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The Tsarina’s Daughter

The Tsarina’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Carolly Erickson
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): post Russian Revolution

Hiding her identity as the grand duchess daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Daria Gradov looks back on her luxurious childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, the machinations of an illiterate monk, and the circumstances that forced her to assume another life....

The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After

The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After
  • Author(s): Erica Marat
  • Location(s): Kyrgyzstan
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 2006

Released on the anniversary of the fall of President Askar Akayevs regime, The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After examines the dramatic changes in this remote yet strategically critical Central Asian republic. Authored by Eurasia Daily Monitor analyst Erica...

The Tulip Shirt Murders

The Tulip Shirt Murders
  • Author(s): Heather Weidner
  • Location(s): Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private investigator Delanie Fitzgerald, and her computer hacker partner, Duncan Reynolds, are back for more sleuthing in The Tulip Shirt Murders. When a music producer hires the duo to find out who is bootlegging his artists’ CDs, Delanie uncovers...

The Tumbling Girl

The Tumbling Girl
  • Author(s): Bridget Walsh
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

1876, Victorian London. Minnie Ward, a feisty scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall, is devastated when her best friend is found brutally murdered. She enlists the help of private detective Albert Easterbrook to help her find justice.   Together...

The Tunnel

The Tunnel
  • Author(s): Ernesto Sabato
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato’s The Tunnel has been acclaimed as a masterpiece by writers such as Albert Camus and Graham Greene. Infamous for...

The Tunnels Below

The Tunnels Below
  • Author(s): Nadine Wild-Palmer
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Children, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you find your way out of the dark? On her twelfth birthday, the last thing Cecilia expected was to find herself lost in a labyrinth of tunnels beneath London. Afraid, alone, but determined, she sets to work...

The Tuppenny Child

The Tuppenny Child
  • Author(s): Glenda Young
  • Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1919

‘She’s not worth more than tuppence, that child!’ Those are the words that haunt Sadie Linthorpe. She is the talk of Ryhope when she arrives there, aged seventeen, alone, seeking work and a home in the pit village. But...

The Turner House

The Turner House
  • Author(s): Angela Flournoy
  • Location(s): Detroit
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

The Turners live on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house sees thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it sees the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and the loss of a father....

The Turning of the Tide

The Turning of the Tide
  • Author(s): Liz Shakespeare
  • Location(s): Bideford, Clovelly
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 19th century

Devon, 1871 Young and vulnerable Selina Burman from Clovelly and her two young children are confined in the harsh environment of Bideford Workhouse. She can only observe them from a distance and despairs of a better future. Her prospects...

The Turning Over

The Turning Over
  • Author(s): William McCauley
  • Location(s): Mali, Sierra Leone
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

For several years Robert Kelley lived a primative and happy life in a remote fishing village in the mangrove swamps of Sierra Leone. There he has managed a development project that built a cooperative fisheries station which improved the...

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