Indira Ferguson has done her best to live by her Grammys rulesto study hard in school, be respectful, and to never let a boy take advantage of her. ~Denise J Hughes, Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad ones. My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/27/top-ten-tuesday-152/, Loved that one! . 33,044 ratings A masterfully told story, that I read and reread and devour frequently, and continue to be heartbroken by. So to prove to Pierre-Anthon that life has meaning, the children decide to give up things of importance. Im a bit reader so definitely a lot of new ideas on this list to add to my reading pile, thank you! published 2008, avg rating 3.68 Lately, Ive enjoyed more diversity than ever in my reading selections. But Nailas vacation turns into a nightmare when she learns that plans have changedher parents have found her a husband and they want her to marry him, now! Cornelia alone must care for him, though she herself is haunted by secrets and scandal. published 2017, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover), Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas (Hardcover), The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjld (Hardcover), Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers (Kindle Edition), Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany (Hardcover), Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo #2), The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim (Hardcover), In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters (Hardcover), The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive (Hardcover), The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World (Hardcover), The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic (Hardcover), Chase Your Shadow: The Trials of Oscar Pistorius (Hardcover), The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest (Hardcover), Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS (Hardcover), Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover), The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War (Hardcover), The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback), The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback), Murder in the Family: How the Search for My Mother's Killer Led to My Father (Paperback), The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream (Hardcover), The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (Audio CD), The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali (Hardcover), Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Hardcover), The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1), Free Woman: Life, Liberation, and Doris Lessing (Hardcover), The Charming Predator: The True Story of How I Fell in Love with and Married a Sociopathic Fraud (Paperback), American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent (Audio CD), Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival (Paperback), It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History (Hardcover), A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa (Hardcover). 1,591 ratings 1,503 ratings published 2019, avg rating 3.81 Will he be in time, and brave enough, to warn them about the soldiers? published 2021, avg rating 4.19 Arns never played a note in his life, but he volunteers. Until at last, at some unclaimed moment, the heart-pain seeped away like water into sand. Would it be possible to please everyone including herself? Based on historical fact, and filled with family dramas and a love triangle that would make Jane Austen proud,I Am Rembrandts Daughteris a powerful account of a young womans struggle to come of age within the shadow of one of the worlds most brilliant and complicated artists. Spiri brings Greek food and culture to life in a way that had me drooling onto the page and recounting just how enchanted I was by Greece during my own time there. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. I cant imagine watching parents read is a toddlers favourite activity haha. Probably. It will make you laugh and cry, and ultimately, it will fill you with hope.
Ill add that to the TBR since its your fav! 245 ratings Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. This book is a collection of such stories, written down finally to keep them alive and save them from being lost along with the traditional storytellers.
As she is on her way to a meeting, Charlotte is picked up by national security, and her worst nightmares come true. In search of his own personal paradise, Richard follows a map hes given to an unknown island, and the secluded beach contained within. published 2017, avg rating 3.52 Jeetas family is caught up in the whirlwind of arranging marriages for her two older sisters, but the drama and excitement leave Jeeta cold. , My TTT: http://flippingthruthepages.com/2018/03/ten-books-that-take-place-in-another-country/. 1,352 ratings Setting here is defined as a book having a clear grounding in the country in some capacity. By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Wild Life is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if theres any place where she truly fits in. Although it sounds rather chick-lit-esque, this novel provides a beautiful integration of Rumi poetry and the life of these two wandering Dervishes. But life in her peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when the Janjaweed arrive. In a dark and dusty shop, a devils supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, and that fiction spans a wide array of genres from historical to realistic to fantasy in an identifiable country in some capacity. published 2018, avg rating 3.84 10,321 ratings 232,146 ratings Wuditu and her family risk their lives to make this journey, which leads them to a refugee camp in Sudan, where they are separated. And when she falls in love with Sarinas cousin Neel, Jeeta realizes that she must strike a balance between independence and duty and follow her own path. 18. But Iran is a dangerous place for two girls in loveSahar and Nasrin could be beaten, imprisoned, even executed if their relationship came to light. But here and there the odd oasis can still be seen. Reading has sparked in me interests in countries I had never before considered. 17,373 ratings Its her mothers passion, and shed rather have nothing to do with it. Opposing slavery in Cuba in the nineteenth century was dangerous. When Guillaume Ladoucettes barbershop faces certain redundancy, he must find a new way to earn a keep in his small village in the Southwest of France. They are enchantersthe only two in Russiaand with the Ottoman Empire and the Kazakhs threatening, the tsar needs a powerful enchanter by his side. But despite being forbidden to marry, she falls in love with Pedro. 2,377 ratings The Pearl That Broke Its Shell is on my TBR for so long now. I hope you get some time soon to enjoy a new book . Thats how many days I have left to find a way out.
