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Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn #ownvoices novel in verse about an Indian American girl whose life is turned upside down when her mother is diagnosed with leukemia.Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she’s the only Indian American student, and home, with her family’s traditions and holidays... -
![The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan]()
The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Feels revolutionary in its freshness." --Entertainment Weekly"The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga, but in Alyan's hands, one family's tale becomes the story of a nation--Lebanon and Syria, yes, but also the United States. It's the kind of book we are lucky to have... -
![Swansea Summer by Catrin Collier]()
Swansea Summer by Catrin Collier
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNewly promoted DI Matt Pryor is disappointed when his first case seems to be a simple death from natural causes - that is, until the post-mortem shows something quite unexpected ... The elderly man who died on a Cardiff train was murdered - poisoned - by one of the other passengers... -
![The Wall by Eve Bunting]()
The Wall by Eve Bunting
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA young boy and his father visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial... -
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![The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins]()
The Outside Boy by Jeanine Cummins
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIreland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. The peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes... -
![Barbara's War - The Middle Years by Fenella J. Miller]()
Barbara's War - The Middle Years by Fenella J. Miller
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBarbara's War - The Middle Years - is the second book in a three book series. The third and final book in this series will be released in September 2014. The phony war is over and Hitler is beginning his rampage through Europe. Barbara Sinclair is determined to 'do her bit' for the war effort but circumstances send her down another, unexpected path...Categorized as:
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![At the Going Down of the Sun by Elizabeth Darrell]()
At the Going Down of the Sun by Elizabeth Darrell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis family epic, set during World War I, follows the fortunes of three brothers and the women who loved and waited for them. One, heir to the exquisite family home of Tarant Hall in Dorset, will be driven to the Front by accusations of cowardice... -
![You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr]()
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn extraordinary debut that explores legacies of abuse, redemption, and the strength of the human spirit--from the Boer Wars in South Africa to brutal wilderness camps for teenage boys. South Africa, 1901. It is the height of the second Boer War. Sarah van der Watt and her six-year-old son Fred are forced from their home on Mulberry Farm... -
![Outbound Train by Renea Winchester]()
Outbound Train by Renea Winchester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then wakes to the train’s five-thirty whistle. Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City’s textile plant, known as the “blue jean plant,” all the while worrying about her teenage daughter, Carole Anne... -
![Keep Smiling Through by Ellie Dean]()
Keep Smiling Through by Ellie Dean
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJune 1940. Rita Smith swore she would never lose heart . . .Despite losing her mother at a young age and her father away on important war work, seventeen-year-old Rita Smith has plenty of people to turn to in the close-knit community of Cliffhaven. Until Italy sides with Germany and Rita's closest friends and neighbours are interned as enemies of the state... -
![Tanamera by Noel Barber]()
Tanamera by Noel Barber
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe spell binding story of two lovers and two great dynasties; one British, the other Chinese, the society that separated them and the passion that bound them. TANAMERA sweeps from the steamy, British-ruled Malaya of the 1930s through the bloody days of the Japanese occupation, to the tumultuous birth of a nation... -
![The President's Gardens by Muohsin Ramlai, Luke Leafgren]()
The President's Gardens by Muohsin Ramlai, Luke Leafgren
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this extraordinary novel by heralded Iraqi author Muhsin Al-Ramli, One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A profoundly moving investigation of love, death, and injustice." --The Guardian"A standard in contemporary Middle Eastern literature." --Booklist "A stunning achievement... -
![We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama]()
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not... -
![Homeseeking by Karissa Chen]()
Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593712993.An epic and intimate tale of one couple across sixty years as world events pull them together and apart, illuminating the Chinese diaspora and exploring what it means to find home far from your homeland.A single choice can define an entire life...Categorized as:
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![Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim]()
Paper Wife by Laila Ibrahim
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Yellow Crocus comes a heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling’s parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband’s first wife—a paper wife.On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing... -
![Isabel by Javier Olivares Zurilla]()
Isabel by Javier Olivares Zurilla
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIsabel, una mujer que decidió ser la dueña de su propio destino.Hija menor de Juan II de Castilla e Isabel de Portugal, la pequeña Isabel contaba con escasas posibilidades de llegar al trono, destinado a sus hermanos varones... -
![River's Edge by Marie Bostwick]()
River's Edge by Marie Bostwick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter her mother's death, Elise Braun is sent away from her native Germany to live with distant relatives in the United States. Although her father only wants to save her from the impending war and the horrors of the new regime, Elise can't help but feel abandoned... -
![Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz]()
Island of Shattered Dreams by Chantal T. Spitz
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinally in English, Island of Shattered Dreams is the first ever novel by an indigenous Tahitian writer. In a lyrical and immensely moving style, this book combines a family saga and a doomed love story, set against the background of French Polynesia in the period leading up to the first nuclear tests...Categorized as:
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![Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths]()
Promise by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in this "magical, magnificent novel" (Marlon James) from "a startlingly fresh voice" (Jacqueline Woodson)...Categorized as:
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![Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko]()
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny...Categorized as:
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![Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman]()
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMississippi and integration in the 1960sThe year is 1964, and Alice Ann Moxley's FBI-agent father has been reassigned from Chicago to Jackson, Mississippi, to protect black people who are registering to vote... -
![The Gingerbread Girl by Sheila Newberry]()
The Gingerbread Girl by Sheila Newberry
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsALL SHE WANTED WAS A HOME FOR CHRISTMASLondon, 1936Ill and stuck in hospital at Christmas, seven year old Cora Kelly is excited to receive a visit from her mother, who brings her the gift of a gingerbread man. But little does Cora know that this will be the last time she sees her . . -
![Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh]()
Leopard at the Door by Jennifer McVeigh
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she’d longed for is much changed. Her father’s new companion—a strange, intolerant woman—has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching the boiling point... -
![In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner]()
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDisplaying the author's extraordinary gift for language, In the Shadow of the Banyan is testament to the transcendent power of narrative and a brilliantly wrought tale of human resilience... -
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![The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob]()
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpanning India in the 70s to New Mexico in the 80s to Seattle in the 90s, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing is a winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past... -
![Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera]()
Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil War—winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize for Asia, longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families... -
![The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon]()
The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAcclaimed and celebrated in the Arab world for it's vivid portrait of Iraq, this heart- breaking novel confronts the war - torn nations horrifying recent history, as told through the eyes of a young man. Jawad, born into a family of Corpse Washers, decides to turn his back on family tradition and follow his heart into the world of fine arts, but the circumstances of history will dictate otherwise... -
![Born Under a Million Shadows by Andrea Busfield]()
Born Under a Million Shadows by Andrea Busfield
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFor fans of THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hossein and Yasmin Khadra's THE SWALLOWS OF KABUL, a devastating tale of forbidden love between an Englishwoman and a Kabul warlord.The Taliban have disappeared from Kabul's streets, but the long shadows of their brutal regime remain... -
![Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar]()
Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including fifteen-year-old Hester Finch... -
![Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay]()
Brother Fish by Bryce Courtenay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrother Fish is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents.Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay's new novel tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life.Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait... -
![The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti]()
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn August 1947, 16-year-old Deepa’s life in New Delhi begins to unravel in the days leading up to the birth of the Muslim minority nation of Pakistan, and the Hindu majority nation of India. Her secret Muslim boyfriend Amir, who sends her origami love notes, must now flee with his sister Layla and their parents to Lahore, Pakistan... -
![My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang]()
My Father, the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing against the Vietnamese culture, juxtaposed with her father as an eleven-year-old boat person on a harrowing and traumatic refugee journey from Vietnam to the United States.San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can’t control his temper... -
![Mama, Let's Dance by Patricia Hermes]()
Mama, Let's Dance by Patricia Hermes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbandoned by their mother after the death of their father, three youngsters are determined to keep their situation a secret so that the authorities will not split them up and send them to foster homes... -
![Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry]()
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIt is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours... -
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![The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama]()
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 20 ratings"Just remember," Yoshio said quietly to his grandsons. "Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you're fighting for." It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers are growing up with their loving grandparents, who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition... -
![The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb]()
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe acclaimed author of Sweetness in the Belly journeys to Vietnam in this rich and tantalizing new novel.Raised in the United States but Vietnamese by birth, Maggie has come to Hanoi seeking clues to the fate of her father, a dissident artist who disappeared during the war. Her search brings her to Old Man Hu'ng's pho stall... -
![Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron]()
Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWinner of the Bellwether Prize - a powerful and uplifting story about one boy's Olympic dreams torn apart by the Rwandan... -
![How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić]()
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišić
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor young Aleksandar - the best magician in the non-aligned states and painter of unfinished things - life is endowed with a mythic quality in the Bosnian town of Višegrad, a rich playground for his imagination. When his grandfather dies, Aleks channels his storytelling talent to help with his grief... -
![Sing as We Go [Paperback] by Margaret Dickinson]()
Sing as We Go [Paperback] by Margaret Dickinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance at the village hall for amusement, she yearns for the bright lights. Spurning Morry Robinson's proposal of marriage, Kathy goes to live in the city with his aunt, Jemima Robinson... -
![A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez]()
A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet... -
![Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins]()
Secret Keeper by Mitali Perkins
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen her father loses his job and leaves India to look for work in America, Asha Gupta, her older sister, Reet, and their mother must wait with Baba’s brother and his family, as well as their grandmother, in Calcutta. Uncle is welcoming, but in a country steeped in tradition, the three women must abide by his decisions. Asha knows this is temporary—just until Baba sends for them... -
![The Painter's Apprentice by Charlotte Betts]()
The Painter's Apprentice by Charlotte Betts
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of ebook bestseller The Apothecary's Daughter 1688. Beth Ambrose has led a sheltered life within Merryfields, her family home on the outskirts of London; a place where her parents provide a sanctuary for melancholic souls. A passionate and gifted artist, Beth shares a close bond with Johannes the painter, who nurtures her talents and takes her on as his apprentice... -
![The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor]()
The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNAMED A REAL SIMPLE BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning author of Dust comes a vibrant, stunning coming-of-age novel about a young woman struggling to find her place in a vast world--a poignant exploration of fate, mortality, love, and loss.On the island of Pate, off the coast of Kenya, lives solitary, stubborn Ayaana and her mother, Munira...Categorized as:
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![Dancing Through Fire by Kathryn Lasky]()
Dancing Through Fire by Kathryn Lasky
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLike the captivating bestseller, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, this exciting new series explores the stories behind the girls featured in some of the world's most dazzling paintings.Welcome to 19th century Paris, and the world of Degas's dancers. 13-year-old Sylvie is one of the pupils at the Paris Opera Ballet, where tutus must always be starched and pointe shoes fresh...Categorized as:
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![Compromised for Christmas by Jane Charles]()
Compromised for Christmas by Jane Charles
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCompromise for Christmas, a novella, first appeared in anthology, A Summons from His Grace. It later appeared in a compilation, Scots, Spies & Salacious Lies. It is the first of the Tenacious Trents. Lady Elizabeth craved excitement and adventure... -
![Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, رانيا مأمون]()
Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, رانيا مأمون
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirteen Months of Sunrise is a collection of stories by the author, journalist, and activist, Rania Mamoun. Rania was featured in previous PEN Award winning project, The Book of Khartoum, the first ever anthology of Sudanese short fiction in translation. The stories in this collection have been translated from Arabic into English for the first time, by translator Elisabeth Jacquette... -
![The Irish Girl by Ashley E. Sweeney]()
The Irish Girl by Ashley E. Sweeney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom multi-award-winning historical fiction author Ashley E. Sweeney comes a family saga about the Irish immigrant experience spanning New York, Chicago, and Colorado so compelling that, USA Today best-selling author Kelli Estes says, “I read this story in one sitting... -
![Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o]()
Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWeep Not, Child is a moving novel about the effects of the Mau Mau uprising on the lives of ordinary men and women, and on one family in particular. Two brothers, Njoroge and Kamau, stand on a garbage heap and look into their futures: Njoroge is to attend school, while Kamau will train to be a carpenter... -
![Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian]()
Rise the Euphrates by Carol Edgarian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn international bestseller, now available in this twentieth-anniversary revised edition, Rise the Euphrates reaches back to 1915, when nine-year-old Casard witnesses the massacre of her family during the Armenian genocide... -
![Child of Vengeance by David Kirk]()
Child of Vengeance by David Kirk
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA bold and vivid historical epic of feudal Japan, based on the real-life exploits of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.Japan in the late 16th century was a land in turmoil. Lords of the great clans schemed against each other, served by aristocratic samurai bound to them by a rigid code of honor. Bennosuke is a high-born but lonely teenager living in his ancestral village...
![Sing as We Go [Paperback] by Margaret Dickinson](https://48f-1.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/books/small/68453387013c437b63de8278.jpg)
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