- Location(s): Singapore
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
A thief. A spy. A mysterious codebook. And a whole lot of trouble. It’s 1940 and World War II is being fought in faraway Europe. Lizard doesn’t know much about that. He lives in Singapore’s Chinatown, surviving on odd...
- Location(s): Elba
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
The insightful, audacious, and deeply romantic story of a woman whose life turns upside down on a magical holiday in Italy – perfect for fans of Beautiful Ruins or Under the Tuscan Sun. . . On the heels of...
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
- Location(s): Maine
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1912
Not only is Turner Buckminster the son of the new minister in a small Maine town, he is shunned for playing baseball differently than the local boys. Then he befriends smart and lively Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): 2075
A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare. New York City, 2075. Filipino-American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he’s struck by the city’s contradictions...
- Location(s): Cornwall
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Second World War
Make Do and Murder . . . Porthferris near Looe in Cornwall is a little fishing village with a lot of secrets. On a stormy night in March, 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her husband, Stan, drunk as usual,...
- Location(s): Scotland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
It’s the 1930s and a mysterious illness is spreading over Scotland. But the noble and ancient family of Inverkillen, residents of Loch Down Abbey, are much more concerned with dwindling toilet roll supplies and who will look after the...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents. These are the only rules for Jules Larson’s new job as apartment sitter for an elusive resident of the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan’s most high-profile...
Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase
- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood & Co. step in . . . For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies...
- Location(s): Massachusetts
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
For fans of Mystic River by Dennis Lehane and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Stephen Amidon’s Locust Lane is a taut and utterly propulsive story about the search for justice and the fault lines of power and influence...
- Location(s): Central America, North America, South America
- Genre(s): Adventure, Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Young and beautiful, Lois Pryce was a rising star at the BBC. Unbeknownst to her co-workers, Lois lived a parallel life as a biker babe with an overwhelming sense of wanderlust. So she packed in her career to ride...
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