The Foreign Service Journal, November 2018

48 NOVEMBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL at Camp Baharia in Iraq, he first heard the rumors of Uday’s nefarious activities occurring in a nearby palatial resort that inspired him to write this book. He published a memoir, On the Road with a Foreign Service Officer , in 2014. But Not Forever Jan Von Schleh, SparkPress, 2018, $16.95/paperback, $9.95/Kindle, 312 pages. Could she be everything you aren’t, but somehow … still be you? But Not Forever is a time-traveling adventure of love and longing. A story of the heart’s quest to find where it belongs, it fea- tured on the 2017 Rossetti Book Awards Shortlist in Young Adult Fiction. It’s the year 2015, and Sonnet McKay is the daughter of a globetrotting diplomat, home for the summer from her exotic life. Everything would be perfect if not for her stunning sister, whose bright star has left her in the shadows. In 1895, Emma Sweetwine is trapped in a Victorian mansion, dreaming of wings to fly her far from her mother, who gives her love to her sons, leaving nothing for her daughter. Fate puts the two in the same house at the same moment, 120 years apart, and the identical 15-year-olds are switched in time. In their new worlds, Sonnet falls in love with a boy, Emma falls in love with a life, and astonishing family secrets are revealed. Torn, both girls want to still go home—but can either one give up what they now have? Jan Von Schleh is a third-generation Seattleite who has lived and worked around the world in Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Turkmenistan and Bahrain. When she’s not writing, she likes to explore ancient buildings wherever she can find them and wonder about the stories they would tell. She currently resides in Seoul with her FSO husband, Greg. Two Lies and a Diamond Hazel J. Kevlihan, Amazon Digital Services, 2018, $2.99/Kindle, 179 pages Aisling is 16 and charismatic, not to mention wise—and humble. But that’s just what other people say. Most impor- tantly, Aisling never loses. Like, never. The brains behind a five-person thieving team known as The Company, she counts as her associates: Nadir, a pickpocket turned con artist; Claire, a shy hacker; Rose, a finan- cial genius; and Cameron, a goofy nerd. Working out of an empty office building in South Dublin, Aisling steals from the biggest names in Europe, while still man- aging to ace her exams. But something sinister is lurking on the city streets. As The Company is drawn into a job close to home, Aisling will be forced to gamble her friends, her family and her future on one giant score. Will she finally lose it all? Hazel Kevlihan is the teenage daughter of Laurel Fain, a For- eign Service officer with USAID currently based in Dar es Salaam. CHILDREN’S BOOKS Nonny, Nani Kiki Munshi, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017, $10/paperback, 140 pages. This is the story of an 11-year-old girl’s journey and cultural struggle going from California to India. Though the events are fictional, the story is con- structed from real people’s memories and lives. Nonny is living in 1920s California when her father, an irrigation engineer, accepts a job offer in western India on the Ganga Canal. She and her father set out for India, leaving behind everything she knew—including her pony, Stormy. In India, she faces strict rules applied only to females, such as not being able to go out and do all the things that boys can do. Together with her new Indian pony, Toofan, she stirs up trouble and rebels against gender-defined constraints. Kiki Skagen Munshi joined the U.S. Information Agency in