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Lullaby For Morons: Based On The True Story Of America's First School Teacher Murder
by Ronald K. SiegelIn 1914, many people in America were being wrongly diagnosed as "morons". Most were committed to asylums. Some committed suicide. Two were childhood friends who became involved in the tragedy of America's first school teacher murder in Poland, New York. The ensuing trial was held in the same Herkimer courthouse as the Gillette-Brown murder case. The trial, which focused on the violent nature of the crime and the "degenerate" behavior of the defendant, quickly eclipsed the Adirondack murder as Upstate New York's "Trial of the Century." Fast-paced and suspenseful, anchored in historical fact, Lullaby For Morons takes us into a dark age of medical and legal thinking and the even darker paranoid world of misdiagnosed victims struggling to survive.
Lullaby Road: A Novel
by James AndersonWinter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, is just trying to get through another season of treacherous roads and sudden snowfall without an accident. But then he finds a mute Hispanic child who has been abandoned at a seedy truck stop along his route, far from civilization and bearing a note that simply reads “Please Ben. Watch my son. His name is Juan” And then at the bottom, a few more hastily scribbled words. “Bad Trouble. Tell no one.”. Despite deep misgivings, and without any hint of who this child is or the grave danger he’s facing, Ben takes the child with him in his truck and sets out into an environment that is as dangerous as it is beautiful and silent. From that moment forward, nothing will ever be the same. Not for Ben. Not for the child. And not for anyone along the seemingly empty stretch of road known as Route 117.
Lullaby Town (Cole & Pike #3)
by Robert CraisThe road to fame is paved with danger... as Cole and Pike are about to find out.Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psycho killer who is the son of the godfather. And when the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high.
Lullaby Town (Cole & Pike #3)
by Robert CraisPeter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame.It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psycho killer who is the son of the godfather.And when the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high.Read by Mel Foster(p) 2008 Brilliance Audio
Lullaby Town: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel (An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel #3)
by Robert CraisHollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelson wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep -- until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelson's wife in a small Conneticut town, she's nothing like what he expects. The lady has some unwanted -- and very nasty -- mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office . . .at the bottom of the Hudson River.From the Paperback edition.
Lullaby and Goodnight
by Susan KearneyWhen the Sutton family is besieged by a secret enemy, will they be able to preserve the only thing that matters most: a future for their children...? WHEN HE LEFT HER BED, RAFE SUTTON DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT.... After seeing the heartache love could cause, Rafe had sworn himself to bachelorhood. But that was before Rhianna McCloud knocked this cowboy for a loop. And though he suspected he'd finally succumbed to love, he still made himself walk away... ...until Rhianna and his unborn child were threatened! Was someone just trying to scare her, or was his baby in real jeopardy? Rafe's protective instincts kicked in full blast? Another Sutton baby was about to be born, and Rafe would make sure his child was safe-even if he had to sacrifice his own life....
Lullaby and Goodnight
by Wendy Corsi StaubFROM THE BACK COVER HUSH LITTLE BABY, DON'T YOU CRY... At thirty-nine, Peyton Somerset has an enviable life, with a thriving advertising career and a beautiful Manhattan apartment. And now she's going to have the one thing she wants most-a baby. Peyton's biological clock went off just as her fiancé took off, leaving her at the altar. So Peyton's going it alone. Already, she's making plans for the little one inside her...buying the layette, daydreaming, and worrying over the littlest things. That's only natural. All mothers do. But Peyton has reason to worry. In fact, she has every reason to be terrified... MAMA WON'T BE SINGING ANY LULLABIES. As the months pass, Peyton can't help feeling that something is terribly wrong. She's certain that someone has been in her apartment, that she's being followed, that someone is watching her. Maybe it's just hormonal paranoia that makes her distrust everyone around her. Or maybe her maternal instincts are dead on. Maybe there's someone close who doesn't think she should give birth at all. Someone who would do anything to have a baby. Anything...
