Book type: fiction (5990)
5501.
To Live : A Novel by Yu Hua EN
ChinaDescription:
Originally banned in China but later named one of that nation’s most influential books, a searing novel that portrays one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a landlord to a kindhearted peasant. “A work of astounding emotional power.” —Dai Sijie, author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress From the author of Brothers and China in Ten Words: this celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of... continue
5502.
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist's damaged granddaughter tries to naviga... continue
5503.
To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her . . . and more. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking . . . and wondering . . . and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on... continue
5504.
To Sir with Love by Edward Ricardo Braithwaite EN
Country: South America / 
Guyana
Guyana
Description:
Candidly describes the problems overcome by this Black teacher in teaching distrustful, rebellious teenagers in a London slum school.
5505.
To the End of the Land by David Grossman EN
IsraelDescription:
Ora, amiddle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer's release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. This a book of mourning for those not dead, a mother's lament for life during a wartime that has no end in sight. At the same time, it's joyously and almost painfully alive, full to the point of rupture with the emotions and the endless quotidian details of a few deeply imagined lives. Ora, the Israeli mother in Grossman's story, is surrounded by men: Ilan and Avram, friends and lovers who form with her a love triangle whose intimacies an... continue
5506.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramseys face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph-the human capacity for change. A moving portrait in miniature of family life, it also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgres... continue
5507.
To Trap a Taniwha by Jane Cooper EN
Country: Oceania / 
New Zealand
New Zealand
Description:
''An adventure story set in seventeenth-century Tamaki Makaurau Auckland when the hapu of Ngā Oho/Nga Iwi predominated. Armed with the courage of their convictions, two girls embark on a perilous journey to challenge their leaders' actions. Cousins, Te Kawenga and Kakati learn of a plan being hatched against a neighbouring iwi and strange activity occurring at a seasonal fishing camp. A huge trap is being built to snare and kill Ureia, the taniwha of Hauraki iwi. The cousins fear the retribution that will be taken on their people if Ureia is killed. So they take a dangerous journey to defy the... continue
Romania
France5510.
Toda a Grécia Antiga em um papo de elevador : Um diálogo divertido e surpreendente sobre a história, a mitologia e a arqueologia gregas by Theodōros Papakōstas PT
GreeceDescription:
Como uma dança ousada deu origem à democracia? Quem foi o sapateiro que transcreveu os diálogos de Sócrates? Por que Heráclito disse que Homero, autor da Ilíada e da Odisseia, merecia uma surra? “Neste livro, o arqueólogo Theodōros Papakōstas faz algo inédito e ousado: aproxima a arqueologia do nosso dia a dia." – Dimítris Plántzos, professor de Arqueologia Dois homens estão presos num elevador. Quando começam a conversar, um deles revela que é arqueólogo, e esse é o ponto de partida para uma viagem fascinante pela Grécia Antiga. Neste livro, o arqueólogo Theodōros Papakōstas leva o leitor a u... continue