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The seventh sacrament
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David Hewson |
In the heat of a Rome summer, a seven-year-old boy vanishes in the dank catacombs beneath the city. Now fourteen years have passed, and in acclaimed author David Hewson's stunning new crime novel the… |
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The Mortal Storm
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Phyllis Bottome |
Pre-World War II Ficton. It is rebellious Fraulein Freya Toiler's birthday and she does not want to spend it with her cheeky brothers. She wants to do something special; something exciting and out of… |
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Obedience
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Will Lavender |
"With superb confidence, Lavender constructs a brilliant fictional web of lies, inventively warping the psychological thriller to fit the confines of a scholarly investigation." --Kirkus Reviews… |
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The Crazed
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Ha Jin |
"In his new novel, the author of Waiting deepens his portrait of contemporary Chinese society while exploring the perennial conflicts between convention and individualism, integrity and pragmatism, l… |
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The Voyeur
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Alberto Moravia |
Edoardo, ex-left-wing militant turned professor of French, is a voyeur of life and love. Family and other problems haunt him, and he discovers that he has been unable to see for looking. By the Itali… |
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The devil of Nanking
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Mo Hayder |
Now reissued as a B-format paperback, an extraordinary, electrifying thriller by one of Britain's bestselling crime-writers.Tokyo, 1990Grey Hutchins is in pursuit of an obsession. She is searching fo… |
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La Universidad de Puerto Rico
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Arturo Torrecilla |
Arturo Torrecilla es autor de El espectro posmoderno (Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas: 1995) y La ansiedad de ser puertorriqueño (Vértigo: 2005), ha sido co-editor de las revistas independientes bordes… |
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Diana Lively is falling down
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Sheila Curran |
Trained as an architect in England, Diana Lively accompanies her second husband, Ted, on a trip to Arizona to assist in an American billionaire's project to construct a King Arthur Theme Park in the … |
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Monkey Puzzle (Jack Stryker #1)
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Paula Gosling |
Lieutenant Jack Stryker confronts a most frustrating case when Grantham University's most unpopular professor is murdered and more than one person will benefit from his bizarre death |
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A professor's rage
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Michele McPhee |
A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, he… |
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The demonologist
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Andrew Pyper |
During a visit to Venice, Professor David Ullman--one of the world's leading authorities on demonic literature--witnesses a terror in a tiny attic room. Then his 12-year-old daughter Tess disappears … |
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The perfect match
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Kristan Higgins |
What if the perfect match is a perfect surprise?
Honor Holland has just been unceremoniously rejected by her lifelong crush. And now -- a mere three weeks later -- Mr. Perfect is engaged to her be… |
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Small blessings
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Martha Woodroof |
"Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and f… |
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Bookmarked
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Wendy W. Fairey |
"Wendy W. Fairey grew up among books. Her mother, the famous Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's last love--he died in her living room in 1940. As part of a 'College of One'… |
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Death in the Latin quarter
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Raphael Cardetti |
Valentine Savi, a talented young restorer, receives a visitor offering a unique commission: to restore a priceless medieval manuscript whose pages promise to reveal the truth of a fascinating mystery… |
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Consequences
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Philippe Djian |
"Philippe Djian brings a buzzing urgency to this story set in a sleepy academic enclave in rural France, where Marc, a professor whose interest in women has filled the hole left by his failed literar… |
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The heart has its reasons
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María Dueñas |
"A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she… |
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El Señor Mee
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Andrew Crumey |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
In this inventive novel, octogenarian book collector Mr. Mee discovers the Internet with life-changing results. Told from the points of view of the guileles… |
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The misadventures of Marvin
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Marvin Druger |
xi, 181 p. : 20 cm |
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The Center Cannot Hold
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Elyn R. Saks |
Elyn R. Saks is an esteemed professor, lawyer, and psychiatrist and is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California… |
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