Lullaby and Goodnight
by Wendy Corsi StaubHush Little Baby, Don't You Cry. . .At thirty-nine, Peyton Somerset has an enviable life, with a thriving advertising career and a beautiful Manhattan apartment. And now she's going to have the one thing she wants most--a baby. Peyton's biological clock went off just as her fiancé took off, leaving her at the altar. So Peyton's going it alone. Already, she's making plans for the little one inside her. . .buying the layette, daydreaming, and worrying over the littlest things. That's only natural. All mothers do. But Peyton has reason to worry. In fact, she has every reason to be terrified. . .Mama Won't Be Singing Any Lullabies.As the months pass, Peyton can't help feeling that something is terribly wrong. She's certain that someone has been in her apartment, that she's being followed, that someone is watching her. Maybe it's just hormonal paranoia that makes her distrust everyone around her. Or maybe her maternal instincts are dead on. Maybe there's someone close who doesn't think she should give birth at all. Someone who would do anything to have a baby. Anything. . ."If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you'll love Wendy Corsi Staub."--Lisa JacksonPraise for the novels of Wendy Corsi Staub"Keeps readers in the dark until the final pages. . .offers a challenging puzzle and some eerie chills." --Publishers Weekly"Bunker down for a great read!"--Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author
Lullaby of Murder (The Julie Hayes Mysteries #3)
by Dorothy Salisbury DavisIn Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis&’s third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killerJulie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year of gainful employment at the New York Daily. But one of her colleagues is found shot dead in his office—and Julie may have been the last person to see him alive.With a reporter&’s nose for a scoop, Julie investigates the violent death of one of New York&’s most infamous—and despised—gossip columnists. But his is not the only troubling death in the past few weeks. A Broadway publicist took his own life by jumping from the George Washington Bridge. Could the two deaths be connected? Determined to find out, Julie gets caught in a violent drama of lies, scandal, and deadly revenge that lights up the Great White Way.Lullaby of Murder is the third novel in Dorothy Salisbury Davis&’s Julie Hayes mystery series, which also includes A Death in The Life, Scarlet Night, and The Habit of Fear, as well as the stories &“The Puppet&” and &“Justina&” in the collection In the Still of the Night.
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls
by Bennett MadisonLulu Dark is a chic, tough-talking city girl, who never meant to get involved in a mystery. But when her favorite purse is stolen during a rock concert, Lulu Dark and her friends discover a twisted mystery involving a rock star, a rich socialite, and a serious case of mistaken identity.
Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox
by Bennett MadisonThe last thing Lulu Dark needs is a mystery getting in the way of her Important Summer Plans which include snacking, sunbathing, and trash TV. But when Lulu's mother, B-list celebrity Isabelle Dark, drops into town to shoot a movie -- and disappears -- Lulu gets just that.
Lumen
by Ben PastorEqual parts wartime political intrigue, detective story, psychological thriller and religious mystery, Pastor's debut follows a German army captain and a Chicago priest as they investigate the death of a nun in Nazi-occupied Poland. Stunned by the violence of the occupation and by the ideology of his colleagues, Bora's sense of Prussian duty is tested to the breaking point.
Luminous
by Silvia ParkPrescient yet timeless, perfect for fans of Klara and the Sun and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, this highly anticipated, sweeping debut set in a unified Korea tells the story of three estranged siblings—two human, one robot—as they collide against the backdrop of a murder investigation to settle old scores and make sense of their shattered childhood.&“I once had a family. At least, the earliest version of me had a family.&” In a reunified Korea of the near future, the sun beats down on a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, broken down for parts. Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through the scraps, searching for a piece that might support her failing body. There among the piles of trash, something catches her eye: a robot boy—so lifelike and strange, unlike anything she&’s ever seen before. Siblings Jun and Morgan haven&’t spoken for years. When they were children, their brother Yoyo disappeared suddenly, leaving behind only distant memories of his laughter and near-human warmth. Yoyo—an early prototype of a humanoid robot designed by their father—was always bound for something darker and more complex. Now Morgan makes robots for a living and is on the verge of losing control of her most important creation. Jun is a detective with the Robot Crimes Unit whose investigation is digging up truths that want to stay buried. And whether they like it or not, Ruijie&’s discovery will thrust their family back together in ways they could have never imagined. At once a thrilling work of speculative fiction and a poignant exploration of what it really means to be human, Luminous is an unforgettably brilliant debut.
Luna Azul: Misterio, negra y suspense (Serie de suspenses y misterios de Katerina Carter, detective privada #2)
by Colleen Cross Javier MartosEl relato largo Luna azul es el segundo volumen de la serie de Los misterios de Katerina Carter. Los colores del fraude. Los planes de Kat y su novio Jace para ir a cenar a un restaurante de lujo acaban frustrados cuando Kat descubre que Fiona, la vieja vecina de al lado, ha alojado en su casa a un exconvicto. El programa de jardinería de la prisión local en el que Fiona es voluntaria ha cambiado muchas vidas, pero excederse en su generosidad podría poner su vida en peligro. Las sospechas de Kat se intensifican al enterarse de que la anciana ha firmado un nuevo seguro de vida: Si su fallecimiento es por accidente, la indemnización será doble. Regístrate para recibir por correo-e las novedades de Colleen y entérate de cuáles son sus nuevos libros en español en http://www.colleencross.com
Luna de fresa: Un misterio de Jacaranda Dunne (Jacaranda Dunne Mysteries #3)
by Joan FallonDescripción del libro: La víspera del Solsticio de verano, los cuerpos de dos jóvenes gitanos son encontrados en un lugar solitario cerca de una playa en Málaga. Parece que la pareja cometió suicidio, un pacto de amantes para terminar con todo, y la policía se apresura a cerrar el caso. Pero Jacaranda Dunne, una investigadora privada que solía trabajar para la Policía Metropolitana, piensa de otro modo. Cuando el primo de la chica muerta le pide a JD que investigue, le dice que el hombre era gay y la chica estaba embarazada, ambos motivos para provocar la desesperación cuando eres gitano, pero no para cometer suicidio. La investigación resulta más difícil de lo habitual. Su trabajo se ve impedido por la cultura y costumbres de la comunidad gitana, que cierran filas contra cualquier interferencia exterior, y por un recalcitrante comandante de la Guardia Civil. JD puede esperar poca ayuda de ninguno de ellos, así que ella y su equipo conciben vías alternativas para recabar evidencias. Al principio, parece no haber motivo para matar a estos dos jóvenes, pero gradualmente, a medida que JD investiga el mundo en el que han vivido, algunas verdades incómodas comienzan a emerger. Luna de fresa es el tercer libro de los misterios de Jacaranda Dunne escrito por la galardonada autora Joan Fallon. Si te gustan los detectives que no siguen las normas, te encantará JD.
