, a...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2003
It’s a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out? A New York City resident for many years, Carol Higgins Clark was there during the blackout of 2003. Not surprisingly, she...
- Location(s): Texas
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Texas since her family moved there for her father’s...
Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law
- Location(s): Warsaw
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Cordelia is a shy and high-minded polio victim who lives a life of seclusion caring for her odd family in Warsaw. Her father is an academic with no life skills, her brother never leaves the villa, and her mother...
- Location(s): Niger
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): Folktales
Zarma Folktales of Niger presents in English the folklore of the Zarma, a lesser-known tribe of West Africa. These tales run the gamut from teaching ethical and moral lessons to portraying tricksters to naming animals to farting contests to...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ghost. Ape. Living dead. Young and albino, Chipo has been called many things, but to her mother — Zimbabwe’s most loyal Manchester United supporter — she had always been a gift. On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo...
- Location(s): Black Forest
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Louise Boni, maverick chief inspector with the Black Forest crime squad, is struggling with her demons. Divorced at forty-two, she is haunted by the shadows of the past. Dreading yet another a dreary winter weekend alone, she receives a...
- Location(s): Tokyo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s tough to keep cool when the heat is on Japanese-American Rei Shimura finally has a life to be proud of in Tokyo: running her own antiques business and living with her Scottish lawyer boyfreind. But when Rei overpays...
- Location(s): Trieste
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1800s-Early 1900s
This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a family and a hilarious account of addiction and failure as its helpless hero, notionally undergoing psychiatric help, manages spectacularly to fail to give up smoking, run his...
- Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th century
Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, J. Nozipo Maraire evokes the moving story of a mother reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and...
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