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The Crow Road
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Iain M. Banks |
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamis… |
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Broken Verses
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Kamila Shamsie |
Fourteen years ago, famous Pakistani activist Samina Akram disappeared. Two years earlier, her lover, Pakistan's greatest poet, was beaten to death by government thugs. In present-day Karachi, her da… |
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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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Summer's child
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Luanne Rice |
THERE'S A PLACE IN OUR HEARTS RESERVED FOR MIRACLES...From Luanne Rice, the celebrated author of Beach Girls and many other New York Times bestsellers, comes this powerful novel of a mystery, a love … |
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Dog on it
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Peter Abrahams |
Fabulous, funny new detective novel featuring Bernie, a slightly down-at-heel PI and his offsider, Chet, a dog (and the captivating narrator of the story).I could smell him - or rather the booze on h… |
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Running from the devil
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Jamie Freveletti |
Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt fr… |
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Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Circus Clown
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David A. Adler,Susanna Natti |
Fifth-grader Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to help find a pickpocket at the circus. |
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Doc Wilde and the frogs of doom
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Tim Byrd |
There is never a dull moment when it comes to Doc Wilde and his family of swashbuckling explorers. Brian and Wren have been trained from an early age to keep up with their worldfamous father. With th… |
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A trust betrayed
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Candace M. Robb |
Dunfermline, 26 April 1297. Margaret Kerr's heart is as cold as thesleet falling on medieval Scotland. Her husband Roger is missing. JackSinclair vows he'll find Roger. When Jack is found dead, Marga… |
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Beautiful Americans
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Lucy Silag |
What happens in Paris...Secrets-PJ's deep blue eyes and angelic long blond hair conceal a truth that's anything but. Will her dark past stay where it belongs in the backwoods of Vermont, or haunt her… |
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Alison, who went away
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Vivian Vande Velde |
Three years after the disappearance of her older sister, fourteen-year-old Sibyl and her family struggle to continue their lives, separately and together. |
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Without Mercy
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Lisa Jackson |
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a pulse-pounding thriller that goes behind the doors of an exclusive academy with a terrifying secret...Ever since her father was stabbed … |
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Look again
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Lisa Scottoline |
When reporter Ellen Gleeson gets a "Have You Seen This Child?" flyer in the mail, her heart stops--the child in the photo is identical to her adopted son, Will. She investigates the story behind the … |
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Reality Check
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Peter Abrahams |
QB of the varsity football team. Passing grades in all his classes. Dating the hottest — and smartest — girl at school. Summer job paying more than minimum wage. Things in Cody's world seem to be goi… |
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Object of desire
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William J. Mann |
“It’s always been golden for you, Danny. You’ve always been the golden boy.” Danny Fortunato seemed to have it all. He was cute, funny, sexy, smart—the hottest go-go boy in West Hollywood. When he da… |
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Three Stations
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Martin Cruz Smith |
Un tren de pasajeros cruza la noche a sacudidas. Una solitaria madre adolescente se dirige a Moscú buscando una nueva vida. Un soldado de corazón endurecido la observa furtivamente, pensando en sexo.… |
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Snowbound
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Blake Crouch |
At the start of this overwrought thriller from Crouch (_Abandon_), attorney Will Innis's wife, Rachael, fails to come home from a late night at work. Her car is found on an Arizona desert highway, th… |
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Unfinished Symphony
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V. C. Andrews |
**Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again....**
Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents… |
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Tentacles
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Roland Smith |
After the mysterious disappearance of their parents, Marty and Grace go to live with their scientist uncle and accompany him on, what soon becomes, an increasingly dangerous expedition to New Zealand… |
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Dead Right
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Brenda Novak |
The people of Stillwater, Mississippi,are asking questions about murder. Again.Twenty years ago Madeline Barker's father disappeared. Despite what everyone else thinks, Madeline's convinced her stepf… |
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