And somewell, some are pink candy floss that tingles in your brain for three seconds and leaves a blissful voice. When Alvar was a teenager in World War II-era Sweden, he dreamt of being in a real jazz band. published 2018, avg rating 4.11 And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But one day Tschick shows up at Mikes house out of the blue. Since he got diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November, Adams stopped going to classes, intent, instead, on perfecting the making of things. This story is of Tito, the youngest daughter who has been condemned by traditions to look after her mother until she dies. He tries not to think of his life before, when his doting mother was still alive. Could she be a scuba diver like Jacques Cousteau? Amriths holiday plans seem unpromising: he wants to appear in his schools production ofOthelloand he is learning to type at Uncle Luckys tropical fish business. Like the perfect fries Adam and his mom used to make together. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her familys Caribbean island garden. Fatima is a Hazara girl. She suddenly finds herself with no shortage of male attention, including her charismatic political science professor, fellow student activist Banahene, and Asare, a wealthy oil broker who invites Charlotte to travel with him and showers her with expensive gifts, including a coveted passport. Roland Smith has created an action-packed adventure about friendship, sacrifice, family, and the drive to take on Everest, despite the incredible risk. Its frustrating and disappointing to know theres a world of incredible literature for teens out there and yet, we see so little of it in America. It was only a smile, nothing more. ), When I'm Nostalgic for the '80s and '90s, I Read These Books, A Map to the Best Treasure Hunting Mysteries, Fantastical Food Fiction: 11 Books with Magical Baking and Mischief-Making, The Best Romance Books You've Never Heard Of. She needs to find out more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange, recurring dream, and finding her mother who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road. Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. And the Mountains Echoed was my favorite have you had the chance to read it?? I found myself immersed in Erica Jongs recreation of the poet Sapphos after myself spending time on the Island of Lesbos, home of Sapphos the greatest love poet the world has even known. A true tale of intrepid travel and adventure, this thrilling story is a lush insight into Asia and Thailands most paradise-worthy beaches. The summer before she turned sixteen, she returned to Tokyo, making a solo journey to get reacquainted with her birthplace. published 2018, avg rating 3.70 Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mothers death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. We root for him and his friends as they defy the islands powerful tin mine officials.
