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Lorna Landvik
Writing and theater were Lorna Landvik's twin passions when she was growing up in her home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from high school, she and her best friend traveled in Europe...

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The View from Mount Joy

Derek Landy
Derek Landy lives near Dublin, Ireland. Before writing his children's story about a sharply dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a slasher thriller in which ...

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Skulduggery Pleasant

Byron Lane
Byron Lane is a playwright living in Los Angeles. Before becoming a writer, he was the personal assistant to Carrie Fisher for three years. A Star Is Bored is his first novel.

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A Star Is Bored

Christina Lane
Christina Lane is an Edgar®-Award winning author and professor of film studies in the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of Miami. Her books include Feminist Hollywood: From Born in ...

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Phantom Lady

Harriet Lane
Harriet Lane wrote for The Guardian, The Observer, Vogue, and Tatler before the publication of her debut novel Alys, Always. She lives in North London with her husband and two children. Visit her at ...

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Her

Johanna Lane
Johanna Lane was brought up in Ireland, studied English Literature at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Creative Writing at Columbia's MFA program. She lives in New York City.

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Black Lake

Mary M. Lane
Mary M. Lane (b. 1987) is a nonfiction writer and journalist specializing in Western art, Western European history, and anti-Semitism. Lane received one of five Fulbright Journalism Scholarships at 22...

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Hitler's Last Hostages

Nick Lane
Nick Lane is a biochemist and honorary reader at University College London, where he lives. His previous book, Power, Sex, Suicide, was named an Economist book of the year and was short-listed for the...

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Life Ascending

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