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Born as the result of a rape, The Writer goes through life questioning God about his existence upon this earth. A sadistic nympho is out to destroy him. A stranger off the streets shows The Writer life as he's never experienced it before, but then an...

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4 Book Set By Adriana Trigiani; Big Stone Gap; Milk Glass Moon; the Queen of the Big Time;big Cherry Holler...

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This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and ...

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The Land Beyond Time is a non-stop, fast paced, action packed adventure that takes place in the jungles of the Amazon River. An aircraft crashes into the Amazon, and the survivors are pitted against each other, their own fears of the unexplained, and...

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Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of memory and ...

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With deadpan humor and a straightforward style, Alison Baker creates a slightly off-kilter world with stories that quickly pull us into the hearts and minds of her eccentric and appealing characters.

The title story, "How I Came West, and Why I St...

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Five months ago, SG-5 operative Eli McKenzie was in deep cover in Mexico, infiltrating a Spectra ring that kidnaps young girls and sells them into a life beyond imagining. Not being able to move on the Spectra scum right away was torture for the toug...

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When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously ...

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In a backwater hollow in 1940?s Kentucky, a stranger came to town. Was he a megalomaniac or a messenger of God ? and what would become of the young woman, Jolene Mosley, who questioned his religious dogma, harsh rules and even harsher judgements? Dar...

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A fictionalised account of the well-known and not so widely known details of the tempestuous and passionate, creative and private life of the internationally acclaimed diva. The soaring heights of her talents, the fears of her decline, written from a...

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In this rollicking send-up of traditional science fiction, an Earth Studies professor from the planet Zeeron decides to increase his university status by visiting Earth accompanied by Veeba 22, a chic hairdresser of the highest social order. What hap...

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Sojourner Brown, a shy graduate student, meets and falls in love with Joseph Kalisa. Joseph is a debonair corporate lawyer who works for a large and prestigious law firm in Washington, D.C. A sweet romance slowly blooms. However, Sojourner and Joseph...

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It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to...

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A Dawn of Promise tells the story of a young Danish girl who travels from Copenhagen, Denmark to St. Thomas, the Danish West Indies with her mother and brother. Her father is right hand man to Governor Peter Von Scholten who is struggling to maintain...

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After caring for her mother during her final, painful battle with terminal cancer, Ellen Gulden discovers many surprising things about her mother's life and finds herself accused of murdering her mother in a mercy killing. By the author of O...

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On the tropical island of Diego Garcia in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the United States has gathered together its most talented geneticists to work on the top-secret Lemuria Project. These secret experiments create a revolutionary new warrio...

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A novel about resistance to the Vietam War and racism in the U.S. Marines. Set in and around Camp Pendleton in 1970, this novel examines the experiences of combat veterans returning home to an environment of protest and dissent....

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A masterful blend of political satire and edgy social commentary, here is a wildly entertaining trip through recent American history and into the impending future. An incisive look at how we love and hate our political leaders, and how they love and ...

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With her three children, beautiful home, and loving husband, Margaret Crane is a woman others would envy.  Adam's job has cushioned them nicely over the years, and it should be a time of contentment, rewards, of new challenges together.  But lately A...

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From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in  upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides  of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of  a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful  epic of three generations of doctors in one  ...

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A fresh, frenzied, fantastical re-imagining of The Odyssey-and the debut of a major new literary talent

Very loosely based on The Odyssey, The Suitors is a wildly inventive, skillfully crafted little novel. Focusing less on the Ody...

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Undaunted by hardship, a determined widow, Uridiya, arranges a wife of her choice for her western- educated only son. Little does she know that her son, Jamike, had fallen in love and married a foreigner against her wishes and the expectations of his...

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Misplaced Autumn is a fantasy adventure about a teenager who crosses over into an alternate world. He must recover his memory to complete the mission of which he is part. He encounters werewolves, witches, spirits and healers. Hunted by the authoriti...

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A flower-seller and a salad-maker think they have finally been blessed with the child they have always wanted until the imminent birth begets tragedy for their Mexican village, in a novel about everyday life south of the border....

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In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart.
Samantha's husband has left her, and afte...

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In Bettye Griffin's If These Walls Could Talk, three very different families share the same dream: moving out of New York City and into a house--and a life--of their own. . .

Reuben and Camille have always been afraid to send their child...

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"A very fine writer, funny, intelligent, versatile and, on occasion, unexpectedly profound."
--The Washington Post Book World

"MUKHERJEE IS FEARLESS . . . DARING AND WITTY . . . Take the wild ride with Debby DiMartino from Albany to ...

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Painless follows the story of Augustus "Aug" Valentine, an undeniably attractive tall and slender man with hazel green eyes and a mischievous yet gorgeous smile. Aug is the President of the Trove Import Export Company in Fort Lauderdale. These aspect...

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Award-winning actor and author Blair Underwood joins forces with two amazing and award-winning authors Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes to deliver the second installation in the stunning and provocative Tennyson Hardwick novel <...

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Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate ...

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Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and

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" The Law of Similars is fast-paced and absorbing. Few writers can manipulate a plot with Bohjalian's grace and power."-The New York Times Book Review


From the number one bestselling author of Midwives comes this rivet...

