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The Law of Similars

by Chris Bohjalian

Published: 2000-03

Paperback: 336 pages

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" The Law of Similars is fast-paced and absorbing. Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power."-The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the number one bestselling author of Midwives comes this riveting medical thriller about a lawyer, a homeopath, and a tragic death.  ...

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Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism: The Jurisdiction of the Lotus-Eaters (Discourses of Law)

by Piyel Haldar

Published: 2008-01-31

Hardcover: 200 pages

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Focusing on the ?problem? of pleasure Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism�uncovers the organizing principles by which the legal subject was colonized. That occidental law was complicit in colonial expansion is obvious. What remains to be addressed, however, is the manner in which law and ...

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The Laws of Harmony: A Novel

by Judith R. Hendricks

Published: 2009-02-01

Paperback: 480 pages

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Sunny Cooper has been running since she was eighteen—from the New Mexican commune where she grew up . . . and from the haunting memory of the freak accident that took the life of her younger sister. Now, at thirty-two, Sunny voices radio spots in Albuquerque while struggling to hold on to a floundering...

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The Lay of the Land: Bascombe Trilogy (3) (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Richard Ford

Published: 2007-07-24

Paperback: 496 pages

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NATIONAL BESTSELLERNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New York Times Best Book of the YearA sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father ?Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the au...

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Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands

by Susan Carol McCarthy

Published: 2003-04-01

Paperback: 281 pages

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Here is one of those rare and remarkable debuts that herald the appearance of a major new talent on the literary scene. Inspired by real events, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands is a wise and luminous story about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that sparks an extr...

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Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling

by Beth Raymer

Published: 2010-06-22

Hardcover: 240 pages

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An eye-popping and hilarious joyride through the underworld of sports betting�Beth Raymer arrived in Las Vegas in 2001, hoping to land a job as a cocktail waitress at one of the big casinos. In the meantime, she lived in a $17-a-night motel with her dog, Otis, and waited tables at a low-re...

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Lazarus Awakening: Finding Your Place in the Heart of God

by Joanna Weaver

Published: 2011-02-08

Hardcover: 240 pages

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You believe that God loves the world?but sometimes you wonder if He truly loves you. For many of us, moving the truth of God's love from our heads to our hearts is a lifelong process. As we consider our inadequacies or grieve our shattered dreams, we find it difficult to believe that God ...

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Lazarus Awakening: Finding Your Place in the Heart of God (Bethany Trilogy (Quality))

by Joanna Weaver

Published: 2012-02-21

Paperback: 256 pages

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Now includes a bonus chapter! For many of us, moving the truth of God's love from our heads to our hearts is a lifelong process. You believe that God loves the world?but sometimes you wonder if He truly loves you. In Lazarus Awakening, the final book in her life-changing Bethany trilogy...

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The Lazarus Project

by Aleksandar Hemon

Published: 2009-05-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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The only novel from MacArthur Genius Award winner, Aleksandar Hemon -- the National Book Critics Circle Award winning The Lazarus Project.On March 2, 1908, nineteen-year-old Lazarus Averbuch, an Eastern European Jewish immigrant, was shot to death on the doorstep of the Chicago chief of po...

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Lazy B (Modern Library)

by Sandra Day O'Connor, H. Alan Day

Published: 2005-11-01

Hardcover: 352 pages

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Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O?Connor's family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today?the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful...