Bloomsbury USA

Pao

By Kerry Young - Published 2011

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The novel opens in Kingston, Jamaica in 1938. Fourteen-year-old Yang Pao arrives from China with his mother and brother. They live with Zhang, the “...Read Review

Mornings in Jenin

By Susan Abulhawa - Published 2010Published 2011

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Literary

The novel opens with the olive harvest of 1941 in the Palestinian village of Ein Hod. The pastoral idyll is all the more poignant ...Read Review

David

By Mary Hoffman - Published 2011

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Children/Young Adult

In 1501 Gabriele, a country boy, arrives in Florence and is immediately robbed. He believes that his older ‘milk’ brother, the artist Michelangelo, might ...Read Review

In the Shadow of the Lamp

By Susanne Dunlap - Published 2011

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AdventureChildren/Young Adult

When Molly is framed for a crime she didn’t commit, she is forced to leave her housemaid position in London and part ...Read Review

Dogtag Summer

By Elizabeth Partridge - Published 2011

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Children/Young Adult

Elizabeth Partridge’s Dogtag Summer tells the moving story of Tracy, or Tuyet, a Vietnamese-American girl adopted by a Vietnam veteran and his ...Read Review

Ruso and the River of Darkness

By Ruth Downie - Published 2011

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Mystery/Crime

The fourth novel in a series of historical mysteries set in the second century A.D., Caveat Emptor takes place in Roman Britain. ...Read Review

The Stray Sod Country

By Patrick McCabe - Published 2010

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LiterarySaga

The Stray Sod Country sounds like a vast wasteland, but nothing is farther from the truth in 1950s Cullymore, Ireland. In this border ...Read Review

Finding Family

By Tonya Bolden - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Growing up an orphan in 1905 Charleston, West Virginia, Delana needs something, anything, to bring sense to her world. Her life is dominated by ...Read Review

The Mistress of Abha

By William Newton - Published 2010

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AdventureLiterary

Ivor Willoughby was a boy when the British military posted his father to Arabia, and for reasons that are revealed only at the ...Read Review

Cate of the Lost Colony

By Lisa Klein - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

When her father is killed fighting in the Netherlands, young Catherine Archer is left alone and penniless – until Queen Elizabeth invites her to ...Read Review