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The Kite Runner
09 $1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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The Poppy War
09 $Fang Runin (“Rin”) is a war orphan in the Nikan Empire whose foster parents employ her in their opium smuggling. She secretly studies for a national test to escape an arranged marriage and places first in her province, which sends her north to Sinegard, the imperial capital and home of the military academy
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The Shadow of the Wind
09 $A gothic mystery set in post-war Barcelona, following young Daniel Sempere, whose life changes after discovering a mysterious book by the obscure author Julián Carax at a secret library called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
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The Song Of Achilles
015 $Follows the life of Patroclus, an exiled prince who forms a close bond with Achilles, the legendary Greek hero. As young boys, they meet in Phthia and become inseparable, much to the dismay of Achilles’ mother, the sea goddess Thetis
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There Are Rivers In The Sky
020 $In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.
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Time’s Convert
09 $Return to the enchanting world of All Souls for a love story like no other… Marcus Whitmore was made a vampire in the eighteenth century. Over two hundred years later, he finds himself in love with Phoebe Taylor, a human who decides to become a vampire herself.
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To Kill A Mocking Bird
09 $To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story about a girl named Scout. Scout and her brother Jem try to understand and relate to their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer charged with defending a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.
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Where The Crawdads Sing
09 $The first timeline describes the life and adventures of a young girl named Kya as she grows up isolated in the marshes of North Carolina. The second timeline follows an investigation into the apparent murder of Chase Andrews, a local celebrity of Barkley Cove, a fictional coastal town of North Carolina.