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Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser |
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York. |
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Swords in the Mist
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Fritz Leiber |
"Fritz Leiber has a wicked imagination. Wicked enough to make us laugh at an impossible future containing nightmarish aspects of our own times." Edmond Cooper, Sunday TimesDrawing themes from Shakes… |
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Arnie Jacobson |
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on The Count of Monte Cristo takes you into a rollicking yarn of … |
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Mr Finchley discovers his England
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Victor Canning |
This is a whimsical episodic novel. Mr. Edgar Finchley, unmarried solicitor's clerk aged 45, is told to take a holiday for the first time in his life. He books a hotel in Margate but, before he sets … |
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The Eight Strokes of the Clock
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Maurice Leblanc |
<p>Trying to escape from her boring life, Hortense Daniel meets the mysterious Prince Rénine (or should we say <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/arsene-lupin">Arsène Lupin</a>?) who enl… |
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Sidewinders
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William W. Johnstone |
In frontier literature, the name “Johnstone” means big, hard-hitting Western adventure told at a breakneck pace. Now, the bestselling authors kick off a rollicking, dramatic new series—with the first… |
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Cuba Libre
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Elmore Leonard |
Leonard's famous "Tropical Western" delivers a smuggler, a sugar baron, and one smart, pistol-hot lady to Havana during the Spanish-American War.War in Cuba isn't Ben Tyler's concern. Still, sailing … |
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Pronto
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Elmore Leonard |
The feds think bookie Harry Arno will squeal on his wiseguy boss if they put word on the street that he's skimming profits -- but Arno's off to Italy. After losing the bookie once, U.S. Marshal Rayla… |
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Manon Lescaut
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Abbé Prévost |
Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero, the Chevalier des Grieux, and his lover, Manon Lescaut. Des Grieux comes from noble and landed family, but forfeits … |
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Fidali's way
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George Mastras |
Disillusioned American Nicholas Sunder has spent months backpacking through South Asia, recently in the company of a beautiful French woman he met in India. When she is found brutally murdered in the… |
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Promise of the wolves
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Dorothy Hearst |
Veertienduizend jaar geleden is een jonge wolf voorbestemd om mens en wolf tot elkaar te brengen teneinde de Aarde te behoeden voor de ondergang. |
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All shall be well; and all shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well
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Tod Wodicka |
Meet Burt Hecker: a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York. He prefers oat gruel to French fries because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 AD; and, at w… |
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Not Your Backup
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C. B. Lee |
Emma Robledo has a few more responsibilities than the usual high school senior, but then again, she and her friends have left school to lead a fractured Resistance movement against a corrupt Heroes L… |
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Fragment
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Warren Fahy |
In this powerhouse of suspense--as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins--scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike … |
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The mentor
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Steve Jackson |
In London, Paul Aston, a young MI6 agent, is sent to investigate a terrifying explosion. Nnothing could have prepared him for the scenes of horror and devastation he sees, images that will haunt him … |
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The Road to Samarcand
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Patrick O'Brian |
"This story begins with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. The time is the 1930s, and the protagonist is a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died… |
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Trading in Danger (Vatta's War #1)
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Elizabeth Moon |
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest… |
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The Spy
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Clive Cussler,Justin Scott |
Detective Isaac Bell, hero of The Chase and The Wrecker, returns in the remarkable new adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as t… |
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Indiana Jones and the last crusade
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Rob MacGregor |
Indiana Jones tries to save his father from the Nazis as they all search for the Holy Grail. |
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Blood Toll
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Don Pendleton |
Tensions are at an all-time high when Chinese and American fighter jets engage each other over the island of Taiwan. As diplomats point fingers, the situation behind the scenes grows dire. Intelligen… |
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