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The Legend of the Wandering King

The Legend of the Wandering King
  • Author(s): Laura Gallego Garcia
  • Location(s): Saudi Arabia
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): A long time ago

A prince with more power than heart … a poet who may be mad … and a carpet containing all of human history combine in this brilliant new fantasy by one of Spain’s brightest young writers. Walid was a...

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
  • Author(s): Sandy Tolan
  • Location(s): Israel
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1967

In 1967, Bashir Khairi, a twenty-five-year-old Palestinian, journeyed to Israel with the goal of seeing the beloved stone house with the lemon tree behind it that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when...

The Leopard

The Leopard
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective, Harry Hole has gone MIA from the Oslo Crime Squad, as he is still bearing the scars (both emotionally and physically) from the last case – The Snowman – and is `taking a break’ in Hong Kong, where...

The Leopard of Cairo

The Leopard of Cairo
  • Author(s): Bayard and Holmes
  • Location(s): Montreal, Balochistan, Cairo
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

John Viera left his CIA fieldwork hoping for a “normal” occupation and a long-awaited family, but when a Pakistani engineer is kidnapped from a top-secret US project and diplomatic entanglements tie the government’s hands, the Intelligence Community turns to...

The Leopard’s Tail

The Leopard’s Tail
  • Author(s): Nicola Davies
  • Location(s): Armenia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

The sixth title in Nicola Davies’ Heroes of the Wild series is a mountain adventure based on a real conservation project to protect Caucasian leopards. Malik loves exploring the mountains near his village in Armenia, and he’s never forgotten...

The Less Dead

The Less Dead
  • Author(s): Denise Mina
  • Location(s): Glasgow
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was a sex worker murdered soon after Margo’s adoption. To this day, Susan’s killer...

The Less than perfect legend of Donna Creosote

The Less than perfect legend of Donna Creosote
  • Author(s): Dan Micklethwaite
  • Location(s): Huddersfield
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Donna Crick-Oakley walks on six inches of stories every day. She may live on the top floor of a tower block but she still pads her walls and floor with books to shut the real world further out. Or...

The Lesser Bohemians

The Lesser Bohemians
  • Author(s): Eimear McBride
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man – a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is naive and thrilled by life in the big city, he...

The Letter Writer

The Letter Writer
  • Author(s): Dan Fesperman
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

The first thing Woodrow Cain sees when he steps off the train in New York City on February 9, 1942, is smoke from an ocean liner in flames in the harbor. It’s the Normandie, and word on the street...

The Leviathan

The Leviathan
  • Author(s): Rosie Andrews
  • Location(s): Norfolk
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

SHE IS AWAKE… Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Treadwater is summoned home by his sister, who accuses a new servant of improper conduct with their widowed father. By the time Thomas returns home,...

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