Country Date read Author Title Summary Afghanistan 11/24/2015 Yousafzai, I Am Malala How one girl stood up for education and changed the world. Malaya 2/20/2017 Bhutto, Fatima The Shadow of Five young Afghan people during the American invasion. The war the Crescent takes a toll on all of them. Moon Albania 12/15/2015 Carverm Robert The Accursed A journey in Albania in 1996, where he meets people trapped in Mountains ancient blood feuds. Recently it was voted one of the top 10 countries of the world to visit. Algeria 1/5/2015 Hussey, Andrew The French The Long War between France and its Arabs in Morocco, Algeria and Intifada Tunisia Andorra 2/27/2016 Augustin, Byron Andorra Cultures of the World Fact Book Angola 1/12/2016 Weisman, No. 4 Imperial A young American in England listens to tales of a woman living in Jonathan Lane Angola and Guinea. Antigua and 1/28/2015 Kincard, Jamacia Mr. Potter Fictional account of her father, not married to her mother. Barbuda 11/20/2016 Borges, a Reader Masterpieces of Detective stories.. World Literature Argentina 8/18/2013 Smith, Amy All Roads Lead to Reading Austen inGuatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguary, Elizabeth Austen Argentina. The author marries a man from Argentina.

Armenia 5/22/2016 MacKeen, Dawn The Hundred Year A woman traces the path her grandfather followed when he escaped Walk the genocide of Armenians during WWI. Australia 10/22/2014 Greer, Germaine White Beech Greer feels the Australian rainforest is being destroyed, and bought a property and restored it so that native species could thrive.

8/25/2016 , Joan The Golden Age The son of Jewish immigrants to Australia contacts polio and, in a sanitarium, is caught in bed with another polio victim and both expelled. He is a poet who, at the end, we learn lives in the US and never married.. Austria 1/13/2013 Kandel, Eric R The Age of Insight The author examines the fin-de-siecle Viennese artists (Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele and the effect that Freud's work and the work of the Vienna School of Medicine influenced their art. He touches on both cognitive psychology (the science of the mind) and neuroscience (the science of the brain) to illumate how we respond to art. The meaning of art depends on the viewer's associations, knowledge of the world of art, and ability to recal knowledge and bring it to bear on a particular image. Art and science can enrich each other. Excellent illustrations.

Azerbaijan 1/31/2015 Grjasnowa, Olga All Russians Love Family fled Azerbaijan when Turkey and Armenia fought over it. Birch Trees Bahamas 5/23/2016 Furnivall, Kate The Far Side of Bahamas. During WWII the Bahamas were a training area for the RAF the Sun pilots and the US airmen. The Duke and Dutchess of Windsor were exiled to there. Page turner about a mysterious murder that a young girl finds and tries to help. Bahrain 11/30/2015 Alvar, Mia In the Country: Expats from the Phillipines in Bahrain & New York. Depressing. Stories Bangladesh 6/13/2016 Chaudhuri, Beloved Strnager Childhood in Banglash, written by a girl who grew up there. Thinly Maria described autobiography. 5/6/2016 Jackson, Naomi The Star of Bird Barbados. Two girls send to live with their Grandmother in Barbados. Hill Their mother kills herself. The father comes to take them, but he is an evil man, and though one goes with him, when she sees him kill a man she returns home. Belarus 5/31/2015 Laskin, David The Families: In the early 20th centuries a Jewish family living in Belarus splits in 3 Three Journeys parts. One comes to the USA and succeeds. Founding MaidenForm into the Heart of bras, one pioners in Isreal, but one stays in Belarus and is killed in the 20th Century the Holocost.

2/6/2017 Stambach, Scott The Invisible Life In a Belarus institution, a man born with deformaties due to of Ivan Isaenko Chernoble falls in love with a young woman who has lukemia and dies. Belgium 6/12/2016 Aiyar, Pallavi New Old World A journalist from India, married to a Spanish man, moves to Belgium. She was very surprised by the large social system and that immigrants did most ot the manual labor. Belize 6/13/2016 Clarke, Ardy Sky People Belize was originally British Hondus, and the people speak English. Sixkiller The author travelled to remote villages and visited sites.

Benin 6/22/2016 kidjo, angelique spirit rising Born in West African nation of Benin Kijo loved to sing and, after the Communists took over, escaped to France at an early age to join her brother. She is a Grammy award winning vocalist, social activist, married to a Frenchman, with one child, a daugher.

Bhutan 7/1/2016 Napoli, Lisa Radio Shangri-La The author helps Bhutan develop a public radio station. Bhutan, is the "Happiest Kingdom on Earth." Bolivia 8/1/2016 Weiss, Mitch Hunting Che How the U.S. Special forces Team helped capture Che when he tried to forment revolution in Bolivia in the 1960's. Bosnia and 7/28/2016 Palmer.Matthew The Wolf of Trouble in Bosnia after the war when a Serb leader threatens to pull Herzegovina Sarakejo Bosnia apart. Botswana 1/13/2014 Smith, The Minor He really writes well. Precious Ramotswe must find out whether the Alexander M Adjustment heir to a farm is who he says he is and also find out who is posting Beauty Salon bad notices about her friend's new beauty salon.

Brazil 8/8/2016 Schutt, Bill & Hell's Gate In 1944 Army Capt Jack MacCready is sent to Brazii to discover a Finch, J.R. Japanese submarie in the Hell's Gate region of Brazil. Fiction, with many real characters from WWII.

8/14/2016 Shore, Victoria Backlands The fictional final days of the northeastern Brazil region in 1922- 1938, this relates the story of the bandit Lampio and his love Maria Bonito. Brunei 8/13/2016 Orr, Tamara Brunei An Islamic sultanate abutting Malaysia. This book was published in Darussalam 2009, when the country was wealthy because of oil.

Bulgaria 8/16/2016 Penkov, Stock Mountain A young man from USA has travelled to Bulgaria to seach for his Miroslav grandfather who has suddenly cut off all contact with the family. He and the grandfather have adventures that are strange.

8/29/2016 Bar-Zohar, Beyond Hitler's The Heroic rescue of Bulgaria's Jews in WWII. None of the Jews living Michael Grasp in Bulgaria were sent to concentration camps, which was what Hitler wanted. Burkina Faso 8/17/2016 Isabella, June The Red Bicycle The story of how one boy's bicycle donation let to an ambulance in Burkina Faso, a country in West Africa, where most people live in 8000 rural villages without paved roads, electricty or Internet access. Landlocked, north of Ghana. Burundi 9/10/2016 Grant. Richard Crazy River The author really liked his stay in Burundi. It is very corrupt and lawless but he made friends in the capital city but worries about the country because of poor leadership. Cambodia 8/31/2016 Medina, K.T. White Crocodile Cambodia, after the Pol Pot left, had Peacekeepers who left a major AIDS epidemic. The author was in the British military and is an analyst and editor of Jane's Information Goup.

Cameroon Nganang, Mount Pleasant Patrice 10/9/2016 Mbue, Imbolo Behold the Cameroon writer tells the story of a Camersoon family who comes to Dreamers the USA, and the father is a chauffer for Lehman Brothers. The wife wants to be a pharmasist. In the end, they take the money they made and return to Cameroon. Canada 8/10/2015 Penny, Louise The Long Way Well done. Inspector Gamache helps Clara Morrow find her husband Home who was supposed to return after one year of separation.

Central African Sarno, Louis Song From the My Life Among the Pygmies Republic Forest Chechnya 2/18/2015 Marra, Anthony The Czar of Love One good story: "The Grozny Tourist Bureau" and Techno Chad 2/18/2016 Kneib, Martha Cultures of the Chad is a landlocked African country, west of Sudan, South of Liba, World: Chad North of Central African Republic and Cameroon. The north is mostly desert, and Moslem. The south is mostly Christian and has lakes. Chad was a French colony, and gained independence in 1960.

