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This Heart of Mine

This Heart of Mine
  • Author(s): Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Location(s): Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Molly Somerville knows she has a reputation for trouble. She did give away her fifteen-million-dollar inheritance, but, hey, nobody’s perfect. Still, if anyone has an almost perfect life, it’s Molly. While her Daphne the Bunny children’s books could be...

This House Is Mine

This House Is Mine
  • Author(s): Dörte Hansen
  • Location(s): Schleswig-Holstein
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

All her life Vera has felt like a stranger in the old and drafty half-timbered farmhouse she arrived at as a five-year-old refugee from East Prussia in 1945, and yet she can’t seem to let it go. Sixty years...

This I Know

This I Know
  • Author(s): Eldonna Edwards
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in a small Midwest town in the late 1960s and helmed by an unforgettable young protagonist–compassionate, uncannily wise Grace–This I Know is a luminous coming-of-age story from an astonishing new voice. Eleven-year-old Grace Carter has a talent for...

This Is a Love Story

This Is a Love Story
  • Author(s): Jessica Soffer
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Present looking back

Abe and Jane have been together for fifty years: as two among the thousands of starry-eyed young lovers in Central Park, as frustrated and exhausted parents, as an artist and a writer whose careers were taking flight. Now, Jane...

This Is a Soul: An American Doctor’s Remarkable Mission in Ethiopia

This Is a Soul: An American Doctor’s Remarkable Mission in Ethiopia
  • Author(s): Marilyn Berger
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Passionately written by journalist Marilyn Berger, This is a Soul is the moving and inspiring story of Dr. Rick Hodes, an American doctor living in Ethiopia, who has devoted his life to caring for the sickest of the sick...

This is Edinburgh

This is Edinburgh
  • Author(s): Miroslav Sasek
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Intended for early reading years, but the illustrations are delightful for all ages…. Following the runaway bestsellers This is New York and This is Paris, Universe is pleased to reissue another title from M. Sasek’s beloved and nostalgic children’s...

This is Gonna End in Tears

This is Gonna End in Tears
  • Author(s): Liza Klaussmann
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘Steeped in longing and spiked with pitch perfect 80s detail . . . Gorgeous’ ANNA HOPE Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together like they were keeping a secret;...

This Is Happiness

This Is Happiness
  • Author(s): Niall Williams
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now –...

This Is Home

This Is Home
  • Author(s): Lisa Duffy
  • Location(s): Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the death of her mother, she lives with her father, Bent, in the middle apartment of their triple decker...

This Is How It Ends

This Is How It Ends
  • Author(s): Eva Dolan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But...

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