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The Lower River

The Lower River
  • Author(s): Paul Theroux
  • Location(s): Malawi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Ellis Hock never believed he would ever return to Africa – to his isolated village where he was happiest. He runs an old-fashioned menswear store in a small town in Massachusetts but still dreams of his eden in Africa,...

The Lowland

The Lowland
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Rhode Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s to modern

From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his...

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant

The Lucky Elephant Restaurant
  • Author(s): Garry Ryan
  • Location(s): Calgary
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the young daughter of popular radio talk show host Bobbie Reddie disappears along with Bobbie’s ex-husband, Detectives Lane and Harper are on the case. Haunted by flashbacks from a previous missing child case, Lane once again takes to...

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
  • Author(s): Beatrice Colin
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under...

THE LYING GUEST

THE LYING GUEST
  • Author(s): Mahi Cheshire
  • Location(s): Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hardworking and overworked, Anika is a talented surgeon at a London hospital. It’s been some time since she’s had a decent night’s sleep, let alone a holiday. Not ideal for someone with parasomnia – a rare, often stress-induced, condition...

The Machine

The Machine
  • Author(s): James Smythe
  • Location(s): Isle of Wight
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): Near Future

Haunting memories defined him. The machine took them away. She vowed to rebuild him. From the author of The Testimony comes a Frankenstein for the twenty-first century. Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the sea. She...

The Madonna of the Almonds

The Madonna of the Almonds
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Saronno
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Young widow Simonetta tries to rebuild her family in 16th century Saronno, tuscany, following the death of her husband in one of the battles ravaging the land. In pursuit of a means to keep her estate together, she stumbles...

The Magic Barrel

The Magic Barrel
  • Author(s): Bernard Malamud
  • Location(s): Italy, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories

The Magic in the Receiver

The Magic in the Receiver
  • Author(s): Paul Dillon
  • Location(s): Kefalonia (Cephalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s and modern

Flashback to 1953 and Kefalonia lies ruined, shattered by a massive earthquake. Nine-year-old Ioannis Katros’s family is torn apart and he joins thousands in an evacuation of the stricken isle. Fifty years later, accompanied by his daughter Elena, Ioannis...

The Magnificent Ambersons

The Magnificent Ambersons
  • Author(s): Booth Tarkington
  • Location(s): Indiana
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Booth Tarkington’s “The Magnificent Ambersons” is the second book in his Growth trilogy, which depicts Mid-Western life from the post-Civil War era to the early twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, this novel follows the decline of...

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