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The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time

by David L. Ulin

Published: 2010-10-12

Hardcover: 160 pages

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Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of...

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The Lost Art of Walking on Water: Reimagining the Priesthood

by Michael Heher

Published: 2004-09-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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With bursting congregations, shrinking ranks and a priest sexual abuse scandal in the headlines, no group seems more beleaguered of late than Roman Catholic priests. This book of essays by a priest is candid, thoughtful, honest, sometimes funny and filled with hope and practical suggestion...

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The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism

by Geoff Nicholson

Published: 2008-11-20

Hardcover: 288 pages

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A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most...

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The Lost Book of Mala R.: A Novel

by Rose MacDowell

Published: 2011-09-27

Paperback: 384 pages

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Three very different women, each trying to reconcile her dreams with reality, are drawn together by a hypnotic voice from the past.  In a once-grand Southern California neighborhood, Linda, a New York City transplant, is panicking over the disappearance of her precocious ten-year-old step...

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The Lost Book of Salem

by Katherine Howe

Published: 2009-07

Paperback: 480 pages

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"Lost Book of Salem" is published in the US under the title "The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane". While clearing out her grandmother's cottage for sale, Connie Goodwin finds a parchment inscribed with the name Deliverance Dane. And so begins the hunt to uncover the woman behind the name, a hunt that...

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The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

by Dave Pelzer

Published: 1997-08-01

Paperback: 340 pages

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Imagine a young boy who has never had a loving home. His only possesions are the old, torn clothes he carries in a paper bag. The only world he knows is one of isolation and fear. Although others had rescued this boy from his abusive alcoholic mother, his real hurt is just begining -- he h...

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Lost Boy: The True Story of One Man's Exile from a Polygamist Cult and His Brave Journey to Reclaim His Life

by Brent W. Jeffs, Maia Szalavitz

Published: 2010-07-13

Paperback: 264 pages

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In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the lo...

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The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience

by Mark Bixler

Published: 2006-10-01

Paperback: 288 pages

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In 2000 the United States began accepting 3,800 refugees from one of Africa’s longest civil wars. They were just some of the thousands of young men, known as “Lost Boys,” who had been orphaned or otherwise separated from their families in the chaos of a brutal conflict that has ravag...

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Lost Boys: A Novel

by Orson Scott Card

Published: 1993-12-15

Mass Market Paperback: 528 pages

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For Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children, the move to tiny Steuben, North Carolina, offers new hope and a new beginning. But from the first, eight-year-old Stevie's life there is an unending parade of misery and disaster. Cruelly ostracized at his school, Stevi...

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The Lost Choice

by Andy Andrews

Published: 2004-06-24

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Dorry Chandler is a journalist who has always had a taste for mysteries. Curious about the strange “rock” her son has found, she takes it to Dylan Langford, an expert on antiquities who works at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. When the language inscribed on the artifact is tra...