Search Results: Titles starting with L from Petes Loved Books

London.: Orion, 2000. Used. When Joe Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, he and private investigator Elvis Cole are brought in by the woman's father, a rich Hispanic who does not trust the police, to monitor the police investigation. But Pike is no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge.

Sydney: Arrow Books, 1994. Used.WELL READ PAPERBACK. CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. The novel takes these cops on a sprawling epic of brutal violence and the murderous seedy side of Hollywood. One of the best crime novels ever written, it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece, the LA Quartet, and an example of crime writing at its most powerful.

London: Abacus, 2007. Literary Award Winner. Used. 44 SCOTLAND STREET - Book 3The residents and neighbors of 44 Scotland Street and the city of Edinburgh come to vivid life in these gently satirical, wonderfully perceptive serial novels, featuring six-year-old Bertie, a remarkably precocious boy?just ask his mother. This just in from Edinburgh: the complicated lives of the denizens of 44 Scotland Street are becoming no simpler. Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to conduct a perilous anthropological study of pirate households. Angus Lordie?s dog, Cyril, has been stolen, and is facing an uncertain future wandering the streets. Bertie, the prodigiously talented six-year-old, is still enduring psychotherapy, but his burden is lightened by a junior orchestra's trip to Paris, where he makes some interesting new friends. Back in Edinburgh, there is romance for Pat with a handsome young man called Wolf, until she begins to see the attractions of the more prosaically named Matthew.Teeming… Read More

London: Corsair, 2016. large size paperback. Used. n this literary masterwork, Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning The Round House and the Pulitzer Prize nominee The Plague of Doves wields her breathtaking narrative magic in an emotionally haunting contemporary tale of a tragic accident, a demand for justice, and a profound act of atonement with ancient roots in Native American culture.North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence?but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he?s hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor?s five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux?s five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing food, clothing, and rides into town; their children… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 2009. Used. ???Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with??Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.??? ???Jodi Picoult,??New York Times??bestselling author of??My Sister???s Keeper??and??Keeping FaithIn a manner evoking Ian McEwan's??Atonementand Nick Hornby's??About a Boy, acclaimed author Joyce Maynard weaves a beautiful, poignant tale of love, sex, adolescence, and devastating treachery as seen through the eyes of a young teenage boy???and the man he later becomes???looking back at an unexpected encounter that begins one single long, hot, life-altering weekend.With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mills, New Hampshire, thirteen-year-old Henry???lonely, friendless, not too good at sports???spends most of his time watching television, reading, and daydreaming about the soft skin and budding bodies of his female classmates. For company Henry has his long-divorced mother, Adele???a onetime dancer whose summer project… Read More

Camberwell, Vic: HarperCollins Australia, 2009. Canberra Critics Circle. Used. Alex Palmer, winner of the 2008 Canberra Critics Circle Award two years have passed since top cop Paul Harrigan walked away from the New South Wales Police Force to be his own man. Since then his life has been a gift, and his home with his partner Agent Grace Riordan and their daughter a sanctuary. When a trafficked sex-worker is found brutally murdered in Sydney bushland, it should be just work for Grace. But the murder is too savage. And someone is watching them - perhaps Harrigan's old enemies, who want their pound of flesh. Grace's boss pushes her into a sting to catch the sex-worker's murderer, and she loses sight of just who is being hunted. In the end, who will be left looking into the eyes of a killer, with no place to hide? Suspenseful, smart and chilling - two of Australian crime's most memorable characters are in a race to save themselves from evil that even they have never faced before.

HarperCollins, 2010. Used. **SLIGHT WATER DAMAGE TO THE BACK SECTION OF THE BOOK. PRICE REDUCED ACCORDINGLY. DOES NOT AFFECT READ.PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUESTBorn in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salom??. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighborhoods of 1930s Mexico City, through a disastrous stint at a military school in Virginia and back again, his fortunes never steady as Salom?? finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution. Sometimes she gives her son cigarettes instead of supper.He aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks. Life is whatever he learns from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in the household of… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1995. Hardcover/First Edition. Used. Married with three almost-grown children, Delia Grinstead has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, walking away from it all is an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life. Chosen by "Time" magazine as One of the Ten Best Novels of the Year.

PAPERBACK EDITION. WELL READ WITH CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER,MARK ON FRONT COVER N.S.W: Simon and Schuster, 1998. Used. Gone undercover to investigate a suicide in the Honor Farm???a mansion-turned-prison for dirty cops???Long Island police officer Orin Boyd is thrown together with old cohorts and new enemies. But after a second suspicious death takes place on the inside, Boyd finds himself in deep, and unable to protect his wife and daughter on the outside. Now it???s time to bust loose and strike back on his own.

London: Bloomsbury, 2012. Used. 1923: Evangeline English and sister Lizzie head for China's ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, but Eva has her green bicycle and a commission to write a lady cyclist's guide. Present-day London: A young woman finds a man sleeping outside her door and gives him a blanket and pillow. And when she inherits the contents of an unknown woman's apartment, the two embark on an unexpected journey together.

Michael Joseph, 1997. Hardcopy. Used. A multi-generation story of three priestesses in legendary Britain. Caillean veils the land in everlasting mist to protect it from enemies, Teleri tries to save it by marriage to a Roman general, and Viviane must safeguard the Grail in preparation for the king to come. Adventure, magic, romance.Lady of Avalon is a 1997 historical fantasy novel by American writers Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson. It is the sequel to The Forest House and the prequel to The Mists of Avalon.

London.: heron, Undated Circa 1960's. Hardcopy. Used. The lady of the camellias" is a novel by Alexandre Dumas son. It has inspired numerous theatrical and cinematographic versions and is the basis of the opera "La traviata" by Giuseppe Verdi. This novel is a love story, but also a story of desperation and redemption; an impossible love, between Armand and Marguerite: she is The Lady of the Camellias, the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas's work son. A timeless classic of literature, the story of a passion destined to eternal fire, stronger than anything, even of death

London: Bantam, 1997. Hardcover/Award Winner. Used. Prior owner name on inside blank pageAlison Read, orphaned when she was two years old, had for some years lived and worked with Paul Aylmer, her appointed guardian. Paul, an experienced antique dealer whose business thrived in the south-coast town of Sealock, had come to rely on Alison, who had quickly learned the tradeGenres: Fiction, Romance novel

San Diego: Mysterious Press, 1987. Used.WELL READ PAPERBACK.CREASES TO FRONT COVER AND SPINE.A former California police detective (Harry Hamlin) solves a murder in his ex-lawman father's (Jason Robards) beach town.

Headline Book Publishing, 2004. Used.PAPERBACK EDITION. CREASES TO COVER AND SPINE.TEAR ON SPINEThe memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can fly. And the only place they will be safe is the Lake House. Or so they believe..

London: Bloomsbury, 2010. Used. That's what the play was about, she was thinking abruptly. The wish to imagine what life could be, how it could change, if you were unencumbered. Did everyone who was married do this from time to time, imagine an unencumbered life? Three years after the death of her younger brother Gus, Leslie still carries around with her the thought of what might have been- if Gus hadn't got on that plane on September 11th, if her husband understood the nature of her grief more, if she had made different choices in her life. As she sits down to watch a play written by Gus's former girlfriend Billy, she can't help but wonder if Billy too has been unable to let go of his memory. At the time Billy had seemed so stunned, so utterly at a loss for what to do. But now, watching the stage before her, Leslie soon realizes how disquietingly autobiographical The Lake Shore Limited is - and how little she really knows Billy. Meanwhile, the lead actor, Rafe, is struggling to cope with seeing his… Read More

Not Listed: Not listed, Not recorded. Used. The Lake of Darkness is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1980. It won the Arts Council National Book Award for Genre Fiction in 1981. The title comes from a quotation from Shakespeare's King Lear: "Frateretto calls me; and tells me Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.

London: Mantle, 2014. Used. Lamentation is a historical mystery novel by British author C. J. Sansom. It is his eighth novel and the sixth entry in the Matthew Shardlake Series, following 2010's Heartstone. Set in the summer of 1546, King Henry VIII is dying while the Catholic and Protestant factions of his court are battling for power over his successor, Prince Edward. Matthew Shardlake is deep in work and still feeling the shock of the events of the previous year when Queen Catherine Parr, caught in the throes of the power struggle, again seeks his aid when a potentially controversial manuscript, Lamentation of a Sinner, is stolen from her chambers.

New York: Random House Group, 2004. Used. Meet the Laments???the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen???s exuberant debut novel. Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto ???Laments move!??? His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband???s oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And Will is the ???waif with a paper-thin heart??? who is given to Howard and Julia in return for their own child who has been lost in a bizarre maternity ward mishap. As Will makes his way from infancy to manhood in a family that careens from continent to continent, one wonders where the Laments will ever belong. In Bahrain, Howard takes a job with an oil company and young Will makes his first friend. But in short order he is wrenched off to another land, his mother???s complicated friendship with the American siren Trixie Howitzer causing the family to bolt. In Northern Rhodesia, during its last days as a… Read More

London: PAN, 1952. Vintage. Used. PAPERBACK 1952 EDITION. NO TEARS OR INSCRIPTIONS .IN GOOD CONDITION HOWEVER SOME PAGE DISCOLOURATION DUE TO AGEErskine Preston Caldwell was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was holding the region up to ridicule.