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Luster

Luster
  • Author(s): Raven Leilani
  • Location(s): Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

No one wants what no one wants. And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we’re ready to take it? Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties—sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking...

Luxe

Luxe
  • Author(s): Ashley Antoinette
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Flint
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

From the New York Times bestseller Ashley Antoinette, author of the Prada Plan series comes a boldly fierce and strikingly dramatic novel, Luxe. Bleu Montclair knew as a young girl that she would one day escape the hard, unrelenting...

Lydia Bennet’s Story

Lydia Bennet’s Story
  • Author(s): Jane Odiwe
  • Location(s): Bath, Brighton, Hertfordshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Regency

In “Lydia Bennet’s Story”, we are taken back to Jane Austen’s most beloved novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, to a Regency world seen through Lydia’s eyes where pleasure and marriage are the only pursuits. But the road to matrimony is...

Lydia’s Song

Lydia’s Song
  • Author(s): Katherine Blessan
  • Location(s): Cambodia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lydia’s quiet expat life in Cambodia is dramatically turned upside down by the sudden arrival of Song, a young & vulnerable Vietnamese girl, and the flattering romantic attentions of a handsome, dashing local man. Just as she settles into...

Lying and Dying

Lying and Dying
  • Author(s): Graham Brack
  • Location(s): Prague
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A thrilling police procedural with an unexpected twist… (Josef Slonský Investigations 1) Prague, Czech Republic The body of a young woman is found strangled by the side of the road. There are no obvious clues to what happened, apart...

Lying Beneath the Oaks

Lying Beneath the Oaks
  • Author(s): Kristin Wright
  • Location(s): South Carolina, Lowcountry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Molly Todd wakes up in a Vegas parking lot with a headache, a virtual stranger, and a wedding ring. Jobless and broke, she’s left with no other option but to go home with new husband Cooper Middleton to the...

Lying To You

Lying To You
  • Author(s): Amanda Reynolds
  • Location(s): The Cotswolds
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

You think you know the truth, but what if your husband is LYING TO YOU? When Jess Tidy was Mark Winter’s student, she made a shocking accusation. Mark maintained his innocence, but the damage was done. Karen Winter stood...

Lyra’s Oxford (His Dark Materials)

Lyra’s Oxford (His Dark Materials)
  • Author(s): Philip Pullman
  • Location(s): Oxford
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy
  • Era(s): contemporary

This book contains a story and several other things. The other things might be connected with the story, or they might not; they might be connected to stories that haven’t appeared yet . . . Two years after the...

L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

L’Appart: The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home
  • Author(s): David Lebovitz
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

Bestselling author and world-renowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving ex-Pat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what...

M is for Spain

M is for Spain
  • Author(s): Gillian Rioja, Stephen Mackey
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melancholy, motherhood, mistakes, misgivings, magic and mayhem. All find their way into M is for Spain, a collection of 14 contemporary short stories with a focus on the experiences of expatriates in their adoptive home. At the heart of...

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