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Lying with the Dead - Michael Mewshaw
SUMMARY: In this novel, Greek tragedy meets a dysfunctional family from Maryland, revealing how time and place matter little when it comes to the implacable logic of the darkest hu... -
Love, Anger, Madness_ A Haitian - Marie Chauvet; Rose-Myriam Rejo
Product DescriptionAvailable in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-My... -
Lottery - Patricia Wood
From Publishers WeeklyVeteran narrator Michael brings his distinct gift for dialogue and vocal mannerisms to Wood's novel. The action centers on how winning a $12-million lottery j... -
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
SUMMARY: A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is... -
Little Hoot - Amy Krouse Rosenthal; Jen Corac
ReviewWRITING AND RUMINATING BLOGYou simply must read this book. MUST, do you hear me?THE WALL STREET JOURNALAmy Krouse Rosenthal neatly appeal[s] to the sensibili... -
Lion in the Valley - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son R... -
Lightning Man_ The Accursed Lif - Kenneth Silverman
From Publishers WeeklyThe New York Herald may have eulogized the inventor of the telegraph in 1872 as "perhaps the most illustrious American of his age," but Samuel Morse may have ... -
Liberating Atlantis - Harry Turtledove
FromStarred Review Followers of Turtledove’s Atlantis trilogy (Opening Atlantis, 2007; The United States of Atlantis, 2008; and this book) won’t be surprised that it concludes wit.... -
Legacy of the Darksword - Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
From Library JournalWeis and Hickman return to the world of the "Darksword" trilogy in this heroic fantasy, which measures up to its predecessors. After the fall of Thimhallan, its... -
Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving
SUMMARY: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bea...