Lunar Park (Vintage Contemporaries Ser.)
by Bret Easton EllisUna novela vertiginosa e hipnotizante en la que el enfant terrible de la literatura norteamericana arremete contra su propia biografia. Imagine que se convierte en un autor de gran éxito cuando todavía es universitario. Fama y millones de dólares difuminan la muerte inmediata de su insufrible padre. Fiestas glamurosas en Manhattan, sexo y drogas le sumergen en la vorágine de la autodestrucción. Imagine que poco después tiene una segunda oportunidad, como le sucede a Bret Easton Ellis en Lunar Park: una nueva vida junto a su esposa y sus hijos en un idílico barrio residencial. Sin embargo, todo esto puede cambiar... En una fatídica fiesta de Halloween, Bret Easton Ellis cree ver a uno de sus personajes de ficción más temibles conduciendo un coche como el de su padre, mientras, en la habitación de su hijastra, una muñeca ha cobrado vida. Extrañamente, la casa desprende una atmósfera fantasmal y en el exterior las cosas no parecen ir mejor: se suceden una serie de asesinatos y desapariciones de niños de la misma edad que su hijo. Lunar Park es una obra excepcional en la que se confunden realidad y ficción, y en ella el enfant terrible de la literatura americana arremete contra su propia biografía. Reseñas:«He aquí un libro que avanza desde la oscuridad y la banalidad hacia la luz y la epifanía con una fuerza y seguridad sorprendentes.»Stephen King «Un libro inquietante y real [...] El primer capítulo es la prueba de que no tiene desperdicio, que es droga dura y que, contra el olvido que le auguraran los detractores del escritor, Easton sigue en forma.»Nuria Labari, El Mundo «Adictiva, sublime, exquisita, brillantemente ejecutada [...] Una fantasmagórica fusión de amor y pérdida, de alucinaciones y sabiduría.»The New York Times «En Lunar Park, Ellis supera la frontera de la metaficción introduciéndonos en un modelo narrativo que bien pudiéramos denominar como "psycho-ficción". Las evocaciones que sugiere son tan numerosas como heterogéneas.»José Antonio Gurpegui, El Cultural «Lunar Park es una novela tremendamente entretenida, propulsada por un humor festivo completamente ausente en la escritura de la generación de escritores americanos que sucedió a Ellis.»Matt Thorne, The Independent «Una lectura hipnotizante [...] Verdaderamente aterradora [...] Lunar Park es una historia acerca de ese dolor transcendental que los padres infligen a sus hijos [...] El peor tipo de violencia es aquella que es interna y emocional, y en las bellas páginas finales de esta rica y compleja novela se demuestra que también es el tipo más dañino.»The Miami Herald
Lunatics
by Dave Barry Alan ZweibelPhilip Horkman is the owner of a pet store and a referee for a local kids' soccer league on Sundays. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls' ten-and-under soccer league, and he's not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist.
Lunatics
by Dave Barry Alan ZweibelPhilip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids' soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls' ten-and-under soccer league, and he's not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist. Where all that takes them you can't even begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration, chaos, and unadulterated, well, lunacy. And they might even learn a lesson or two along the way.
Lunch with the Deadly Dozen: A brand new totally brilliant cozy crime novel
by Peter BerryThis group likes to stay active in retirement—by catching killers . . . Widowed and in his sixties, Thomas Quinn has been asked to lunch by Lexington Smith, the leader of a covert team who call themselves The Twelve. When Quinn accepts the invitation to join the group, he finds himself united with other retired experts—from a surgeon to a locksmith to a cabbie—in a quest to capture a killer targeting homeless victims on London&’s transit system. As the body count rises, Quinn and his companions try to puzzle out a pattern. But can they protect this vulnerable population by identifying a predator amid the crowds of the London Underground?
