Titles starting with L from Shoestring Books

Lily Blake, a contented 30-something singer living in Boston, is accused in a local rag of having an affair with a friend of hers, Father Fran Rossetti, who happens to be Boston's Cardinal. Distraught, she flees to her home town on a lake in New Hampshire, hoping to clear her name with the help of the editor of the Lake News, the local paper. A romance develops, as well as a new and even more challenging moral and legal dilemma.

A Mid-Manhattan Medical Center neurosurgeon is found in her office stabbed, sexually assaulted, and barely breathing. Alexandra Cooper, head of the Manhattan District Attorney's sex crimes unit, tries to piece together the clues and find out who could have planned this vicious attack.

NYPD detective Gerry Conte is assigned the unfortunate task of protecting a mob informer.

Larry Bond, master of the technothriller, and his accomplished cowriter, Jim De Felice, kick off a series with this first volume about the Team, a maverick group formed by the CIA. Unencumbered by the usual governmental or military red tape, the Team is charged with handling threats to national security considered to be out of the ordinary. Their objective here is to locate radioactive waste in a former Soviet republic before someone turns it into a dirty bomb aimed at the U.S. The mission is jeopardized when their unknown opponent frames some of the Team for the murder of a local Russian fixer.

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire with an eye for wealth and influence, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants to bring down the corrupt, untouchable Lasko. It falls to U. S. Attorney Christopher Paget to play by the book and nail Lasko without embarrassing the White House. But Lasko makes his own rules, and eliminating enemies is his golden one.

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire with an eye for wealth and influence, and a talent for using both to get what he wants. Now the Economic Crimes Commission wants to bring down the corrupt, untouchable Lasko. It falls to U. S. Attorney Christopher Paget to play by the book and nail Lasko without embarrassing the White House. But Lasko makes his own rules, and eliminating enemies is his golden one.

When Joe's out of work father reluctantly sells Joe's beloved dog, Lassie, to the Duke of Rudling, both boy and dog are heartbroken. Taken far away by her new owner, Lassie breaks free and makes a perilous 1,000 mile journey back to Joe. This picture book version of the classic story is illustrated with watercolor, ink, and pencil illustrations.