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"That Jersey girl is Stephanie Plum, New Jersey's fugitive apprehension agent (aka bounty hunter), introduced to the world by Janet Evanovich in the award-winning novel One for the Money.Now Stephanie's back, armed with attitude -- plus stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38. She is after Kenny Mancuso, a hometown boy who is fresh out of the army and suspiciously wealthy, and has just shot his best friend.With her pal Ranger...
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Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—soon to be a film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent from the award-winning team that produced An Education —is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” ( Entertainment Weekly ) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. “One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland...
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"Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then a teeming multicultural neighborhood, Addie's intelligence and curiosity take her to a world her parents can't imagine--a world of short skirts, movies, celebrity culture, and new opportunities for women. Addie wants to finish high school and dreams of going to...
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
25) Devil bones
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In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery -- a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog. Nothing is clear -- neither when the deaths...
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Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites, growing up in the privileged American enclave where employees of the United Fruit Company live outside Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s, bear witness to the philandering and backstabbing that go on inside their gated community, while in the city, Rachel, a cabaret dancer, and French agitator Christian de La Maziere get caught up in the political underground, bracing for the changes to come.
27) Peter Pan
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A simplified retelling of the adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. A fabulously redesigned edition of a Michael Hague backlist classic Peter Pan, the book based on J.M. Barrie's famous play, is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up; the fairy, Tinker Bell; the evil pirate, Captain Hook; and the three children-Wendy, John, and Michael-who fly off with Peter Pan to Neverland, where they meet...
28) A separate peace
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Gene Forrester looks back fifteen years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school. Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to tragedy.
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In a run-down Montreal apartment, Tempe finds heartbreaking evidence of three innocent lives ended. The landlord says Alma Rogers lives there--is she the same woman who checked into a city hospital as Amy Roberts, then fled before doctors could treat her uncontrolled bleeding? Is she Alva Rodriguez, sought by a man who appeared at the crime scene? Heading up an investigation crackling with the sexual tension of past intimacies, Tempe leads homicide...
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Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash novels volume 1
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Red sparrow volume 01
Thorndike Press large print thriller
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Red sparrow volume 01
Thorndike Press large print thriller
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Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.
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1870. Professor Aronnax agrees to join the crew of a ship whose mission is to investigate a series of attacks by a mysterious sea monster. Finally hunting their quarry down, the men discover that it is a large electrically powered submarine, the Nautilus. Aronnax and hot-tempered harpoonist Ned Land are imprisoned on this remarkable vessel, captained by the renegade scientist and misanthropic recluse, Nemo. Among deep-sea volcanoes, sunken ships,...
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An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
England's Downs were once an idyllic rural landscape, but plans for development are afoot. Facing the certain destruction of their homes, a band of very special creatures must plan a flight from the intrusion of...
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Two years after the death of her husband Scott, celebrated author Lisey Debusher Landon sets out to sort through his papers and finds herself drawn into the nightmare world where Scott got his inspiration--Boo'ya Moon.
"Lisey lost her husband Scott after a twenty-five-year marriage of profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married,...
35) 206 bones
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Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan wakes to find herself tied up in a small, dark, enclosed space and tries to think back over her most recent activities--accompanying the remains of a missing heiress from Montréal to the Chicago morgue, and battling an accusation of mishandling an autopsy--in an attempt to figure out where she is and who is responsible.
37) The gunslinger
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Dark Tower volume 1
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In the first book of this brilliant series, now expanded and revised by the author, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the last gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues the man in black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New...
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One of the most popular and exciting adventure stories is now being reissued with vibrant, realistic paintings by a highly acclaimed artist and an introduction by award-winning author, Gary Paulsen. First published in 1903, this striking reissue is as relevant today as it was when it was first published. Black-and-white illustrations.
40) Monday mourning
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Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for both North Carolina and Quebec, has come from Charlotte to Montreal during the bleak days of December to testify as an expert witness at a murder trial.
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