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A Thousand Splendid Suns

A Thousand Splendid Suns
  • Author(s): Khaled Hosseini
  • Location(s): Herat, Kabul
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s to 2000s

At times this can be a harrowing book, in which the author paints brutal scenes but it always retains, especiallythrough the characters of Mariam and Laila, a humanity, tremendous spirit and love. They overcome the challenges that have faced...

A Thread of Grace

A Thread of Grace
  • Author(s): Maria Doria Russell
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Set in Italy towards the end of the Second World War. Fourteen year old Claudette Blum and her Father, both Jewish refugees, are learning Italian, as they escape across the Alps to Italy. The Italians have in theory broken...

A Thread Unbroken

A Thread Unbroken
  • Author(s): Kay Bratt
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Chai and Josi share a bond that transcends ordinary friendship. While Chai has always been Josi’s protector-ever since they were toddlers, growing up together in a small Chinese village-she finds herself helpless when they are both abducted from their...

A Thunderous Whisper

A Thunderous Whisper
  • Author(s): Christina Diaz Gonzalez
  • Location(s): Guernica
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Ani believes she is just an insignificant whisper of a 12-year-old girl in a loud world. This is what her mother tells her anyway. Her father made her feel important, but he’s been off fighting in Spain’s Civil War,...

A Time Like No Other

A Time Like No Other
  • Author(s): Audrey Howard
  • Location(s): Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

A Time of Gifts

A Time of Gifts
  • Author(s): Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

Walking from the Hoek of Holland to Rotterdam, through Europe, Munich to the Danube – beautifully observed, an absolute classic.

A Time of Mourning

A Time of Mourning
  • Author(s): Christobel Kent
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966

November in Florence. If you have read`A Florentine Revenge’ find out what happened to the policeman – Sandro Cellini in this novel. He has left the police and is working as a P.I. His first client Is Lucia –...

A Tour of the Heart

A Tour of the Heart
  • Author(s): Maribeth Clemente
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

A Tour of the Heart: A Seductive Cycling Trip Through France, part memoir, part love story, is a romantic ode to the most visited country in the world. Told by a proudly-feminine and sophisticated travel writer, an expert in...

A Town Like Alice

A Town Like Alice
  • Author(s): Nevil Shute
  • Location(s): Australia, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

A Train in Winter

A Train in Winter
  • Author(s): Caroline Moorhead
  • Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, France
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 - early 1940s

230 women from the French Resistance were captured, and taken to on a train to Auschwitz in the Winter of 1943. The first part chroncles the collapse of Vichy France, early 1940s, how the Nazis invaded Paris. It then...

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