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The longest pleasure
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Christopher Nicole |
A story of the cold war of the 1950s.
It started as the Russians fought their way into the centre of Budapest in January 1945. Five people are thrown together in a nightmare which is to pursue the… |
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The Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene |
In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … |
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Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo |
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective… |
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Phineas Redux
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* |
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King Coal
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Upton Sinclair |
**King Coal** is a 1917 novel by Upton Sinclair that describes the poor working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s, from the perspective of a single … |
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Diamondhead
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Patrick Robinson |
From the author of the critically acclaimed Admiral Morgan series comes a topical, provocative, military thriller that marks the start of a brand-new series starring Navy SEAL Mack Bedford. |
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The Founding Five
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Maud Muller |
Angered by Barry Goldwater’s defeat in the 1964 Presidential election, five wealthy and powerful men devise a plan to get the country moving in the right direction. Their plan is a brilliant one and … |
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Executive intent
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Dale Brown |
The deadliest strike will come from outer spaceWhen America develops the most powerful defense system in history, will it be used to protect the nation—or will it be used to force universal dominatio… |
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One Knight Only
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Peter David |
King Arthur--in his modern incarnation as Arthur Penn--has been elected President of the United States. But with political power comes powerful enemies. An assassination attempt against Arthur puts h… |
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The October killings
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Wessel Ebersohn |
(a Yudel Gordon novel)
The OCTOBER KILLINGS is the fourth novel in which prison psychologist Yudel Gordon appears, although in this one he is not the main character. The action in the first three … |
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Breakpoint
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Richard A. Clarke |
"The global village - an intricately intertwined network of technology that binds together the world's economies, governments, and communications. So large, so vital - and so fragile. Now a sophistic… |
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The Overton Window
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Glenn Beck |
"A public relations executive and the woman he loves expose a dangerous conspiracy." (From NY TImes) |
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Carnage Code
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Don Pendleton |
Rogue ThreatWhen the CIA intercepts a coded message that reveals the delivery of nuclear materials to Sudan, the U.S. decides to investiage this North African hot spot. Mack Bolan's hard probe expose… |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent … |
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No saints or angels
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Ivan Klíma |
"Kristyna, a dentist, lives in Prague with her unruly teenage daughter, Jana. Born on one of the most momentous days of the last century - the day Stalin died - Kristyna's life seems full of uncertai… |
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The run
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Stuart Woods |
Mississippi Senator Will Lee is in the spotlight. In strictest confidence, the Vice President has told Lee that he will not run for President. He urges Lee to announce his candidacy. But when the Pre… |
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The summer we got saved
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Pat Cunningham Devoto |
Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s. |
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Thinner, blonder, whiter
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Elizabeth Maguire |
"Julie Moran is at the pinnacle of book publishing and at the center of New York City's cultural scene. The editor of the country's most prominent African-American writers, Julia is the white queen o… |
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Last snow
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Eric Van Lustbader |
Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible compan… |
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Snow
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Orhan Pamuk |
Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic… |
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