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TITLE: Darius the Great Is Not Okay
AUTHOR: Adib Khorram WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Clinically-depressed Darius Kellner, a high school sophomore, travels to Iran to meet his grandparents, but it is their next-door neighbor, Sohrab, who changes his life. |
TITLE: Anatomy: A Love Story
AUTHOR: Dana Schwartz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sch - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society. |
TITLE: When Stars Are Scattered
AUTHOR: Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jam - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp. |
TITLE: Homegoing
AUTHOR: Yaa Gyasi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gya - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Two half sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations. |
TITLE: Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
AUTHOR: Trevor Noah WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Noa SUMMARY: The host of "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah" traces his wild coming of age during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, offering insight into the farcical aspects of the political and social systems of today's world. |
TITLE: The Poisonwood Bible
AUTHOR: Barbara Kingsolver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Kin - NOVELS SUMMARY: In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic political events of the twentieth century -- the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium and its devastating consequences -- here is New York Times-bestselling author Barbara Kingslover's beautiful, heartbreaking, and unforgettable epic that chronicles the disintegration of family and a nation. |
TITLE: The Bear and the Nightingale
AUTHOR: Katherine Arden WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ard - FANTASY SUMMARY: A debut novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces. |
TITLE: Of Metal and Wishes
AUTHOR: Sarah Fine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Fin - FANTASY SUMMARY: In this loose retelling of The Phantom of the Opera, set in a reimagined industrial Asia, a ghost becomes obsessed with sixteen-year-old Wen, the daughter of a staff doctor in a slaughterhouse, who falls in love with one of the Noor, a despised group of men, racially different, hired as cheap factory labor. |
TITLE: Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Draws Her Way Across the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes
AUTHOR: Christine Mari Inzer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 915.204 Inz - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: The summer before she turned sixteen, Christine Inzer traveled solo to Tokyo to get reacquainted with her birthplace. In drawings, photographs, and musings, she describes her journey through Japan, as she explores the fashion hub of Harajuku, hunts down geisha in Kyoto, eats the best sushi of her life in Tsukiji, and meets many interesting people along the way. |
TITLE: When the Sea Turned Silver
AUTHOR: Grace Lin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Lin - FANTASY SUMMARY: Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor. |
TITLE: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
AUTHOR: Katherine Boo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.5 Boo SUMMARY: Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India. |
TITLE: Karma
AUTHOR: Cathy Ostlere WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ost - NOVELS SUMMARY: Fifteen-year-old half Hindu, half Sikh Maya, having traveled from Canada to New Delhi to put her mother's ashes in their final resting place, finds herself in the middle of chaos after Indira Gandhi is assassinated and must disguise her identity and rely on a boy she just met in order to be reunited with her father and remain safe. |
TITLE: Eat, Pray, Love
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Gilbert WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Gil SUMMARY: Elizabeth Gilbert recounts the experiences she had on her year-long journey around the world, and shares how her trip helped her deal with her divorce and the depression that threatened to end her career and her happiness. |
TITLE: I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
AUTHOR: Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.23 Ali SUMMARY: It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. All the other kids picked countries like France or Germany, but when Caitlin saw Zimbabwe written on the board, it sounded like the most exotic place she had ever heard of -- so she chose it. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen pal letter. There were only ten letters, and forty kids in his class. But he was the top student, so he got the first one. That letter was the beginning of a correspondence that spanned six years and changed two lives. |
TITLE: All the Light We Cannot See
AUTHOR: Anthony Doerr WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Doe - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. |
TITLE: The Photographer
AUTHOR: Emmanuel Guibert WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 070.4 Gui SUMMARY: A graphic novel and photo journal that follows reporter Didier Lefevre on a dangerous journey through Afghanistan with the Doctors Without Borders mission. |
TITLE: The Complete Persepolis
AUTHOR: Marjane Satrapi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sat - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Collects a two-part graphic memoir, in which the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran, a country plagued by political upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. |
TITLE: The Yellow Birds
AUTHOR: Kevin Powers WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Pow - NOVELS SUMMARY: In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy's platoon battles for the city; they do everything to protect each other from insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. |
TITLE: Half of a Yellow Sun
AUTHOR: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Adi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: A novel set during Nigeria's struggle for independence in the 1960s involving five characters including thirteen-year-old Ugwu, a university professor, the professor's mistress, and a young Englishman named Richard. |
TITLE: Jasper Jones
AUTHOR: Craig Silvey WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sil - MYSTERY SUMMARY: In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible. |
TITLE: Stolen
AUTHOR: Lucy Christopher WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Chr - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed. |
TITLE: White Rose
AUTHOR: Kip Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group. |
TITLE: The Berlin Boxing Club
AUTHOR: Robert Sharenow WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sha - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In 1936 Berlin, fourteen-year-old Karl Stern, considered Jewish despite a non-religious upbringing, learns to box from the legendary Max Schmeling while struggling with the realities of the Holocaust. |
TITLE: Girl at Sea
AUTHOR: Maureen Johnson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - NOVELS SUMMARY: High-school junior Clio Ford reluctantly gives up her dream job and a potential first kiss to take a working vacation with her estranged father on a yacht in Italy. |
TITLE: The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
AUTHOR: Jake Tapper WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 958.1 Tap SUMMARY: An account of the battle at Combat Outpost Keating, an American outpost hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan. |
TITLE: The Kite Runner
AUTHOR: Khaled Hosseini WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hos - NOVELS SUMMARY: Amir, haunted by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood friend, returns to Kabul as an adult after he learns Hassan has been killed, in an attempt to redeem himself by rescuing Hassan's son from a life of slavery to a Taliban official. |
TITLE: Alif the Unseen
AUTHOR: G. Willow Wilson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wil - FANTASY SUMMARY: In Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble but the aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him for a prince chosen by her parents, and his computer has just been breached by the State's electronic security force, putting his clients and his own neck on the line. |