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The Ladies' Man Written by Elinor Lipman Nineteen sixty-seven was a defining year for Adele, Lois, and Kathleen Dobbin. That March, Harvey Nash failed to attend the party at which he and Adele were to announce their engagement. Thirty years later, the three sisters—graying, stolid, content (albeit lonely)—blame... Read More Lady Oracle Written by Margaret Atwood Lady Oracle is Margaret Atwood's third novel, a comic masterpiece in its parodies of literary forms and subversion of literary expectations. Our heroine is Joan Foster, who has spent her life on the run, albeit quietly. Her adolescent obesity and the constant... Read More Lambrusco Written by Ellen Cooney Lambrusco is the story of Sicilian-born Signora Lucia Fantini, a notorious Italian opera singer who failed in her career ambitions due to performance anxiety, and performs instead at Aldo's, her late husband's restaurant, now run by her son Beppi. When Italy... Read More The Language of Life Written by Bill Moyers "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a... Read More The Last Day of the War Written by Judith Claire Mitchell Eighteen-year-old Yael Weiss reinvents herself as Yale White to work in the YMCA soldiers’ canteens in Paris. Dub Hagopian is the soldier she barely knows whom she follows across the Atlantic. He is also the patriotic child of immigrants living in... Read More Last Orders Written by Graham Swift Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their... Read More The Law of Similars Written by Chris Bohjalian In his widely acclaimed, controversial novel, Midwives, Chris Bohjalian described the trial of a midwife who is accused of manslaughter when a home birth goes tragically wrong. In The Law of Similars, Bohjalian weaves a compelling tale around homeopathy, an arena... Read More The Lay of the Land Written by Richard Ford In The Lay of the Land, the author reintroduces readers to Frank Bascombe, the protagonist of his earlier novelsThe Sportswriter and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Independence Day. He is a man of mild aspect and strong, sometimes violent feelings, capable of kindnesses... Read More Learning to Drive Written by Mary Hays A luminous, gently funny novel, Learning to Drive is the story of Charlotte McGuffey, her children, her sisters, and her unfolding relationship with Christian Science, the faith in which she was raised. Just before Christmas one year, Charlotte tells her husband... Read More Leonardo's Swans Written by Karen Essex A Lesson Before Dying Written by Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying is about the ways in which people insist on declaring the value of their lives in a time and place in which those lives count for nothing. It is about the ways in which the imprisoned may... Read More Lie in the Dark Written by Dan Fesperman In a city where death from mortars, bombs, and sniper fire has become routine, Inspector Vlado Petric works as a homicide detective. Despite ridicule from friends, who liken him to a plumber fixing leaky faucets in the midst of a flood... Read More Life Before Man Written by Margaret Atwood "Moving flawlessly from wit to pathos and back, Atwood constructs a superb living exhibit in which the artifacts are unique . . . there is ample treasure in this novel." --Chicago Tribune In Margaret Atwood's fourth novel, Life Before Man, Elizabeth... Read More Life Class Written by Pat Barker A haunting tribute to the experience of poet Siegfried Sassoon and others during the Great War, Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy established her as one of the foremost fiction writers of our time, culminating in The Ghost Road, the Booker Prize-winning novel... Read More Life Estates Written by Shelby Hearon Sarah and Harriet, friends since boarding school days, have gone through the rites of passage simultaneously: proms, marriage, childbirth, young motherhood--they even both had boys followed by girls. Now aged fifty-five, they have become widowed in the same year, and the... Read More Light in August Written by William Faulkner Light in August interweaves the stories of several major characters. Lena Grove, orphaned as a young girl and living with her brother’s family, becomes pregnant by a man named Lucas Burch. Burch has gone away, supposedly to look for work, promising... Read More Light Years Written by James Salter Light Years is not so much the story of a marriage (it may not be a story at all, in the familiar sense of that word) as it is a time-lapse portrait of one, the kind of portrait that might have... Read More The Lighthouse Written by P. D. James Combe Island, off the southwestern edge of England, is a beautiful wind-worn place with a dark history of slave trading and piracy. In the present, it has become a highly secure getaway for world leaders and the very rich, and the... Read More The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi Written by St. Francis of Assisi More than a century after his death in 1226, a collection of stories about the life of St. Francis of Assisi was translated from original Latin accounts into Italian and became known as "The Little Flowers." While their form is often... Read More The Little Friend Written by Donna Tartt Harriet Cleve Dufresnes was only six months old when her nine-year-old brother, Robin, was found hanging from the black-tupelo tree in the family’s backyard. Twelve years later, the still-unexplained tragedy holds the Cleve-Dufresnes clan in an inescapable grip. Overcome by guilt... Read More A Little Love Story Written by Roland Merullo Jake Entwhistle waits a year after the sad end of his troubling last relationship to begin dating again. When