Chile 8/18/2013 Smith, Amy All Roads Lead to Reading Austen inGuatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguary, Elizabeth Austen Argentina. The author marries a man from Argentina.

China 12/19/2014 Pattison, Eliot Mandarin Gate A Chinese investigator in Tibet. The Chinese are doing to the Tibetans what the Eurpoeans did to the Native Americans.

9/16/2017 Porter, Bill The Silk Road Taking the bus from Sian, China to Islamabad, Pakistan in 1992, following the old Silk Route. Colombia 9/16/2016 Vasquez, Juan The Informer Colombia monitored, interned, or deported hundreds of people from Gabriel Germany, Japan, and Italy, during the WWII at the request of the USA. This book deals with the regret of one man who was an informer on a former friend Corsica 7/6/2016 Matthey, Corsican Justice The hero goes to Corsica to learn about the death of his father. It is Bluette an island in the Mediterranian belonging to France. The culture is very like Sicily, with vendetta common.

Democratic 10/15/2016 Williams, Susan Spies in the The US's secret mission during WWII to get uranium from the Congo Republic of the Congo to make the Atomic Bombs. The ore found there at that time was Congo the richest in the world. Costa Rica 10/19/2016 Baker, Costa Rica: Moon Costa Rica has mountains and rain forests and also has both Atlantic Christopher Travel Guide and Pacific coasts. Côte d'Ivoire Kourouma, Allah is not "Allah is not obliged to be fair about all the things he does here on Ahmdou= Obliged earth."The writer was born in Ivory Coast. His narrator, a boy soldier, presents a depressing picture of the graft and corruption of African nations. 10/7/2016

Croatia 10/28/2015 Novic, Sara Girl at War Croatia durning the Balkan War Song from the Forest Cuba 4/28/2014 Garcia, Cristina King of Cuba A fictionalized account of a Cuban-American who plans to kill Casto told alternately by him and Fidel. Cyprus 4/25/2016 Durrell, Bitter Lemons The author builds a house in Cyprus in 1953-54 when the Cypriots Lawrence rose up against the British. Czech Republic 7/25/2016 Richmone, The Lost Wife Lenka and Joseph marry at the start of WWII in Prague. His family Alyson escapes to America, but Lenka and her family are put in the Terezin Jewish camp. They reunite in America when they are older.

DemocrPeople's 10/23/2016 Lee, Krys How I Became of Youngy's father, a high ranking officer, is killed by the Great Leader Republic of North Korean and manages to escape North Korea. Jangmi is carrying the child of a Korea (North married North Korean officer. Danny is a Chinese American who gets Korea) caught up with the escapees.

Denmark Gazan, S.J. The Dinosaur Translated from the Danish version, this mystery has two killings; Feather one a professor and one a student. They turn out to be non-related.

Djibouti 11/10/2016 World Trade Djibouti: Women Press and Culture Dominica Wild Sargaso Rhys, Jean Prequel to Jane Eyre Sea Dominican 12/9/2016 Kuraon, Robert Pirate Hunters How two shipwreck hunters find a pirate ship sunk in the Dominican Republic Republic and come to appreciate the inginuity of the Dominican people. East Timor 2/21/2016 Kurniawan, Eka Beauty is a Graphic realism. I woman rises from the dead to see her ugly Wound daughter she called Beauty. Ecuador 8/18/2013 Smith, Amy All Roads Lead to Reading Austen inGuatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Chile, Paraguary, Elizabeth Austen Argentina. The author marries a man from Argentina.

Egypt 4/17/2016 Wood, Levison Walking the Nile Egypt since the overthrow of Mubaric is riddled with corruption.

El Salvador 1/31/2017 Moya, Horacio The Dream of My Surelist fiction by an author from El Salvador, who undergoes Return acupunture in Mexico before his return. Equatorial 3/28/17 Roberts, Adam Rthe Wonga Coup A group of mercenaries trys to oust President Nugma Obing, a Guinea corrupt dictator in . Oil was douns in the small Eaast African country, but none of the wealth has tricled down to the peopke, who are very poor. Mark Thatcher was involved.

