Lilac Girls
Three women meet across World War II: a New York volunteer, a Polish courier turned prisoner, and a German camp doctor.
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Little Fires Everywhere
In planned Shaker Heights, Elena Richardson rents to drifting artist Mia Warren, and a custody fight over baby May Ling splits friends and teens.
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Little House in the Big Woods
The Ingalls family spends a full year in a Wisconsin log cabin, filling the attic, marking Christmas, and sugaring maples in spring.
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Little House on the Prairie
The Ingalls family leaves Wisconsin for Kansas, builds a log house, and faces wolves, fire, and fever.
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Little Women
Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.
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Local Woman Missing
Two women vanish from one street. Eleven years later, a missing girl returns with no memory.
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Lolita
Humbert Humbert confesses his obsession with Dolores Haze and the road trip that ruins them.
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Looking for Alaska
Looking for Alaska retold: Miles at Culver Creek, Alaska Young, pranks, loss, before and after.
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding's Lord of the Flies retold: Ralph and Jack, the conch, the beast, Simon, Piggy, and why the rescue is no relief.
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Love and Other Words
Childhood friends Macy and Elliot reunite after eleven years apart and face the night that broke them.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino waits fifty years for Fermina: youth letters, a marriage to Urbino, hundreds of affairs, and a river trip where old love gets a last hearing.
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Love on the Brain
Bee Konigswasser lands her dream NASA neuroengineering lead and must co-lead with grad-school nemesis Levi Ward, while her equipment fails and someone…
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