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Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada

Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Drayson
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

From the early Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched by Granada’s peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match. Romans, then Visigoths, settled here,...

Lost Reunions

Lost Reunions
  • Author(s): Shunin Ali
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Hot-shot 29-year-old investment banker Max Turner is handsome, wealthy and at the top of his game. But he is dogged by an overwhelming feeling of guilt and shame. What happened to the bright-eyed graduate determined to make the world...

Lost Riders

Lost Riders
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Laird
  • Location(s): Dubai
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Taken to work in a strange country, Rashid and his little brother Shari cling to each other. Then they are separated and forced to become jockeys in the lucrative camel-racing business. Rashid is starved and worked to exhaustion by...

Lost Roses

Lost Roses
  • Author(s): Martha Hall Kelly
  • Location(s): Long Island, Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

It is 1914, and the world has been on the brink of war so often, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a...

Lost to Dune Road

Lost to Dune Road
  • Author(s): Kara Thomas
  • Location(s): The Hamptons
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

For a disgraced reporter, unraveling a conspiracy of murder could mean redemption in a powerful novel of suspense by the bestselling author of Out of the Ashes. Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s unsolved murder gained national...

Lost to the Lake

Lost to the Lake
  • Author(s): Anna Willett
  • Location(s): Perth
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Following a home invasion, a woman begins to wonder if her perfect life was a lie. Beth Jacobsen wakes up in the middle of the night to a home break-in and is held at knife point. Her faithful dog...

Lot

Lot
  • Author(s): Bryan Washington
  • Location(s): Houston
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Coming of Age
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston, from a powerful, emerging American voice. In the city of Houston – a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America – the son of a black mother...

Louisiana Lucky

Louisiana Lucky
  • Author(s): Julie Pennell
  • Location(s): Louisiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Lexi, Callie, and Hanna Breaux grew up in small-town Louisiana, and have always struggled to make ends meet. For years, they’ve been playing the lottery, fantasizing about how much better life would be if they had the money. For...

Love

Love
  • Author(s): Roddy Doyle
  • Location(s): Dublin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One summer’s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy, a...

Love & Freedom

Love & Freedom
  • Author(s): Sue Moorcroft
  • Location(s): Connecticut, Brighton
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

New start, new love. That’s what Honor Sontag needs after her life falls apart, leaving her reputation in tatters and her head all over the place. So she flees her native America and heads for Brighton, England. Honor’s hoping...

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