Eritrea 3/28/17 Pool, Hannah My Father's She was adopted by a British couple when she was 3 weeks old an in Daughter an Eritrea and did not return until she was 30. When she was there Erotria was enjou=ying winning its independence from Ethopia, but in an afterward she notes things have detriorated.

Estonia 4/19/17 Rumiz, Paolo The Fault Lines Traveling through the divide between Europe and Asia, starting in Finland, and continuing to Odessa in the Ukraine. Interesting discussion on the differecnces between Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians. Ethiopia 6/12/17 Haile, Rebecca Held at a Distance Memoir of an Ethopian woman whose family left when the father is arrested and tortured by the government that follows the collapse of the reign of Selassie in 1976, and returns to the country after 25 years to visit most of the family who are still there. Fiji 5/15/17 Waterhouse The King and A classic written by a visitor in the early 1800's, I read the People of Fiji Introduction and the ending not the entire book. King Cakobau, athough initially opposed to Chrisitany, converts and requires his people to do also. In order to save his people from others who sought the island he puts in under the protection of the British crown. Although Fiji is now independent, the British monarch is still respected there.

Finland 12/21/2016 Kyro. Thomas The Beggar and A Romanian immigrant is smuggled into Finland where he meets the Hare many adventures and finally gets the boots he wants for his son. Satirizes the Finnish welfare state.

3/22/2016 Partanen. Anu The Nordic Free education, free maternity and paternity leave, free child care, Theory of free elder care and free health benefits. In the end she does become Everthing an American citizen. France 10/21/2015 George, Nina The Little Paris A best seller in Europe. When his lover leaves him, a bookseller does Bookshop not open her final letter until 20 years later. He finds out she is dying. He takes his barge and follows the Loire to her home, meanwhile picking up others. Fun read.

Gabon 6/17/17 By the Rivers of Clarke, Erskine A couple from Savannah go to Liberia and Gabon to establih schools Water and convert the citizens. The French take over in Gabon. When the Civil War breaks out the couple return to Savannah and support the South, even though they hate slavery.

Gambia Georgia 3/13/17 Dromgoogle, Hamlet Globe to The acting troupe did Hamlet in an old airplane hanger in Tilsit, and Dominic Globe when the show was ended a heavy metal band struck up and the viewers and the cast danced. Germany 3/7/2013 Collingham, The Taste of War One of the reasons Germany went to war was to get land to feed its Lizzie people. After the war the Germans had food shortages, as did England. The Marshall Plan did not start until 1948, and was a "political and ideological tool."

Ghana Quartey, Kwei Death by His Mystery. A wife who could not get pregnant seeks solice in a Grace Charismatic church, and one of the disciples kills her. Greece 5/12/2014 Paterniti, The Telling Room The story of a cheese made in Greece with many footnotes. Michael Grenada 8/11/2017 Clarske, Jeffrey Operation Drsert the invastion of Grenada by the US in 1983. Poor coordination Fury caused casulties. Guatemala 6/13/2016 Clarke, Ardy Sky People Guatamala is the home of the Maya, and many natives believe they Sixkiller were so advanced because they were decendents of "Sky People"

Guinea 1/12/2016 Weisman, No. 4 Imperial A young American in England listens to tales of a woman living in Jonathan Lane Angola and Guinea. Guinea-Bissau 8/27/2016 Gazan, S.J. The Arc of ths Murders happen when the Danish scientists in Guinea-Bissau find Swallow that the diptheria vaccine has unintended side effects.

Guyana 4/7/2016 Mr. Clarinet Thriller set in Duvalier was a doctor who was able to use penicillan to cure the Haiti disease of Yaws which was desimating the population.

Haiti Honduras Hungary 3/21/2016 Pataki, Allison Sisi: Empress on The Empress of Austria-Hungary before WW1 Her Own Iceland 2/22/2017 Indridason, Into Oblivion An Icelander who works at a US army base is found dead. Two Arnaldur Icelandic police find the killers. Intereting discussion about how the Icelaners view the . India 7/23/2015 Carter, M. J. The Strangler India: 1837. Two men are required to track down a missing writer. Vine Indonesia 10/6/2015 Andalibian, The Rose Hotel The story of a family who come from Iran to USA after the fall of the

Rahimeh Shah. The parents and the children struggle to "fit in."

Iran 11/22/2025 Kiermam. The Hummingbird Three stories: A man returned from 3 duties in Iraq with PTSD, his Stephen P. wife who is a hospice worker, and her client who is a military historian. Iraq 02/27/15 Toibin, Colm Nora Webster Nora is a widow with 4 children, living in Ireland with her 4 children, sisters, aunts. She makes many mistakes but, because the story is well writtern, you read along with her.

01/14/17 Glidden, Sarah Rolling Blackouts Cartoon book that follows two journalists who go to the Middle East to determine the effects of the Iraq war on people from Turkey (the Kurds), Syria and Iraq. Ireland 10/29/2013 Rollins, James & The Blood Gospel Well written but the plot, about an archeologist digging in Isreal and Cantrell, a "book" written by Jesus was unbelieveable. Rebecca Israel 10/20/2013 Graves. Roberta Homer's A young woman in western Sicily rewrites the Odyssey, making Daughter Penelope true to Odysseus, and she convinces a travelling bard to recite that version.

9/19/2014 Silva, Daniel The Black Widow A Mossad agent teams with Americans to catch a killer. Italy 6/21/2016 Matthey, Abruzzo Intrigue: A hiking trip through Abruzzo, with a few happily solved mysteries. Bluette A Hardy Duncan travel Mystery Jamaica 6/8/2014 Hiraide, Takaski The Guest Cat Set in Japan a man and woman "adopt" a cat who only comes to them at night. When the cat dies they get another.

Japan 11/11/2016 Kutsuke, Lynne The Translation of Japan after WWI in the occupation under MacArthur. One schoolgirl Love tries to find her sister and the other tries to adapt to Japan after living in Canada during the war.

1/18/2015 Higashino, Keigo A Midsummer's In Japan a community fights a company they are afraid will destroy Equation the ocean. A visitor to an inn is murdered by CO poisining. The daughter has long ago committed a crime and the murdered man has befriended the killer, who is dying.

Jordan 4/15/2014 Warrick, Joby Black Flags:The It actually started in Jordan. Rise of Isis 7/6/2014 Fallon, Siobhan The Confusion of Two Army wives navigate in Aman, Jordan duing the Arab Spring. Languages One wants to enbrace the culture and intergrate with the population, and although the other warns her, she is killed.

Kazakhstan 10/24/2015 McClain, Paula Circling the Sun A fictionalized bio of Beryl Markham. Kenya 2/16/2017 Anderson, City of Saints and Kenya. I young woman joins a gang so she can get revenge on the Natalie Sinners man she believes killed her mother. Instead, she and the man's son find the real killer. Kenya is portrayed as being very corrupt.

Korea 8/6/2017 Bracht, Mary White During WWI the Japanese capture a sister who is a sea diver and she Lynn Chrysanthemum becomes a "comfort woman.' Eventually, one man takes her to Manchuria and she escapes, he dies, and she stays with the Manchurian family. Her sister always searches for her.

Kuwait 3/14/2017 Hpbbert. Small Kingdoms Kwait between the two Gulf Wars. Three women - an American Anastasia whose husband works for an oil company, a native Kwaiti, and a servant, save a maid of a neighbor who is beaten, raped and starved.

Kyrgyzstan 8/1/17 Callahan, Tom A Killing Winter in Kyrgyzstan an inspector mourns the death of his wife, meanwhile he must solve the killing and mutilation of a woman from a wealthy family.

Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos) Latvia 12/4/2014 Greenway, Foreign Greenway reported from VietNam and southeast Asia and then H.D.S. Correpondent Egypt, Isreal, Lebanon, the Balkans, Iraq. Lebanon 7/10/2016 Zoepf, Katherine Excellent The secret lives of Arab women today in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Daughters Arabia and UAR, witten by a woman who lived there from 2004 to 2007.

Lesotho Libya 12/12/2016 Sattour Riad The Arab of the A childhood in Libya and Syria 1978-1984 Future 8/7/2017 MataR, Hisham The Return the author retuns to Libya to see what happened to his fathe Kidnapped ny the Quuadiffi regime. liberia 5/31/2018 Cooper, Helene Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf President of Liberia after the presidency of John President Doe, and military government. She has to confront the Ebola epidemic Liechtenstein 12/12/2015 Cohen, Roger The Girl from Traces a Jewish family from Lithuania to and then to Human Street England. The author is now a US citizen.

Lithuania 1/2/2017 Sepetys, Ruta between shades Lithuanians are sent to the Arctic Circle to live during WWII . of gray 4/19/17 Rumiz, Paolo The Fault Lines Traveling through the divide between Europe and Asia, starting in Finland, and continuing to Odessa in the Ukraine. Interesting discussion on the differecnces between Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians.

Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi 03/03/15 Kaplan, Robert Asia's Couldron The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific. Mahathir bin D. Mohamad ruled Malaysia from 1981 to 2003.

Malaysia Maldives 6/10/2016 Hammer, Joshua The Bad-Ass Mali: A librarian takes action to save the religious texts of Islam Librarians of when ISIS takes over Timbuktu. Timbuktu Mali ? LeCarre, John A Delicate Truth I think I read this and did not record. A Foreign service officer is sent to Malta on a mission which seems to be a success but isn't.

Malta Manchuria 8/6/2017 Bracht, Mary White During WWI the Japanese capture a sister who is a sea diver and she Lynn Chrysanthemum becomes a "comfort woman.' Eventually, one man takes her to Manchuria and she escapes, he dies, and she stays with the Manchurian family. Her sister always searches for her.

8/6/2017 Bracht, White During WWI the Mary Lynn Chrysanthemum Japanese capture a sister who is a sea diver and she becomes a "comfort woman.' Eventually, one man takes her to Manchuria and she escapes, he dies, and she stays with the Manchurian family. Her sister always searches for her. Marshall Islands Mauritania Mauritius 4/23/2013 Urrea, Luis Into the Beautiful Nayeli leaves Mexico and goes north to look for her father but finds Alberto North him living with another woman with whom he has a child.

Mexico Micronesia (Federated States of) Mongolia Montenegro 1/5/2015 Hussey, Andrew The French The Long War between France and its Arabs in Morocco, Algeria and Intifada Tunisia

Morocco Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Nauru Nepal 10/23/2015 Flanders,, Judith The Making of 17th century Netherlands, chronically short of arable land, therefore Home had a weak aristocracy. Capitalizsm took off. Pilgrims lived 13 years in Holland and some were born there. Good book but too long.

Netherlands 1/20/2017 Hertmans, War and The biography of the author's grandfather, a man who considered Steffen Turpentine himself Flemish, but seems to have lived in the Netherlands. He wanted to be a painter (Turpentine) but was a soldier in WWI (War), wounded, and decorated. New Zealand 5/29/2014 Corrigan, Kelly glitter and glue Non-fiction. A young woman becomes a Nanny in New Zealand. The mother has died of cancer. The 4-yr-old boy is accepting but the 7- year old girl hates her. I thought of Nana and how she was 8 when her mother died.

Nicaragua Niger 3/15/2014 Cooper, Dispatches from In 2005 there was a major famine 3.5 MILLION people at risk for Anderson the Edge starvation. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world.

