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"Two very different sisters find themselves thrown into an unkind world when their father dies. Marianne, wild and impulsive, falls dangerously in love, while Elinor suffers her own private heartbreak but conceals her true feelings, even from those closest to her. Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world were rigid social convention clashes with the impulses of the heart. This...
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Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He's also a knight-errant who's wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and television. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple, He'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half.
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In Jack Higgins's classic international bestseller, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA...
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The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game. On the 30th April 1945, Russian radar reported a light aircraft leaving the vicinity of the Tiergarten in Berlin. But who was on board, and where was the plane going? Berlin was in ruins as the Russians moved relentlessly towards the concrete bunker where the Nazi administration was in ruins. But one man, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, Adolf Hitler's secretary and eminence grise had a daring...
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"His code name was 'The Needle.' He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence?a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood, and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history...But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English woman, whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom?and win the war for the Nazis..."--Publisher's description.
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The first volume of John Jakes’s acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War
In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American...
In the years leading up to the Civil War, one enduring friendship embodies the tensions of a nation. Orry Main from South Carolina and George Hazard from Pennsylvania forge a lasting bond while training at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Together they fight in the Mexican-American...
10) Gentle warrior
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Garwood writes this fiery tale of Elizabeth Montwright, a woman who is determined to win back her ancestral home.
11) Night of the fox
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On the verge of the D-Day invasion, a covert British operative must race against the clock to rescue a stranded soldier and secure Allied victory. In May of 1944, shipwrecked American Colonel Hugh Kelso washes up on the shore of Nazi-occupied Jersey with a valuable secret. As one of the few men with knowledge of the impending invasion of Normandy, Kelso must be protected at all costs. Enter Henry Martineau, a British operative charged with the dangerous...
12) Heaven and Hell
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The searing conclusion to the North and South Trilogy brings the battle between the Mains and Hazards-and Confederate and Union armies-to a brilliantly satisfying end The last days of the Civil War bring no peace for the Main and Hazard families. As the Mains' South smolders in the ruins of defeat, the Hazards' North pushes blindly for relentless industrial progress. Both the nation and the families' long-standing bond hover on the brink of destruction....
13) The bad place
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Detectives Bobby and Julie agree to watch over Frank after he wakes up in a motel to find his hands covered with blood and strange objects in his pockets. As far as he knows, he's no killer. But whose blood is this, and how did it get there? Over the next few days Frank develops a fear of sleep, because each time he wakes, he discovers strange objects in his hands and pockets - objects far more frightening than blood.
14) Burn marks
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America's premier female private-eye writer, Sara Paretsky, follows the success of her latest paperback bestseller Blood Shot with Burn Marks. This time the engaging V.I. Warshawski, a Chicago P.I., e corruption in local politics while investigating a case of arson.
Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena. The fire that has just burned down...
15) Mirror image
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The crash of a Dallas-bound jet wasnt just a tragedy to TV reporter Avery Daniels; it was an act of fate that handed her a golden opportunity to further her career. Mistaken for a glamorous, selfish woman named Carole Rutledge, the badly injured Avery would find that plastic surgery had given her Caroles face, the famous senatorial candidate for a husband, and a powerful Texas dynasty for in-laws. And as she lay helpless in the hospital, she would...
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Earth's children volume 4
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Jondalar and Ayla are two Ice Age travelers on an uncertain journey. The journey will require them to brave flash floods and glaciers, hungry hyenas and vengeful hunter women, and midnight visions and painful echoes from the past.
18) Palindrome
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Palindrome
When both your past and future spell fear.
Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude-and herself.
As she becomes increasingly...
19) Secrets of Paris
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Kelly and her husband move to Paris where her husband betrays her and she forms a friendship with two totally different women who help her win him back.
20) The black echo
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LAPD homicide detective Hieronymus (aka Harry) Bosch attempts to solve the murder of Billy Meadows, a soldier he knew while serving in Vietnam.
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