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Maigret has Scruples & Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses
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Georges Simenon |
Contains two Inspector Maigret novels: "Maigret has scruples" and "Maigret and the reluctant witnesses". |
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Maigret aux assises
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Georges Simenon |
M is in the Assize Court, waiting to testify in the trial of Gaston Meurant, picture framer, accused of killing his aunt, Léontine Faverges, for her money, and a 4-year-old girl, Cécile Perrin, who s… |
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On the road with the archangel
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Frederick Buechner |
A novel inspired by events in the apocryphal Book of Tobit, from the second century B.C.
This is the magical tale of two families brought together, as no mere coincidence, by the devilishly clever… |
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Love in the Clouds
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Barbara Cartland |
Chandra Wardell, daughter of a world-renowned Sanskrit scholar, learns that her father has been commissioned to journey to Nepal to search for an ancient manuscript. Chandra is thrilled--till she dis… |
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Ask For Me Tomorrow
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Margaret Millar |
Gilda Decker needs a new bag, what with her second husband being suddenly crippled and her ex-husband hiding himself and his money somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico. Gilda's recently retained la… |
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Ranch Dressing
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Janet Dailey |
Contains The Traveling Kind, in which a beautiful Idaho rancher finds her new ranch hand hard to resist, and Dakota Dreaming, in which a young woman, purchasing a dilapidated South Dakota ranch, gets… |
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Death Of An Eagle
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Kirby Jonas |
Mauled by a giant grizzly and left to die, sixteen-year-old Jose Olano's chances for life were remote. Then, like a guardian angel, came "Gray Eagle" McAllister.
Brought back from the brink of death… |
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Lusitania
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Diana Preston |
"On May 7, 1915, toward tbe end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania - pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat - became … |
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Geezer Factory Murders
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Corinne Holt Sawyer |
In an old people's home in California, sleuths Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate sift through garbage to find a killer. The novel is at once a mystery and a look at everyday life in a retirement ho… |
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California
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Kevin Starr |
Presents the geography, history, people, economy, and culture of the Golden State. Each chapter includes a summary, words for study, and questions designed for review, thought, and discussion. |
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Tom Clancy's Net Force
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Tom Clancy,Steve R. Pieczenik |
Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers! |
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Empire of the eagle
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Andre Norton,Susan Shwartz |
A searing novel of a young Roman soldier's journey into the mists of myth and legend. And one who will learn to use the magic of the barbarian to win back Rome's own gods. "Plenty of authentic histor… |
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High latitudes
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Farley Mowat |
In High Latitudes Farley Mowat chronicles for the first time a sometimes hazardous journey he took across northern Canada in 1966. He hoped to write a book that would let northern people speak for th… |
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Welcome to Paradise
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Laurence Shames |
A comedy on a tourist mistaken for a mobster. Both men are called Big Al and both are on holiday in Key West, Florida, their names prominently displayed on the license plate of their cars. The bounce… |
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Decamerone
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Giovanni Boccaccio |
ENTERTAINING ROMANTIC STORIES OF YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FLEEING THE BLACK DEATH IN ITALY AND, AS A RESULT, TAKE TURNS TELLING ROMANTIC STORIES EACH EVENING DURING THEIR 10 DAY FLIGHT. |
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The Prairie
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James Fenimore Cooper |
Deep in the heart of the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, five hundred miles beyond the Mississippi River, a group of travelers in the year 1805 pushes yet farther westward over the prairie. Called… |
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The Pathfinder
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James Fenimore Cooper |
Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds h… |
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The Frenchman
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Velda Johnston |
Joan escorts the President's widow to France, where they met Paul, a French courier. What they did not know was that Paul had been ordered to kidnap the widow. (cover) |
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Pursuit of the mountain man
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William W. Johnstone |
The trouble with being the fastest gun alive was having to prove it to all the trigger-happy gunmen who scoured the West itching for a challenge. Some traveled even further -- Count Frederick von Hau… |
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