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Lonely House

Lonely House
  • Author(s): James Collins
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Horror
  • Era(s): Present day

Drover and Pete are two hopeful drifters looking for a better life. Desperate for food, they break into an isolated house deep in a forest. There they accidentally shoot an old man just as the rest of his family...

Lonesome Dove

Lonesome Dove
  • Author(s): Larry McMurtry
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

It begins in the office of The Hat Creek Cattle Company of the Rio Grande. It ends as a journey into the heart of every adventurer who ever lived . . . From the author of The Last Picture...

Long Ago and Far Away

Long Ago and Far Away
  • Author(s): John Coyne
  • Location(s): Ethiopia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1970's to the early 2000's

Is it a murder in Ethiopia by a Peace Corps volunteer or was it an accident? The story develops from a library in the USA to Ethiopia and back again in search of the suspected volunteer. The writing is...

Long Bright River

Long Bright River
  • Author(s): Liz Moore
  • Location(s): Philadelphia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set against the opioid crisis in Philadelphia and a string of mysterious murders, this gripping suspense novel is also an unflinching, moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties between place, history, family, and fate. In a city...

Long Distance Love

Long Distance Love
  • Author(s): AnneMarie Brear
  • Location(s): Australia, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Can one delicious summer affair be enough to keep them together? Fleur Stanthorpe, an Australian, arrives in Whitby, England to live out a dream after surviving cancer. She’s to open a bookshop cafe? and experience the English way of...

Long Island

Long Island
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Enniscorthy, Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

The sequel to Brooklyn. A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn – perhaps...

Long Island Compromise

Long Island Compromise
  • Author(s): Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  • Location(s): Long Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1982

In 1982, wealthy businessman Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Carl, his wife and his...

Long Story Short

Long Story Short
  • Author(s): Victoria Walters
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can Freya fix Jake’s reputation without losing her heart? Assistant literary agent Freya Harrison never thought her chance at a big break would look like this: at a swanky romance conference in New York, managing the agency’s most insufferable...

Long Time Coming

Long Time Coming
  • Author(s): Jane Morris (editor)
  • Location(s): Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): late 20th century/early 21st century

Long Time Coming brings together short stories and poems from thirty-three writers that provide snapshots of this turbulent period in Zimbabwe’s history. Snapshots of living in a country where basic services have crumbled: where shops have no food, taps...

Long Walk to Freedom (Illustrated Children’s Edition)

Long Walk to Freedom (Illustrated Children’s Edition)
  • Author(s): Chris Van Wyk (Abridged by), Nelson Mandela, Paddy Bouma (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela is the amazing story of a true hero of our times; his famous biography has been specially adapted for children in a beautiful illustrated picture book format. Discover how a little boy...

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