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"In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution, rare-gem dealer Isaac Amin is arrested, wrongly accused of being a spy. Terrified by his disappearance, his family must reconcile a new world of cruelty and chaos with the collapse of everything they have known. As Isaac navigates the terrors of prison, and his wife feverishly searches for him, his children struggle with the realization that their family may soon be forced to embark on a journey of incalculable...
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Darkest minds novels volume 1
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"Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children"--
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"Little Dorrit", originally serialized between 1855 and 1857, satirizes the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. This popular novel introduces a rich and memorable array of characters trying to navigate an often hostile capital symbolised by the Marshalsea gaol, where Dickens' own father had been imprisoned. This is a scathing social and political satire within a heart-warming story of love and devotion...Based on the world-famous...
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Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
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Having made his fortune in the China seas, Gavin Elliott is on his way to London to establish himself in society, but his plans take a detour when he risks his life to save an English widow, Alexandra Warren, who is being sold as a slave by pirates.
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Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved of all American authors, as well as one of the first Americans to become world famous and wealthy from his literary career. London lived a colorful and adventurous life as a young man, working as a sailor and then living as a hobo, all before starting high school. First published in 1915 "The Star Rover" also published as "The Jacket" is the tale of Darrell...
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In November 1979, Kathleen Moran's son Sean is transferred to the H-block in Belfast's notorious Maze prison, where he becomes a key player in the protest that political prisoners are staging and crosses paths with John Dunn, a prison guard searching for a way to support his family.
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Well's end novels volume 2
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"Mia and her friends resurface at the well's end to discover an astounding underground civilization, and immediately find themselves drawn into a terrible civil war"--
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Young, idealistic Olivia returns to Oakland after a torrid affair with Jorge, a political activist she met while touring Mexico. When Jorge shows up on her doorstep after illegally crossing the border, the couple finds their love sorely tested by the harsh realities of life. Unable to find work, Jorge sets up a drug deal to land enough money to get the couple on their feet. But when the deal goes bad, Olivia finds herself at the mercy of an unforgiving...
11) Kingdom come
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The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Standing for family, honor, and a way of life, the MacCallisters have carved out a hard-won corner of the Wyoming frontier. In the thrilling new novel from the bestselling Western writers, Duff MacCallister faces his most treacherous and deadly fight yet.
Kingdom Come
Like a murderous plague, a band of cutthroats and criminals, led by prison escapees from New Mexico, rages through West Texas. They're...
13) Airman
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In the late nineteenth century, when Conor Broekhart discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while he plans a daring escape from Little Saltee prison by way of a flying machine that he must design, build, and, hardest of all, trust to carry him to safety.
15) The Big Girls
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Set in a women's prison on the Hudson River, Moore's sixth novel chronicles the aftermath of a highly publicized murder and its impact on four intertwined lives. The story is told in the alternating voices of Helen, who has long suffered terrifying schizophrenic hallucinations and is serving a life sentence for killing her two small children; Helen's psychiatrist, a single mother who came to work at the prison out of guilt over a patient's suicide;...
16) Affinity
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Margaret Prior, assigned to visit the women's ward of Victorian London's Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitative charity work for a suicide attempt, is drawn into a dark romance with spiritualist Selina Dawes who has been jailed after a seance she was conducting went horribly wrong.
19) Fellside
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On a heroin bender, Jess Moulson set fire to her apartment complex. A ten-year-old boy died in the fire. Sentenced to spend the rest of her life in Fellside, a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire, Jess is haunted by the ghost of the boy she killed, as well as all the mistakes she has made in her life. When Jess decides not to run drugs for a fellow prisoner is she on the road to redemption... or the road to her own death?
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English history novels volume 5
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A fictionalized account of the events surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the young princes Edward and Richard from the Tower of London in 1483.
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