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Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl
  • Author(s): Jeannie Vanasco
  • Location(s): Ohio
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 60 years ago

Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. She startles awake, saying his name. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her....

Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here

Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
  • Author(s): Nancy Wayson Dinan
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather’s wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire...

Thinking on My Feet

Thinking on My Feet
  • Author(s): Kate Humble
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Thinking on My Feet tells the story of Kate’s walking year – shining a light on the benefits of this simple activity. Kate’s inspiring narrative not only records her walks (and runs) throughout a single year, but also charts...

Thirst for Salt

Thirst for Salt
  • Author(s): Madelaine Lucas
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Our narrator is twenty-four years old when she and her mother arrive in the tiny coastal town of Sailors Beach. Their holiday, she hopes, will be a pause between her life as a student and whatever happens next. Summer...

Thirsting for More

Thirsting for More
  • Author(s): Marie Wells Coutu
  • Location(s): Charleston
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

***2016 Selah Awards Finalist*** ***2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards Semi-Finalist*** … she closed her eyes to this real-life nightmare. The whole city of Charleston seems to be watching, waiting for Northern transplant and recently hired director of tourism, Victoria...

Thirteen

Thirteen
  • Author(s): Tom Hoyle
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Born at midnight in London, on the stroke of the new millennium, Adam is the target of a cult that believes boys born on this date must die before the end of their thirteenth year. Twelve boys have been...

Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey

Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey
  • Author(s): Kathryn Tucker Windham, Margaret Gillis Figh
  • Location(s): Alabama
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1966 to 1986

Jeffrey is the mischievous “something” that has headquarters in the Windham home in Selma, Alabama. He first made his presence known in October 1966, and since then he has continued, at irregular and infrequent intervals, to clump down the...

Thirteen Months of Sunrise

Thirteen Months of Sunrise
  • Author(s): Rania Mamoun
  • Location(s): The Sudan
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary - Looking back to WWII

One of World Literature Today’s ‘Notable Translations of 2019’ A young woman sits by her father’s deathbed, lamenting her failure to keep a promise to him… A struggling writer walks every inch of the city in search of inspiration,...

Thirty Days of Darkness

Thirty Days of Darkness
  • Author(s): Jenny Lund Madsen, Megan Turney (Translator)
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Copenhagen author Hannah is the darling of the literary community and her novels have achieved massive critical acclaim. But nobody actually reads them, and frustrated by writer’s block, Hannah has the feeling that she’s doing something wrong. When she...

Thirty-Eight Days of Rain

Thirty-Eight Days of Rain
  • Author(s): Eva Asprakis
  • Location(s): Cyprus
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“What matters more, your place as a daughter or as a mother?” Androulla is twenty-four and newly married when she learns that she is infertile. In a bid for Cypriot citizenship she is undergoing adoption by her stepfather, and...

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