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The Loved One (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Evelyn Waugh

Published: 2000-08-31

Paperback: 128 pages

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In Hollywood, at Whispering Glades, a full-service funeral home for departed greats, the mononymonous Mr. Joyboy and Aimee Thanatogenos fall in love...with each other and their work. He is chief embalmer, she a crematorium cosmetician. They spend their days contentedly prepping the loved o...

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The Loved One

by Evelyn Waugh

Published: 2012-12-11

Paperback: 176 pages

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Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday-and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre...

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The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

Published: 2015-06-09

Paperback: 368 pages

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A BookPage Notable TitleNow in paperback comes Alice Sebold's luminous first novel--one of the most celebrated literary debuts of recent seasons--that builds out of a family's grief the most hopeful and joyful of stories.

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The Lovely Bones. Alice Sebold

by Alice Sebold

Published: 2010-01

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My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susi...

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The Lovely Bones: Deluxe Edition

by Alice Sebold

Published: 2007-09-17

Paperback: 368 pages

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Available for the first time--a deluxe trade paperback edition of Alice Sebold's modern classic.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 - a phenomenal #1 bestseller celebrated at once...

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Lovely Green Eyes

by Arnost Lustig

Published: 2005-05-05

Paperback: 256 pages

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She has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she has just been transported with her family from Terez�n to Auschwitz. In short order, her father commits suicide, and her mother and younger brother are dispatched to the gas chambers, but young Hanka Kaudersov�, working for Dr. Krueger, is still alive....

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Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands

by Kevin Roberts

Published: 2005-11-04

Hardcover: 248 pages

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Tom Peters, one of the most influential business thinkers of all time, described the first edition of Lovemarks: the future beyond brands as “brilliant.” He also announced it as the “Best Business Book” published in the first five years of this century. Now translated into fourteen...

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Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

by J.R. Ward

Published: 2013-03-26

Hardcover: 608 pages

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?The hottest collection of studs in romance” (New York Times bestseller Angela Knight) returns as #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward brings together two of the most beloved people in the Black Dagger Brotherhood world?at last... ?. Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to bei...

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Lover Avenged (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 7)

by J.R. Ward

Published: 2009-04-28

Hardcover: 544 pages

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The brothers are back-the latest installment in J. R. Ward's sizzling #1New York Times bestselling series.J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood novels have introduced readers to a "different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing" (All About Romance)world. Now, as the vampire warri...

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Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood)

by J.R. Ward

Published: 2007-10-04

Paperback: 416 pages

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