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The Lost Art of Gratitude_ An I - Alexander McCall Smith
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Smith's quietly triumphant sixth novel to feature Scottish philosopher Isabel Dalhousie (after 2008's The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday) shows.... -
The Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom is a brilliant autobiography of Nelson Mandela, capturing his generosity, patience and fortitude as he relentlessly fought against the inhuman system of aparth... -
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
SUMMARY: THE AUTHOR OF "SMALL ISLAND "TELLS THE STORY OF THE LAST TURBULENT YEARS OF SLAVERY AND THE EARLY YEARS OF FREEDOM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY JAMAICA "Small Island "introduced ... -
The Long Ships - Frans G. Bengtsson
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's The Long Ships resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down... -
The Lizard's Bite - David Hewson
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. British author Hewson's wonderfully complex and finely paced fourth crime novel (after 2005's The Sacred Cut) to feature Roman detec... -
The Living Universe - Duane Elgin
In The Living Universe, Duane Elgin marshals evidence from cosmology, biology, physics, even his participation in NASA-sponsored psychic experiments to show that the universe is ac... -
The Living Dead - John Joseph Adams
SUMMARY: "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth!" From White Zombie to Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil to World War Z, zombies have invaded popular cultur... -
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Waters (_The Night Watch_) reflects on the collapse of the British class system after WWII in a stunning haunted house tale whose ghosts are a... -
The Little Prisoner_ A Memoir - Jane Elliott; Andrew Crofts
From Publishers WeeklyThe charts are full of stories of childhood abuse now, Elliott writes, and speculates that fans of childhood abuse literature want to be shocked at the start ... -
The Little Book of Economics_ H - G. Ip; Mohamed El-Erian
Review"A guide to understanding 'the dismal science' and how economic concepts and institutions affect our daily lives" (_The Economist_, December 2010) "...a must read in econ...