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The Things We Never Say

The Things We Never Say
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Strout
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Artie Dam is a man with a secret. He spends his days teaching history to high schoolers, expanding their young minds, correcting their casual cruelties, and lending a kind word to those who need it most. He goes to...

The Things We Said in Venice

The Things We Said in Venice
  • Author(s): Kristin Anderson
  • Location(s): Europe, Argentina
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Solid and dependable, high school counselor Sarah Turner knows all about helping others get their lives on track. But when her own life spirals drastically off course due to a fast-track divorce, she surprises everyone. She leaves her job...

The Third Gate

The Third Gate
  • Author(s): Lincoln Child
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary,

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of an ancient pharaoh who was unlike any other in history. Stone believes he has found the burial chamber of King...

The Third Hotel

The Third Hotel
  • Author(s): Laura van den Berg
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying, and deeply felt second novel, Clare, recently widowed, arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the 36th annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema, which her horror-loving film-professor husband, Richard, had purchased tickets...

The Third Son

The Third Son
  • Author(s): Julie Wu
  • Location(s): Taiwan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a forest for cover. It’s there he stumbles on Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to...

The Thirst

The Thirst
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THERE’S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer. AND HE’S OUT FOR BLOOD...

The Thirty Fifth Page

The Thirty Fifth Page
  • Author(s): Lya Badgley
  • Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s/2015

The ink shimmered, shifted, stirring awake like blood beneath skin. As Sarajevo teeters on the brink of war, American art conservator, Miri Adler, arrives to research the legendary Sarajevo Haggadah, a medieval manuscript that has withstood centuries of upheaval....

The Thread That Runs So True

The Thread That Runs So True
  • Author(s): Jesse Stuart
  • Location(s): Kentucky, Appalachian Mountains
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s / 1930s

First published in 1949, Jesse Stuart’s now classic personal account of his 20 years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted & inspired generations of students & teachers. With eloquence & wit, Stuart traces his 20...

The Three Golden Oranges

The Three Golden Oranges
  • Author(s): Alma Flor Ada
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Children

Far on the other side of the mountains, next to an enchanted castle, grows a tree with three golden oranges. It is there that the three brothers — Santiago, Tomás, and Matías — must journey if they wish to...

The Three Graces

The Three Graces
  • Author(s): Amanda Craig
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Enzo shoots an illegal migrant from his bedroom one night, it triggers a series of events that embroil old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign. His elderly neighbours Ruth, Diana and Marta are three friends who...

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