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Suspenseful, captivating, and ultimately moving, The Last Chance is about four women friends in their late thirties trying to survive the dangerous and fast-paced world of New York City while also battling the subtle violence in their private lives. Each of them has dreams of finding love, success, and adventure in the big city. Each is desperately searching for a last chance. They will make difficult choices and face unbearable consequences, and...
2) Neanderthal
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When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and now competitors, set off in search of him. Along the way, they make an astounding discovery: a remnant band of Neanderthals, the ancient rivals to Homo sapiens, live on. The shocking find sparks a struggle that replays a conflict from thirty thousand years ago and delves into the heart of...
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Twenty-eight-year-old Alan Swan knows he's fine, it's the rest of the world that is warped-deceitful and false. As soon as he's released from the mental hospital, he starts to partially set things right by abducting the woman of his feverish dreams, twenty-year-old movie star Bliss Marshall (born Barbara Majeski), and sailing with her to his private island off the coast of Maine. There he locks her in a room and attempts to transform her into a "real"...
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When The Rope Above, the Bed Below first appeared in 1994, Jason Fury's memoirs of a wild, sexually free Manhattan of 1980 before the AIDS epidemic became an overnight bestseller-first in America, and then around the world. Although beset with censorship problems, critics and fans quickly hailed the novel for its "feverish writing," its breathless plot of a mad killer stalking New York's male strippers, and its hypnotic remembrance of a sex-filled...
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Karl Blumenthal's Bluffton, South Carolina automobile dealership is being terminated by Universal Motors. He believes it's because he's failed to financially back the reelection efforts of the sitting US president. For guidance, Blumenthal calls on good friend and former Washington power broker Taylor Clark. But Clark is skeptical. However, when a live round fired from a silenced pistol narrowly misses him, Clark begins to fear the worst-that the...
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Sam Leo Libra is a fame-maker, living in his own glamorous world of hand-picked celebrities. His carefully selected "Dirty Dozen" are an elite clientele of fame-hungry clients whom he moves and manipulates as he sees fit, and his influence makes them millionaires. Seen through the eyes of Libra's good-girl assistant, The Fame Game offers a rare glimpse into the world of fashion and Hollywood high-rollers, where those desperate enough can rise to the...
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In this sprawling novel of suspense and terror, a ruthless professional killer, a disillusioned career spy, and a beautiful Sorbonne professor cross paths with Moscow intelligence. They are all in a race to find the fabled Romanov jewels, smuggled out of Russia a century ago and secreted inside the Statue of Liberty before it was shipped from France to New York. The scene shifts compellingly from the present-day United Nations building to the Czarist...
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Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis's creative talent as his own. He decides to hold troubled, talented Curtis in his desert estate, where the macabre secrets of Red's life are waiting to be unearthed. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and the California...
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Part thriller, part love story, Mazes and Monsters is a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the "steam tunnel incidents" of the 1970s, the four friends - Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbie - eventually take their game too far when they decide to live-action role-play in the caverns near their college campus. What follows...
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Collector Benjamin Byrd has added a new and eerie item to his archives: a set of fangs embedded in silver. As he grows more and more obsessed with his new treasure, he finds himself experiencing dreams and visionary adventures. Soon, Benjamin's normal, successful routine is transformed beyond anything he ever imagined; he has to confront the truth that he is no longer simply human. This powerful and lyrical story brings into our own day-to-day lives...
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Paul Wright's family sends him to find his cousin, a photographer whose subjects have become increasingly macabre. Paul investigates Len's last known address, a cabin in California's Napa Valley, only to discover the frightening and sinister truth behind his cousin's obsession with the past.
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Hamilton Speke is a successful playwright and composer-an extraordinary creative force. He lives and works on an estate south of San Francisco, secure in a woodland sanctuary where, to his surprise, he receives a visitor from his past, an old friend and former partner. Then everything changed. Speke's life of celebrity and vision is ruptured by bloodshed and insanity, in a world where it's revealed that no one, and no career, is far from danger.
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San Francisco architect Stratton Fields has just discovered that a contest was rigged against him and that the man who engineered the cheat, Ty DeVere, is determined to keep Stratton from success. But when Stratton's enemies, including Ty, start dying mysteriously-and Stratton encounters several apparitions-he wonders if he unknowingly made a deal with a supernatural force. Or maybe he murdered these people himself and has no memory of his deeds....
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Katherine Dexter's brother is dead. It was heroin that killed him, but Katherine can't help but blame his death on the organized crime so rife in Italy. The drug trade may not make much money for the small-time pushers, the petty crooks, and the addicts. But for the men at the top - men like the Malaspigas, who run their yachts and their big houses on the profits of other people's misery - drugs are big money. The Bureau of Narcotics are determined...
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Andres Kudirka, a once brilliant scientist now headed toward drug-induced insanity, worked on the original A-bomb at Los Alamos and witnessed a test blast in the Pacific where innocent islanders were killed. As chief engineer for Neutron Two, the nation's first commercial fast-breeder reactor nuclear power plant near Denver, Kudirka harbors a deep resentment toward his employers and the United States, and now plans to destroy Neutron Two, unleashing...
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It is an astonishing discovery: a bloodstained burial shroud entombed in the crumbling walls of a historic French Monastery. Carbon dating concludes the fabric is from the time of Christ. A molecular biologist conducts a daring experiment: the cloning of genetic material recovered from the cloth. Now two men-Father Laurent Carriere and scientist Josh Francis-are plunged into the center of a worldwide religious and political power struggle. But even...
17) The Legacy
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When Christina Nordohl meets wealthy English widower, Richard Farrington, in Stockholm, it changes her life. They fall in love, and she returns to England with him as his wife. On his death twelve years later, Richard bequeaths Christina and her young daughter a great house, land, money, and a priceless Hebrew manuscript. But Richard's legacy comes with a downside in the form of his turbulent, hate-filled son, Alan, who has been disinherited. At his...
19) The Relic
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When Yuri Varienski, a Ukranian emigré, dies in Jersey, he leaves his daughter Lucy an object - and a great responsibility. Lucy must take the gold filigree cross she is bequeathed to Geneva, and deliver it into the hands of exiled former dissident leader, Volkov. Lucy innocently accepts her father's charge. But Volkov, broken by imprisonment, is not the man he used to be. And there are other people who wish to possess the cross too. For the object...
20) Away from Home
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Three young and successful couples have come to the exotic shores of Rio, Brazil, to live and work in the late 50s. The new city offers them an escape - a private paradise where the pleasures and customs of a vibrant culture can ease the loneliness, pain, and stress from their former American lifestyles. But as they become swept up in the colorful madness of Carnival, their expatriate dreams quickly begin to disintegrate, and secrets from their past...
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