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Live From New York - James H. Miller; Tom Shales
WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. ... -
Lionboy - Zizou Corder
SUMMARY: When his parents are kidnapped, whats ten-year-old Charlie Ashanti to do? Rescue them, thats what! He doesnt know who has taken his parents, or why. But he does know that ... -
Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movie - Leonard Maltin
What 151 movies have you never seen—but should? What French film could teach Hollywood how to make a smart, sexy romantic comedy? (page 233) Where will you find a female-centric We... -
Legacy Of Terror - Dean Koontz
Gothic-romance novel written to meet a publisher's guidelines and "stave off starvation and buy a little time to write what I really cared about." -
Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. ... -
Leave It to Me - Bharati Mukherjee
1. What attitude does Leave It to Me take toward adoption? How do you feel when Faustine/Debby/Devi abandons the DiMartinos so early in the novel? 2. When Debby starts her search f... -
Learning to Swim_ A Novel - Sara J. Henry
FromWhen Troy Chance spots what she thinks is a small boy being tossed off the back of a passing ferry, she instinctively jumps into the icy waters of Lake Champlain. She rescues t... -
Lateral Thinking - Edward De Bono
SUMMARY: 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 app... -
Kitchen Confidential_ Adventure - Anthony Bourdain
SUMMARY:When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In ... -
K is for Killer - Sue Grafton
SUMMARY: Lorna Kepler was beautiful and willful, a loner who couldn't resist flirting with danger. Maybe that's what killed her.Her death had raised a host of tough questions. The ...