On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the...
Diaries
- Author:Fang, FangSummary:
- Author:Hart, Jonathan LockeSummary:
Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary's first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some...
- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
“Dear Sunny: I don’t expect you to understand any of this yet, but we’ll always have yesterday... and today, and tomorrow. Maybe one day you’ll figure it out. I never could.” With a supportive family, great friends, and a spot on her...
- Author:Rimmer, KellySummary:
After finding disturbing journal pages that suggest her late mother didn't die in a car accident as her father had always maintained, Beth Walsh begins a search for answers.
- Author:Deriso, Christine HurleySummary:
It's not exactly easy living in a shrine to your dead sister. Since birth, I've known that everyone loved Shannon. She was perfect—beautiful, smart, talented. And me? Not so much. My parents always expected me to live up to her...
- Author:Rennison, LouiseSummary:
After trying to take Hamburgeragogoland, also known as the United States, by storm when her family vacations in Memphis, Tennessee, a British teen returns home to deal with the attentions of too many boys, weird parents, and mad cats....
- Author:McFadden, FreidaSummary:
Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect--or so it seems. Then she's in a terrible...
- Author:Mann, PeterSummary:
Two manuscripts are found in rubble, each one narrating conflicting versions of the life of an Irish spy during WWII. One is the journal of a German officer, and the other belongs to the secret agent himself.
- Author:Griffiths, EllySummary:
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R.M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with...
- Author:Williams, KathrynSummary:
Jess Morgan discovers her late aunt's diaries and sees she's not the only one struggling to hide who she really is. But was her aunt truly Anastasia, the Romanov princess? Or is this some elaborate hoax?
- Author:Moore, GrahamSummary:
In December 1893, Sherlock Holmes-adoring Londoners eagerly opened their Strand magazines, anticipating the detective's next adventure, only to find the unthinkable: his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, had killed their hero off....
- Author:Groen, HendrikSummary:
Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried anytime soon. Instead, he sets out to write an exposé: a year in the life of his care home in Amsterdam.
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
When Sierra discovers her young ancestor's handcrafted quilt and reads her journal, she finds that their lives are very similar. By following her ancestor's example, she learns to surrender to God's sovereignty and unconditional love....
- Author:Nielsen, SusinSummary:
When thirteen-year-old Henry and his family move to the city to leave behind a secret tragedy, Henry finds a journal is his best friend.
- Author:Karp, LarrySummary:
It’s 1951, and ragtime is making a comeback. In Sedalia, Missouri, plans are underway for a ceremony to honor Scott Joplin. Brun Campbell, the old Ragtime Kid, is working to establish Joplin’s legacy. Brun learns of a journal Joplin...
- Author:Cabot, Meg.Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the...
- Author:Hiranandani, VeeraSummary:
In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India's partition, and of one girl's journey to find a new home in a divided countryIt's 1947, and...
- Author:Glickman, SusanSummary:
The Discovery of Flight is a novel in two voices about the relationship between two sisters, the older of whom is disabled by cerebral palsy and only able to communicate with assistive technology (she can control her computer by moving...
- Author:Pepys, SamuelSummary:
Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
- Author:FINE, AnneSummary:
Ellie is horrified when Tuffy keeps dragging dead creatures into the house. Tuffy can't understand what the fuss is about. Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her pet to change his wild, wild ways? The hilarious antics of Tuffy...