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Lost and Found: The True Story of Jaycee Lee Dugard and the Abduction that Shocked the World (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

by John Glatt

Published: 2010-09-28

Paperback: 341 pages

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Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would pave the way for shocking discovery:...

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The Lost Art Of Gratitude

by Alexander McCall Smith

Published: 2012-04-01

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Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by their young children. Ambitious Minty, now the head of a small investment bank, is in trouble with her shareholders. Isabel becomes involved, and is drawn...

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The Lost Art of Gratitude: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel

by Alexander Mccall Smith

Published: 2009-09-22

Hardcover: 272 pages

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The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age?eighteen months?to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adv...

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Lost Art of Keeping Secrets X6 Counterpk

by Eva Rice

Published: 2005-10-24

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The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

by David L. Ulin

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of...

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The Lost Art of Walking on Water: Reimagining the Priesthood

by Michael Heher

Published: 2004-09-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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With bursting congregations, shrinking ranks and a priest sexual abuse scandal in the headlines, no group seems more beleaguered of late than Roman Catholic priests. This book of essays by a priest is candid, thoughtful, honest, sometimes funny and filled with hope and practical suggestion...

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The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism

by Geoff Nicholson

Published: 2008-11-20

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most...

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The Lost Book of Mala R.: A Novel

by Rose MacDowell

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 384 pages

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Three very different women, each trying to reconcile her dreams with reality, are drawn together by a hypnotic voice from the past.  In a once-grand Southern California neighborhood, Linda, a New York City transplant, is panicking over the disappearance of her precocious ten-year-old step...

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The Lost Book of Salem

by Katherine Howe

Published: 2009-07

Paperback: 480 pages

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"Lost Book of Salem" is published in the US under the title "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane". While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that...

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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

by Dave Pelzer

Published: 1997-08-01

Paperback: 340 pages

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Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just begining -- he h...