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Barry Lancet
Barry Lancet has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years. His former position as an editor at one of the nation's largest publishers gave him access to the inner circles in traditional and ...

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Japantown

John Lanchester
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg in 1962. He grew up in the Far East, but was educated in England. A former editor at the publishers Penguin, he is a member of the editorial board of the London ...

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Fragrant Harbor
Mr. Phillips
The Wall

Ali Land
Ali Land graduated from university with a degree in Mental Health and spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse; the way in which children survive extraordinary ...

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Good Me Bad Me

Stephanie Land
Stephanie Land is the author of the New York Times bestseller Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, called "a testimony…worth listening to," by the New York Times and ...

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Alexis Landau
Alexis Landau is a graduate of Vassar College and received an MFA from Emerson College and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern California. She is the ...

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Those Who Are Saved

David Landau
David Landau immigrated to Israel from the United Kingdom as a young man. His career in journalism began in 1970 at The Jerusalem Post, and he joined Haaretz in 1993 as news editor. He founded of ...

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Arik

William Landay
William Landay's latest novel is the New York Times bestseller Defending Jacob. His previous novels are Mission Flats, which won the Dagger Award as best debut crime novel of 2003, and The ...

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Defending Jacob

Tanya Landman
Tanya Landman is the Carnegie Medal–winning author of a number of historical novels for young adults, including The Goldsmith's Daughter and I Am Apache, in which she explores the lives of ...

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Hell and High Water

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