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The fan
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Peter Abrahams |
"Two men."--BOOK JACKET. "One is a baseball star. He has an ex-cheerleader for a wife and a girl in every big-league town. The ball comes off his bat like a firecracker. Bobby Rayburn isn't just a ba… |
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Half a life
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V. S. Naipaul |
One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly un-expected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, pu… |
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The Rise of Silas Lapham
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William Dean Howells |
The Rise of Silas Lapham is a novel written by William Dean Howells in 1885 about the materialistic rise of Silas Lapham from rags to riches, and his ensuing moral susceptibility. Silas earns a fortu… |
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Jane Eyre
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Charlotte Brontë |
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where s… |
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Phineas Redux
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 4: *Phineas Redux* |
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Birthright
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Nora Roberts,Michel Ganstel |
When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of adv… |
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Perlman's ordeal
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Brooks Hansen |
Als een in Londen werkende Oostenrijkse arts in 1906 een patiënte met een persoonlijkheidsstoornis te behandelen krijgt, raakt hij met een spiritiste verwikkeld in een strijd om de geest van het kind. |
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The optimist's daughter
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Eudora Welty |
The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to … |
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Mystery
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Peter Straub |
Blue Rose Trilogy #2
After a tragic accident which he barely survives, Tom Pasmore develops an obsession with death--an obsession which leads him to investigate two murders--one in the past and one … |
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Firestorm
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Iris Johansen |
**#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen turns up the heat in this explosive new psychological thriller. This time a gifted arson investigator teams up with a mysterious operative to sto… |
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Odd man out
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Matt McCarthy |
A novel of chilling suspense about a father who will do anything to protect his teenage daughterFollowing the tragic deaths of his wife and son, antiques dealer Terence Cave is left alone to raise hi… |
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L’étranger
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Albert Camus |
*L'Étranger* est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn… |
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We'll meet again
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Mary Higgins Clark |
In this suspense novel a young and respected doctor is brutally murdered. Molly has no memory of the night she was supposed to have killed, and presuades Fran Simons, an investigative reporter, to re… |
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All Around The Town
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Mary Higgins Clark,Kate Nelligan |
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year old student is accused of murdering her English professor, Allen Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But iat the scene of the homocide, her fingerprints are e… |
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No place like home
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Mary Higgins Clark |
I cannot believe I am standing in the exact spot where I was standing when I killed my mother...When she was ten Liza Barton shot her mother dead, trying to protect her from her violent stepfather. T… |
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While my pretty one sleeps
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Mary Higgins Clark |
Après "La Nuit du renard", "La Clinique du docteur H", "Un cri dans la nuit", ce nouveau thriller de Mary Higgins Clark nous plonge dans le milieu new-yorkais de la mode.
Ethel Lambston, écrivain … |
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The Bell
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Iris Murdoch |
A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield,… |
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A fairly honourable defeat
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Iris Murdoch |
"One of Iris Murdoch’s more successful novels, A Fairly Honourable Defeat combines elements of realism and allegory to create a commentary on the moral shortcomings of the individual and society. The… |
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Tinkers
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Paul Harding |
An old man lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder and pain of his impoverished New England youth. At once… |
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Best friends
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Thomas Berger |
"Since childhood, Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright have been best friends. They grew up in the same prosperous community, went to the same prep school, and later entered the same university. After Sam's… |
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