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Green

Andrew Lang

The Green Fairy Book

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Contents <br>THE BLUE BIRD </p><p>THE HALF-CHICK </p><p>THE STORY OF CALIPH STORK </p><p>THE ENCHANTED WATCH </p><p>ROSANELLA </p><p>SYLVAIN AND JOCOSA </p><p>FAIRY GIFTS </p><p>PRINCE NARCISSUS AND THE PRINCESS POTENTILLA </p><p>PRINCE FEATHERHEAD AND THE PRINCESS CELANDINE </p><p>THE THREE LITTLE PIGS </p><p>HEART OF ICE </p><p>THE ENCHANTED RING </p><p>THE SNUFF-BOX </p><p>THE GOLDEN BLACKBIRD </p><p>THE LITTLE SOLDIER </p><p>THE MAGIC SWAN </p><p>THE DIRTY SHEPHERDESS </p><p>THE ENCHANTED SNAKE </p><p>THE BITER BIT </p><p>KING KOJATA (From the Russian) </p><p>PRINCE FICKLE AND FAIR HELENA (From the German) </p><p>PUDDOCKY (From the German) </p><p>THE STORY OF HOK LEE AND THE DWARFS </p><p>THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS </p><p>PRINCE VIVIEN AND THE PRINCESS PLACIDA </p><p>LITTLE ONE-EYE, LITTLE TWO-EYES, AND LITTLE THREE-EYES </p><p>JORINDE AND JORINGEL </p><p>ALLERLEIRAUH; OR, THE MANY-FURRED CREATURE </p><p>THE TWELVE HUNTSMEN </p><p>SPINDLE, SHUTTLE, AND NEEDLE </p><p>THE CRYSTAL COFFIN </p><p>THE THREE SNAKE-LEAVES </p><p>THE RIDDLE </p><p>JACK MY HEDGEHOG </p><p>THE GOLDEN LADS </p><p>THE WHITE SNAKE </p><p>THE STORY OF A CLEVER TAILOR </p><p>THE GOLDEN MERMAID </p><p>THE WAR OF THE WOLF AND THE FOX </p><p>THE STORY OF THE FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE </p><p>THE THREE MUSICIANS </p><p>THE THREE DOGS </p></div><

Andrew Lang

The Grey Fairy Book

<p class="description">Andrew Lang's Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories. "The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a professionliterary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel...he is best recognized for the works he did not write." Lang's urge to collect and publish fairy tales was rooted in his own experience with the folk and fairy tales of his home territory along the English-Scottish border. When Lang began his efforts, he "was fighting against the critics and educationists of the day," who judged the traditional tales' "unreality, brutality, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such stories were beneath the serious consideration of those of mature age."</p><

C S Lewis

A Grief Observed

Edward Lee

Grimoire Diabolique

<div>What do you get when you collect 92k words of the most vile, disgusting, gore-soaked, sick, twisted and demented fiction from the true master of hardcore horror, Edward Lee... The Grimoire Diaboligue. A massive eBook collection of the most brutal of Mr. Lee's short stories and novellas. All available in one place for the first time digitally.<br><br> • Mr. Torso<br> • Miss Torso<br> • The Dritiphilist<br> • Grub Girl In The Prison Of Dead Women<br> • The McCrath Model SS40-C Series S<br> • Makak<br> • The Baby<br> • Mother<br> • The Wrong Guy<br> • Ever Nat<br> • Hands<br> • The Salt-Diviner</div><

