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Life and Fate

Life and Fate
  • Author(s): Vasily Grossman
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

The great Russian 20th-century novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stalingrad. Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs. As the battle of Stalingrad looms,...

Life Eternal

Life Eternal
  • Author(s): Yvonne Woon
  • Location(s): Montreal
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Renée Winters has changed. When she looks in the mirror, a beautiful girl with an older, sadder face stares back. Her condition has doctors mystified, but Renée can never reveal the she died last May, and was brought back...

Life Expands: A Travel Comedy Romance

Life Expands: A Travel Comedy Romance
  • Author(s): N R Milne
  • Location(s): Ghana, South America, South East Asia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Getting over heartbreak and unsatisfied with life in London, he escapes on a jaunt across the world. Encountering indecent proposals volunteering in rural Africa, the downsides of drug consumption backpacking in Southeast Asia and the challenges of love-making in...

Life in a Medieval Castle

Life in a Medieval Castle
  • Author(s): Frances Gies, Joseph Gies
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Medieval times

The authors describe in great detail life in a medieval castle and the history of castle going back to the time when castles were still wooden structures. The authors also delve into the whole feudal system that the Normans...

Life in a Postcard

Life in a Postcard
  • Author(s): Rosemary Bailey
  • Location(s): Catalonia (France)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th century

English family escape to the Pyrenees, their attempted restoration of a monastery, life in a small village and attending the village school.

Life In Shadows

Life In Shadows
  • Author(s): Anthony Addis
  • Location(s): Bangkok
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Thailand, Life In Shadows is a 10,000 word short story available on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited about two writers: why they succeed, why they fail, and why sometimes they never start. Thirty years ago, Charles Shaw wrote...

Life in the Court of Matane

Life in the Court of Matane
  • Author(s): Eric Dupont, Peter McCambridge (translator)
  • Location(s): Québec
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): 1980s

Nadia Comaneci’s gold-medal performance at the Olympic Games in Montreal is the starting point for a whole new generation. Eric Dupont watches the performance on TV, mesmerized. The son of a police officer (Henry VIII) and a professional cook—as...

Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed

Life in the Valley of Death:  The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
  • Author(s): Alan Rabinowitz
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted—and risked—his life to protect nature’s great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild things,...

Life is a Movie

Life is a Movie
  • Author(s): Samman Akbarzada
  • Location(s): Kabul
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her husband is killed by the Taliban, now Rukhsaar is a widow with a ten-year-old child, Masih, in a land where the colour drains from faces when they hear, “It’s a girl.” Reminiscing about her past, Rukhsaar and her...

Life Is Not a Stage

Life Is Not a Stage
  • Author(s): Florence Henderson
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 2nd half 20th century

For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different...

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