Lure
by Deborah Kerbel2012 Manitoba Young Reader’s Choice Award — Shortlisted 2010 Cybils Award — Shortlisted A Victorian garden, a fishing lure, and a ghost named John Absolutely nothing is going right for Max Green. His parents have just uprooted their family from Vancouver to the bleak suburbs of Toronto, he has no friends, and everybody at his new high school is ignoring him. To make matters worse, he’s in love with an older girl who’s completely out of his league. When Max discovers a local library rumoured to be haunted by ghosts, he’s immediately drawn to it. With the help of some cryptic messages, he begins to piece together the identity of the teenage ghost and the mysterious chain of events that have connected its spirit to the building for more than a century. But just who was John, anyway? Why has he chosen to contact Max? And what does an old fishing lure have to do with solving the mystery?
Lure of Obsession
by Lisa Kessler"Lisa Kessler is an up and coming author to remember" - Sherrilyn Kenyon - #1 NYT Best Selling AuthorThe Prophecy - "Every generation the nine daughters of Zeus are reborn, and with their rebirth are also nine Guardians. They will be marked by the gods, and given gifts to protect his treasure. Their abilities will only be unlocked when they find their muse." Melanie Jacoby teaches English at Crystal City High School. She's also the reborn Muse of Tragic Poetry, but she isn't prepared for the tragedy of finding her roommate dead at the bottom of the stairs. Nate Malone is the detective assigned to the case, but as the evidence points to an accidental fall, the visions begin. He sees a killer in a gold Kronos mask. Mel is his next target. The Order of the Titans are eager to bring about the return of the Golden Age of Man, and they're prepared to kill the Muses to complete their mission. But Nate's desire to protect Mel is almost as strong as his hunger for her. And tragedy isn't part of his plan.
Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
by Theodore ZiolkowskiA study of the depiction of cults, conspiracies, and secret societies in literature from ancient Greek and Roman mysteries to the 21st century thriller.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers of the twenty-first century.Lure of the Arcane considers Euripides’s Bacchae, Andreae’s Chymical Wedding, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, among other seminal works. Mimicking the genre’s quest-driven narrative arc, the reader searches for the significance of conspiracy fiction and is rewarded with the author’s cogent reflections in the final chapter. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco’s notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact “a secret without content.”“Conspiracies, whether attributed to mystery cults, Freemasons, Socialists, or Rosicrucians, pervade literature from Euripides to Umberto Eco, as Theodore Ziolkowski shows in Lure of the Arcane. Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000-page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK)“Ziolkowski is excellently placed to attempt the construction of a genre history . . . As such, his treatment of the literature and the array of texts included is predictably masterful, moving with ease from Greek and Roman mysteries in antiquity to the Medieval representations of the Knights Templar, through the Rosicrucian manifestoes and the German Enlightenment lodge novels, to the literary depictions of secret societies of Romantic Socialism.” —Nova Religio
Lush Life
by Richard PriceA tale of 2 Lower East sides: one a high-priced Bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honored turf.
Lusitania Lost: A Novel
by Leonard CarpenterA World War I spy thriller from an author who puts “electrifying action into everything he writes” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times–bestselling author). Alma Brady is on the run from a New York mob boss. Desperate to escape Big Jim Hogan and his murderous gang, she joins a group of nurses bound for the Great War in Europe. Their ship is the Lusitania, the most celebrated luxury liner of 1915, with a passenger list of Broadway and Continental celebrities—who do not realize they are headed for certain doom. Aboard the ship she meets Matthew Vane, a war correspondent who wants to find out what secret weapons may be hidden in the Lusitania cargo hold. During the one-week voyage, these characters will be drawn into romance, intrigue and murder, in an epic historical thriller that takes us above and below decks, into the German U-boat lurking nearby, and to the capitals and battlefields of Europe. “Anyone who thrilled to the Titanic film will love this book.” —Sandra Nielsen
Lust Killer (Signet True-crime Ser.)
by Ann RuleFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes the terrifying true crime story of a serial killer hiding in plain sight.To his neighbors, Jerry Brudos was a gentle, quiet man who mild manner sharply contrasted with his awesome physical strength. To his employers, Jerry was an expert electrician, the kind of skilled worker you just don't find anymore. To his wife, Darcie, Jerry was a good husband, and a loving father to their children, despite his increasingly sexual demands on her, and his violent insistence that she never venture into his garage workroom and the giant food freezer there.To the Oregon police, Jerry Brudos was the most hideously twisted killer they had ever unmasked. And they brought to light what he had done to four young women—and perhaps many more—in the nightmare darkness of his sexual hunger and rage. First, Jerry Brudos was brought to trial...and then, in a shattering aftermath, his wife was accused as well...