Moving on I do have more books to add to my pile.
Series
Pensioners (Pensionärsligan) by Catharina Ingelan-Sundberg.
This is a translated work from Swedish. This will also works toward my Around the world, complete series and read more translated works challenge, so overall this is a great pick.
The little old lady behaving badly
Book description: In the third hilarious, unforgettable installment in internationally bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s League of Pensioners series, Martha and the League’s latest escapade has them headed for the French Riviera in what is sure to be the most daring caper of the summer.
Martha and her friends are sitting comfortably in Sweden… a little too comfortably. Determined to do more for their fellow pensioners—and jazz things up for themselves—they’re up to their usual antics: bank robberies, money laundering, and figuring out how to disappear in a garbage-truck-cum-getaway-car. They have their sights sets on building a resort village for seniors, but that’s going to take money. Lots of money.
While stalking their millionaire neighbor, Carl, on Facebook, Anna-Gretta scrolls through his photos—all of them featuring luxury yachts on the Riviera—and an idea comes to her on how to solve the League’s cash problem. When she shares the hare-brained scheme with the others, they’re all aboard.
Their plan to cheat billionaires out of their luxury yachts in the south of France’s sun-bleached Saint-Tropez soon turns into the heist of their lives with the police hot on their heels—as well as a couple of ruthless ex-cons. Now this wily group of walker-equipped conspirators are hell-bent on accomplishing their dangerous mission—no matter the consequences.
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
This will be used for several challenges- Canadian author, and also is to continue a series, so hope we can complete the whole thing this year.
Third in the series: Anne of Avonlea
Book description: When twelve-year-old Anne Shirley came to Avonlea, she quickly won everyone’s heart. Now, she’s five years older, almost a woman, and about to embark on a new adventure: becoming the teacher in her old Avonlea school. It’s an exciting year as Anne struggles to win over all her students, welcomes two new members to her family, and feels the first stirrings of love.
Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura
Another great opportunity to get to several challenges- Translated and read around the world authors.
Vol 2
Book description: The foolish King Ethelred has fled, and Askeladd's band is one of hundreds plundering the English countryside. Yet victory brings no peace to the elderly Danish King Sweyn, who worries that his untested, sensitive son Canute will never be ready to take the throne. The king's attempt to force his son to become a man places the young prince within the grasp of the gleeful killer Thorkell! Whoever holds Canute holds the key to the thrones of England and Denmark – and Askeladd has his own reasons for joining the fray!
Vol 3
Book description: In a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn, gives him up for dead in his haste to suppress English resistance. But Askeladd's small band can't outrun the tenacious maniac Thorkell forever, and when the warriors finally clash, a storm of sweat and gore ensues that will turn a boy into a man and a hostage into a ruler of men!
Deadpool Classics
Vol 20: Ultima Deadpool by Brian Michael Bendis
Book description: Meet the Deadpool of the Ultimate Universe - and a few other Multiversal mercs for good measure! When Ultimate Spider-Man visits the X-Mansion, he finds it's been taken over by his world's Wadey Wilson -and the Reavers! Will other realities have more delightful Deadpools? Find out in a tour across dimensions that showcases animated Deadpool, MC2 Deadpool, samurai Deadpool and more! But who is the Deadpool of Counter-Earth? And what happens when the Venom symbiote possesses Deadpool?! COLLECTING: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (2000) 91-94; HEROES REBORN: REMNANTS 1; EXILES (2001) 5-6, 12-13, 66-68; VENOM/DEADPOOL: WHAT IF?; 5 RONIN 1-5; MARVEL ADVENTURES SUPER HEROES (2010) 4; MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN: WEB WARRIORS 8; MATERIAL FROM J2 11, SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD 3, SECRET WARS, TOO 1
Vol 21: DVX by Gerry Duggan
Book description: Deadpool clashes with the X-Men in adventures that give new meaning to the word "classic"! First, a bromance is rekindled as Deadpool and Cable - the Merc with the Mouth and the Soldier with the Shoulders - face a fight for the future! Then, learn the secret shared history of the Regeneratin' Degenerate and the Ragin' Cajun as Wade and Gambit take on one last job together! Plus: the murder of Forbush Man sparks fears that someone is targeting Marvel's funniest characters for death. Deadpool must act before someone bumps off Squirrel Girl, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Ant-Man, Howard the Duck and...the Punisher?! COLLECTING: DEADPOOL & CABLE: SPLIT SECOND 1-3, DEADPOOL V GAMBIT 1-5, DEADPOOL: TOO SOON? 1-4; MATERIAL FROM GWENPOOL SPECIAL 1, GWENPOOL HOLIDAY SPECIAL: MERRY MIX-UP 1
The Secret Zoo by Bryan Chick
Forth installment.
Traps and Specters
Book description: The fourth book in the action-packed and highly imaginative The Secret Zoo series, about a group of middle school friends who discover a hidden zoo in their very own neighborhood! On Halloween night, Noah and his friends must battle terrifying sasquatches that have attacked their own elementary school. Little do they know the sasquatches are a trap! When DeGraff captures three of Noah's friends, can the kids ally with their rivals in order to save every person and animal in the zoo—all while dodging the town's police? An entertaining and fast-moving series that's perfect for reluctant readers and will appeal to fans of Dan Gutman, Michael Buckley, and Andrew Clements. School Library Journal said, "Fans of fantasy, animal fiction, and adventure will enjoy this fast-moving story." The author originally had the idea for The Secret Zoo when he was nine and wondered what would happen if zoo exhibits had secret doors that allowed kids to go inside—and the animals to come outside. He brings that sense of adventure and excitement to this story, making it a favorite for home and classroom reading along with such middle grade fantasy favorites as The One and Only Ivan.
