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The Honorary Consul The Honorary Consul 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 … OL106068W
Phineas Redux Phineas Redux Anthony Trollope *The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* OL109870W
King Coal King Coal 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 … OL115067W
The Crazed The Crazed 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… OL14555W
Diamondhead Diamondhead 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. OL14924762W
The Founding Five The Founding Five 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 … OL14929295W
One Knight Only One Knight Only 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… OL15069532W
The October killings The October killings 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 … OL15116736W
The teeth of the tiger The teeth of the tiger Tom Clancy When a terrorist leader and a drug warlord form a dangerous alliance, three new Hendley Associates agents--FBI agent Dominic Caruso, his Marine captain brother Brian, and their cousin, Jack Ryan, Jr.… OL15153840W
No saints or angels No saints or angels 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… OL155703W
The mark of the assassin The mark of the assassin Daniel Silva When a commercial airliner is blown out of the sky off the East Coast, the CIA scrambles to find the perpetrators. A body is discovered near the crash site with three bullets to the face: the calling… OL15838201W
Thinner, blonder, whiter Thinner, blonder, whiter 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… OL15856955W
Crossbones Crossbones Nuruddin Farah "A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". (The New York Times Review of Books) A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old f… OL15947486W
David's story David's story Zoë Wicomb "Unfolding in 1991 South Africa, at the moment of Nelson Mandela's release, the novel explores the underground world of activists, spies, and saboteurs in the liberation movement - a world seldom rev… OL16069113W
House secrets House secrets Lawson, Michael When Joe DeMarco is asked by the Speaker of the House to probe the apparent accidental death of a reporter who was trailing presidential hopeful Senator Paul Morelli, dirty secrets and divided loyalt… OL16070631W
When She Woke When She Woke Hillary Jordan In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment… OL16099610W
The Bellarosa connection The Bellarosa connection Saul Bellow A novella by the Nobel Prize-winning American novelist whose other novels include "The Adventures of Augie March" and "Herzog". The book is an exploration of the meaning of memory and the central cha… OL16248723W
Angels of vengeance Angels of vengeance Birmingham, John "When an inexplicable wave of energy slammed into North America, millions died. In the rest of the world, wars erupted, borders vanished, and the powerful lost their grip on power. Against this backd… OL16415549W
The race The race Richard North Patterson **Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.** Corey Grace--a ha… OL16612024W
Los informantes Los informantes Juan Gabriel Vásquez When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke … OL1663451W
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