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  • Lamb
    Lamb : The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    by Christopher Moore
    Hardcover: Feb 2002
    Paperback: Feb 2003
     
    The early life of the Son of God, including the missing years as told by his childhood friend Biff.  "An instant classic...terrific, funny and poignant".
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  • The Laments
    The Laments : A Novel
    by George Hagen
    Hardcover: Jun 2004
    Paperback: Jul 2005
     
    Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of Hagen’s exuberant debut novel.
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  • A Land More Kind Than Home
    A Land More Kind Than Home : A Novel
    by Wiley Cash
    Hardcover: Apr 2012
    Paperback: Jan 2013
     
    A mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small western North Carolina town.
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  • Land of Love and Drowning
    Land of Love and Drowning
    by Tiphanie Yanique
    Hardcover: Jul 2014
    Paperback: Jul 2015
     
    A major debut from an award-winning writer—an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands.
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  • Land of Marvels
    Land of Marvels : A Novel
    by Barry Unsworth
    Hardcover: Jan 2009
    Paperback: Jan 2010
     
    In Land of Marvels, a thriller set in 1914, Barry Unsworth brings to life the schemes and double-dealings of Western nations grappling for a foothold in Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
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  • Land of Milk and Honey
    Land of Milk and Honey : A Novel
    by C Pam Zhang
    Hardcover: Sep 2023
    Paperback: Sep 2024
     
    The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world
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  • Landscape with Invisible Hand
    Landscape with Invisible Hand
    by M.T. Anderson
    Hardcover: Sep 2017
    Paperback: Apr 2019
     
    National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization.
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  • The Language of Flowers
    The Language of Flowers : A Novel
    by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
    Hardcover: Aug 2011
    Paperback: Apr 2012
     
    A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she ...
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