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The Loser - Thomas Bernhard; Jack Dawson; M
Amazon.com ReviewFor music lovers, perfectionists, and estheticians, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser (1983) poses an irresistible drama of failed excellence. In 1953 three friends, am.... -
The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Wright, a New Yorker writer, brings exhaustive research and delightful prose to one of the best books yet on the history of terroris... -
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 - 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 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 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...