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The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur

The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur
  • Author(s): Daoud Hari
  • Location(s): The Sudan, Darfur
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2003

I am the translator who has taken journalists into dangerous Darfur. It is my intention now to take you there in this book, if you have the courage to come with me. The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends...

The Transparency of Time

The Transparency of Time
  • Author(s): Leonardo Padura, Anna Kushner (Translator)
  • Location(s): Havana
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Moern looking back

Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the...

The Trap

The Trap
  • Author(s): Ava Glass
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

How far would you go to catch a killer? This is the question UK agent Emma Makepeace must ask herself when she is sent to Edinburgh for the upcoming global G7 Summit. The Russians are in town and Emma...

The Travelers

The Travelers
  • Author(s): Regina Porter
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father’s meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries...

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

The Travelling Cat Chronicles
  • Author(s): Hiro Arikawa
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Nana is on a road trip, but he is not sure where he is going. All that matters is that he can sit beside his beloved owner Satoru in the front seat of his silver van. Satoru is keen...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • Author(s): B Traven
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Fiction

One of the greatest books ever written. It was made into a movie by the same name, which in turn is regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made. First published in 1935, The Treasure of the Sierra...

The Treasure of Tundavala Gap

The Treasure of Tundavala Gap
  • Author(s): Jeffrey K Schmoll
  • Location(s): Angola
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 20th Century

What if a forgotten map leads to death? A thrilling, high-stakes adventure awaits in The Treasure of Tundavala Gap. When Mateus, a quiet PhD student, stumbles upon a cryptic map and wartime letters left by his grandfather, his life...

The Treasure Seeker

The Treasure Seeker
  • Author(s): Suzanne Hope
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melody Meeks is a struggling freelance writer at Zenith magazine when a chance encounter on Facebook brings her back in touch with her first love, the love she never really got over: Spencer Channing. But little does she know...

The Tree

The Tree
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

The tree of liberty sprouted well before the Revolution started… Abe is haunted by the sudden loss of both of his parents. Left to manage a New-Hampshire time grant with only his eccentric aunt to guide him, he finds...

The Tree Of Man

The Tree Of Man
  • Author(s): Patrick White
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Stan Parker, with only a horse and a dog for company journeys to a remote patch of land he has inherited in the Australian hills. Once the land is cleared and a rudimentary house built, he brings his wife...

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