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A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
Rachel Cusk
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Richard Howard, Roland Barthes
Nonfiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1979
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture
William R. Leach
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Wanden Lafarge Gomez, Oliver La Farge
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Firoozeh Dumas
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Scott Anderson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
James Farmer, Don Carleton
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
Leadership Without Easy Answers
Ronald A. Heifetz, Ronald Heifetz
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
Lucasta Miller
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
Thomas Malory, Robert Graves, Keith Baines
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
David Remnick
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
Leonardo's Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo da Vinci's Servant
Christopher Peter Grey, Christopher Grey
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2006
Leon's Story
Leon Walter Tillage, Susan L. Roth
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000
Let Me Be Frank With You (Frank Bascombe, #3)
Richard Ford
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014
Let Me Hear Your Voice: A Family's Triumph over Autism
Catherine Maurice
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
David Sedaris
Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2013
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
Jenny Lawson, Jenny Lawson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings
Mark Twain, Bernard DeVoto
Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2004
Letters from Vietnam: Voices of War
Bill Adler, ed., Bill Adler
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2004
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998
Letters to His Son
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1774
Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)
Ransom Riggs
Fiction | Novel | Published in 2015
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996
Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism
Ron Suskind
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014
Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
Michael Bérubé
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
Life in a Medieval City (Medieval Life)
Joseph Gies, Frances Gies
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1981
Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98
Richard Glaubman, George Dawson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
Jennifer Gonnerman
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)
Douglas Adams
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997