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Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
  • Author(s): James Baldwin
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For...

Tell Me Something

Tell Me Something
  • Author(s): Adele Parks
  • Location(s): Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Elizabeth and her Italian husband Roberto decide to leave London for romantic Italy and his family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help boost her chances of conceiving their longed for child. But the idyll shatters...

Tell Me What I Am

Tell Me What I Am
  • Author(s): Una Mannion
  • Location(s): Philadelphia, Vermont
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two women, wrenched apart by a terrible crime, must find a way back to each other When Deena Garvey disappears in 2004, she leaves behind a daughter and a sister. Deena’s daughter grows up in the country. She learns...

Tell Me Where You Are

Tell Me Where You Are
  • Author(s): Moira Forsyth
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Frances is doing fine; she has her life sorted. Then comes the phone call from Alec, the husband who left her for her younger sister Susan, thirteen years ago. Susan has disappeared, and Alec wants her daughter Kate to...

Tell Them My Name

Tell Them My Name
  • Author(s): Laura Maya
  • Location(s): Europe, Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dar Kumari is an indigenous Gurung woman living in the Nepali Himalayas with her elderly husband, Nar Bahadur. Their mud-brick house is in a remote farming village that has no electricity and can only be reached on foot. Their...

Tempest Rising

Tempest Rising
  • Author(s): Nicole Peeler
  • Location(s): Maine
  • Genre(s): Humour, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Living in small town Rockabill, Maine, Jane True always knew she didn’t quite fit in with so-called normal society. During her nightly, clandestine swim in the freezing winter ocean, a grisly find leads Jane to startling revelations about her...

Temple Alley Summer

Temple Alley Summer
  • Author(s): Sachiko Kashiwaba, Avery Fischer Udagawa (Translator)
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Winner of the 2022 Mildred L. Batchelder Award A July/August 2021 Kids’ Indie Next Pick A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection Winner of a 2022 SCBWI Crystal Kite AwardFrom renowned Japanese children’s author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer...

Temporary People

Temporary People
  • Author(s): Deepak Unnikrishnan
  • Location(s): Abu Dhabi, Dubai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights...

Tempting Escape

Tempting Escape
  • Author(s): Heather McVey
  • Location(s): The Maldives
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Nurse Shelly Blake needs a man badly. After ditching her cheating ex, and going on her honeymoon to the Maldives alone, she intends to experiment, and indulge in a bit of voyeurism with as many men as possible. Trouble...

Ten Big Ones

Ten Big Ones
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Swing off the Jersey Turnpike and you’ll be in bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s neighborhood. You’ll know it because all hell will be breaking loose. Not that she looks for trouble – it just seems to follow her. In Ten...

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