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"But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. And the winners are: Augustus Gloop, an enormously fat boy whose hobby is eating; Veruca Salt, a spoiled-rotten brat whose parents are wrapped around her little finger; Violet Beauregarde, a dim-witted gum-chewer with the fastest jaws around; Mike Teavee, a toy pistol-toting gangster-in-training who is obsessed with television; and Charlie Bucket, Our Hero, a boy who is honest and kind, brave and...
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Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket's back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the gang are sent hurtling through space and time. Visiting the world's first space hotel, battling the dreaded Vermicious Knids, and saving the world are only a few stops along this remarkable, intergalactic joyride.
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Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called on to follow the trail of a suspected serial arsonist but finds himself teaming up with his quarry to face a much deeper problem: a malfunctioning alien space probe that has caused random outbreaks of madness and murder that occur in old, abandoned wooden buildings.
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A serial killer terrorizes the young women of Nottingham Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine and a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend, her death is just another in the files of the Nottingham detective's bureau. The police round up her ex-lover without much fuss, and are preparing to try him when another body surfaces. The method, the target, and the extreme violence...
5) Wasted years
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 5
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Police Officer Charlie Resnick investigates a string of robberies and struggles with a post that threatens him with more than bodily harm.
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 2
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Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick investigates a house break-in resulting in a missing kilo of cocaine.
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 3
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A scalpel-wielding maniac terrorizes a hospital staff Karen Archer understands that women who date doctors should expect tardiness. The last time she invited Tim Fletcher over, he arrived from the emergency room exhausted, and barely had time to say hello before he passed out on her bed. Tonight her patience has run out. After a bottle of wine and too much television, she gives up on Fletcher and leaves the house to find her own fun-but instead she...
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Charlie Peace mysteries volume 2
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A celebrity scholar in a small village tears her nephews from their immediate family and raises them in an atmosphere of cruelty. As old Lydia Perceval plans to destroy yet another group of impressionable young children's love for their parents, the list of those who would have her die grows longer.
9) Off minor
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 4
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Two months after she disappears, a six-year-old child is found dead Raymond Cooke is looking for revenge, not corpses. It's been six weeks since the gang of four young punks attacked him, since the one with the knife slit open his belly and left him to die on the street. After that Raymond bought a knife of his own, and has spent his nights lurking in Nottingham's worst pubs, hoping for a chance at vengeance. Instead, walking home one night, he encounters...
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Charlie Greene mysteries volume 2
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West Coast literary agent Charlie Greene is on the case when an unexplained murder baffles the local cops-and brings out Charlie's blossoming psychic gifts Raising a fast-maturing teenage daughter, keeping up with the mortgage payments, and trying to launch a successful Hollywood career would be difficult for anyone. But Charlie Greene has an additional, more unusual challenge to deal with: her emerging abilities as a clairvoyant. And when Gloria...
11) Cold light
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 6
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Nancy Phelan had been missing for nineteen hours by the time the police were notified. It was considerably more than forty-eight hours before the police had chilling proof that she had been abducted, and it was the New Year before the first tape arrived and they knew they were dealing with a psychopath...and possibly, a psychopathic killer.
12) Living proof
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 7
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Crime writer Cathy Jordan is receiving letters, promising her she is about to meet the same fate as her unfortunate characters, but Inspector Charlie Resnick has little manpower to spare for her, with his department already involved in the investigation of a mysterious slasher.
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Charlie Greene mysteries volume 3
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Reluctant psychic Charlie Greene is called on to solve the case when a horror-film director gets the ax-and Charlie's mother is the prime suspect Between doing lunches, making deals, and being a full-time single mom, Hollywood literary agent and part-time psychic Charlie Greene doesn't have time to solve crimes. But when the number-one suspect in the murder of schlock horror director Gordon Cabot is her menopausal mother, Charlie suddenly finds...
14) Easy meat
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Charlie Resnick mysteries volume 8
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Fifteen-year-old Nicky Snape, a chronic trouble-maker, is found hanging from the shower of the children's home while in custody on suspicion of murder, and it appears that his death may not have been suicide as the police would like to believe.
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Charlie Greene mysteries volume 4
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Charlie has reluctantly returned to her childhood home of Boulder, Colorado to be with her mother who just had major surgery. Boulder evokes decidedly mixed feelings in Charlie. She left after her daughter Libby was conceived 16 years ago, and hasn't returned until now. There's plenty to keep her emotions occupied, though, since her mother seems to be suspected of doing away with one of her neighbors. Charlie has lots to ponder, including: What happened...
16) Bomb grade
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 11
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British agent Charlie Muffin goes undercover as an arms trader in order to infiltrate the leading Russian mafia families and find out who has pulled off a major heist of weapons-grade nuclear material.
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Charlie Parker mysteries volume 3
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Sharon Ortega, an old school chum of Charlie's, hires Charlie to prove that her dead restaurant partner, David, didn't commit suicide. David's recent, keyman life insurance policy won't pay for suicide, and Sharon needs the money to keep the business going. Charlie uncovers evidence of tax fraud, high level political connections, and two distinctly different sides to David's life. Amidst a confusion of relatives, she also discovers that members of...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 3
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A little girl holds the key to a series of grisly murders that join Granite Creek police chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon in an investigation that involves powers from the unknown.
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 4
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Tribal policeman Charlie Moon sets out to investigate when two seemingly healthy men die while participating in the annual Sun Dance.
20) Every dead thing
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PI Charlie Parker, a former New York policeman, searches for the killer of his wife and daughter. Two women help him, a pretty criminal psychologist and an old Creole woman with psychic vision.
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