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Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace 2)

Looking Good Dead (Roy Grace 2)
  • Author(s): Peter James
  • Location(s): Brighton
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Tom Bryce picks up a CD which has been left behind on a train seat, but when he attempts to track down the owner, he finds himself the only witness to a savage killing. Reporting the crime to the...

Loop

Loop
  • Author(s): Brenda Lozano, Annie McDermott (Translator)
  • Location(s): Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Winner PEN Translates Award (UK) Recovering from an unspecified accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors’ surgeries, and above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has travelled...

Lord of All the Dead

Lord of All the Dead
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Extremadura
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas’ family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents’ village in southern Spain, to research the life of...

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies
  • Author(s): William Golding
  • Location(s): Pacific Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but...

Lords and Lemurs

Lords and Lemurs
  • Author(s): Alison Jolly
  • Location(s): Madagascar
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Chronicles the rich human, plant, and animal diversity of this Isle off the East Coast of Africa, home to lemurs, unusual reptiles, and other creatures more at home in mythology than natural science.

Lords of St. Thomas

Lords of St. Thomas
  • Author(s): Jackson Ellis
  • Location(s): St Thomas, Mojave Desert
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

In the Mojave Desert, at the southern end of the isolated Moapa Valley, sat the town of St. Thomas, Nevada. A small community that thrived despite scorching temperatures and scarce water, St. Thomas was home to hardy railroad workers,...

Lore

Lore
  • Author(s): Alexandra Bracken
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Ancient Greece

From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of THE DARKEST MINDS comes a high-octane story of power, destiny and redemption. A lifetime ago, Lore Perseous left behind the brutal, opulent world of the Agon families – ancient Greek...

Lore of the Wild: Folklore and Wisdom from Nature

Lore of the Wild: Folklore and Wisdom from Nature
  • Author(s): Claire Cock-Starkey, Aitch (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

See nature in a whole new light with this enchantingly illustrated treasury of natural folklore and wild wisdom from around the world. Did you know that people used to believe that rabbits’ ears would twitch in the direction of...

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone
  • Author(s): R D Blackmore
  • Location(s): Exmoor, Devon
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Later 17th Century

Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and...

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
  • Author(s): Saidiya Hartman
  • Location(s): Ghana
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary, Various

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast. She retraces the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the fifteenth to the...

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