John Lescroart

Guilt

<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>Even though the excellent thrillers by John Lescroart--<em>The 13th Juror</em>, <em>A Certain Justice</em>, <em>Dead Irish</em>, and <em>Hard Evidence</em> are out in paperback--usually feature stirring courtroom scenes, where they really shine is out in the real world. His latest is no exception, as Mark Dooher, a high-profile attorney with links to the Catholic hierarchy of San Francisco, is charged with the brutal murder of the wife he had come to hate. Did Dooher do her? Lt. Abe Glitsky, whose own beloved wife is dying of cancer, is sure of it, but defense attorneys Wes Farrell and Christina Carrera--for different but equally hidden reasons--are certain he's being framed. You'll enjoy the tension and appreciate the intricate plotting. </p><h3>From Library Journal</h3><p>Mark Dooher has a successful legal career, a long-lasting marriage, charm, good looks, and money; but when he meets young, beautiful law student Christina Carrera, he wants her, too. The author of A Certain Justice (LJ 7/95) has Mark manage, through a series of devious manipulations, to rid Christina of her fiance, get her a job at his firm, and make her fall in love with him. But there is the troublesome matter of his wife, whom he cannot divorce because of his important professional relationship with the city's archbishop. Then his wife turns up conveniently murdered, and the resulting trial could turn out to be Mark's greatest challenge yet. This original, well-crafted page-turner is blockbuster material. Highly recommended.<br /><em>-?Melissa Kuzma Rokicki, NYPL</em><br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><

Hugh Laurie

The Gun Seller

<h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>British actor and comedian Hugh Laurie's first book is a spot-on spy spoof about hapless ex-soldier Thomas Lang, who is drawn unwittingly and unwillingly into the center of a dangerous James Bond-like plot of international terrorists, arms dealing, high-tech weapons, and CIA spooks. You may recall having seen Laurie in the English television series <em>Jeeves and Wooster</em>; Laurie played Bertie Wooster, the clutzy hero of the P.G. Wodehouse comic novels that originated those characters. The lineage from Wodehouse's Wooster to Laurie's Lang is clear, and, if you like Wodehouse, you'll probably love <em>The Gun Seller</em>. </p><h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>YA. A delightful first novel by the British actor, comedian, and author of the television series "A Bit of Fry and Laurie." In this spoof (of sorts) of the spy genre, Laurie's appealing turns of phrase will grab readers from the first paragraph. Thomas Lang, formerly of the Scots Guard and currently a freelance bodyguard/man for hire, is offered an assassination job. He indignantly refuses, attempts to warn the victim, and is soon embroiled in undercover work for the British government, CIA operatives, arms dealers, and terrorists. Those who enjoy action or spy novels will be swept along in the events. Although somewhat convoluted, the plot is so punctuated with bursts of sly humor that readers won't mind a bit of confusion. The author pokes gentle, good-natured fun at the foibles and characteristics of British and Americans alike, as well as his hero, bureaucrats, terrorists, diplomats, and just about everyone else. In a tone reminiscent of Lawrence Sanders's "McNally" series (Putnam), the light, frothy humor is infectious. A quick read, with an engaging, capable hero and lots of plot twists, for YAs looking for something pleasantly different.?Carol DeAngelo, formerly at Fairfax County Public Library, VA<br />Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><

Jonathan Lethem

Gun, with Occasional Music

Louis Lamour

Guns Of The Timberlands

Mercedes Lackey

Gwenhwyfar

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Harbour

t was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family. But all he finds are Maja's toys and through the haze of memory, loss and alcohol, he realizes that someone or something is trying to communicate with him. Soon enough, his return sets in motion a series of horrifying events which exposes a mysterious and troubling relationship between the inhabitants of the remote island and the sea.<

