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The Lost Book of Adventure

The Lost Book of Adventure
  • Author(s): Unknown Adventurer, Teddy Keen (Editor)
  • Location(s): South America
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical

A facsimile edition of the tattered notebooks of the Unknown Adventurer, this love letter to the wild details everything you need to know about how to live and thrive in nature, from the principles of treehouse building to wilderness...

The Lost Book of the White

The Lost Book of the White
  • Author(s): Cassandra Clare, Wesley Chu
  • Location(s): Shanghai
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling new adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission...

The Lost Bookshop

The Lost Bookshop
  • Author(s): Evie Woods
  • Location(s): Dublin, Lancashire, Paris, West Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found… For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these...

The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy
  • Author(s): Sara Downing
  • Location(s): Worcestershire
  • Genre(s): Paranormal
  • Era(s): Present/1960s

A country house. A mystery boy. A family secret, hidden for centuries… Who is the boy playing in the grounds of Clara Markham’s stately home, and why does he seem to think she should know who he is? Clara...

The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy
  • Author(s): Rachel Amphlett
  • Location(s): Vale of White Horse
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): contemporary

(Detective Mark Turpin Book 3) Run. Don’t look back. When a young teenager is stabbed to death at a busy fairground, Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of finding the boy’s killer. But this was no random murder....

The Lost Cargo

The Lost Cargo
  • Author(s): Deborah Grant-Dudley
  • Location(s): Jurassic Coast, East Devon / Dorset
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Medieval and modern day

14 year-old Cameron Barnes is not happy about having to give up his summer holiday for a family celebration in Dorset. But it’s not long before a mystery comes to light that will take all his skills, and more,...

The Lost Castle

The Lost Castle
  • Author(s): Deborah Grant-Dudley
  • Location(s): Japan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Edo period and modern day

When thirteen-year-old British boy Cameron Barnes travels to Japan, he finds a new friend and an old mystery. Searching for information about a castle that no longer exists, Cameron follows a trail of clues through history. He uncovers a...

The Lost Child of Chernobyl

The Lost Child of Chernobyl
  • Author(s): Helen Bate
  • Location(s): Pripyat/Chernobyl
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1986

One April night, people living near Chernobyl see a bright light in the sky…Everyone is told to move out of the forbidden zone around the destroyed nuclear reactor, but two stubborn old ladies, Anna and Klara, refuse to leave....

The Lost Child’s Quest

The Lost Child’s Quest
  • Author(s): James Haddell
  • Location(s): United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

“Legends may be born from half-forgotten memory or half-understood experience, but they’re never made up out of thin air… and sometimes there’s more truth in legend than in fact.” Deposited on the doorstep of a children’s home as a...

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
  • Author(s): Bill Bryson
  • Location(s): United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1989

‘I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to’ And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn’t hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the...

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