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The Library of Heartbeats

The Library of Heartbeats
  • Author(s): Laura Imai Messina
  • Location(s): Kamakura, Teshima
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still...

The Library of Musical Instruments

The Library of Musical Instruments
  • Author(s): Jung-hyuk Kim
  • Location(s): South Korea
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): early 2000s

The second short-story collection by Kim Jung-hyuk, the author of Penguin News, features a total of eight short stories, including Syncopation D which won the 2nd Kim You-jeong Literary Award in 2008. They represent the many sounds sampled by...

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...

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