John Lescroart

Hard Evidence

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In his third appearance, San Francisco bartender Dismas Hardy returns to the practice of law to star in a gripping courtroom drama that may well be Lescroart's breakthrough novel. After the severed hand of a murdered billionaire is discovered in a dead shark's stomach, Hardy ends up on the DA's team prosecuting the victim's Japanese mistress. She produces an airtight alibi just as the trial begins; Diz loses his job, and, in a bizarre twist, is hired to defend the second person accused of the crime, Andrew Fowler--who is not only his ex-father-in-law but was also the judge in the first trial. Diz's involvement with his beautiful ex-wife and the needs of his very pregnant current wife complicate his life, while doubts about his client's innocence and the antagonism demonstrated toward Fowler from both the prosecution and the bench put him at a disadvantage in court. A seemingly unimportant bit of testimony provides the clue that reveals the killer's identity and motivation. As always, Lescroart ( Dead Irish ; The Vig ) creates compelling, credible characters and, despite one or two unlikely coincidences, holds reader's attention through every step of the plot. 50,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selections. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>From School Library Journal</h3><p>YA-- From the moment a severed hand wearing a serpentine jade ring is found in the belly of a white shark, this murder case is emotionally, politically, and judicially tainted. Even after junior Assistant D. A. Dismas Hardy is forced into relinquishing the case to his superior, the ambitious Elizabeth Pullios, he finds himself in progressively more complex relationships with a seemingly unlimited string of murder suspects. First, the high-class Japanese mistress of the wealthy victim is caught trying to sneak out of the country with a note in her dead lover's handwriting promising her a million dollars. Then the powerful judge with the impeccable reputation hearing the case is found to be footing the bill for the mistress's defense. Finally, it is revealed that the possessive daughter of the victim had had a very unusual relationship with her father. YAs will devour this hefty book with its short chapters that fluidly move from pointed courtroom dialogue to ongoing investigation to complex personal intrigues, all driven by Hardy's idealism.<br /><em>- Jessica Lahr, Edison High School, Fairfax County, VA</em><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><

Joyce Lavene

Harrowing Hats

Louis Lamour

The Haunted Mesa

F Andrew Leslie

The haunting of Hill House

SUMMARY: A dramatization of the novel in which an anthropologist conducts an unusual research project in a reputedly haunted house.<

Kevin Leman

Have a New Kid by Friday

Lisa Lutz

Heads You Lose

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In this experimental California improv, Lutz (The Spellman Files) writes odd-numbered chapters and footnoted barbs directed at her coauthor and ex-boyfriend, poet Hayward, whose even-numbered chapters and stiletto-sharp ripostes add a freaky dimension to the collaboration. Grown siblings Lacey and Paul Hansen are scratching out a precarious living from a Northern California clandestine marijuana operation when a reeking headless human body turns up in their backyard, eventually identified as Hart Drexel, detecting barista Lacey's former lover. Because Lutz and Hayward agreed not to discuss or to undo a plot development the other had produced, they create a jittery black-comic narrative complicated by inter-author tensions unveiled in memos exchanged at the end of each chapter. Shifty secondary characters, some charming, some odious, pop in and out of the resulting dizzying plot that comes off like a trendy Left Coast restaurant mélange—daringly composed, exotic to contemplate. Author tour. (Apr.) <br />(c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Lisa Lutz</strong> is the <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling author of the Spellman comedic crime novels. Since 2007, the Spellman series has received Edgar, Anthony, and Macavity nominations, and each title has been a selection of the Indie Next List. Lutz lives in San Francisco. <br /></p><p><strong>David Hayward</strong> is a writer and editor in Northern California. His poetry has won a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in <em>Harper's</em> and other magazines. Hayward has an MFA in poetry from the University of California at Irvine. This is his first novel. </p><

John Lescroart

The Hearing

Barbara Longley

Heart of the Druid Laird

Johanna Lindsey

Hearts Aflame

<div><p>Beautiful and defiant, Kristen Haardrad meets the hot, longing gaze of Royce, Thane of Wyndhurst, with icy fury - vowing never to be enslaved by the powerful Saxon lord who holds her captive. </p><p>She is his enemy and his prize - a wild and lusty hellion to be tamed by her dashing conqueror's kiss. But though maddened with desire for the golden-haired Viking temptress, noble Royce, in conscience, cannot force his exquisite prisoner to submit. For only Kristen's willing surrender can quench the blistering fires that sear his tormented soul - and heal a heart consumed by passion with a soothing balm of rapturous, unconditional love. </p><h4>Annotation</h4><p>New York Times bestseller Johanna Lindsey presents a searing novel of historical romance set in the perilous Viking period. The handsome Thane of Wyndhurst has met his match in stunning, proud Kristen Haardrad, and captor becomes captive to an urgent, explosive desire. (Doubleday Book Club Selection special hardcover edition.) Original. </p></div><