he meets the beautiful Janet Rossi by accident, the timing seems right to take another chance at romance. Both Janet and Jake... Read More Living a Life that Matters Written by Harold S. Kushner Most of us need to feel that we matter in some way; perhaps this explains the high value placed on titles, corner offices, and even fleeting celebrity. But most of us also need to feel that we are good people. In... Read More Living to Tell the Tale Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Edith Grossman With Living to Tell the Tale, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez offers the first volume of his life story, a tale as rich in humor and fantastic incident as any of his unforgettable novels. It takes the reader from his birth... Read More Lolita Written by Vladimir Nabokov The shocks that Lolita delivers are not solely moral ones. Humbert Humbert kidnaps and seduces (if not rapes) his fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, Dolores Haze; estranges his victim from her family and friends and robs her of her childhood; plots one murder and... Read More The Long Goodbye Written by Raymond Chandler The sixth in the Philip Marlowe series, The Long Goodbye is significant not only as the last book Raymond Chandler wrote but as a personal consummation of craft that brought his detective novels into the realm of distinguished fiction. "The first... Read More Look at Me Written by Jennifer Egan Questions of identity in an age marked by a preoccupation with appearances permeate Look at Me, which takes place in a time in which the most frightful aspects of the virtual revolution have entirely derailed age-old notions of self and identity... Read More The Lord Is My Shepherd Written by Harold S. Kushner Harold Kushner was compelled in the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, to offer a book of practical spirituality based on the well-loved Twenty-third Psalm. Having read the prayer at countless funerals and memorial services throughout his life as... Read More Lost Boys Written by James Garbarino The last few years have seen American youth violence reach epidemic proportions, spreading out from urban war zones into apparently peaceful middle-class communities such as Littleton, Colorado and West Paducah, Kentucky. As the haunting images of one school massacre after another... Read More The Lost Father Written by Mona Simpson In The Lost Father Mona Simpson again takes up the story of Ann August, who has begun calling herself Mayan, the name her Egyptian father gave her. Now age twenty-eight and a medical student in New York City, Mayan gives in... Read More Love Written by Toni Morrison Love tells the story of Bill Cosey and the women who love him, fight over him, make him miserable, and finally drive him to his grave. As the novel begins, Mr. Cosey has long-since died under suspicious circumstances, but his memory... Read More Love Among the Ruins Written by Robert Clark It is 1968: one year after the Summer of Love. Bobby Kennedy has just been killed, and the antiwar riots of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago are about to break out. In the midst of this social and political... Read More Love and Louis XIV Written by Antonia Fraser Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King,” was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic... Read More Love and Other Impossible Pursuits Written by Ayelet Waldman Love in the Present Tense Written by Catherine Ryan Hyde For five years Pearl has managed to keep the past from catching up to her and her bright, frail five-year-old son, Leonard. Life has given her every reason to mistrust people, but circumstances force her to trust her neighbor, Mitch, with... Read More Love Invents Us Written by Amy Bloom As an adolescent, Elizabeth Taube is shy and chubby. She escapes her remote parents and the antiseptic atmosphere of her too-perfect Long Island home in books and by stealing from the local five-and-dime. But as she matures she discovers a smoldering... Read More The Love of a Good Woman Written by Alice Munro Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed. In others time is telescoped... Read More The Love Wife Written by Gish Jen The Wong family lives in a lovely old farmhouse in a town outside of Boston. Carnegie, a second-generation Chinese American, has a good job at a high-tech company. Blondie, the perfect embodiment of Midwestern farm-girl looks and New England WASP manners... Read More Love in the Time of Cholera (Movie Tie-in Edition) Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez In the late 1800s, in a Caribbean port city, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza falls deliriously in love with Fermina Daza, a beautiful student. She is so sheltered that they carry on their romance secretly, through letters and telegrams... Read More Love in the Time of Cholera Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez In the late 1800s, in a Caribbean port city, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza falls deliriously in love with Fermina Daza, a beautiful student. She is so sheltered that they carry on their romance secretly, through letters and telegrams... Read More Loving Graham Greene Written by Gloria Emerson Lying Awake Written by Mark Salzman In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, life goes on in a manner virtually unchanged for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. And there, she alone experiences visions of such dazzling... Read More [ Back to top ] |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Wildly suspenseful...an intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller."
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