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The Library of Unrequited Love

The Library of Unrequited Love
  • Author(s): Sophie Divry
  • Location(s): France
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Moden

One morning a librarian finds a reader who has been locked in overnight. She begins to talk to him, a one-way conversation full of sharp insight and quiet outrage. As she rails against snobbish senior colleagues, an ungrateful and...

The Lie Tree

The Lie Tree
  • Author(s): Frances Hardinge
  • Location(s): England
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith’s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings...

The Life We Bury

The Life We Bury
  • Author(s): Allen Eskens
  • Location(s): Minnesota
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): early 2000s

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a...

The Life You Left

The Life You Left
  • Author(s): Carmel Harrington
  • Location(s): County Wexford
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2014

The life you lived. The life you loved. The life you left… For fans of Jojo Moyes and Cecelia Ahern. It started out like any other day for Sarah Lawler; getting the kids ready for school, making the pack...

The Life You’ve Imagined

The Life You’ve Imagined
  • Author(s): Kristina Riggle
  • Location(s): Michigan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Are you living the life you imagined? Is there anything you’d have done differently if you could? Those are the questions asked in Kristina Riggle’s unforgettable new novel. In high school, Cami and Anna were as close as they...

The Lifeguards

The Lifeguards
  • Author(s): Amanda Eyre Ward
  • Location(s): Austin, Texas
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): currentt

“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”–Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect–but viciously protective–mothers and...

The Light

The Light
  • Author(s): Lars D H Hedbor
  • Location(s): New Jersey
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Revolutionary

Caught between the impossible and the forbidden… As his world erupts in open warfare, Robert Harris’ Quaker faith guides him away from the use of violence for any purpose, even if the war could cost him the freedom to...

The Light in the Forest

The Light in the Forest
  • Author(s): Conrad Richter
  • Location(s): Pennsylvania
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th century

When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years...

The Light of Day

The Light of Day
  • Author(s): Eric Ambler
  • Location(s): Turkey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): late 20th century

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private...

The Light of Paris

The Light of Paris
  • Author(s): Eleanor Brown
  • Location(s): Chicago, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s looking back to 1920s

‘Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud humour’ PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife Chicago, 1999. Madeleine is trapped – by her family’s expectations, by her controlling husband – in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted....

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