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The Leftover Woman

The Leftover Woman
  • Author(s): Jean Kwok
  • Location(s): China, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China’s one-child-policy. Fleeing...

The Legacy

The Legacy
  • Author(s): Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
  • Location(s): Iceland
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): present

The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The only person who might have the answers to a baffling murder case is the victim’s seven-year-old daughter, found...

The Legacy

The Legacy
  • Author(s): Tsitsi V Himunyanga- Phiri
  • Location(s): Zambia (Northern Rhodesia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

This new Zambian woman writer is a leader in Zambia on issues concerned with women and development. In her first novel she puts into focus the degrading beliefs and practices of a male-dominated society. Dealing, for example, with issues...

The Legacy of Beauregarde

The Legacy of Beauregarde
  • Author(s): Rosa Fedele
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Noir
  • Era(s): 1980s

‘You could lose someone down there, couldn’t you? Anyone could get buried under the concrete slab, and no one would even know!’ The Beauregarde women have lived in the shadow of The Seminary for four generations. And there is...

The Legacy of Eve

The Legacy of Eve
  • Author(s): Natasha Boydell
  • Location(s): Palmers Green, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

Can she discover the truth about her long-lost mother before becoming a mother herself? A tale of fear and family secrets by the author of The Missing Husband. Annie’s mother, Eve, died in childbirth thirty-five years ago. Despite this...

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks

The Legacy of Old Gran Parks
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

Set in Cann River in Australia’s rugged southern wilderness, The Legacy of Old Gran Parks is a tale of a remote town haunted by a legacy, a legacy with ominous consequences. It’s a warm evening in the autumn of...

The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)

The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo
  • Location(s): The Basque Country, Baztán valley
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. IT TAKES JUST ONE WORD TO STIR...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
  • Author(s): Washington Irving
  • Location(s): New York State, Tarrytown
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1790

Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excitable fellow, often so terrified by locals’ stories of ghosts that he...

The Legend of the Poinsettia

The Legend of the Poinsettia
  • Author(s): Tomie dePaola
  • Location(s): Mexico
  • Genre(s): Children

In Mexico, the poinsettia is called flor de la Nochebuenao flower of the Holy Night. At Christmastime, the flower blooms and flourishes, the quite exquisite red stars lighting up the countryside. This Mexican legend tells how the poinsettia came...

The Legend Of The Snake

The Legend Of The Snake
  • Author(s): Vagif Sultanly
  • Location(s): Azerbaijan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The novel and short stories included in this book describe the problems inherent to modern Azerbaijani society such as alienation, loneliness, hopelessness, soullessness etc. against a background of sophisticated characters and events. The great, intellectual, path-defining writer of Azerbaijanian...

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