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That Old Ace in the Hole

That Old Ace in the Hole
  • Author(s): Annie Proulx
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘That Old Ace in the Hole’ is a richly textured story of one man’s struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle, told with razor-sharp wit and a masterly sense of place. Some folks...

That Old Country Music

That Old Country Music
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Since his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world’s most accomplished and gifted short story writers. Barry’s lyric intensity,...

That Other Me

That Other Me
  • Author(s): Maha Gargash
  • Location(s): Dubai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Sand Fish,Maha Gargash’s second novel is set in mid-1990s Dubai and Cairo and tells the story of how secrets and betrayals consume three members—an authoritarian father, a rebellious abandoned daughter, and...

That Summer

That Summer
  • Author(s): Jennifer Weiner
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer comes another timely and deliciously twisty novel of intrigue, secrets, and the transformative power of female friendship, set on beautiful Cape Cod. Daisy Shoemaker can’t sleep. With a...

That Summer at the Seahorse Hotel

That Summer at the Seahorse Hotel
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mia Flanagan has never been told who her father is and aged ten, stopped asking. Haunted by this, she remains a dutiful daughter who would never do anything to bring scandal or shame on her beautiful and famously single...

That Summer in Berlin

That Summer in Berlin
  • Author(s): Lecia Cornwall
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936

Nazi power is rising again, threatening a war that will be even worse than the last one. The English aristocracy turns to an age-old institution to stave off war and strengthen political bonds – marriage. Debutantes flock to Germany,...

That Summer In Puglia

That Summer In Puglia
  • Author(s): Valeria Vescina
  • Location(s): Puglia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Recent looking back

Tommaso has escaped discovery for thirty years but a young private investigator, Will, has tracked him down. Tommaso asks him to pretend never to have found him. To persuade Will, Tommaso recounts the story of his life and his...

The Ballad of Mary Kearney

The  Ballad of Mary Kearney
  • Author(s): Katherine Mezzacappa
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Eighteenth century

In County Down, Ireland, in 1767, a nobleman secretly marries his servant, in defiance of law, class, and religion. Can their love survive tumultuous times?An impoverished tenant farmer sends his seventeen-year-old daughter Mary into service at the home of...

The Louder I Will Sing

The  Louder I Will Sing
  • Author(s): Lee Lawrence
  • Location(s): Brixton
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1985 to present day

What would you do if the people you trusted to uphold the law committed a crime against you? Who would you turn to? And how long would you fight them for? On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence’s mother Cherry...

The Other Lotus Girl

The  Other Lotus Girl
  • Author(s): Daniel A Riddle
  • Location(s): Guildford
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day

“An emotional read that kept me on the edge of my seat… a roller coaster ride filled with danger, humor, and lies.” – Readers’ Favorite She escaped the traffickers. Now the real chase begins. It was supposed to be...

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