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, 10 Cozy Mysteries for a Gentle Thrill (+ a Bonus! Uplifting, beautiful and transformational. The Pearl that Broke Its Shell sounds so worthwhile (but maybe hard). When Bria meets Rowan, devoted backpacker and dive instructor, and his outspokenly humanitarian sister Starling, she seizes the chance to ditch her group and join them off the beaten path. And until then, datingeven friendship with a boyis forbidden. And when Pasha, Nikolais best friend and heir to the throne, also starts to fall for the mysterious enchantress, Nikolai must defeat the girl they both loveor be killed himself. With this move, Caroline predicts shell spend her time navigating crowded streets, eating unfamiliar food, and having terrible bouts of homesickness. Books take us to places weve never been, they teach us about our world, and they help us to understand human experience. See, when Zonas mother married an American, her huge Greek family cut off contact. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. This is a difficult category for me on this fine Tuesday because the majority of what I read is historical fiction which often takes place in other countries. Thanks but no thanks. Jazz is crazy in love with the guy. 2,871 ratings But her dreams of fame become something more when she meets Enki, the bold new Summer King. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Sometimes the person who understands you the most is the person you least expect. And she can be a jitterbug, just like Alvar. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. She is albino and thus, incredibly sensitive to the sun. This decision will save his life, but it will pull him into the very center of what we know today as the Killing Fields. Think of a favorite character youd like to share either in a blog post or a comment. Thanks for your feedback and for stopping by to comment! Who is Isobel Catching, and why is she able to see Beth, too? Thanks for commenting! Her dad is drowning in grief. You dont want to get involved with a girl like that, they say. But Zona never knew her mom, and now shes supposed to uproot her entire life and meet possibly hostile relatives on their turf? Ive been trying to make myself read travel books. 9,343 ratings 
Much as I am a huge YA reader, I have read embarrassingly few of these books. A music-loving teen with OCD does everything she can to find her way back to her mother during the historic race riots in 1969 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in this heart-pounding literary debut. Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is about to join his fearless grandmother on the trip of a lifetime. Let me know how you like it! The setting is Sri Lanka, 1980, and it is the season of monsoons. 17,149 ratings I still want to read The Dry sometime and Ive heard good things about Salt to the Sea. 5,548 ratings Ive been looking for some new books, so Ill be adding these to my reading list! I hope you will stop by and take a look at my list. The Pearl is memorable and unforgettable! Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. When one girl has to follow her mother to her sanctuary for bonobos, shes not thrilled to be there. Perhaps as readers continue to advocate for the necessity of more inclusive stories, that same demand can make its way toward more work in translation and readers can experience more global stories told through global voices. For many being Cuban is something they carry with them in their hearts, something they fight to preserve even when all they have are their memories. Oh no! This story captivated me completely. Lina finds solace in her art, meticulouslyand at great riskdocumenting events by drawing, hoping these messages will make their way to her fathers prison camp to let him know they are still alive. But Keenas parents were famous primatologists who shuttled her and her sister between Philadelphia and Botswana every six months. The language is strikingly lovely, and I could read this over and over just for the experience of highlighting new favourite passages. 434 ratings https://justmeandmyblogreviews.blogspot.com/2018/03/top-ten-tuesday-10-books-that-take.html. So they carry on in secretuntil Nasrins parents announce that theyve arranged for her marriage. Youll want to make sure you also read these young adult books set in each U.S. state, as well as these 50 must-read YA books in translation (from my personal blog). And the secret to escaping the past, Rowans found, is to keep moving forward. I think, my mind racing. And when Asare entrusts her with a mysterious package of documents, she suddenly realizes she may be in real danger. An epic classic of monumental proportions. Who is she? The Disappeared. Its senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she is mourning the loss of her father. For Steffi, going to school every day is an exercise in survival. I cant really describe this book in any further detail but I do highly recommend it for an incredible journey. I didnt initially love Ellas character but the wonderful narration of Rumis story, and beautiful integration of life in thirteenth century Middle East turned me around on this story. For Aziz, on the other hand, time entered on this very moment, and anything other than now was an illusion. published 2008, avg rating 3.75 Three days before her drama clubs trip to Italy, Jessa Gardner discovers her boyfriend in the costume barn with another girl. 
They are both great reads! 3,726 ratings She doesnt know why shes in pain. 16,889 ratings Born in New York, but living in Aba, Nigeria, twelve-year old Sunny is understandably a little lost. She can be areal musician. 27,030 ratings published 1994, avg rating 4.14 . Harper is a Scott. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasnt unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. A series of stories all tied together so engaging. They will add fuel to a growing rebellion against the governments strict limits on new tech. Samiullah is a Pashtun boy. Part memoir of Greek ancestry, and part recipe book. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girlIsabel, the one the seoras whisper about. His quest for the truth & discoveries about Fawcetts fate & Z form the heart of this complexly enthralling narrative, It begins as barely a rivulet, this, the mightiest river in the world, mightier than the Nile and the Ganges, mightier than the Mississippi and all the rivers in China.. 
