Until they bring the Streetcars back
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Calvin Gant is in high-school senior in St. Paul in the late 1940s. All the conflicts of a young boy are present and meets a young girl who is being abused at home. He has a growing sense that...
- Location(s): Cape Town
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
‘History . . . is seldom able to convey the essence of being human’ Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years. He has a house in Notting Hill, a house in the...
- Location(s): Tōhoku
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): March 11, 2011 Tsunami
Running through my ruined town, pack flapping winglike against my back. Plowing through blocks strewn with heaps of refrigeratorsblackboardsbicyclestaxis bustedpianosshelvedesksstairs allmixedtogether in a marshland grave. In March 2011, a massive tsunami devastates Japan. Kai, a biracial teen from a...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when, full of optimism, she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one...
- Location(s): Malta, Northamptonshire
- Genre(s): Fiction
When 51 year old Judith lost Giorgio, she lost her life in Malta – joy, love, her income, her own space, and her circle of friends. She even lost the view from her sun-warmed balcony of the sparkling blue...
- Location(s): Mongla
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Any moment now, we would grow up, and we would become them, waking late and hungry and with a job that had no name On a desolate, sinking island, a group of children witness their mothers living lives of...
- Location(s): Belgium
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
A group of story-tellers are disappearing one by one. A young woman is haunted by her past. A serial killer has one target he is desperate to hunt down. Veerle is trying to lie low, to live as ‘normal’...
- Location(s): Mars
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 2196
A girl, trapped between two clashing worlds, must make sense of the past and face the future. The first novel from the Hugo Award-winning author of ‘Folding Bejing’, Hao Jingfang, translated by the Hugo Award-winning translator of The Three-Body...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who...
- Location(s): Bulgaria
- Genre(s): Fiction
A Peace Corps volunteer has gone missing in Bulgaria and everyone assumes he is dead, everyone except his grandfather, who refuses to give up hope. Retired literature professor Simon Matthews launches a desperate search only to be lured into...
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