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The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores

The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
  • Author(s): Diana Marcum
  • Location(s): Azores
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern Day

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer comes an exuberant memoir of personal loss and longing, and finding connection on the remote Azorean Islands of the Atlantic Ocean. Reporter Diana Marcum is in crisis. A long-buried personal sadness is enfolding her—and...

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

In a prison in Occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot. The prisoners draw lots among themselves—and for rich lawyer Louis Chavel it seems that his whole life has been leading up to an agonizing...

The Tenth Muse

The Tenth Muse
  • Author(s): Catherine Chung
  • Location(s): Michigan, Indiana, Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent—and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried...

The Terror

The Terror
  • Location(s): Arctic
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Gothic
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph. But for almost two years his ships HMS Terror and Erebus have been trapped in...

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...

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