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Lost in the Forest

by Sue Miller

Published: 2005-04-05

Hardcover: 256 pages

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For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of ...

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Lost In Time (A Blue Bloods Novel)

by Melissa De La Cruz

Published: 2011-09-27

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The young Blue Bloods of Manhattan descend upon Egypt in Lost in Time, the epic sixth book in Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times and USA Today best-selling Blue Bloods series. After their beautiful yet brief bonding ceremony in Italy, Schuyler Van Alen and Jack Force are forced to separa...

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Lost in Transition: Ethnographies of Everyday Life after Communism

by Kristen Ghodsee

Published: 2011-09-14

Paperback: 232 pages

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Lost in Transition tells of ordinary lives upended by the collapse of communism. Through ethnographic essays and short stories based on her experiences with Eastern Europe between 1989 and 2009, Kristen Ghodsee explains why it is that so many Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the communi...

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* * * Slow,
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Lost in Translation

by Nicole Mones

Published: 1999-05-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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Expatriate translator Alice Mannegan spends her nights in Beijing's smoky bars, seeking fleeting encounters with Chinese men to blot out the shame of her racist father back in Texas. But when she signs on to an archaeological expedition searching for the missing bones of Peking Man in Chi...

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Lost It

by Kristen Tracy

Published: 2007-01-23

Paperback: 288 pages

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What would you do......if your best friend were plotting the annihilation of a small, furry neighborhood poodle? Or if your parents up and moved to an Outward Bound-type survival camp in the middle of the desert? How about if your grandmother bought you new bras and underwear -- and you ac...

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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

by Deborah Cadbury

Published: 2003-10-23

Paperback: 336 pages

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Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything. Drawn into the horror of the French Revolution, h...

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* * * * * Insightful,
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A Lost Lady

by Willa Cather

Published: 2009-03-26

Paperback: 88 pages

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The Finest family in Sweet Water, The Forresters are known for their gatherings, and Mrs. Forrester, to be an enchanting hostess. Neil Herbert, finds himself at the Forester estate playing with friends, and he falls in love with Mrs. Forrester, and what she represents. As he grows up, he finds it increasingly...

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Lost Lake: Stories

by Mark Slouka

Published: 2002-05-21

Paperback: 192 pages

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In twelve beautifully imagined stories linked by character and setting, Mark Slouka chronicles three generations of men and women under the spell of a landscape with a powerful history. Set in a tiny Czech community on the shore’s of upstate New York’s Lost Lake, these elegiac stories...

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The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel

by David Leavitt

Published: 2005-05-02

Paperback: 352 pages

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David Leavitt's extraordinary first novel, now reissued in paperback, is a seminal work about family, sexual identity, home, and loss. Set in the 1980s against the backdrop of a swiftly gentrifying Manhattan, The Lost Language of Cranes tells the story of twenty-five-year-old Philip, who ...

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The Lost Legends of New Jersey

by Frederick Reiken

Published: 2001-07-05

Paperback: 317 pages

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From the critically acclaimed author of The Odd Sea, a poignant and magical coming-of-age story that "deftly explores the mysteries of love and loss" (Time)It's the early 1980s and the suburban streets of New Jersey are filled with Bruce Springsteen-era teenagers searching for answers. Ant...