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Long Way Back

Long Way Back
  • Author(s): Charley Boorman
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

On February 16 2016, motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman suffered a major road traffic accident in Portugal. Having spent the better part of his life on some form of motorbike, his world came crashing down after he was knocked off...

Longing for Istanbul: The Words I Haven’t Said Yet

Longing for Istanbul: The Words I Haven’t Said Yet
  • Author(s): Lisa Morrow
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

From the moment Lisa Morrow first stepped onto Turkish soil in 1990, her love affair with the country has been tumultuous. She came to stay forever and then left for good many times, but could never get Turkey and...

Longstone

Longstone
  • Author(s): LJ Ross
  • Location(s): Seahouses, The Farne Islands
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Viking treasure is discovered beneath the icy waters of the North Sea and local historian Doctor Anna Taylor is called in to help catalogue the most exciting hoard in living memory. But when a shipwreck diver washes up dead,...

Look Again

Look Again
  • Author(s): Lisa Scottoline
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a ‘Have You Seen This Child?’ flyer in the mail, she almost throws it away. But something about it makes her look again, and her heart stops; the child in the photo is identical...

Look Alive Twenty-Five

Look Alive Twenty-Five
  • Author(s): Janet Evanovich
  • Location(s): New Jersey, Trenton
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There’s nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its pastrami, cole slaw and for its disappearing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the...

Look Closer

Look Closer
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): London, The Home Counties
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will Fletcher seems to have it all – perfect job, perfect life. Then in one act of extreme violence, his world is turned upside down A bungled assassination attempt on a London street uncovers a disturbing conspiracy fuelled by...

Look in the Mirror

Look in the Mirror
  • Author(s): Catherine Steadman
  • Location(s): British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discovers that she has inherited property in the British Virgin Islands—a vacation home she had no idea existed, until now. The house is extraordinary: state-of-the-art, all glass and marble. How...

Look into the Eye

Look into the Eye
  • Author(s): Jennifer Barrett
  • Location(s): Norway, Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2012

Melanie McQuaid has a five-year plan. And it doesn’t include love or fun. Richard Blake seems set on self- destruction. There’s a spark between them, though they have nothing in common. Then their lives are transformed. Disillusioned from a...

Look to the Mountain

Look to the Mountain
  • Author(s): LeGrand Cannon, Jr
  • Location(s): New Hampshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

Set in New Hampshire in the years leading up to the Revolutionary War, Look to the Mountain is a love story, a coming of age story and an authentic look at the struggle to carve a life as a...

Lookaway, Lookaway

Lookaway, Lookaway
  • Author(s): Wilton Barnhardt
  • Location(s): Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina’s high society, where old Southern money—and older Southern secrets—meet the new wealth of bankers, boom-era speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers. Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over...

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