Search Results: Authors starting with L from The Book Closet

New York: Tor, 1993 Black boards with copper lettering on spine; light sticker residue on front of dj; dj protected with Brodart cover. "In recent weeks, three young women have been brutally assaulted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia. Even Lt. William Fogarty, a time-toughened cop, hardened by personal tragedy, is shocked by the macabre severity of the crimes...worse, he doesn't have a suspect." -- from the dj

New York: Daw Books, Inc., 2003 Perma-Bound hardback. "Vetch was an Altan serf working the land which had once een his family's farm. Young and slight, Vetch would have died of overwork, exposure, and starvation if not for the anger which was his only real sustenance -- anger that he had lost his home and family in a war of conquest waged by the dragon-riding Jousters of Tia. Tia had usurped nearly half of Alta's lands and enclaved or killed may of Vetch's countrymen. Sometimes it seemed that his entire cruel fate recolced around dragons and the Jousters who rode them." from the back cover

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2015 Some bumping to edges; spine is tight and pages are clean. "Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincarids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become -- unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beatn nearly to death after the Fourth of July barbecue, suspicion falls on him immediately. As tensions rise in the small community, the barometer starts to plummet -- a massive hurricane is on its way." -- from the back cover

New York: Harper Collins, 1998 Black boards with black tape binding; gold foil lettering on spine; dj is not price-clipped, but does show some minor edge wear, and is now protected with a Brodart cover; stated First Edition. "...Now, this brilliantly talented writer returns with 'I Know This Much Is True,' a heartbreaking and poignant multigenerational saga of the reproductive bonds of desctruction and the powerful force of forgiveness. A masterpiece that breathtakingly tells a story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal -- this novel is a contemporary retelling of an ancient Hindu myth. A proud king must confront his demons to achieve salvation. 'Change yourself,' the myth instructs, 'and you will inhabit a renovated world.'" -- from the dj

New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Brown padded "leather" boards; gold lettering on spine; tight, clean pages; appears to never have been read; number line reads "20 19 18 17; uniform "collection" size.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Brown padded "leather" boards; gold lettering on spine, slightly worn; tight spine and clean pages; number line reads "0 9 8; uniform "collection" size.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Brown padded "leather" boards; gold lettering on spine, slightly faded; tight, clean pages; appears to never have been read; number line reads "0 9 8; uniform "collection" size.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Padded brown "leather" boards; gold lettering on spine; tight, clean pages; appears to never have been read; number line reads "0 9; uniform "collection" size.

New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Brown padded "leather" boards; gold lettering on spine; tight, clean pages; uniform "collection" size; number line reads "0 9."

New York: Bantam Books, 1981 Brown padded "leather" boards; gold lettering on spine; tight, clean pages; appears to never have been read; number line reads "20 19 18; uniform "collection" size.

New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1904 Burgundy boards with pictorial cover and ivory embossing; spine torn at top edge

Thunder's Mouth Pr, 1991 Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

Springboard Press, 2006 Advance Reader's Copy

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2006 First edition; green boards with black tape binding; gold foil embossed letteringon spine; dj protected with Brodart cover. "It must have been a hell of a night. One of those long, dangerous nights where the world shifts and doors open. A night of bad judgment and wrong turns, of weariness and hilarity and a hard sexual charge that both frightens and compels. A night whereyour life changes irrevocably, for better or for worse, but who the hell cares, so long as it changes. It must have been a night just like that, yeah, if only I could remeber it." -- from the dj

Poseidon Press, 1987 1st Edition; Minor Shelf Wear to DJ

New York: Villard, 1994 Black boards with black tape binding; gold lettering on spine; 933 pages; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "As Rose had said so many years ago, the Kennedys were like a nation unto themselves, with their own private language and customs. They invited friends into their lives, but there was always a distance between themselves and others. Now, for the first time, bestselling author, journalist, and social historian Laurence Leamer bridges that distance in what is unquestionably the most warmly empathetic and intimate study of the Kennedys to date." -- from the dj

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993 Grey boards with gold lettering on spine; dj protected with Brodart cover; small pencil marks on front dj flap; not price clipped; stated First Edition. "We are in a new arena of intrigue where the old rivalries of great nations have been supplanted by the ravages of individual greed. We are in a new world of espinage where the habits and rules forged by past generations of spies are put to more shocking use. We are inside the international cartel of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, now rising to unheard-of power under the command to men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their limitless hunger for unlimited weath." -- from the dj

New York: Harper & Row, 1980 Red boards with black tape binding; dj is not price clipped, but has some tears and chips.

New York: Hyperion, 2004 First Edition; Read once

New York: William Morrow & Company, 2008 Rust colored boards with brown tape binding; copper foil lettering on spine; slight slant to spine; dj is not price-clipped and is protected with a Brodart cover. "Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, 'New York Times' bestselling author Dennis Lehane's long-awaited eighth novel unflinchingly captures the political and social unrest of a nation caught at the crossroads between past and future. Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has every created, 'The Given Day' tells the story of two families - one black, one white - swept up in the maelstrom of revolutionaires and anarchists, immikgrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survivial and power." -- from the dj