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Lord Jim & Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN COMMENTARY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF, HAROLD BLOOM, EDWARD SAID,F. R. LEAVIS, AND ROBERT PENN WARREN" Never were Mr. Conrad's felicity of phrase... -
Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The Twin Novae battle had been one of the last of the Idiran war, and one of the most horrific: desperate to avert their inevit... -
London - Edward Rutherfurd
Amazon.com ReviewEdward Rutherfurd belongs to the James Michener school: he writes big, sprawling history-by- the-pound. His novel, London, stretches two millennia all the wa... -
Leave It to Me - Bharati Mukherjee
1. What attitude does Leave It to Me take toward adoption? How do you feel when Faustine/Debby/Devi abandons the DiMartinos so early in the novel? 2. When Debby starts her search f... -
Lateral Thinking - Edward De Bono
SUMMARY: In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls 'vertical thinking'. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this app... -
Lancelot_ A Novel - Walker Percy
Review"A funny and scarifying jeremiad . . . Easy to read and hard to forget."--Time"Eloquent, reckless, hilarious . . . plunges forward through tawdry bedroom mys... -
Ladysmith - Giles Foden
EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the author of the Whitbread Award-winning **The Last King of Scotland** comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman ... -
Lady of Poison_ The Priests - Bruce R. Cordell
SUMMARY:"I shall burn thee with blistering heat and with bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of beasts upon thee, with the poison of serpents of the dust..." Award-win... -
Krik_ Krak! - Edwidge Danticat
From Publishers WeeklyDanticat's collection of stories detailing daily life under dictatorship in Haiti was a finalist for the National Book Award. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Inf... -
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
SUMMARY: Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. G...