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Looking for Peyton Place: A Novel

by Barbara Delinsky

Published: 2006-07-01

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A picture-perfect New Hampshire town hides a history of scandal and intrigue -- a legacy Annie Barnes has never shaken since growing up in tiny Middle River. Five decades ago the area was rocked by a bombshell of a book, Peyton Place, and its author, Grace Metalious, who seemed to know eve...

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Looking for Rachel Wallace

by Robert B. Parker

Published: 1987

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When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head. "(Spenser) gives the connoisseur of that rare combination of good detective fiction and good literature a chance to indulge himself".--The Boston Globe.

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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel

by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Published: 2008-02-12

Hardcover: 296 pages

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Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria

by Noo Saro-Wiwa

Published: 2012-09-11

Paperback: 272 pages

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Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to visit her father in Nigeria — a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. After her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa...

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The Looking Glass Wars (The Looking Glass Wars Trilogy)

by Frank Beddor

Published: 2007-08-21

Paperback: 400 pages

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Looking Glass: A Special Edition of THE LOVELY BONES

by Alice Sebold

Published: 2009-11-11

Hardcover: 72 pages

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Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. The Lovely Bones is such a book. It is a story of unspeakable tragedy and loss, but also of abiding love and even joy. With its astonishing force, The Lovely Bones ...

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Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps

by Mary Matsuda Gruenewald

Published: 2005-03-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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In 1941, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a teenage girl who, like other Americans, reacted with horror to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yet soon she and her family were among 110,000 innocent people imprisoned by the U.S. government because of their Japanese ancestry. In this eloquent memoir, she describes...

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Lookin' Back, Texas

by Leanna Ellis

Published: 2008-09-01

Paperback: 374 pages

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Betty Lynne Davidson is planning her husband's funeral while overlooking one thing: he's not dead.When Suzanne Mullins, forty-two, gets the call from her father to come back home to Texas because her mother has gone off the deep end, she knows it will mean having to look at the faulty foun...

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Looks Can Be Deceiving

by Jim Conners

Published: 2012-05-06

Paperback: 192 pages

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Life is just time spent between bouts of self-pity and his next drink for Dirk Crandell, a salty small-town newspaper writer. Then an intriguing letter crosses his desk from a young woman in LA. What follows for Crandell is a life-changing series of twists and turns as the promise made to the young woman...

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The Loom

by Shella Gillus

Published: 2011-12-01

Paperback: 312 pages

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Lydia knew her fate. Like every other slave on the Maryland plantation, her life would end at the loom... Throughout the pre-Civil War South, older slaves too worn out for anything else worked daily in the plantation's loom room, weaving and creating cloth for their families. Tucked away ...