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The Tomten and the Fox

The Tomten and the Fox
  • Author(s): Astrid Lindgren, Eva Eriksson (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Children

It’s a cold winter’s night and a hungry fox is creeping through the snow. It’s Christmas Eve. He sees a hen house full of tasty chickens to eat — but he’s forgotten about the old tomten who guards the...

The Torrents of Spring

The Torrents of Spring
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Chicago, Illinois
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): 1926

First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that “great race” of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and...

The Tortilla Curtain

The Tortilla Curtain
  • Author(s): T C Boyle
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican...

The Tourist Attraction

The Tourist Attraction
  • Author(s): Sarah Morgenthaler
  • Location(s): Alaska
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He had a strict “no tourists” policy…until she broke all of his rules.When Graham Barnett named his diner The Tourist Trap, he meant it as a joke. Now he’s stuck slinging reindeer dogs to an endless parade of resort...

The Tower

The Tower
  • Author(s): Uwe Tellkamp
  • Location(s): Dresden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1989

In derelict Dresden a cultivated, middle-class family does all it can to cope amid the Communist downfall. This striking tapestry of the East German experience is told through the tangled lives of a soldier, surgeon, nurse and publisher. With...

The Town

The Town
  • Author(s): Shaun Prescott
  • Location(s): New South Wales, The Outback
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This is Australia: an unnamed, dead-end town in the heart of the outback. A young writer arrives in New South Wales to research local settlements that are slowly vanishing into oblivion – but he didn’t expect these ghost towns...

The town halloween forgot, the curse of Willow Creek

The town halloween forgot, the curse of Willow Creek
  • Author(s): K A Hambly
  • Location(s): Carmarthenshire
  • Genre(s): Paranormal, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

For fans of Mortal Instruments, this story of witches, magic, and spooky going-ons is a perfect addition for any horror fan. Sometimes Halloween is all trick, and no treat. Danny Hallows is no ordinary fifteen year old. After his...

The Track of Sand

The Track of Sand
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri’s twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no...

The Trade

The Trade
  • Author(s): Chris Thrall
  • Location(s): Cape Verde (Cabo Verde)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After three months in a life raft, Hans Larsson returns to Cape Verde intending to dive on the wreck of his yacht Future seeking answers, but in a frightening turn of events, the former Navy SEAL uncovers the island’s...

The Tragic Romance of Africa: A True Adventure

The Tragic Romance of Africa: A True Adventure
  • Author(s): Dennis Hubbard
  • Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia), Broken Hill, Mulungushi Dam
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

Dennis Hubbard was a naive 21 year old when he arrived at a small mining town called Broken Hill in tropical Northern Rhodesia, where he spent the next two years. They were to become the greatest and most formative...

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