In T. N. R. Rogers’s Life Is Everywhere, Sand Hargrove remains in Iowa after Lafay accepts a dance-teaching post in Baton Rouge and eventually takes their young son Joby with her. Sand has never recovered from the death of their infant daughter Rachel, so knowing...

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...

In Michael O’Neill’s Lilli’s Question, an idealistic seminarian encounters a young girl, Lilli Geisler, on a bus while backpacking through Europe. Their brief connection ends in Madrid, where Lilli asks the question that would haunt him throughout his life: “Why be a priest?” Jim McGann’s...

Liberty Landing by Gail Vida Hamburg begins with the story of Gabe Khoury, a determined young immigrant who arrives in the Midwestern town of Azyl Park with little more than resolve and a fierce will to survive. Once a displaced young man stepping off a...

Life Is Terminal: And So Is This Cold Sore is a collection of Micheline Brewer’s thoughts and experiences, most of which are humorous. “Marriage: Reproposed” highlights the five stages of marriage, accompanied by a tagline for each stage, ranging from the bliss of having the...

Lonely World by Megan Hale begins in nineteenth-century London. A school outing ends in disaster when a carriage is deliberately wrecked, leaving a young girl named Cristal blind and quietly reclassified by the Crown. Removed from her family, she is absorbed into a state system...

Lippincott Street by Sharon A. Ewing tells the tale of an Irish family leaving their famine-stricken homeland to fulfill the American dream. Their quest begins on a crowded Liberty ship, where 17-year-old Cate Leary is responsible for caring for her ill little sister, 14-year-old Mary...

Like Water Drops by Issa is a meditative and emotionally layered novel about grief, spiritual defiance, and the quiet unraveling of identity. We're with Isaac after the sudden death of a very close friend. He is left hollowed out by guilt and disbelief. Once part...

“I don’t think about what I should be doing because I don’t know what I want to do or what’s keeping me from doing it.” Last Call at Smokey Row, a captivating novel by Pat Camalliere, beautifully portrays a slice of life from a recently...

Like Driftwood on the Salish Sea by Richard I. Levine is a beautifully emotional and yet bittersweet romance that will have readers weeping. Mitchell Brody and Jessica Ramirez had fallen deeply for each other as early as fourth grade when Mitchell had stood up to...