- Location(s): Arkansas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1870s
True Grit, set in Arkansas and the Oklahoma Territory in the years just after the Civil War, when Texas Rangers chased fugitives in Indian Territory and the frontier was pushing west, is the story of Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old...
True History of the Kelly Gang
- Location(s): Australia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1800s
To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings...
- Location(s): Michigan, Upper Peninsula
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the damage scarred into the American soil. The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up...
- Location(s): Canada
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
Canada – ‘The true north strong and free’ in the words of its national anthem – is the subject of this exhilarating new travel book from Paul Theroux: both a journey into the past and a cross-country road trip...
- Location(s): Virginia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
A girl emerges from the woods, starved, ill, and alone…and collapses. Suzanne Blakemore hurtles along the Blue Ridge Parkway, away from her overscheduled and completely normal life, and encounters the girl. As Suzanne rushes her to the hospital, she...
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Meet the dazzling women of Paris; from Colette to Nancy Mitford; Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel; Napoleon’s Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule-breakers and style-setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion – Paris, the world’s...
- Location(s): Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Quinn Maguire has a stable life, a fiancé, and what she thinks is a clear vision for her future. All of that comes undone by her mother’s deathbed confession—the absentee father Quinn spent thirty years resenting is not her...
- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Short synopsis: Mild admin by day, wild clubber by night travels to Ibiza for fun in the sun. The detail: In this book we find promiscuous Amanda living the highlife. We get to hear about a selection of her...
- Location(s): Georgia, Euharlee
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2nd half 20th century
Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes is a down-home story celebrating the enormous healing power of the Southern garden. Imogene Lavender, her daughter, Jeanette, and her niece, Loutishie, wage their individual battles with grief and find the answer to many of...
- Location(s): Vermont
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1930s and 21st century
New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private...
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