Backstory
- Breathless in Bombay
- Bombay-born Shroff opens a window on that city's commercial bustle, as lived in the heads of its people (as his introduction puts it) one profession at a time. The opening Dhobi Ghat, follows Mataprasad Mahadev, 53, delivering laundry, and establishes a pattern followed by later stories: a man (it's most often a man) is shown at work; his backstory then explains how he got there and leads to an ambiguous, open-ended conclusion.
- Monsters of Men [With Earbuds] (Playaway Young Adult)
- Gr 9 Up–The first word of this conclusion to the trilogy is "war," and war between various factions takes up much of this book. The action begins immediately and is told from two and then three viewpoints with no backstory that might bring readers new to the series up to speed.
- The Foundling's Tale, Part Two: Lamplighter
- "Reminiscent of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien or Robert Jordan." - School Library Journal, starred review"From the pre-industrial English feel to the sprawling setting and backstory, this book feels every bit as substantial as its heft implies." - Publishers Weekly, starred review"Gives the Dickensian orphan story an original spin.
- El Gavilan
- "As sobering and as urgent as tomorrow's headlines, this searing novel traces the struggle of the residents of fictional New Austin, Ohio, to cope with out-of-control illegal Latino immigrants. McDonald deftly balances his 'now' against the 'then' backstory as he dissects one of America's most tormenting social problems.
- A Killing in This Town: A Novel
- The horrors of the lynch mob inform every paragraph of this viscerally moving novel that gives the backstory to the 1998 James Byrd murder. In Jim Crow–era Bullock, Miss., a white boy's passage into manhood demands a grotesque ritual: he must "go out to a nigger's house and call him out of it" and, with his fellow Klansmen, drag him to death behind a horse.
- Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 4)
- Newbies to Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood may struggle to fill in the backstory, but these erotic paranormals are well worth it, and frighteningly addictive. The six "brothers" are vampires: enormous, tattooed, tormented warriors who protect other vampires from destruction by the "lessers," desouled humans in the evil Omega's Lessening Society.
- Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
- Fact-packed and funny, this offshoot of Spurlock's Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me serves both as a substitute for and addition to the movie. Spurlock spent a month not exercising and eating nothing but food from McDonald's, filming his declining health and ballooning size. It was a terrific premise for a movie; the book provides even more of its backstory and outtakes.
- Monsters of Men: Chaos Walking: Book Three
- Gr 9 Up–The first word of this conclusion to the trilogy is "war," and war between various factions takes up much of this book. The action begins immediately and is told from two and then three viewpoints with no backstory that might bring readers new to the series up to speed.
- Croquis
- The backstory of the Bible blazes to life in Croquis by E.S. Coakley.
- FIRST CASE - Novella (McRyan Mystery Series Prequel)
- Award winning author, Roger Stelljes, delivers a mystery NOVELLA (12 chapters/25,280 words) that is the prequel to the McRyan Mystery Series. First Case provides an introduction and backstory to the lead character, "Mac" McRyan and his fellow detectives.
- Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking Series)
- Gr 9 Up–The first word of this conclusion to the trilogy is "war," and war between various factions takes up much of this book. The action begins immediately and is told from two and then three viewpoints with no backstory that might bring readers new to the series up to speed.
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