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Choose an adventure book, an enlightenment book, an entertainment book or a book for courage from our virtual library open 24/7, and you will get answers to the most unsuspected questions such as: How is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time possible to talk about the fact that no matter how different and strange we look sometimes in the eyes of others, the things that divide us become tiny and inconspicuous against the background of those that unite us? Or how did the heroine of Desert Flower manage to turn the ashes of her life into a multicolored fragrant garden?
10.05.2021

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

The choice to be a writer in ‘men’s times’ Author: Sylvia Borissova Translator: Donika Boneva Louisa May Alcott’s very name is hardly as unmistakably recognizable as her novel Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), which has become …

10.05.2021

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

A first-person story about a fifteen-year-old boy with Asperger Syndrome Author: Sylvia Borissvoa Translator: Donika Boneva Christopher John Francine Boone is a 15-year-old boy who lives alone with his father in Swindon, Wiltshire, one of the most inhospitable English cities. …

10.05.2021

Desert Flower by Waris Dirie

The incredible journey of a nomadic girl through the desert Author: Sylvia Borissova Translator: Donika Boneva Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011) tells the true life story of Somali Waris Deery. The biographical …

15.10.2020

The Ends of the World

Author: Peter Brannen As we stare down the barrel of our own (man-made) catastrophe, science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a walk down memory lane over millions of years to examine the planet’s five mass extinctions. With paleontologists as …

15.10.2020

Rising

Author: Elizabeth Rush In “Rising,” Elizabeth Rush takes readers to the physical and cultural edges of the country, from the marginalized and forgotten citizens of places like Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, to the glass castles of Facebook and Google …

15.10.2020

The Bone Sparrow

Author: Zana Fraillon Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, Subhi has only ever known life behind the fences. But his world is far …

15.10.2020

Making It Home: Real-Life Stories from Children Forced to Flee

Author: Beverley Naidoo In this inspiring collection, children living all over the world speak about being forced to flee their homes as refugees. With original, autobiographical accounts, Making It Home gives a poignant voice to the millions of young people …

15.10.2020

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba

Author: Margarita Engle Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel …

15.10.2020

My Name Is Not Refugee

Author: Kate Milner A young boy discusses the journey he is about to make with his mother. They will leave their town, she explains, and it will be sad but also a little bit exciting. They will have to say …

09.10.2020

How I Learned Geography

Author:Uri Shulevitz Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, …

09.10.2020

My Name Is Sangoel

Author: Karen Lynn Williams, Khadra Mohammed, Catherine Stock Sangoel is a refugee. Leaving behind his homeland of Sudan, where his father died in the war, he has little to call his own other than his name, a Dinka name handed …

09.10.2020

Inside Out & Back Again

Author: Thanhha Lai For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has …

07.10.2020

Four Feet, Two Sandals

Author: Karen Lynn Williams , Khandra Mohammed      When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp, everyone scrambles to grab whatever they can. Ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly, until she …

07.10.2020

Between the World and Me

Author: Ta- Nehisi Coates In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our …

06.10.2020

The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas, 2017)

The Hate U Give is the debut novel of American author Angie Thomas. It is inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and examines topics like racism, police brutality and activism. A film adaptation was released in 2018. 16-year-old Starr …

06.10.2020

The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison, 1970)

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first novel, a book honored for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author’s hometown Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove – a black girl from …

06.10.2020

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel that discusses topics such as slavery, prejudice, moral norms, racial discrimination, freedom and friendship. The language choices made by the author Mark Twain (heavy dialect and harsh wording), although often criticized, allow …

06.10.2020

The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd, 2001)

The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of fourteen-year-old Lily Owens who leaves the life she knows behind and embarks on a journey in search of a much needed truth. South Carolina. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has …

06.10.2020

A Time to Kill (John Grisham, 1989)

Racial tensions in Clanton, a small town in Mississippi, reach boiling point after a brutal crime. Two drunk white racists ruthlessly assault a ten-year-old black girl, Tonya Hailey. Her father, Carl Lee, avenges his daughter’s shattered life by shooting the …

05.10.2020

The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Attwood, 1985)

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Attwood takes us to the dystopian reality of the Republic of Gilead. People are oppressed and segregated, women are no longer allowed to read, environmental catastrophes threaten the existence of mankind, while birthrate declines drastically. …