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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...

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): Espionage, 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...

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