Concerning works, I can’t provide you any names, sry. I might enlighten you with your issue about à.
à can mean have very distincts meanings, depending on the context: place, time, means, etc. I can only recommend you the Wikipedia page of à that is very complete and satisfactory (IMO at least)
I still don’t advise you to look for the perfect translation for à, since, as for to or every preposition in every language, it mostly depends on the verb, and two verbs describing the same action or situation might not even use the same preposition, so… Well, grammar…