The Foreign Service Journal, November 2020

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2020 63 Morgan Limo is a Foreign Service officer with USAID, responsible for strategic planning, budgeting, and monitoring and evaluation of U.S. foreign assistance programs across the health, democracy and governance, education and economic growth sectors. She has worked in Guinea, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria. She is also the author of Escape from the Baggage Claim (see next entry). Escape from the Baggage Claim Morgan Limo, independently published, 2020, $2.99/e-book, 15 pages. A traveling tot goes on a search for a missing bag, only to find that she is stuck inside the baggage claim. And there is only one way out: through the good graces of a troll who lives inside! The Drawing Game: A Novel Deborah Bowen Llewellyn, independently published, 2020, $7.99/paperback, e-book available, 212 pages. A budding friendship between two 11-year-old Bangladeshi children, Nadiha and Fayaz, grows from a pas- sion for drawing. Nadiha was sold into servitude, and Fayaz reached out to her despite his family’s objections. The two maintain a hidden friendship, and secretly meet to play their drawing game. Fayaz is kidnapped and held in a remote coastal camp where he is made to clean seashells for tourist shops. But connected through their sketchpads and a magical bluebird, both children embark on endeavors that ultimately save others, and themselves. Meanwhile, two American children, Beau and Ivy, move to Bangladesh with their families. And as they pursue their own interests in drawing, their paths intersect with beleaguered Nadiha and Fayaz. What can they do to help? The Drawing Game is a story about how children can meet their own momentous challenges in their young lives. Through kindness, bravery and brilliance, children can solve challenges and improve the world for all. Deborah Bowen Llewellyn is the wife of Charles Llewellyn, a retired USAID public health officer. From 1986 to 2010, she and her family lived in Peru, Bolivia, Ghana, Nepal, Bangladesh, Tanzania and Washington, D.C. She has worked as an early childhood development consultant in 29 countries, and developed a model for low-cost, high- quality, community-led parenting and early childhood education programs that is used in more than a dozen countries in Africa and Asia. She also worked with Save the Children, Plan International and UNICEF. Kingdom of Sea and Stone Mara Rutherford, Inkyard Press, 2020, $18.99/hardcover, e-book available, 368 pages. Mara Rutherford’s new book for young adult readers is a sequel to her Crown of Coral and Pearl (2019) that blends fantasy, politics and sisterhood. Protagonist Nor is forced to travel to a nearby kingdom in place of her sister. But all she wants is to return to the place and people she loves. When her wish finally comes true, she faces antagonism from both worlds. And a war looms on the horizon. Nor tries to keep the kingdom from falling apart with the help of a prince and Nor’s twin sister. They combat forces more mysterious than they could have imagined, and they’ll have to stay alive long enough to conquer those elements. After starting out as a journalist, Mara Rutherford discovered that she preferred fantasy to reality. Hailing from California, she has lived all over the world with her Marine- turned-diplomat husband. The Return Camille Funk, independently published, 2019, $17.99/paperback, e-book available, 445 pages. Eleanor Blackwell is turning 17 years old—for the seventh time. In each cycle, she knows that at 17, she will fall in love with the boy of her dreams, only to be murdered a year later, just before her 18th birthday. Each time she is reborn, Ellie finds herself in a different era. Though the times may be different, she is surrounded by the same souls of her friends and enemies.