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Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers

Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers
  • Author(s): Juliet Menéndez
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Dream big with the Latinitas in Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers. Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over Latin America and across the United States, Juliet...

Laugh with the Moon

Laugh with the Moon
  • Author(s): Shana Burg
  • Location(s): Malawi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Thirteen-year-old Clare Silver is stuck. Stuck in denial about her mother’s recent death. Stuck in the African jungle for sixty-four days without phone reception. Stuck with her father, a doctor who seems able to heal everyone but Clare. Clare...

Laughing Gas

Laughing Gas
  • Author(s): P G Wodehouse
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): 1930s

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic...

Laughter in the Dark

Laughter in the Dark
  • Author(s): Vladimir Nabokov
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Lauragais: Steeped in History, Soaked in Blood

Lauragais: Steeped in History,  Soaked in Blood
  • Author(s): Colin Duncan Taylor
  • Location(s): Lauragais
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Middle Ages up to present day

The Lauragais lies in south-west France at the heart of Occitania. Today it is largely ignored by the millions who visit its neighbours each year – Toulouse and Carcassonne – but in times gone by it rarely escaped the...

Lauren’s Story: An American Dog in Paris

Lauren’s Story: An American Dog in Paris
  • Author(s): Kay Pfaltz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction

A must for all dog lovers

Laurentian Divide

Laurentian Divide
  • Author(s): Sarah Stonich
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can’t thaw the community’s collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different...

Law of Desire

Law of Desire
  • Author(s): Andre Blatnik
  • Location(s): Slovenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Following on from his short story collection, “You Do Understand?,” is this expansive collection of sixteen tales about “urban nomads” lost in a labyrinth of pop culture: “We go to the movies. We read books. We listen to music....

Lay It on My Heart

Lay It on My Heart
  • Author(s): Angela Pneuman
  • Location(s): Kentucky
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

It’s late summer in Kentucky, the low ceiling of August pressing down on Charmaine Peake and the town of East Winder. Charmaine and her mother get along better with a room between them, but they’ve been forced by circumstances...

Lay Your Body Down

Lay Your Body Down
  • Author(s): Amy Suiter Clarke
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After Del Walker fled her small hometown and its cult-like church, she vowed to never return. The man she loved, Lars, left her to marry the local golden girl Eve, and their romance is now the focus of Eve’s...

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