Nigeria 11/22/2016 Soyinka, Woke You Must Set A Nobel Prize winnner, Soyina recounts his return from exile. Forth at Dawn

02/20/17 Barrett, A.Igoni Love is Power or Stories about love set in Nigeria. The first one is the best, about 2 Something Like women who live near each other but do not converse until they both have a problem. Norway 4/19/2014 Miller, Derek B. Norwegian by A grandfather moves to Norway because of his granddaughter. Night When the woman upstairs and her son are in trouble he takes them in. The woman is murdered and he sets out with the young boy to the summer home of the grandaughter's husband to find the guns. In the end he is killed but the boy is saved. The killer is slain with a bow by the granddaughter's husband.

1/6/2017 Holt, Anne The Lion's Mouth The Prime Minister of Norway is found dead in her office by a gun shot wound. The entire edifice of law enforcement is involved in solving the crime, but it was a suicide. Interesting depiction of Norway.

Oman Pakistan 3/10/17 Aslam, Nadeem The Golden Pakistan. When her husband is killed by stray shot from an American Legend the herorine refuses to stand up in court and say she forgives the killer. However, she is forced to and the man goes free.

Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru 11/30/2015 Alvar, Mia In the Country: Expats from the Phillipines in Bahrain & New York. Depressing. Stories

Philippines Poland 3/23/2015 Mulley, Colare The Spy Who The bio of a Polish woman, Christine Granvile, who was a special Loved agent for Britain in WWII Portugal 6/14/2016 Martel, Yani The High Three linked stories, probably with a religious under theme. It is hard Mountains of to tell. Portugal Qatar Republic of Korea (South Korea) Republic of 3/31/2016 Kaplan, Robert In Europe's In two World Wars and a 30-Year Journey Through Romaina and Moldova D./ Shadow Beyond Romania 12/25/2013 Smith, Martin Tatiana Not much of a mystery but an interesting picture of the corruption in Cruz Kalinengrad and Moscow.

3/31/2016 Kaplan, Robert In Europe's In two World Wars and a 30-Year Journey Through Romaina and D./ Shadow Beyond Russian 8/23/2016 Lieven, Dominic The End of Tsarist Newly released Russian archives elucidate the reasons Russia joined Federation Russia the war against Serbia in WW1.

1/29/2016 Fleming, The Family Murder, rebellion and the fall of Imperal Russia with emphasis on Candice Romanov the family of Tsar Nicholas II Rwanda 11/10/2013 Williams, Terry Finding Beauty in Mosaics, Groundhogs, Rwanda Tempest Ordinary Things

Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa

San Marino Sao Tome and Principe Saudi Arabia 7/10/2016 Zoepf, Katherine Excellent The secret lives of Arab women today in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Daughters Arabia and UAR, witten by a woman who lived there from 2004 to 2007.

Senegal Siberia 4/30/2016 Tesson, Sylvain Consolations of After breaking up with his long time girlfriend the author spends 6 the Forest months in a cabin in Siberia's Lake Baikal with two dogs, occasinal visitors, and plenty of Vodka. Serbia 11/17/2014 Butcher, Tim The Trigger: Following the trail of the assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdenand Hunting the that started WWII. Assassin Who Brought the World to War Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia 3/16/2014 Greenway, Alice The Bird Skinner An ornithologist, who was in the Solomen Islands in WWII, reminisses in his cottage in Maine before he commits suicide.

Solomon Islands Somalia 12/12/2015 Cohen, Roger The Girl from Traces a Jewish family from Lithuania to South Africa and then to Human Street England. The author is now a US citizen. Interesting how the Jews in South Africa felt the hated of the white population for Blacks saved the Jews from persecution.

9/9/17 Harding, Andreq The Mayor of The story of one man who is a political figrure and the mayor of Mogadish Mogasdishu, in Somalia. The author sees progress but many problems remaining. South Africa 4/17/2016 Wood, Levison Walking the Nile South Sudcan broke away from Sudan becaue the people are mostly animists and Christians and Sudan is Moslem. However, the country now is torn by civil war. South Sudan 12/8/2013 Inving, The Alhambra Tales of the Alhambra Washington 10/1/2016 Hislop, Victoria The Return Good depiction of a family during the Spanish Civil War. The story: When a young woman takes a trip to Spain she discovers the history of her family during the war.

