Books For The Letter L. Page 16 Of 103

Lescapade Du Miquette

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Camo

Excerpts: [... L'escapade de Miquette. [Illustration: Camo. L'escapade de Miquette.] Miquette est ...... singuli`eres ainsi, ce matin, elle refuse cat'egoriquement de manger sa soupe. [Illustration] Miquette jette `a terre, avec une moue ...... cela ne peut pas durer ainsi, Miquette est trop malheureuse! Elle jette sa serviette, renverse son tabouret et s'enfuit... [Illustration] ...... est ...]
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The Legend Of The Bell Rock

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Captain Marryat

Excerpts: [... as thrown were collected by little boys dressed as angels, and holding silver vessels to receive the largesses. During the whole day did the procession ...... with the money, and made a prosperous voyage. He had often been at Amsterdam, and had lived with the merchant, whose name was Vandermaclin and the ...... that the heap would not be scattered, but greatly added to. ...]
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The Little Savage

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Captain Marryat

Summary: [A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 is a book on the Algerian War of Independence against the French by Alistair Horne published in 1977.]
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Les Chasseurs De Chevelures

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Captain Mayne Reid

Excerpts: [... (haciendas). Celles-ci paraissaient de plus en plus riches a mesure que nous nous avancions au sud de la province, vers le Rio-Abajo. Au loin, ...... jeune vierge,-a peine au seuil de la puberte, et prete a fleurir aux premiers rayons de l'amour. Il me sembla que j'avais deja vu cette figure. ...... le temps. L'un apres l'autre, ils me quitterent. Le gouverneur de New-Mexico ne ...]
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The Lone Ranche

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Captain Mayne Reid

Summary: [The Lone Ranch by Captain Mayne Reid. An excerpt Within the city of Chihuahua metropolis of the northern provinces of Mexico--for the most part built of mud--standing in the midst of vast barren plains o ertopped by bold porphyritic mountains--plains with a population sparse as their timber--in the old city of Chihuahua lies the first scene of our story. Less than twenty thousand people dwell ...]
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Life At Puget Sound

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Caroline Leighton

Summary: [Originally published in 1884 by Lee]
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The Lady Doc

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Caroline Lockhart

Summary: [Lady Lazarus is the first novel by O. Henry Award-winning writer Andrew Foster Altschul published by Harcourt in 2008. Drawing its title from the poem of the same name by Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus also deals with themes similar to the poem namely issues of exhibitionism and the publics hunger for tragedy and spectacle. Described by Publishers Weekly as a gleeful difficult debut with razor-sharp ...]
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The Lady Of La Garaye

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Caroline Sheridan Norton

Excerpts: [... iron-work, with pleasant view Of trim-set flowery gardens shining through No bolts to bar unasked intruders out No well-oiled hinge whose ...... of her soul. Well she remembered how that soul was stirred, By the rebuking of his gentle word, When in her faltering tones complaint ...... Would almost cure him and he yearns so much, That passionate painful sobs his breathing choke, And ...]
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Legends Of The Kaw

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Carrie De Voe

Summary: [Myths and Legends of the Bantu is a book by Alice Werner published in 1933. It contains legends and myths from the Bantu culture concerning the gods the origin of mankind the afterlife the heroes and demigods various creatures real and mythical as well as some of the great Bantu epics.]
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Lurking Shadows

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Carroll John Daly

Excerpts: [... came the distinct report of at least one pistol shot and clearly he heard the frightened, piercing cry of a woman in deadly terror. He opened ...... and his lips slipped back. He walked to the coal bin and counted the many indentations that the sharp point of his knife had made during the ...... of Marshall Strong and hoped to take Grogan's place in the Circle. Marshall Strong ...]
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Libro Della Divina Dottrina

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Caterina Da Siena

Excerpts: [... tu con grande desiderio di volere venire a perfecta purit'a. Pensando tu in che modo vi potessi venire, sai che ti fu risposto, essendo tu adormentata, ...... fede, ed unita la grazia che ricevete nel baptesmo con l'affecto de l'anima vostra creata da me, apta ad amare s'i come decto t'ho che tanto ...... posti in tanta excellenzia, non si ristavano mai, s'i come pastori buoni, di ...]
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The Linwoods Volume 1

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Excerpts: [... every thing but Bessie, and his sister's letters were brief and vague, and most unsatisfactory. The winter, however, passed rapidly away. Though in ...... very accurate observations. When they took their leave, and twice after they had shut the outer door, Helen called Linwood back for some ...... at a table, served with wine and nuts, but none of those tropical luxuries that had ...]
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The Linwoods Volume 2

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Excerpts: [... gently repulsing her. Bessie, however, without heeding her, pressed forward, and addressing herself to the stranger in an energetic, business sort ...... 2 CHAPTER XXX. I would to Heaven I had your potency, And you were Isabel! should it then be thus? No! I would tell what ...... should go immediately to Sir Henry's. Rose remonstrated. What if he be the poor man you think for, Miss ...]
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Letters Of Catherine Benincasa

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Catherine Benincasa

Summary: [Letters Of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine Benincasa. Translated by Vida D. Scudder]
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Life And Times Of Col Daniel Boone

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Cecil Harley

Excerpts: [... grand scheme of founding the republic of Transylvania, and united with him John Williams, Leonard Hendly Bullock, of Granville William Johnston, ...... acquainting them fully with the condition and circumstances of the colony, he made application for five hundred-weight of gunpowder for the defense ...... tried by court-martial. This was undoubtedly done with a view to put an end ...]
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Lettres Ecrites Degypte Et De Nubie En 1828 Et 1829

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Champollion Le Jeune Jean Francois Champollion

Summary: [Limpe?rieux amour de Pascal. - Discours sur les passions de lamour. - Lettres de Pascal a? Charlotte de Roannez. - Pense?es de Pascal sur lamitie?. - Pense?es de Pascal sur le coeur. - Pense?es de Pascal sur lamour. - Pense?es de Pascal sur la concupisence.]
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Les Epaves De Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire

Summary: [Charles Baudelaire (April 9 1821 ? August 31 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist art critic and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.]
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The Life Of Hugo Grotius

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Charles Butler

Summary: [Havent read the book. However Mr. Homers review of this book seems to contain some false information. I am unable to verify any of it so far...]
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Le Cap Au Diable Legende Canadienne

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Charles Deguise

Excerpts: [... de b^atiments c^otiers qui y p'erirent. Plus loin, en cinglant vers le sud, et avant que d'arriver au charmant village de Kamouraska, vous ...... aux moeurs simples et vraiment patriarcales. Mais il est un autre personnage que nous nous permettrons d'introduire ici. Sans ^etre tout-`a-fait ...... ses pommettes de joues saillantes, il y avait plus de coeur et d'intelligence qu'un ...]
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Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit

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Charles Dickens

Excerpts: [... himself and daughters at the office to be called for afterwards, Mr Pecksniff, with one of the young ladies under each arm, dived across the street, ...... 'and bring your sister with you.' 'Yes, my dear pa,' cried Merry and down they came directly (being all obedience), singing as they came. ...... 'Poor fellow!' said John, who had been very attentive to these few words. 'Perhaps ...]
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