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Last Steps: Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy

It`s 1910. "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace" have made Leo Tolstoy the world`s most famous author. But fame comes at a price. In the tumultuous final year of his life, Tolstoy is desperate to find respite, so leaves...

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Chance Saloon

Тага, Katherine and Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they`ve been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they got to show for it? Sure, Tara`s got her...

Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity

In schools we are taught to meet problems head-on: what Edward de Bono calls `vertical thinking`. This works well in simple situations - but we are at a loss when this approach fails. Lateral thinking is all about...

Laugh-Your-Socks-Off Classroom Chaos Joke Book

You`ll be crying with laughter in the playground and chuckling in class - no school bag is complete without a copy of Classroom Chaos! Jam - packed with jokes and silliness and DIY school reports and starring Captain...

Law of Nines

Turning 27 may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has...

Leaf Storm

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez,, author of the "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", portrays a food company violating a small Colombia town in his vivid and powerful novel Leaf...

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several...

Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among Defiant People of Caucasus

The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia`s attempts to add them to its empire. Oliver Bullough`s extraordinary debut tells their story...

Lets Call the Whole Thing Off

Love stories are not always about hearts and flowers. In this deliciously different celebration of love, romance is all about having a good row (and not always having to say you`re sorry). From trivial everyday...

Letters to a Young Poet

Letter from America (Celebration Ed)

When Alistair Cooke retired in March 2004 and then died a few weeks later, he was acclaimed by many as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letters from America, which began in 1946 and continued...

Level 26: Dark Origins

A perfect treat for all fans of Thomas Harris. Sqweegel and Steve Dark are set to become the Hannibal and Clarice Starling of the 21st century in Zuiker`s first book of the Level 26 series.

Lewis Carroll`s Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland

Since childhood, Kusama has been afflicted with a condition that makes her see spots, which means she sees the world in a surreal, almost hallucinogenic way that sits very well with the `Wonderland of Alice`. She is...

Liberty Bar

Lightning

In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm,...

Lionboy

Lisa Chaney: Chanel. An Intimate Life

Little Women. Маленькие женщины

Live Wire (Exp)

Myron Bolitar`s family takes center stage in this novel. When news of his estranged brother arrives, providing tantalizing clues to his whereabouts, Myron hopes to salvage a relationship about which he has his share...

Living to Tell the Tale

In "Living to Tell the Tale" Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which...

Lock and Key (NY Times bestseller)

The "New York Times" - bestselling author of "Just Listen" explores the heart of a gutsy, complex girl dealing with unforeseen circumstances and learning to trust again.

Lolita (Penguin Essentials)

`Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.`Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged,...

Long Way Down (OM)

For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer`s pretty simple: he has, in his own words, `pissed his life away`. And on New Year`s Eve he`s going to end it but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum...