- Location(s): Nigeria, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): late 20th / early 21st centuries
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born “with one foot on the...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 800 AD
Freya lived more than a thousand years ago at the beginning of the Viking raids on Britain. Home was a longhouse, one of several in the settlement; a stockade protected the small community from bears and wolves roaming the...
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
- Location(s): Odessa, Texas
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1988
In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their...
- Location(s): New York State
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new mother, is struggling to adjust to life in a small town after nearly twenty years in New York City. Alone in the house with her infant son all day (and awake with him...
- Location(s): Iowa, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2013
Noah and Lee have been friends since they were scrawny, misfit ninth graders. Fifteen years later, Noah is a police sergeant in Dubuque, Iowa, and Lee is an EMT. They’ve got respectable jobs, but they haven’t lost their youthful...
Friendship Love And Killer Escapades (FLAKE)
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Prakash Bharti: a shy, self-effacing, spiritually-inclined simpleton from Gangtok; Purvesh Shroff: a cocky, strapping young lad from Mumbai; Richa Malhotra: a sweet, vivacious girl from Bangalore; Anand Kumar Rajput: a mysterious, enigmatic personality from Jharkhand. Friendship, Love and Killer...
Friendship, Love and Apple Tea
- Location(s): Marmaris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Lou Granger is ready to enjoy her long-awaited month of relaxation and fun in the sun with her best friend Libby who now lives in Marmaris, Turkey. After eighteen months of living with Grant, her controlling boyfriend, Lou’s pretty...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
Frog Music is an atmospheric and gripping novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room, adapted as a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed...
- Location(s): Somalia, Mogadishu (Mogadiscio)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Written with complete conviction from a woman’s point of view, Nuruddin Farah’s spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting celebration of the unbroken human spirit. Ebla, an orphan of...
- Location(s): Colorado, Michigan
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
Few residents in the small, secluded mountain-town of Winston, Colorado have kind words to say about security guard Sean Coleman. He’s a bully, a drunk, and a crime-show addicted, armchair detective with an overactive imagination. After a night of...
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