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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (Equestrian Travel Classics)

by Isabella L. Bird

Published: 2001-08

Paperback: 316 pages

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In 1872, Isabella Bird, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes 'in search of health' and found she had embarked on a life of adventurous travel. In 1873, wearing Hawaiian riding dress, she rode her horse through the American Wild West, a terrain only newly opened to pioneer settlement....

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Lady's Maid: A Novel

by Margaret Forster

Published: 2007-05-15

Paperback: 576 pages

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“Fascinating . . . The reader is treated to a revealing account of the passionate romance between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of an intimate observer.”–BooklistYoung and timid but full of sturdy good sense and awakening sophistication, Lily Wilson arrives i...

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Laelia: A Novel

by Ruth-Miriam Garnett

Published: 2004-01-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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Laelia is the story of the Cates sisters, vibrant and prosperous African American matrons who decide to free themselves from ailing husbands and lackluster marriages. Led by the eldest sister, Rebecca, the three women embark upon a plan to discreetly but systematically place their men in ...

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Lake Country: A Novel

by Sean Doolittle

Published: 2012-07-31

Paperback: 322 pages

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“Sean Doolittle is a young writer with serious chops,” says George Pelecanos, and Laura Lippman calls him “hip, smart, and mordantly funny.” Now the acclaimed author of Safer returns with a mesmerizing story of tragedy, revenge, and redemption. Five years ago, successful architect...

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Lake in the Clouds

by Sara Donati

Published: 2003-04-29

Kindle Edition: 672 pages

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In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the trials and triumphs of the Bonner family. Now Donati takes on a new and often overlooked ch...

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The Lake of Dead Languages: A Novel

by Carol Goodman

Published: 2005-12-27

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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In the evocative tradition of Donna Tartt’s first novel, The Secret History, comes this accomplished debut of youthful innocence drowned by dark sins. Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson left the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. Now she has returned ...

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The Lake of Dreams (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

by Kim Edwards

Published: 2011-01-05

Hardcover: 635 pages

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The Lake of Dreams: A Novel

by Kim Edwards

Published: 2011-01-04

Hardcover: 400 pages

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From Kim Edwards, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, an arresting novel of one family's secret history Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards’s The Lake of Dreams...

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The Lake of Dreams: A Novel

by Kim Edwards

Published: 2011-11-29

Paperback: 400 pages

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From Kim Edwards, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, an arresting novel of one family's secret historyImbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards’s The Lake of Dreams ...

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The Lake Shore Limited (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Sue Miller

Published: 2011-05-31

Paperback: 336 pages

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Meet Billy Gertz: a fiercely independent playwright, whose newest drama imagines the story of a man waiting to hear if his estranged wife has survived a cataclysmic event. As her life touches three other unforgettable characters, Billy's play?the emotion behind its genesis and its powerful...