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Lost In Translation

Lost In Translation
  • Author(s): Audrey Davis
  • Location(s): Switzerland
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Charlotte Egerton and family are off to Switzerland, after husband Dom bags a big-time job promotion. But Charlotte isn’t exactly yodelling with delight at the prospect. Not since a chance discovery cast a shadow over her ten-year marriage. And...

Lost Lake

Lost Lake
  • Author(s): Sarah Addison Allen
  • Location(s): Georgia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

From the author of the beloved bestseller Garden Spells comes a beautiful, haunting story of old loves and new, and the power of the connections that bind us forever… The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was...

Lost Legends of New Jersey

Lost Legends of New Jersey
  • Author(s): Frederick Reiken
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 1980s

A poignant and magical coming-of-age story Over 20,000-copies sold in hardback. 50,000-copy first printing; It’s the early 1980s and the suburban streets are filled with Bruce Springsteen-era teenagers searching for answers…In The Lost Legends of New Jersey, Rick Reiken...

Lost Names

Lost Names
  • Author(s): Richard E Kim
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1932 - 1945

In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers...

Lost on Me

Lost on Me
  • Author(s): Veronica Raimo, Leah Janeczko (Translator)
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s-2000s

Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention....

Lost Ottawa Book One

Lost Ottawa Book One
  • Author(s): David McGee
  • Location(s): Ottawa
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Remember the Chickulator at the Science and Tech Museum? What about the Britannia Drive-In? The Green Valley Restaurant? The malted milks once sold in the basement of Freiman’s Department Store? If you answered Yes to any of these questions,...

Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada

Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Drayson
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

From the early Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched by Granada’s peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match. Romans, then Visigoths, settled here,...

Lost Reunions

Lost Reunions
  • Author(s): Shunin Ali
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Hot-shot 29-year-old investment banker Max Turner is handsome, wealthy and at the top of his game. But he is dogged by an overwhelming feeling of guilt and shame. What happened to the bright-eyed graduate determined to make the world...

Lost Riders

Lost Riders
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
  • Location(s): Dubai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Taken to work in a strange country, Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by...

Lost Roses

Lost Roses
  • Author(s): Martha Hall Kelly
  • Location(s): Long Island, Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a...

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