Hungarian Tea House Mystery by Julia Buckley
Third and final installment.
Death on the Night of lost lizards
Book description: Hana Keller is getting ready for a lovely holiday season. When she receives a rare tea set as a birthday gift, she decides to host a tea at her apartment for her closest friends. During the cozy get-together, one of Hana's friends gets word that a murderer is on the loose. Hana soon learns that the victim was Sandor Balog, a professor of Hungarian Studies at the local college.
With her growing psychic ability, Hana senses that she is going to be pulled into the investigation of the professor's death somehow. With her sexy boyfriend Erik on the case, Hana finds the Tea House steeped in suspects. She studies the smiling faces celebrating the season, but the real killer is good at hiding the truth and putting Hana in the hot sea.
House of M
House of M: New X-Men - Academy X by Nunzio DeFilippis
Book description: When orders come down that a leader of the human resistance in Japan must be assassinated, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s highly trained Hellions squad is called in to do it. But when a team of future mutant leaders called the New Mutants find out about this, they must intervene to put an end to a guaranteed disaster of global portions!
Collects: New X-Men: Academy X #16-19, and Secrets of the House of M.
House of M: Mutopia X by David Hine
Book description: Lights, camera, terrorists! Special investigator of human and mutant affairs Ismael Ortega teams up with ordinary cop Lucas Bishop to make sure terrorists from the Human Resistance Movement don't kill hundreds by sabotaging a glamorous movie premiere! Ismael's daughter, Chamayra, prepares to take part in the Rite of Transcendence, a ritual that unleashes the untapped mutant potential in children! Collects Mutopia X #1-5.
Around the World
Mexico
Como caracol by Alaide Ventura
Book description: Julieta supposes that something happened a long time ago between her mother and her grandmother that ended up separating them. One day, Julieta decides to get to know her grandmother, Mariana, better. Every moment will become a gift and hand in hand they will accompany each other to cope with Mariana's Alzheimer's disease with dignity.
Note: This is found in Spanish in Scribd, so of course I will read it in the original language. At this time there is no English translation.
Chile
La tristeza de las cosas by Maria Jose Ferrada
Book description: The objects we use every day keep something of us inside. Based on this premise, the writer María José Ferrada proposes a tour that begins with a cup of coffee abandoned in a kitchen. As the reading progresses, we discover that its owner is one of the more than 3,000 Chileans who, between 1973 and the mid-1980s, left their homes, offices, and places of study, never to return.
Note: This is found in Spanish in Scribd, so of course I will read it in the original language. At this time there is no English translation. But I am trying to read as many works in their original language as available.
Teheran
Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Book description: The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history.
Mongolia
The blue sky by Galsan Tschinag
The first installment on the Blue Sky Trilogy #1
Book description: In the Altai Mountains of northern Mongolia, the nomadic Tuvan people’s ancient way of life is colliding with the pervasive influence of modernity. For the young shepherd boy Dshurukuwaa, the confrontation comes in stages. First his older siblings leave the family yurt to attend a distant boarding school, followed by the death of his beloved grandmother and with it, the connection to the tribe’s traditions and deep relationship to the land. But the greatest tragedy strikes when his dog — “all that was left to me” — dies after ingesting poison set out by the boy’s father to protect the herd from wolves. His despairing questions to the Heavenly Blue Sky are answered only by the silence of the wind.
The gray Earth by Galsan Tschinag
The second blu sky trilogy #2
Book description: This powerful, sweeping novel continues the saga of Dshurukawaa, the Tuvan shepherd boy introduced in The Blue Sky. Torn between the onset of visions and pressure from his family to attend a state boarding school, the adolescent attempts to mediate the pull of spirituality and pragmatism, old ways and new. Taken from his ancestral home, he reunites with his siblings at a boarding school, where his brother also serves as principal. Soon he comes to understand that the main purpose of the school is to strip the Tuvans of their language and traditions, and to make them conform to party ideals. When tragedy strikes, Dshurukawaa begins to sense the larger import of his visions, and with it a possible escape. Tschinag's lyrical language, his striking characterizations, and his evocation of a singular way of life make The Gray Earth an unforgettable read and a worthy follow-up to The Blue Sky.
Algeria
La Mujer sin sepultura by Assia Djebar
Book description: La Femme sans sepulture is Zoulikha, the forgotten heroine of the Algerian war, who joined the maquis in the spring of 1957 and disappeared two years later, after her arrest by the French army. An exceptional woman, so alive in her reality as a mother, lover, friend, political opponent, in her absolute and painful commitment, in her approach to freedom which has sealed her life since childhood and which has never never left, his radiant presence floats forever above Caesarea.
Angola
Jaime Bunda. Agente Secreto by Pepetela
Book description: Set in modern-day Luanda, this satirical crime novel introduces readers to Jaime Bunda, an overweight, incompetent detective set on the trail of a murderer. Through misstep and mistake, Bunda finds himself embroiled in crimes of passion and international criminal networks as he stumbles through contemporary Angola. This mystery pokes fun at the James Bond genre while offering humorous insight into contemporary Angolan culture.
Ok So let's see how this month goes. I might have over reached in my TBR, wish me luck.
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