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Little Disasters

Little Disasters
  • Author(s): Sarah Vaughan
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You think you know her… But look a little closer She is a stay-at-home mother of three with boundless reserves of patience, energy and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess. Then one...

Little Eyes

Little Eyes
  • Author(s): Samanta Schweblin
  • Location(s): World
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

They’ve infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of in Sierra Leone, town squares in Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Indiana. They’re everywhere. They’re here. They’re us. They’re not pets, or ghosts, or robots....

Little Girl Lost

Little Girl Lost
  • Author(s): Janet Gover
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contempory

There is more than one way to be lost… When Tia Walsh rides into the small town of Coorah Creek on a Harley Davidson, Sergeant Max Delaney senses that everything about her spells trouble. But Tia’s trouble is not...

Little Gods

Little Gods
  • Author(s): Meng Jin
  • Location(s): China
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother’s ashes, hoping to unravel the legacy of silences and...

Little House on the Prairie

Little House on the Prairie
  • Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Location(s): Kansas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Meet Laura Ingalls, the little girl who would grow up to write the Little House books. Pa Ingalls decides to sell the little log house, and the family sets out for Indian country! They travel from Wisconsin to Kansas,...

Little Infamies

Little Infamies
  • Author(s): Panos Karnezis
  • Location(s): Greece
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Panos Karnezis’ remarkable stories are all set in the same nameless Greek village. His characters are the people who live there – the priest, the barber, the whore, the doctor, the seamstress, the mayor – and the occasional animal:...

Little Miss Strange: A Novel

Little Miss Strange: A Novel
  • Author(s): Joanna Rose
  • Location(s): Denver
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s-1970s

This is one of those quiet, graceful books in which the author manages to expose the beauty in simple, ordinary, everyday life. Ironically, as this is a story of a child of love children, set in Denver, CO in...

Little Monsters

Little Monsters
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Derbyshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When I was thirteen, my father killed my mother . . . How do you recover from something like that? Carol never quite does. Sent to live with her aunt, who barely tolerates her presence, Carol is grief-stricken and...

Little Monsters

Little Monsters
  • Author(s): Adrienne Brodeur
  • Location(s): Cape Cod
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families and long-buried secrets Summer, Cape Cod. Every member of the Gardner family is hiding a secret. Ken, a businessman with political ambitions, is caught in an internet chatroom and forced into...

Little Mountain

Little Mountain
  • Author(s): Elias Khoury
  • Location(s): Lebanon
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1975 - 1980

Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury’s...

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