Yasuko can simply accept that there is no suitable candidate for marriage, but the real trouble is the rumour. The rumour is about her work in the kitchens of the Second Middle School Service Corps in Hiroshima City. The villagers of Kobatake were saying that she was a victim of…
The idea of supermarkets had just begun in Japan during the Japanese post-WWII recovery and industrialisation. In 1969, Ishikari was the managing director, and his elder brother was the president of Ishiei Stores. Kojima is Ishikari's cousin, and both strongly bonded after the two families shared the Ishikari family home…
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children. Elwood Curtis was raised by his strict grandmother during the 1960s in Florida. He passionately follows Dr Martin Luther King's words and has a strong interest in the…
William was born into slavery in the early 1800s on a plantation in Jamaica. William's mother, Stella, was a house slave to the Mowatt family. Stella was often abused by her master Cargill Mowatt or whom they called Massa. William has a younger brother Sammy who claimed as Massa's biological…
Set in a small town in Wollongong, Australia, in the 1970s, Tanya's mother, Eleanor, has been continuously trying to have a baby. She already had multiple miscarriages in the past until Shelley comes into the world. Tanya Randall is just an eleven-year-old girl struggling with peer pressure, puberty, and coping…
The first book sets in a small fishing village located in Yeongdo, Busan, from 1910 to 1933. It begins with the story of a fisherman and his wife that has three sons, but only the eldest and weakest survived. Hoonie was born with a cleft palate and a twisted foot…
Set in the '70s at Odessa Texas, the story begins with Gloria Ramirez, who is just fourteen years old, observing closely of a young cowboy who is sleeping in his truck. She is waiting for the right time to run away before he sobers up. As the sun rises, offering…
Frank recalls the memories of the summer in 1961 when he was a thirteen-year-old boy in a small town of New Bremen, Minnesota. The story is narrated by Frank forty years after, looking back at that particular summer which visited by frequent deaths in various forms. Accident. Nature. Suicide. Murder.…
On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton was found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she had regularly attended in Bromley, Kent (based on a true story). The first part introduces the background of several main characters who knew Harriet and possibly her secret as well. The story was told…
The story is narrated by Death during World War II, and it is the story of a young German girl named Liesel. It begins with the death of her brother and her first act of book thievery. A book is hidden in the snow called 'The Gravedigger's Handbook' which is…