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Lost Horizon: A Novel

by James Hilton

Published: 2012-04-03

Paperback: 272 pages

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James Hilton’s famous utopian adventure novel, and the origin of the mythical sanctuary Shangri-La, receives new life in this beautiful reissue from Harper Perennial. A book that the New Yorker calls “the most artful kind of suspense . . . ingenuity [we] have rarely seen equaled,” Lo...

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* * * * * Dramatic,
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The Lost Hours

by Karen White

Published: 2009-04-07

Paperback: 343 pages

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The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness.When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched. Now a ne...

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Lost Humanity: The Mythology and Themes of LOST

by Pearson Moore

Published: 2011-06-03

Paperback: 306 pages

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This is LOST as you've never experienced it before. Pearson Moore goes to the heart of LOST, uncovering and explaining the fascinating core concepts: Faith versus Science, the Numbers, the nature of good and evil, and the struggle between free will and destiny. He will lead you to ideas and conclusions...

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Lost in a Good Book (A Thursday Next Novel)

by Jasper Fforde

Published: 2004-02-24

Paperback: 399 pages

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The second installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair c...

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Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia

by Mark Salzman

Published: 1996-05-28

Paperback: 288 pages

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From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), ...

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* * * * Adventurous,
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Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

by Mitchell Zuckoff

Published: 2011-04-26

Hardcover: 400 pages

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On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over ?Shangri-La,? a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling nov...

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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...