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The Lost Soldier’s Song

The Lost Soldier’s Song
  • Author(s): Patrick McGinley
  • Location(s): County Donegal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919-21

McGinley foregoes his usual murder mystery genre; instead, he presents an historical novel set during the Anglo-Irish War of 1919 to 1921. The story opens and closes with Declan Osborne in jail, being interrogated by British officers. In between,...

The Lost Steps

The Lost Steps
  • Author(s): Alejo Carpentier
  • Location(s): Amazon Rainforest, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York, takes a journey with his mistress to the remote upper reaches of a South American river, imagining he is retracing the lost steps of mankind

The Lost Storyteller

The Lost Storyteller
  • Author(s): Amanda Block
  • Location(s): Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE LOST STORYTELLER is the heartwarming and evocative debut novel from a stunning new voice in fiction, Amanda Block. Perfect for fans of Ruth Hogan, Jessie Burton and Diane Setterfield. Rebecca hasn’t seen her father Leo since she was...

The Lost Summers of Newport

The Lost Summers of Newport
  • Author(s): Beatriz Williams, Karen White, Lauren Willig
  • Location(s): Newport (R I)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1899 / 1958 / 2019

2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently...

The Lost Tide Warriors

The Lost Tide Warriors
  • Author(s): Catherine Doyle
  • Location(s): Ireland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Fionn Boyle has been Storm Keeper of Arranmore for less than six months when thousands of terrifying Soulstalkers arrive on the island. The empty-eyed followers of the dreaded sorceress Morrigan have come to raise their leader and Fionn is...

The Lost Village

The Lost Village
  • Author(s): Camilla Sten
  • Location(s): Sweden
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Horror
  • Era(s): 1959 and the present

The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost...

The Lost Whale

The Lost Whale
  • Author(s): Hannah Gold
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Lost Whale is the enchanting second novel from the author of The Last Bear: the bestselling debut hardback of 2021 and The Times Children’s Book of the Week What if you could communicate with a whale? Rio has...

The Lost World of the Kalahari

The Lost World of the Kalahari
  • Author(s): Laurens Van Der Post
  • Location(s): Botswana
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way...

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali

The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali
  • Author(s): Sabina Khan
  • Location(s): Bangladesh
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A timely and honest coming-of-age story that explores the complicated relationship between identity, culture, family, and love. Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali tries her hardest to live up to her conservative Muslim parents’ expectations, but lately she’s finding that impossible to...

The Love Child

The Love Child
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1910s

When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby.  She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like...

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