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 London, 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. Barbados 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.