The Library of Musical Instruments
- 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
- 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...
- 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 Cycle of the Common Octopus
- Location(s): Edinburgh, London, Scotland
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Pen and Alice, childhood best friends from Toronto, are in their first year at the University of Edinburgh. Each has come to the city for her own reasons. Pen knows her divorced parents back in Canada are hiding something...
- Location(s): Ibiza
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . . When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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