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The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. In this frightening vision of a totalitarian future, a fireman's job is to burn books. Fireman Guy Montag loves his job - until he learns of the ideas that books contain and just what it might mean to think for himself. A classic from one of the greats.
2) Odds against
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Sid Halley novels volume 1
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Amazing what bodily injury can do for a man. A fall from a racehorse leaves brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career. And a bullet wound helps him find one. Although he's been with a detective agency since his racing accident, it isn't until some two-bit hoodlum drills a slug into his side that he is sent out on a case of his own. That is where he meets Zanna Martin, a woman who just might...
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MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner embarks on a critical search to find and stop the head of a mainstream environmentalist group whose rage over losing an important source of funding leads him to devise a series of weather disasters and instill fear in the public over global warming.
4) Free fire
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Joe Pickett novels volume 7
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"Joe Pickett's been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history. Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a backcountry corner of Yellowstone National Park, a 'free-fire' zone with no residents or government regulation. In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder. Now McCann's a free man, and Pickett's about to discover his motive--one buried in Yellowstone's...
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Three times they tried to kill her. Then a professional was hired. So was Riyria.When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot. Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as rogues-for-hire. Things have gone well enough until they're asked to help prevent a murder. Now they must venture into an...
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San Diego homicide detective Robbie Brownlaw, afflicted with synesthesia, a neurological condition that allows him to sense when people's words do not match with their feelings, puts his abilities to good use when he and his partner are called upon to investigate the death of Garrett Asplundh, a former officer whose personal tragedies lead some to believe he may have committed suicide.
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