12/28/2016 Carr, Matthew The Devils of Historical mystery of Spain in the time of the Inquisition (1584). The Cardona hero hoodinks the Inquisition and saves the day. Bad guys lose, good guys win. Sri Lanka 3/15/2016 Cooper, Dispatches from Tsuanami. In one church the statue of the Madonna was washed Anderson the Edge away. The priest prayed and prayed and it was discovered unharmed in a bush not far away.

Sudan 4/17/2016 Wood, Levison Walking the Nile Sudan is mainly desert. Suriname Swaziland 3/29/2013 Engelman, Karen The Stockholm This novel, set in Stockholm in 1971, relates how Emil Larson tries to Octavio stop the assignation of the king. He cannot prevent that but does see to the death of the assassin. Sweden 3/29/2013 Engelman, Karen The Stockholm This novel, set in Stockholm in 1971, relates how Emil Larson tries to Octavio stop the assignation of the king. He cannot prevent that but does see to the death of the assassin. 12/12/2016 Sattour Riad The Arab of the A childhood in Libya and Syria 1978-1984 Future Syrian Arab 1/14/2017 Glidden, Sarah Rolling Blackouts Cartoon book that follows two journalists who go to the Middle East Republic to determine the effects of the Iraq war on people from Turkey (the Kurds), Syria and Iraq.

Tajikistan Thailand 9/20/2017 Casarett, David Murder at the A nurse ethicist who lives in Chaing Mai, northern Thailand, and who House of Rooster has studied in Chicago, helps to catch a serial killer. She also reflects Happiness on the differences between the Thai and American people.

Timor-Leste Togo Tonga Trinidad and 1/5/2015 Hussey, Andrew The French The Long War between France and its Arabs in Morocco, Algeria and Tobago Intifada Tunisia Tunisia 10/14/2013 Kanon, Joseph Istanbul Passage A tobacco executive makes a little extra money helping Jews get to Isreal. When he is asked to help extradict a former Nazi he does that, but kills two people in the process, and then must work for the Turks.

1/1/2017 id Soren, David Carthage Uncovdering the Mysteries of Ancient Tunisia (Cato 159 BC,St. Augustine 429AD,439AD Islam) Turkey 1/14/2017 Glidden, Sarah Rolling Blackouts Cartoon book that follows two journalists who go to the Middle East to determine the effects of the Iraq war on people from Turkey (the Kurds), Syria and Iraq.

Turkmenistan Tuvalu 4/17/2016 Wood, Levison Walking the Nile Kampaki is a bustling city and Kampala is the pride of Uganda.

Uganda Ukraine 10/8/2016 Plokhy, Serhii The Gates of A history of the Ukraine Europe United Arab 1/22/2014 Heaney, Seamus Beowulf A new Verse Translation Emirates 7/10/2016 Zoepf, Katherine Excellent The secret lives of Arab women today in Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Daughters Arabia and UAR, witten by a woman who lived there from 2004 to 2007.

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United Republic of Tanzania United States of America Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Virgin Islands 8/30/2016 Hoffman, Alice The Marriage of The fictionalize biography of Camille Pissaro, born and raised in Opposites Charlotte Amilie, but made his mark in Paris as an Impresionist.

Vietnam 4/13/2017 Bui, Thi The Best We Graphic novel about one family's life in Vietnam, their escape to the Could Do USA, and their adjustment here. Yemen 2/13/2017 Engle, Richard And Then All Hell Two Decades in the Middle East: Egypt, Iraq, Syria. Lebanon, Yeman Broke Loose

Zambia Zimbabwe 1/2/2017 George, C.B. The Death of Rex Zimbabwea is a former British colony, but when a British coulple Nhongo goes there because of the wife's job they find problems. Five couples whose lives intertine.