The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
Little, Brown
Obioma uses his small Nigerian hometown of Akure as the setting of his first novel, where the routine daily rhythm of life is interrupted for one family when the father is transferred by his employer to a town quite far away. After he's left, his four sons begin fishing at the local river, something forbidden by their father because of dangers there. They meet a local madman who tells the eldest brother he will be killed by one of his siblings.
Secret Warriors: The Spies, Scientists, and Code Breakers of World War I by Taylor Downing
Pegasus Books
World War I marked the end of the "gentleman's war." Now, English writer Downing details how Britain entered the modern age by building planes, recruiting spies and developing chemical weapons to use across the Western Front. Engineers, scholars, and scientists weren't the only civilian contributors to Britain's changing battle effort. In one of the first usages of modern propaganda, the British government also called upon filmmakers, photographers and artists to depict the conflict for the public.
Duet in Beruit by Mishka Ben-David
The Overlook Press
Ben-David's 12-year service in Mossad gives him an edge in this spy thriller, which marks the best-selling Israeli author's US debut. Ronen, a fired Mossad agent, goes missing after failing in his mission to kill a Hezbollah leader. His former commander is on a mission as well — to track Ronen down before he tries to finish the job he messed up, this time without authorization.
Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes
Yale University Press
"I would rather have died myself," wept a women in front of Ford's Theatre, while in front of the White House the crowd wondered aloud if the president's death meant a return to slavery. Historian Hodes has mined letters and diaries to explore the nation's reaction to Lincoln's assassination — 150 years ago on Wednesday. In the South, the response was often chilly at best. For instance, a New Orleans woman visiting Natchez wrote the following to a friend for whom she was picking up a hat: "Unfortunately, on account of President Lincoln's death, the stores were closed in the city."
Finding Samuel Lowe: China, Jamaica, Harlem by Paula Williams Madison
Amistad
You may need Google Maps to follow former NBC exec Madison's roots story. Her grandfather, Samuel Lowe, emigrated from China to Jamaica in 1905, where he had a daughter — the author's mother — with a black Jamaican woman. Eventually a family-chosen bride was sent to him from China and they and their children returned to China during the Depression. The author's mother, an outcast in Jamaica due to her mixed heritage, moved to New York, where she had a troubled marriage to a Jamaican man. The author's research takes her to China, where she meets many Chinese Lowe relatives — and discovers a family lineage that goes back 3,000 years.
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