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This Close to Okay

This Close to Okay
  • Author(s): Leesa Cross-Smith
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls “a consummate storyteller.” On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home...

This Could Be Everything

This Could Be Everything
  • Author(s): Eva Rice
  • Location(s): Notting Hill
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1990

It’s 1990 and the streets of Notting Hill in London are filled with colour, life and the pulse of music from around the world. But behind the front door at 51 St Quentin Avenue, nineteen-year-old February Kingdom is Not...

This Cursed House

This Cursed House
  • Author(s): Del Sandeen
  • Location(s): Louisiana, Chicago
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): 1960s

Louisiana, 1962. The Duchon family has always been a little different. Light-skinned enough to pass as white, they’ve always felt superior to their black peers, ensconced in their palatial but decrepit New Orleans mansion. Meanwhile in Chicago, Jemma Barker...

This Dark Road to Mercy

This Dark Road to Mercy
  • Author(s): Wiley Cash
  • Location(s): North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as “a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird” (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns...

This Earth, My Brother

This Earth, My Brother
  • Author(s): Kofi Awoonor
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Ghana, this novel echoes many of the obsessive themes of the author’s poems. The story describes the pain of Awoonor’s voluntary exile and his spiritual return to his native land.

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...

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