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Learning to Speak American

Learning to Speak American
  • Author(s): Colette Dartford
  • Location(s): California, Napa Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Having suffered in silence since the tragic death of their young daughter, Lola and Duncan Drummond’s last chance to rediscover their love for one another lies in an anniversary holiday to the gorgeous Napa Valley. Unable to talk about...

Leaves

Leaves
  • Author(s): Michael Baron
  • Location(s): Connecticut
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to Oldham, CT, a small town rich in Colonial heritage while being utterly contemporary. Situated along the Connecticut River Valley, Oldham bursts with color every fall, as the leaves on its trees evolve into an unmatched palette of...

Lessons in Chemistry

Lessons in Chemistry
  • Author(s): Bonnie Garmus
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1969/70

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take...

Let it Rain Coffee

Let it Rain Coffee
  • Author(s): Angie Cruz
  • Location(s): Dominican Republic, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Essentially the story of Esperanza and her father in law Don Chan, and their fractured relationship. Don Chan joins the family in New York shortly after his wife dies in the Dominican Republic. Esperanza recalls the country as largely...

Let the Great World Spin

Let the Great World Spin
  • Author(s): Colum McCann
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers,...

Little House in the Big Woods

Little House in the Big Woods
  • Author(s): Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Location(s): Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Children, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Inside the little house in the big woods live the Ingalls family: Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura and baby Carrie. Outside the little house are the wild animals: the bears and the bees. the deer and the wolves. This is...

Little Sacrifices

Little Sacrifices
  • Author(s): Jamie Scott
  • Location(s): Savannah
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1940s,

When Duncan and Sarah Powell move with their daughter, May, to Savannah Georgia in 1947, they hope against hope that they’ll be welcomed. But they’re Yankees and worse, they’re civil rights advocates almost a decade too early. At first...

Lone Star Noir

Lone Star Noir
  • Author(s): Bobby Byrd and Johnny Byrd
  • Location(s): Texas
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

One can drive around Texas for a long time and never meet J.R. Ewing or Woodrow McCall. The real Texas hides out in towns and cities like those that readers will find in these stories. In that very Texan...

Los Angeles Noir

Los Angeles Noir
  • Author(s): Denise Hamilton
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A collection of short stories set in and around LA under the editorship of Denis Hamilton

Love Game

Love Game
  • Author(s): Emma Rae
  • Location(s): Miami, Wimbledon
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can a player on the court be a keeper at home? Elle’s love language is food. But finding the right kind of work in her industry is difficult. After multiple different stints and temporary work, she lands her dream...

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