Tisha: A Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1920s
Anne Hobbs is a prim and proper 19-year-old schoolteacher who yearns for adventure. She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken...
Tisha: A Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
- Location(s): Alaska
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1900's
The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. “From the time I’d been a girl, I’d been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So...
- Location(s): Tunica, Mississippi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Daredevil Dennis Lenahan has brought his act to the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino in Tunica, Mississippi — diving off an eighty-foot ladder into nine feet of water for the amusement of gamblers, gangsters, and luscious belles. His riskiest feat,...
- Location(s): Detroit
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 2015
In a heart-stopping new novel from Fire & Flood author Victoria Scott, one girl bets her entire future on a race that she has no hope of winning. Ever since the Titans appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan’s...
Tito’s Lost Children, The Kosovo War
- Location(s): Kosovo, Albania, Balkans
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Adventure
- Era(s): 1998-2013
A hand clamps down on a boy’s shoulder. He looks up from his father’s body. In an instant his childhood is over. He kicks and screams as he and his little brother are dragged away by the Albanian terrorist...
Tito’s Lost Children, War One: Slovenia
- Location(s): Slovenia
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Adventure
- Era(s): Early 1990s
An action-packed alternate history of the breakup of Yugoslavia. Jovana, the fictional secret daughter of Marshall Josip Broz Tito, is caught up in the real events leading to Slovenia’s 10-day war for independence in 1991. She and her friends...
Tito’s Lost Children: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Location(s): Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
No 3 in Tito’s Lost Children Maršal Jovana Avramovska, the next leader of Yugoslavia, awakens from near-death to find Sarajevo under siege by Serb artillery. She and her team must keep her continued existence a secret while her adoptive...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father’s spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph’s prosperity andthe...
- Location(s): Eritrea, Asmara, Ethiopia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
This national bestseller by the highly-acclaimed author of “Schindler’s List” tells the deeply moving and spellbinding story of an alienated Australian journalist’s soul-searching journey across a war-torn Africa.
- Location(s): Nicaragua
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrote his great panoramic novel from exile, and this was...
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