January 2021

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Sawiris Library

Gender

The Power by Naomi Alderman

A small twist of nature - teenage girls now have the power to cause agonizing pain and even death. The world drastically changes.

Invisible women by Caroline Criado-Perez (nonfiction)

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.

Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin

A gender-fluid teenager who struggles with identity creates a blog on the topic that goes viral, and faces ridicule at the hands of fellow students.

Biography / Memoir

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The author recalls her life growing up in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father and distant mother and describes how she and her siblings had to fend for themselves until they finally found the resources and the will to leave home.

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Trevor Noah's autobiography is the funny, moving, and insightful memoir of a young South African man, born during apartheid, and the struggles he faced as the child of a black mother and white father when interracial sex was against the law.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishamel Beah

Ishmael Beah describes his experiences after he was driven from his home by war in Sierra Leone and picked up by the government army at the age of thirteen, serving as a soldier for three years before being removed from fighting by UNICEF and eventually moving to the United States.

Winter Weather

The Great Alone by Hannah Kristin

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: he will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America's last true frontier.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

When a newspaper journalist covers the trial of a Japanese American accused of murder, he must come to terms with his own past.

Français

La disparition de Stéphanie Mailer par Joël Dicker

Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott are the two New York policemen who solved the Orphea murder case back in 1994 during which the mayor's family and a young woman had been murdered. However, in 2014, journalist Stephanie Mailer confronts them and tells them they were wrong all along. Stephanie claims to have proof. A couple of days later, she vanishes without a trace.

Le liseur du 6h27 par Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of a monstrous pulping machine. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman that his journey will truly begin.

Charlotte par David Foenkinos

An homage to Charlotte Salomon a visionary Jewish-German artist who was murdered in Auschwitz at the age of 26.

Español

La lluvia amarilla by Julio Llamazares

An old man, the last surviving inhabitant of Ainielle, a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees, recalls his life and the friends and neighbors who have passed on before him, while waiting for his own death.

El gran juego by Leticia Sánchez Ruiz

Through a series of puzzles Cucurucho and his brother Cosme must untie the mystery that leads to the fabulous legacy of Panda. But on the trail of the two there is already someone ready to play with them. Until the end.

Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda

A story of the jungle, the Shuar Indians, and the machine and gringos who have invaded it. Nature, out of balance, becomes vengeful and violent. An ocelot stalks the village, and only the old man, who once lived with the Indians and knows the jungle, is able to face the animal.

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