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The Testament

The Testament
  • Author(s): John Grisham
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Brazil
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Troy Phelen is one of the richest men in the United States. He is also looking for a way to die. Nate O’Riley is a high-octane Washington litigator who’s lived too hard, too fast, for too long. Emerging from...

The Testaments

The Testaments
  • Author(s): Margaret Atwood
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead. ‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is...

The Testimony of Alys Twist

The Testimony of Alys Twist
  • Author(s): Suzannah Dunn
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 1500s

Arrested by her sister for treason, who in her household can Elizabeth trust? 1553: deeply-divided England rejoices as the rightful heir, Mary Tudor, sweeps to power on a tide of populist goodwill. But the people should have been careful...

The Texan’s Wager

The Texan’s Wager
  • Author(s): Jodi Thomas
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Old West (late 19th century)

Thrown off a wagon train with two other women and trying to avoid jail for a murder they committed, Bailee Moore agrees to enter a “wife lottery”—a ploy concocted by the Cedar Point sheriff to secure wives for the...

The Thief Lord

The Thief Lord
  • Author(s): Cornelia Funke
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 2000s

Winter has come early to Venice. Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they...

The Thief Taker

The Thief Taker
  • Author(s): Janet Gleeson
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Agnes Meadowes is cook to the Blanchards of Foster Lane, the renowned London silversmiths. Preparing jugged hare, oyster loaves, almond soup, and other delicacies for the family has given her a dependable life for herself and her son. But...

The Thief’s Daughter

The Thief’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Victoria Cornwall
  • Location(s): Cornwall
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Hide from the thief-taker, for if he finds you, he will take you away … Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, while the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free...

The Thieves of Ostia

The Thieves of Ostia
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Ostia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): 79AD

The first in Caroline Lawrence’s internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series, re-issued with a fantastic new cover look. Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship’s captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in...

The Thin Man

The Thin Man
  • Author(s): Dashiell Hammett
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett’s most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated...

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Thing Around Your Neck
  • Author(s): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Location(s): Nigeria, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie’s signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...

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