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This must be the Place

This must be the Place
  • Author(s): Anna Winger
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

This One Sky Day

This One Sky Day
  • Author(s): Leone Ross
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjure and cook An infidelity to investigate A lost soul to set...

This Other Eden

This Other Eden
  • Author(s): Paul Harding
  • Location(s): East Coast USA, Maine
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Edentells the story of Apple Island: an enclave off the coast of the United States where waves of castaways – in flight from society...

This Plague of Souls

This Plague of Souls
  • Author(s): Mike McCormack
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you rebuild a world that seems to be falling apart? Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. No heat or light, no...

This Poison Will Remain

This Poison Will Remain
  • Author(s): Fred Vargas
  • Location(s): Nimes
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Current

After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to suspect that the case is far more complex than first appears. It isn’t...

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

This Should Be Written in the Present Tense
  • Author(s): Helle Helle
  • Location(s): Copenhagen
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A beautifully intimate novel from award-winning Danish novelist, Helle Helle This should be written in the present tense. But it isn’t. Dorte should be at uni in Copenhagen. But she’s not. She should probably put some curtains up in...

This Side of Home

This Side of Home
  • Author(s): Renée Watson
  • Location(s): Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From New York Times bestselling, Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Author Award-winning author Renée Watson comes a captivating and poignant coming-of-age urban novel about sisters, friends, and what it means to embrace change. Maya Younger and her identical...

This Side of the River

This Side of the River
  • Author(s): Jeffrey Stayton
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1865

This Side of the River is a novel set in in Georgia in the summer of 1865, after Confederacy has collapsed. A contingent of war widows who have survived Sherman’s March have armed themselves and rallied around a teenage...

This Stays Between Us

This Stays Between Us
  • Author(s): Sara Ochs
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 10 years

You can never escape a summer abroad… Ten years ago, six college students meet in an Australian summer study abroad, ready to enjoy the break from their studies and travel the country. Their program is meant to introduce them...

This Strange Eventful History

This Strange Eventful History
  • Author(s): Claire Messud
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar – honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica – bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith...

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