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Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith

by Martha Beck

Published: 2006-04-25

Paperback: 352 pages

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As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the...

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Leaving the World: A Novel

by Douglas Kennedy

Published: 2010-06-15

Paperback: 512 pages

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On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents: she would never get married, and she would never have children.But life, as Jane comes to discover, is a profoundly random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in lov...

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Leaving Van Gogh: A Novel

by Carol Wallace

Published: 2011-04-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In the summer of 1890, in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a revolver.  He died two days later, at the age of thirty-seven, largely unknown despite having completed over two thousand works of art that would go on to become some of the mos...

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Leaving Virginia: A Bike Ride Across America in Memory of Jeremy

by Jennifer T. Herbstritt

Published: 2010-05-19

Paperback: 477 pages

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Lee Child CD Collection: Killing Floor, Die Trying, Tripwire (Jack Reacher Series)

by Lee Child

Published: 2011-03-29

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KILLING FLOOR - "I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper. Outside, the rain had stopped but the glass was still pebbled with bright drops. I saw the police cruisers pull into the gravel lot. They were moving fast and crunched to a stop....

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Leeway Cottage: A Novel (P.S.)

by Beth Gutcheon

Published: 2006-05-01

Paperback: 448 pages

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In April 1940, as the Nazis march into Denmark, Sydney Brant, a wealthy girl of the Dundee summer colony, marries a gifted Danish pianist, Laurus Moss. They believe they are well matched, as young lovers do, but Laurus's beloved family is in Copenhagen, hostage to what the fortunes of Hit...

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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind No. 1)

by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Published: 1996-01-29

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This fictional account of life after the Rapture delivers an urgent call to today's readers to prepare their own heart and minister to others.320 pages Spanish availablePiloting his 747, Rayford Steele is musing about his wife Irene's irritating religiosity and contemplating the charms of...

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Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth's Last Days (Left Behind #1)

by Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

Published: 2000-09-01

Paperback: 342 pages

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Book 1 in the best-selling Left Behind series is available once again in mass paper. Airline pilot Captain Rayford Steele guides his terror-filled 747 back to the ground with more than 100 seats empty except for clothes, jewelry, eyeglasses, shoes, and socks. He and Cameron "Buck" Williams, who had been...

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Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest

by Beck Weathers

Published: 2001-11-06

Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages

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?I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling ? quite literally a dead man walking ? into camp and the shaky start of my return to life....? In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Eve...

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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Published: 2000-07-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Winner of the Hugo and Nebula AwardsA groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civi...