Francois Lelord

Hector and the Secrets of Love

<div><p>The irresistible second installment in the beloved series that has sold millions of copies worldwide. </p><p>Since his first captivating adventure in Hector and the Search for Happiness, Hector the young French psychiatrist has continued to explore the mysteries of the human soul. Having found that love seems virtually inseparable from happiness, he begins taking notes on this powerful emotion. But unbeknownst to him, Clara, the doctor's beloved, is making her own investigations into love.</p><p>As much a love story as a novel about love, Hector and the Secrets of Love is a feel-good life manual wrapped in a globetrotting adventure, told with the blend of a fairy tale's naïve wisdom and a satirist's dry wit that has won Hector fans around the world.</p></div><

Helen Lowe

The Heir of Night

SUMMARY: If Night falls, all fall . . . In the far north of the world of Haarth lies the bitter mountain range known as the Wall of Night. Garrisoned by the Nine Houses of the Derai, the Wall is the final bastion between the peoples of Haarth and the Swarm of Dark—which the Derai have been fighting across worlds and time. Malian, Heir to the House of Night, knows the history of her people: the unending war with the Darkswarm; the legendary heroes, blazing with long-lost power; the internal strife that has fractured the Derai's former strength. But now the Darkswarm is rising again, and Malian's destiny as Heir of Night is bound inextricably to both ancient legend and any future the Derai—or Haarth—may have.<

Mercedes Lackey

Heirs of Alexandria #01 - The Shadow of the Lion

Mercedes Lackey

Heirs of Alexandria #02 - This Rough Magic

<h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Lusciously set in alternative-history 16th-century Venice, Corfu and sinister points northeast, this huge sequel to the authors' equally massive and magnetic Shadow of the Lion will appeal to adolescents of all ages. In this world, broken off from ours in A.D. 349 (when St. Hypatia saved the Alexandrian Library), Christian magic battles blackest sorcery, with a wild card-the old, old Mother Goddess still worshipped in Corfu's mountain caves-eventually entering the fray. On the human front, young Benito Valdosta, a roistering rascal and irresistible scamp, derring-dos into modern-man maturity, even snatching Maria, his early love, from the arms of Death himself. The convincing characters range from stalwart Vinland Vikings and conniving courtiers to sex-crazed jealous wives and a fatally shape-shifting shaman, not to mention sadistic King Emeric of Hungary and Emeric's lethal great-great-aunt Elizabeth, Countess Bartholdy, who's bathed into eternal youth by gallons of virgins' blood. All express themselves in stripped-down modern American idiom and whirl through breathless action, making for hours of old-fashioned reading fun. Who needs depth, when Lackey, Flint and Freer, as mixmasters of nearly every heard-of myth, hurtle through as compelling a romp as this? <br />Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>The continuation of the alternate-history fantasy begun in <em>The Shadow of the Lion</em> (2001) is just as vast and absorbing. The Valdosta brothers are now ensconced in the Venetian nobility, but young Benito is not adjusting well. He is exiled to the island of Corfu, where his beloved Maria has gone with her elderly husband and new baby. Meanwhile, the demon Chernobog, who is possessing the grand duke of Lithuania, has allied with the witch-king Emeric of Hungary and the Byzantine Empire to descend on Corfu, a notable site of ancient magic. The ensuing siege of Corfu takes up two-thirds of the book, and it is almost impossible to put it down while the tension remains high. Benito redeems himself, material and magical treachery nearly overthrows the islanders' resistance, characters who have become real to readers suffer and die (some of them richly deserving it), and Lackey and associates' areas of expertise, including naval history and classical mythology, are smoothly blended. Too long to be read in one sitting, but with few other "faults." <em>Roland Green</em><br /><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p><

Louis Lamour

Heller With A Gun

Robert Leckie

Helmet for My Pillow

<h3>Review</h3><p>“<strong>Helmet for My Pillow</strong> is a grand and epic prose poem.  Robert Leckie’s theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who—somehow—survived.”—Tom Hanks<br /></p><p>“One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!”—Leon Uris, author of <em>Battle Cry</em></p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In <strong>Helmet for My Pillow</strong> we follow his odyssey, from basic training on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war’s fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country. <br /></p><p>From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie’s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, <strong>Helmet for My Pillow</strong> will leave no reader untouched. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.<br /></p><p>Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind<em> Band of Brothers</em>, have adapted material from <strong>Helmet for My Pillow</strong> for HBO’s epic miniseries <em>The Pacific</em>, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation. </p><

Cathy Lamb

Henry's Sisters

P J Lyon

Her Whispers in Alexandria

<p class="description">It was not a block, but a wall, and he with no Jericho horn to loose the bricks.</p><

Mike Lupica

Hero

Stephanie Laurens

Hero, Come Back

<P>Two superstar <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers, <b>Stephanie Laurens</b> and <b>Christina Dodd</b>, join forces with one exciting rising star, <b>Elizabeth Boyle</b>, to create this sexy anthology with an exciting new theme. In an innovative new twist for anthologies, each author is reintroducing a secondary character from a previous book to star in his own story!<

Nathan Long

Hetzaus Follies

Laurie London

Hidden by Blood

Deep within the forests of the Pacific Northwest, two vampire coalitions battle for supremacy--Guardians who safeguard humanity and Darkbloods, rogues who will stop at nothing to satisfy their craving for the sweetest of human blood.Now, former Army Ranger Finn McKentry finds himself imprisoned as a blood slave, forced to submit to an enemy more powerful than any he's encountered before. Only Brenna Stewart, the woman he'd loved and lost, can set him free--but the secret she harbors might lead them down the most dangerous path of all..."Dark and sinfully sexy."--New York Times bestselling author Cherry Adair on Bonded by Blood<

Camilla Lackberg

The Hidden Child

India Lee

Hidden Gem

<h3>About the Author</h3><p>India Lee is a YA author and lover of fashion, entertainment, shoes, good food, coffee, jetsetting, luxury, mild debauchery, and dogs. Her Manhattan home bodes well for most of these things but she could use a little more space for her wardrobe and pets. For more information, please follow India on Twitter @IndiaLeeBooks or her official blog http://indialeebooks.blogspot.com </p><

Sterling E Lanier

Hiero Desteen

Louis Lamour

High Graders

Louis Lamour

High Lonesome

Tommie Lyn

High on a Mountain

Ailean MacLachlainn dreamed of being a famed warrior. Until a glance from Mùirne's blue eyes turned his head and escalated his rivalry with Latharn. Ailean's chief involved his clan in an uprising and changed Ailean's life. What happens when a man's dreams turn to dust and he loses everything? Does he have what it takes to go on? This is a story of adventure...of love, loss and redemption.<

Bentley Little

His Father's Son

<p class="description">"Steve Nye writes for alumni publications, and his long-term relationship is on the steady path to marriage. But his quiet life takes an unexpected turn when he receives a phone call from his mother. His father attacked her and has been committed to a psych ward. The doctor says he's suffering from dementia--but Steve's father seems so calm, clear-eyed, and perfectly lucid when he whispers, 'I killed her.' Is it simply another symptom of delusion and madness? To find the answer, Steve investigates the cryptic message, which leads him down a terrifying path of his own making...and of his own nightmares."--p. [4] of cover.</p><

Stanislaw Lem

His Master's Voice

<div><p>A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as the posthumous heirs of Them..."A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book </p><h4>Annotation</h4><p>A witty look at scientists and their thinking by "the best science fiction writer working today in any language."--Newsweek </p></div><

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