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Lambrusco

by Ellen Cooney

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 352 pages

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The year is 1943. The Nazis have invaded Italy; American troops have landed. At Aldo's restaurant on the Adriatic coast, Lucia Fantini entertained customers for years with her marvelous opera singing. But normal operations are over. The restaurant has been seized by nazifascisti, and a Re...

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The Lambs of London

by Peter Ackroyd

Published: 2007-07-10

Paperback: 224 pages

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Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception

by Maggie Stiefvater

Published: 2008-10-01

Paperback: 325 pages

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Shiver.

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The Laments: A Novel

by George Hagen

Published: 2005-07-12

Paperback: 400 pages

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Meet the Laments?the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen's exuberant debut novel.Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto ?Laments move!? His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband's oddly perip...

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A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

by Dan O'Neill

Published: 2007-07-30

Paperback: 272 pages

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In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a reco...

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* * * * Dramatic,
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A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel

by Wiley Cash

Published: 2012-04-17

Hardcover: 320 pages

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A stunning debut reminiscent of the beloved novels of John Hart and Tom Franklin, A Land More Kind Than Home is a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town For a curious boy like Jess Hall, growing up ...

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* * * Beautiful,
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Land of a Hundred Wonders

by Lesley Kagen

Published: 2008-07-29

Kindle Edition: 289 pages

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From the national bestselling author of Whistling in the Dark comes another funny, poignant, unforgettable story.The summer Gibby McGraw catches her big break, the cicadas are humming, and it’s so warm even the frogs are sweating. Brain damaged after a tragic car accident that took both ...

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Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

by Rosamond Halsey Carr, Ann Howard Halsey

Published: 2000-09-01

Paperback: 272 pages

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In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of...

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The Land of Decoration

by Grace McCleen

Published: 2012-03-27

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A mesmerizing debut about a young girl whose steadfast belief and imagination bring everything she once held dear into treacherous balanceIn Grace McCleen's harrowing, powerful debut, she introduces an unforgettable heroine in ten-year-old Judith McPherson, a young believer who sees the wo...

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The Land of Green Plums: A Novel

by Herta Müller

Published: 2010-11-23

Paperback: 272 pages

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Set in Romania at the height of Ceauescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young people who leave the impoverished province for the city in search of better prospects and camaraderie. But their hopes are ravaged, because the city, no less than the cou...