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Fame is the spur
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Howard Spring |
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Worst Case
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James Patterson,Michael Ledwidge |
Best case: survivalThe son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he … |
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The Snowman
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Jo Nesbø |
Beware the falling snows... The first snowfall in Oslo brings a series of gruesome murders, and Harry Hole is pitted against a brutal killer who will drive him to the edge.The night the first snow fa… |
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Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
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Italo Calvino |
L'impresa di cercare di scrivere romanzi 'apocrifi', cioè che immagino siano scritti da un autore che non sono io e che non esiste, l'ho portata fino in fondo nel mio libro 'Se una notte d'inverno un… |
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Los dos hoteles Francfort
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David Leavitt |
"It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon, Portugal, is the only neutral port left in Europe--a city filled with spies, crowned heads, and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while aw… |
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The Bone Season
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Samantha Shannon,Samnatha Shannon,Alana Kerr |
In the mid-21st century, major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force, and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an oth… |
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Sweet caress
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William Boyd |
"When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others defin… |
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Last Year at Betty and Bob's
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Sher Doruff |
Last Year at Betty and Bob?s: An Adventure is the second in a series of three novellas emerging from a writing practice that taps the cusp of consciousness between dreaming and waking. A storyline, o… |
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The Christmas café
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Amanda Prowse |
Bea is fifty three, and she's just lost her husband after thirty years of marriage. To distract herself from grief, she throws herself into her work running the Reservoir Street Kitchen in one of Syd… |
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Novels, Histories, Novel Nations
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Linda Kaljundi |
"This volume addresses the prominent, and in many ways highly similar, role that historical fiction has played in the formation of the two neighbouring ?young nations?, Finland and Estonia. It gives … |
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A is for Angelica
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Iain Broome |
My life is different now. I don't go to work. I don't have an office. I stay at home, hide behind curtains and make notes. I wait for something to happen. Gordon Kingdom struggles with the fate of hi… |
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Last Son's Secret
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Rafel Nadal Farreras |
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Wildest of All
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P. K. Lynch |
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They came like swallows
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William Maxwell |
First published in 1937, They Came LIKE Swallows was William Maxwell's second novel. It tells of an ordinary American family overtaken by the devastating epidemic of the Spanish influenza of 1918. Th… |
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The boat
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Clara Salaman |
A young couple on the trip of a lifetime become trapped in a nightmare when they board a stranger's boat. Johnny and his new bride Clem have arrived in Turkey for a year's honeymoon. Young and blissf… |
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The Magicians
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Lev Grossman |
A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupie… |
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Number9Dream
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David Mitchell |
At age twenty, Eiji goes to Tokyo to search for the wealthy father he's never known. He stumbles upon the hidden power centers of the Japanese underworld and instead of finding his father, finds hims… |
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Relentless Pursuit
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Douglas Reeman |
It is December 1815 and all efforts of the British anti-slavery patrols are hampered by unsuitable ships, an indifferent government and the belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to igni… |
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini |
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in… |
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How I Paid for College
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Marc Acito,Marc Acito |
A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical and sexually confused New Jersey teenager's larcenous quest for his acting school tuitionIt's 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy… |
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