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First published serially between January and December of 1878 in the sensationalistic monthly London magazine "Belgravia", Thomas Hardy's "The Return of the Native" is the author's sixth published novel. Set in Egdon Heath, an area of Thomas Hardy's fictionalized Wessex known for the thorny evergreen shrubs, called furze or gorse, which are cut there by its residents for fuel. When the story begins, on Guy Fawkes Night, we find Diggory Venn, a merchant...
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"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to...
3) Combustion
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The dry season has hit the Inland Empire of California, depleting the ponds and revealing the muddy grave of Paul Dwyer. From his mansion on the hill, Dwyer lorded over Los Colmas, a small town that he aspired to make big by building mansions for wealthy LA commuters. Some viewed him as a savior, providing construction jobs for locals. Others believed he was ruining their beautiful, close-knit town. But who was angry enough to murder him?
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A searing erotic thriller perfect for those tantalized by A. R. Torre's Deanna Madden series... Anything you can imagine. Everything you crave. For the members of The Raven Room, it's every fantasy fulfilled. But for some, that desire is a matter of life and death. Drawn by a need he cannot control, Julian ventures to The Raven Room, a secret and exclusive sex club in the underbelly of Chicago. It goes beyond sex. It goes beyond kink. The Raven Room...
5) The Clearing
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With the eerie thrills of Dean Koontz, Dan Newman's seething suspense reveals the part a man played in a murder-and the guilt that continues to haunt him . . . When his father commits suicide, Nate travels back to St. Lucia, the land where he was raised as an outsider, tolerated but not accepted. As a boy, he had ventured out to the plantation of Ti Fenwe with three friends. Surrounded on all sides by dense jungle, the boys had explored, their only...
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When a young, blond, handsome man walks into a psychiatrist's office, stating that he believes he is losing his mind and asking questions about hallucinations, the doctor is prepared to help his new patient overcome his delusions. But as this twisting tale progresses, the line between what is real and unreal begins to blur-and the story becomes not only a murder mystery but a dark, unsettling voyage into memory, madness, torture, and despair.
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In this auspicious debut, Alex Dolan announces himself as a virtuoso of psychological suspense and a rightful heir to masters of the genre like Gillian Flynn and Megan Abbott. Kali helps to end the lives of people with terminal diseases, her reasons her own. But she just helped the wrong person. Leland Moon is an FBI agent who couldn't stop the abduction of his own son. He ropes Kali into a plot to avenge his son and help other victims, putting into...
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Back at college in the 1970s, they called themselves "The Madison Seven"-a close circle of inseparable friends. Years later, they have gathered at Julia Mallet's Manhattan apartment for her thirty-fifth birthday, where they decide to play a game involving Julia's talent for hypnosis. Julia, an advertising executive, is raising her daughter without the inconvenience of a husband. She's happy to have her friends over to celebrate and reminisce-but they're...
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When her father has a crisis of conscious, Margaret Hale's life is turned upside down. Because her parents decide to move away from southern London, Margaret must leave behind the tranquil, rural life she's always known to settle in an industrial town called Milton. Though she does her best to assimilate, Margaret cannot help but feel trapped and hopeless in Milton, as she witnesses the brutal effects industrialization has on the environment and the...
10) Maynard's House
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Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms-a fellow soldier and confidante, Maynard Whittier, killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little, the mysterious force in the house asserts itself until...
11) Disillusions
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A woman fleeing an abusive relationship is entangled in a shocking crime in this thriller by the bestselling author of Perfect Angel and President's Day. Gwen Amiel had only wanted a job, a haven, a fresh start-and the nanny position seemed to offer exactly that. But inside a wealthy family's elegant home, a crime is committed that is so shocking-so seemingly random-that a tiny upstate New York town will never be the same. Gradually, evidence will...
12) Deadly Verdict
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In this dizzying novel of speculative fiction, the legal system is picked apart for all the fault lines upon which justice quakes. Imagine a system wherein a pool of professional jurors is trained to judge evidence objectively. It's clean, it's fair, it's infallible. But when the jury foreman goes missing, the FBI puts agents Holland Byron and new recruit Wyatt Ert on the case. Soon other jurors go missing and turn up dead-as do their wives and husbands....
13) Vanishing Act
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A man wants to fake his own death-and then things get real-in this PI mystery from the national bestselling author of False Faces. When retail tycoon George Samson appears in detective Joe DiGregorio's Manhattan office asking for help in faking his own death, the wary private eye, a former Long Island cop, knows enough to refuse. But Samson's proposition isn't easy to forget. So when Samson is found murdered soon afterward, the struggling P.I. is...
14) False Faces
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A cop goes undercover to investigate the murder of a woman on New York's Fire Island. Alison, a young, single Manhattan retail buyer, first met Linda seven years ago, when both answered the same classified ad for a Fire Island share. Since then, they've been returning to Seaside Harbor every summer weekend. But one night, after leaving Crane's, a famed singles bar, Linda is found murdered, and Alison starts to realize how little she really knows about...
15) The Magic Bullet
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Dr. Allan Parker may have found the magic bullet the world has been waiting for all these years-the cure for cancer in the blood of fifteen-year-old Taylor Petersen. But there's only so much blood in Taylor's body, and so many desperate people. One of the most desperate is Frankie Vico, a mobster who faces the death sentence of inoperable, terminal cancer for which there is no reprieve. And with time running out, he's learned of one last hope. Now...
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Scott Lester's bitter divorce includes accusations of adultery, alcoholism, and more-and they're all true. To keep from losing his five-year-old daughter forever, he turns to the Solomon Organization, a secret society sympathetic to the plight of men in Scott's situation. They are on his side. They will help him. And they don't even want his money-they only want what is best for his little girl. And what they decide is best is the worst thing Scott...
17) Bleak House
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Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens's major novels.
The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is the long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. This legal case is used by Dickens to satirise the English judicial system, and he makes...
18) Suspects
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Little Big Man author Thomas Berger takes the murder mystery and runs with it in this trip around a quiet suburb with a dark secret.
Mary Jane Jones doesn't like to meddle. She's content to stay out of the admittedly tame gossip of her suburban neighborhood, even in the fresh loneliness of widowhood. In fact, if it wasn't for the daily invites to dinner she receives from her sweet neighbor, Donna, she would be content to just stay home alone. Never...
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