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The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées

The Little Perfume Shop Off The Champs-Élysées
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Del leaves small town America to compete in a perfume competition in Paris, she thinks it is just the next step on her five-year-plan. It’s an exciting opportunity. What started out as just a dream for Del and...

The Little Porto Book Club

The Little Porto Book Club
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Oporto (Porto)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Introvert and self-described whodunnit enthusiast Viviane has never much believed in living life outside of the pages of a book. But when her interfering mother insists that Viviane needs some friends who aren’t fictional, she decides to head into...

The Little Red Chairs

The Little Red Chairs
  • Author(s): Edna O'Brien
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in...

The Little Russian

The Little Russian
  • Author(s): Susan Sherman
  • Location(s): Ukraine, Moscow, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1903-1920

The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new and assured voice in historical fiction. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow––a life filled with...

The Little Sister

The Little Sister
  • Author(s): Raymond Chandler
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1940s

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe’s latest client is Orfamay Quest. She’s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that’s what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty dollars for his trouble....

The Little Teashop in Tokyo

The Little Teashop in Tokyo
  • Author(s): Julie Caplin
  • Location(s): Tokyo
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Modern

For travel blogger Fiona, Japan has always been top of her bucket list so when she wins an all-expenses paid trip, it looks like her dreams are coming true. Until she arrives in vibrant, bustling Tokyo and comes face-to-face...

The Little Venice Bookshop

The Little Venice Bookshop
  • Author(s): Rebecca Raisin
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Luna loses her beloved mother, she’s bereft: her mother was her only family, and without her Luna feels rootless. Then the chance discovery of a collection of letters in her mother’s belongings sends her on an unexpected journey....

The Lives Before Us

The Lives Before Us
  • Author(s): Juliet Conlin
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

It’s April 1939 and, with their lives in Berlin and Vienna under threat, Esther and Kitty – two very different women – are forced to make the same brutal choice. Flee Europe, or face the ghetto, incarceration, death. Shanghai,...

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
  • Author(s): Richard Flanagan
  • Location(s): Hobart
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving―and astonishing―best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother is dying―if her three children would just allow it....

The Lizard Cage

The Lizard Cage
  • Author(s): Karen Connelly
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Teza once electrified the people of Burma with his protest songs against the dictatorship. Arrested by the Burmese secret police in the days of mass protest, he is seven years into a twenty-year sentence in solitary confinement, cut off...

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