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The year is 1861. The American Civil War has just begun, and London arms dealer Daniel Alberton is becoming a very wealthy man. The quiet dinner party held by Alberton and his wife seems remote indeed from the passions rending America. Yet investigator William Monk and his bride, Hester, sense growing tensions and barely concealed violence in this well-appointed mansion. For two of the guests are Americans, each vying to buy Alberton's armaments....
4) Starburst
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Brought together during the annual Edinburgh International Festival, a classical violinist, a stuffy lawyer, a juvenile thief, and other characters find their lives and ambitions intersecting in unusual ways.
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[2005]
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Shane and his partner are investigating the Fingertip Killer, a serial murderer preying on homless Vietnam vets in Los Angeles. An unexpected ballistics match that links one case to another is what police call a "cold hit." When the previous victim turns out to have been an LAPD cop, the investigation becomes very personal for Shane. But there's one problem: Robert Allen Virtue, the regional boss of the Department of Homeland Security, wants Shane...
6) Plum lucky
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Just after Valentine's Day, Diesel returns to once again turn New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's world upside down.
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[2007]
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Four years ago Lew Fonesca's wife was struck and killed in a hit-and-run within sight of their apartment. He fled Chicago, driving mindlessly until his car gave up the ghost in Sarasota, FL. Working from a cheap office behind the Dairy Queen on Highway 301, he makes a threadbare living as a process server and savors his clinical depression like a fine wine. Lew's therapist, who alternately acts as his conscience and his sparring partner, tells him...
8) Down river
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[2007]
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Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Harston returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect in the crimes.
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Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. In musty St. Blaise House, there are thirteen steps down to the landing below his rooms, which he keeps spick and span. His elderly landlady, Gwendolen Chawcer, was born in St. Blaise House, and lives her life through her library, so she cannot see the decay and neglect around her. The Notting Hill neighborhood has changed radically over the last fifty years, and 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious...
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Ehrenreich highlights the people who've done everything right--gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumés--yet have become repeatedly vulnerable to financial disaster. Armed with a plausible resumé of a professional "in transition," she attempts to land a white-collar job--undergoing career coaching, personality testing, and an image makeover. She is proselytized, scammed, lectured, and--again and again--rejected....
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On his last long walk, septuagenarian war hero, deserter, and professor Alessandro Giuliani shares his past with an illiterate young factory worker--spinning a remarkable and deeply absorbing tale of heart-stopping escapes, loves unrequited and won, madmen, dwarfs, and mafiosi. But overshadowing all is the miraculous and terrible Great War--an almost surreal parade of horrors that devastated and defined Alessandro, yet enabled him to experience fully...
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Ender's GameEnder's Shadow, Orson Scott Card told the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean — the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend. And now Card continues Bean's story, and finally tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans. At last we learn what happened on Earth after the destruction of the Hive Queen's worlds, after humanity no longer had a single enemy to unify the warring...
14) Dune messiah
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The epic, multimillion-selling science-fiction series continues! The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment.Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men.But...
15) Wish list
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Back when she was plain starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart, and vanished from her life. Later on in life, with a brilliant career, she sells her house in Hollywood for Chula Vista. There she meets Lex Sanders, a wealthy rancher and breeder of Arabian horses. There's something familiar about those smoldering eyes... something that triggers long-buried memories of passion so pure and perfect it couldn't possibly last.
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