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Ru is a biographical fiction by Kim Thuy, Vietnamese-born Canadian author. The book was published in 2009 and was written in French. The book follows a young Vietnamese girl who fleed her country with her family after spending time in refugee camp. The family eventually came to Quebec, Canada, but had a hard time adjusting…

The Cat Who Saved Books is a fantasy fiction novel by Sosuke Natsukawa, published in 2017. It was originally written in Japanese, but it has been translated into many languages. The book follows the main character, Rintaro Natsuki, who obtains his grandfather’s bookshop. He meets a talking cat, Tiger, that appears and helps him deal…

Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays about the human-made, Anthropocene, in which John Green, the author, reviews each topics he chooses to write. He writes argumentative and persuasive essays showing different structures and flows on how to convey his thoughts and claims throughout each one. Anthropocene Reviewed shares varieties of perspectives on human-made, persuading…

Introduction: Night is a historical memoir by Elie Wiesel, published in 1956. This book follows Elie Wiesel’s Holocaust experiences in the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1944 to 1945, at the end of World War II. Wiesel portrays the pain and suffering many Jews had to go through, especially children at such a…