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The Lost Painting - Jonathan Harr
Amazon.com ReviewIn 1992 a young art student uncovered a clue in an obscure Italian archive that led to the discovery of Caravaggio's original The Taking of the Christ, a painting.... -
The Looking Glass War - John le Carre
From Publishers WeeklyLe CarreÌü's fourth George Smiley novel is handsomely dramatized in this BBC Audio production. Early in the 1960s the cold war is in full swing, and the Depar... -
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 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 Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rache... -
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
'What shall we do?' said Twoflower.'Panic?' said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival.When the very fabric of time and space are about to b... -
The Liar - Stephen Fry
SUMMARY: Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungari... -
The Letter Of Marque - Patrick O'Brian
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of...