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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
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"Ellis, the American. Jean-Pierre, the Frenchman. They were two men on opposite sides of the cold war, with a woman torn between them. Together, they formed a triangle of passion and deception, racing from terrorist bombs in Paris to the violence and intrigue of Afghanistan - to the moment of truth and deadly decision for all of them…" -- Amazon.
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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has
6) Murder list
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Regan Madison agrees to help a reporter friend get the goods on a crooked psychologist, who instructs participants at his seminars to draw up a list of people who have deceived them. Too bad people on Regan's list start dying.
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p2005
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Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop, stir in a psychopath with a unique mental condition that programs him to kill, add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis, and you have a mix with equal parts of humor and suspense.
10) Don't look down
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Movie director Lucy Armstrong and Green Beret captain J. T. Wilder don't exactly get along at their first meeting on the set of the movie Don't Look Down. (from Barnes and Noble)
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p2005
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She is terrifyingly alone on a highway, about to give birth to her first child, when a rugged stranger in a pickup stops to help. Leigh Bransom lost her husband eight months before in a tragic accident. Now this fateful meeting brings a handsome new man into her life...yet he is a man with secrets who has the power to break her heart again.
15) Vanished
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Ten years ago, Joan Parker's six-year-old daughter vanished at a local park. Despite a search, she was never found and Joan was emotionally shattered. Then, one hot July night, she answered the phone to hear a child's terrified voice whispering, 'Mommy, help. Come and get me. He's got me.' Then the phone call is cut off. Joan turns unsuccessfully to authorities and then, in desperation, to PI Ben Hogan. Together they begin a nightmarish search.
16) Vanishing point
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"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
18) Presumed guilty
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"Miranda Wood thinks she has seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover--until she discovers him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife. Miranda is the obvious suspect, and she looks even guiltier when her bail is posted by an anonymous donor. Was this an act of kindness designed to buy her time to clear her name? Or is someone trying to manipulate Miranda and draw her into the dark and secret world of a murdered man, where...
19) Killer view
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Sheriff Walt Fleming leads his search and rescue team, including Tommy Brandon and Mark Aker, in search of a missing skier at Sun Valley's Galena Summit, and when Mark gets killed, Walt follows the evidence to a large crime involving a biohazard at a local water-bottling plant.
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p2009
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As the middle child, Pepper Prescott's rebellious nature helped her survive when her parents disappeared and she and her siblings were sent to different foster homes around the country. Now an independent young woman, Pepper finds herself on the run after witnessing a shooting. Fearing for her life, Pepper flees to the only place she ever considered home and is shocked to find her old lover, Dan Graham, living on the remote mountain ranch. A battle-hardened...
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