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Selections from the first three years of wanderlust

12/19/2019

 

africa

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Aya: Life in Yop City, Marguerite Abouet, Cote d'Ivoire, GN ABO 1-3
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, F ACH *ª
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, Ghana/United States, F GYA *ª
The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba, Malawi, 621.312136 KAM *ª
Born a Crime, Trevor Noah, South Africa, 921 NOAH *
The Butterfly Mosque, G. Willow Wilson, Egypt, 297.574 WIL

asia & middle east

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The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, Vietnam/United States, GN BUI *
Ants Among Elephants, Sujatha Gidla, India, 305.568 GID *ª
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini, Afghanistan and others, F HOS *ª
Without You, There Is No Us, Suki Kim, North Korea, 951.93 KIM *ª
Forest Dark, Nicole Krauss, Israel, F KRA *ª
Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan, Singapore, F KWA CRA-1 *ª
The Home that Was Our Country, Alia Malek, Syria, 956.91 MAL

americas & Caribbean

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The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú, United States/Mexico, 363.285 CAN *ª
Here Comes the Sun, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Jamaica, F DEN *ª
The Round House, Louise Erdrich, an Ojibwe reservation, F ERD *ª
Still Life, Louise Penny, Canada, M PEN GAM-1 *ª
The Queen of Water, Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango, Ecuador, YA F RES
Deep Down Dark, Héctor Tobar, Chile, 363.11 TOB

Europe

Beartown, Fredrik Backman, Sweden, F BAC *ª
The Green Road, Anne Enright, Ireland, F ENR *ª
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante, Italy, LP FER NEA-1 *ª
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, England, F ISH *ª

Oceania

The Dry, Jane Harper, Australia, F HAR FAL-1 *ª
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Space

Endurance, Scott Kelly, International Space Station/Russia/United States, 629.45 KEL ​*ª
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