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The Long Walk - Stephen King
EDITORIAL REVIEW: On the first day of May, one hundred teenage boys meet for an event known throughout the country as "The Long Walk." If you bre... -
The Lion, the Witch and the War - C. S. Lewis
SUMMARY:There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia, and the first is about to be told in an extraordinary motion picture, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Wit... -
The Last Pope - Lus M. Rocha
The election of Don Albino Luciani to the papal throne in 1978 threatens the Vatican status quo in this routine thriller from Portuguese author Rocha, his first novel. John Paul I'... -
The Last Empress - Anchee Min
Amazon.com ReviewPower is a here-today, gone-tomorrow concept in Chinese history, especially for women. In her previous novel, Empress Orchid, Anchee Min covered the first part of.... -
The Lady Elizabeth - Alison Weir
SUMMARY: Following the tremendous success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, which recounted the riveting tale of the doomed Lady Jane Grey, acclaimed historian and New York Tim... -
The King's Speech - Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
SUMMARY:The subject of a major motion picture starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of th... -
The Killing Dance - Laurell K. Hamilton
SUMMARY:An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, novel. 'These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie.' The first hit man came after... -
The Kill - Emile Zola; Arthur Goldhammer
Here is a true publishing event--the first modern translation of a lost masterpiece by one of fiction's giants. Censored upon publication in 1871, out of print since the 1950s, and... -
The Julius House - Charlaine Harris
SUMMARY: Love at first sight turns into newlywed bliss for former librarian Aurora Teagarden— until violence cuts the honeymoon short.Wealthy businessman Martin Bartell gives Roe e... -
The Jade Peony - Wayson Choy
Amazon.com ReviewThe Jade Peony, Wayson Choy's first novel and a RUSA Notable Book, is a genre-bending, memoirlike collection of stories about a family in Vancouver's Chinatown be....