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The tyrant's novel
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Thomas Keneally |
Thomas Keneally's literary achievements have been inspired by some of history's most intriguing events and characters, but in a rare reversal of time his brilliantly imagined new novel takes us into … |
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The ambassador
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Henry James |
An American ambassador in Vietnam faces a moral and political crisis when he is placed in the position of having to decide the fate of the country and the life or death of its rulers. |
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The Eustace diamonds
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Anthony Trollope |
*The Palliser Novels*, book 3: *The Eustace Diamonds* |
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Die Geschwister Oppermann
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Lion Feuchtwanger the devil in France |
**Die Geschwister Oppermann** ist ein Zeitroman von Lion Feuchtwanger aus dem Jahr 1933, der zusammen mit den Romanen Erfolg und Exil zu Feuchtwangers „Wartesaal-Trilogie“ gehört.
Die ersten beide… |
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The Remnant (Far Fields #2)
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Gilbert Morris |
*The Remnant*, the second futuristic novel in "The Far Fields" series, continues the story which began in *Beyond the River* -- that of a world where total authoritarian government has replaced famil… |
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House secrets
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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… |
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Angels of vengeance
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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… |
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Edge of Eternity
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Ken Follett,John Lee |
Conclusion of Follett's *Century Trilogy*, set during the Cold War. |
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Election day 2084
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Elma Wentz,Randall Garrett,Christopher Anvil,Martin H. Greenberg,Larry Eisenberg,Frederik Pohl,Michael Shaara,Frank Hebert,Arthur C. Clarke,Wyman Guin,Robert A. Heinlein,John Jakes,Isaac Asimov,Sam Sackett,Ward Moore,Stanley Schmidt,R. A. Lafferty,Barry N. Malzberg |
Franchise - short story by Isaac Asimov
Death and the Senator - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
Committee of the Whole - short story by Frank Herbert
Political Machine - short story by John Jakes … |
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Ghost moth
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Michele Forbes |
As tensions rise between the Catholic Republicans and the Protestant Loyalists in 1969 Belfast, Katherine, a former actress who is gravely ill, and George, a firefighter, keep secrets from each other… |
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The Eleventh Commandment
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Jeffrey Archer |
Connor Fitzgerald has an impressive resume. Military hero. Devoted family man. Servant of his country—as an assassin. Just as he's about to put his twenty-eight-year career at the CIA behind him, he … |
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The Prodigal Daughter
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Jeffrey Archer |
HER FUTURE IS AMBITION.
With a will of steel, Polish immigrant Florentyna Rosnovski is indeed Abel’s daughter. She shares with her father a love of America, his ideals, and his dream for the future.… |
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First Among Equals
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Jeffrey Archer |
Charles Seymour, second-born son, will never be the earl like his father, but he did inherit his mother's strength—and the will to realize his destiny... Simon Kerslake's father sacrificed everything… |
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The Kill Artist
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Daniel Silva |
"Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel qui… |
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Command authority
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Tom Clancy |
Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into … |
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Resurrection Day
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Brendan DuBois |
Mystery novelist Brendan DuBois makes a foray into the alternate timeline realm and gives us a gripping and chilling dark tale featuring Boston Globe reporter Carl Landry, who is on the trail of a go… |
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Patriots
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James Wesley Rawles |
"America faces a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in the near future. The stock market plummets, hyperinflation cripples commerce and the mounting crisis passes the tipping point. Practically overni… |
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Chronicle of a last summer
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Yasmine El Rashidi,Yasmine El Rashidi |
"A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietl… |
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Раковый корпус
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Александр Исаевич Солженицын |
'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the *Listener*
Solzhenitsyn, like Oleg Kostoglotov, the central character of this… |
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The curious enlightenment of Professor Caritat
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Steven Lukes |
A philosophy professor living in a futuristic autocratic society reluctantly becomes involved in a political struggle, causing him to reassess Western political philosophies. |
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