Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall SmithGenre:
Age: Teen, Adult
POV: 3rd person
Format: Audio
Summary: 'Corduroy Mansions' is the nickname given to a crumbling mansion block in London's vibrant Pimlico. It is inhabited by an assortment of characters - including, amongst others, a literary agent, a wine merchant, one accountant, possibly the first ever nasty Liberal Democrat MP and his long-suffering PA, and a small dog in his prime.
Boxers by Gene Luen YangGenre: Historical fic
Age: Teen
Summary of Boxers: China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.
Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers—commoners trained in kung fu—who fight to free China from "foreign devils."
Against all odds, this grass-roots rebellion is violently successful. But nothing is simple. Little Bao is fighting for the glory of China, but at what cost? So many are dying, including thousands of "secondary devils"—Chinese citizens who have converted to Christianity.
Genre: Documentary
French Exit by Patrick deWittGenre: Literary, cotemporary
Age: Adult
POV: 3rd person
Summary: Due to scandal and bankruptcy Frances Price decided to pack up take the only possible exit out. Alone with her son and the cat the three head to Paris, Frances.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAuthor: Sylvia Plath
Genre: Realistic-fic, mental health
POV: 1st person
Formant: Audiobook
Summary: We follow Esther Greenwood's personal life from her summer job in New York with Ladies' Day magazine, back through her days at New England's largest school for women, and forward through her attempted suicide, her bad treatment at one asylum and her good treatment at another, to her final re-entry into the world like a used tire: "patched, retreaded, and approved for the road" ... Esther Greenwood's account of her year in the bell jar is as clear and readable as it is witty and disturbing.
You can't just kiss anyone you want by Marzena Sowa
Genre: Contemporary, literary
Age: Adult
Summary: In a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises, a homeless one-armed woman sets out to take revenge upon the men who trafficked her. And, in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud-and- concrete road, a milkmaid watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation
