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Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attentions of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book's secrets from being exposed.
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Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a collection of eleven tantalizing tales of murder and other criminal pursuits-including the classic title story, the basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated Billy Wilder film starring Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, and Charles Laughton. A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes the stand.... A woman's sixth sense-and a loaded revolver-signal premonitions of doom.... A stranded...
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When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn’t even possess.
Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian,...
Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian,...
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For almost four decades Bartholomew Neil has done nothing but live with his mom. When she begins calling him Richard - for reasons unknown - and then dies, Bartholomew is woefully unprepared. A clue comes in the form of a Free Tibet letter he finds in his mother's underwear drawer, so Bartholomew awkwardly starts his new life, writing Richard Gere a series of highly intimate fan letters. A struggling priest, a girlbrarian, her foul-mouthed brother,...
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Sidewinders volume 4
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Down to their last dime, Bo Creel and Scratch Morton accept the best job they can get in a boomtown called Mankiller where their boss is a drunken sheriff and where they have a real chance to become heroes.
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Tucker Wayne novels volume 1
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The first installment in an exciting new thriller series based on the Sigma Force novels featuring former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his partner, Army working dog Kane, introduced in the bestseller "Bloodline" and the e-original story "Tracker." Tucker Wayne and Kane are recruited by Sigma Force to extract a Russian pharmaceutical magnate from Siberia. From the frozen steppes of Russia to the sun-blasted savannahs of Africa, Tucker and Kane must...
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In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer-and it's up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.
On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent "accidental brushes with death." First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path,...
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
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Syracuse University student Mitch Rapp broods over the deaths of his girlfriend and thirty-four other classmates on the bombed Pan Am Flight 103, until he is recruited and trained by the CIA and receives his first assignment--to kill the Turkish arms dealer who sold the bomb that killed his friends.
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 6
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Psychologist Will Lincoln is determined to convince his childhood friend Jess O'Brien, who has overcome a lot of challenges, that he thinks of her in a romantic way, not as a psychological case study.
10) The forever girl
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For readers of "Rules of the Wild," this is a stand-alone novel that has a bigger, broader feel than McCall Smith's previous books - a deep look at the mature theme of relationships, of longing about first love, and unrequited love. Taking place on Grand Cayman Island in a very rarefied, claustrophobic community, the story follows a young girl named Thursday and her friendship with a young boy and their twenty-year relationship and their travels around...
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Center Point Large Print
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This western is story about a couple of Texas cowboys, Del and Tie, who come to Montana to rope wild horses. It's an episodic tale that puts our two heroes in harm's way a fistful of times, finds them vying for the attention of a beautiful woman, and paints a wild, splashy picture of the Old West.
12) Shadow spell
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Falconer Connor O'Dwyer has his past intrude upon him when he finds himself falling for Meara Quinn, but things become complicated when she is fine with their relationship remaining just friendly.
14) House rules
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
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Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior.
15) Heart trouble
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Cleaning lady-turned-sleuth Callahan Garrity investigates when Whitney Dobbs, the drunken ex-wife of a prominent cardiologist, who gets away with running over a little girl in the park, is gunned down while doing her community service.
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 4
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After years apart, Mick and Megan O'Brien are finally ready to make it official ... again. Most of their grown children couldn't be happier about their rekindled love and impending marriage this holiday season. Only Connor is a holdout. Driven to become a divorce attorney after what he views as his mother's abandonment of their family, Connor's not about to give his blessing to this reunion romance. The last thing Megan wants to do is hurt her family...
18) Unlucky 13
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Women's Murder Club volume 13
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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When the FBI sends San Francisco Detective Lindsay Boxer a photo of a killer from her past, her happy world is shattered. The picture captures a beautiful woman at a stoplight. But all Lindsay sees is the psychopath behind those seductive eyes: Mackie Morales, the most deranged and dangerous mind the Women's Murder Club has ever encountered.
19) Morning glory
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Center Point Large Print
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Fleeing a personal tragedy to take up residence on Boat Street, Ada discovers a trunk left behind by the boathouse's previous resident, a young newlywed from half a century earlier whose mysterious fate converges with Ada's own.
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Max Tudor mysteries volume 3
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To restore peace in the quaint village of Nether Monkslip, Vicar Max Tudor must unravel the clues, which are linked to long-ago crimes, after one of the village's residents is murdered.
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