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Working at a homeless shelter, student Laurel Estabrook encounters Bobbie Crocker, a man with a history of mental illness and a box of secret photos. When Bobbie dies suddenly, Laurel embarks on an obsessive search for the truth behind the photos....

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Murder and madness shouldn't be part of the choreography of a liturgical dance troupe called Spiritus. But the troupe and its spiritual leader, streetwise minister the Reverend Molly Ringer of Faith Congregational Church, find themselves face to fac...

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Chelsea Adams finds herself on the jury of a murder trial of a man accused of murdering his wife-a woman several people could have wanted dead-and as in Eyes of Elisha, Chelsea finds herself seeing st...

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Chelsea Adams has a vision in which she sees the death of a young woman. When she comes back to consciousness after that vision, she looks into the eyes of a dinner guest and experiences a terrifying...

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Life is a party.

When Tiffany Johnson, a street-smart publicist at Platinum Images, decides to launch Teaz Entertainment and open a club, she's setting out to be the queen of Philly nightlife. Keeping it in the family, she partners up with...

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The first Classically written Christmas book of the new millennium, The Christmas Letters is a delightful story that families will want to share together year after year. It is at once heartwarming and entertaining, with several unexpected...

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Take Me Home is a powerful story about friendship and love set against the stunning backdrop of 1880's Wyoming and based in the pages of history.

Like many classic stories, Brian Leung's new novel beg...

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The Enemy Is Among Us

When Sherry Hannon first hears about the shootings at Virginia Tech, she wonders, Could this be a terrorist act? Given the history of violence and fear in the United States leading up to this moment, she can hardly be bla...

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In The Unsung Hero, award-winning author Suzanne Brockmann dazzled readers with her remarkable cast of tough and tender U.S. Navy SEALs. Now her daring men in uniform return for THE DEFIANT HERO—a thrilling novel of steadfast courage, intimate passio...

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In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are. Witches, sent to tempt and to corrupt. ...

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Ann Barker tells the story of her family living in Harpers Ferry during the Civil War. The story follows their lives, but mostly Pete Barker, the younger of the two brothers. Pete strives for acceptance and respect, even though his family portrays hi...

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“Brazil is not for beginners” warned Antonio Carlos Jobim. In this book, a pair of young beginners from the US challenges that truth. Against significant opposition, Charles brings modern business management to Laticinia, a traditional Brazilian ch...

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From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima an eleph...

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The Gray Armageddon has destroyed most of humanity. Vampires have slinked out of hiding, penning the few human survivors as blood cattle. Young Julia Poe survives the horror. She has dodged the undead since she was eight years old in downtown Lo...

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The daughter of a wealthy businessman, Jillian Kincaid grew up with bodyguards shadowing her every move-and she hated it. Now a TV anchorwoman, she refuses to let another hired thug follow her around. Not even when she begins to receive terrifyi...

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First in a sexy new series featuring a match-making courtesan.

Lady Sophia Dalby, everyone’s favorite courtesanturned- countess, faces her toughest match-making case yet: her own obstinate daughter....

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Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, belie...

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An Essence bestseller, Before I Let Go
is the sexy story of three male best friends' dramatic search
for love, intimacy, and the perfect relationship.

Nate is a D-O-G with an obsession for conquering...

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High-tech diving and piracy among Bermuda's historic shipwrecks combine in taut thriller....

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THE DISCIPLE by Stephen Coonts----------Brand New ~ Mint Condition ~ Dust Jacket ~ 1st Edition ~ Hardcover ~ Full Retail Version ~ Absolutely Not A Bookclub Copy ~ Never Used & Never Opened...

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No dust jacket. Cover shows minimal signs of shelf wear, but all pages are clean and bright in tight binding. SHIPS NEXT BUSINESS DAY!...

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Hector Lassiter is a legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what he writes. But Hector frequently goes a step beyond, drawing friends and lovers into the tawdry and turbulent territory of his fiction. Now, the large-living pulp a...

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In 14th-century France, a woman from the village of Montaillou was tried for heresy by the Catholic Inquisition. By her own confession, Grazida Lizier's "joy was shared" with the wrong man: a village rector....

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A surprise visit from a dear old friend only adds to the joys of good weather, great fishing, warm breezes and loving family for J. W. Jackson this idyllic island summer. The ex-Boston cop is thrilled to see accomplished bluesman Corr...

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Dr. Emily Drake's patients tend to be a little unusual. Instead of the typical therapist's caseload of midlife crises and mother fixations, Emily treats vampires with blood phobias and sex-demons looking for meaningful relationships. But her gift for...

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Love, Lies & Lab Coats brings a unusual group of people together at their place of employment, The South Hill Medical Center in Spokane, Washington. An egocentric Surgeon; a brilliant Medical Technologist, an insecure co-worker mending a broken heart...

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The arrival of a new minister in Trumble offers many possibilities for the young women there, including the beautiful Emily, a shop keeper's daughter who realizes he is the same man who has drifted through her dreams....

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The world has entered into a global conflict with an enemy that has the ability to fade into the shadows, only to emerge when a target of opportunity becomes evident. These terrorists select targets based upon the greatest impact upon the rest of us....

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In this stunning new book, four tales of love and desire reveal the complications of living in a modern global village. In this beautifully written, psychologically astute examination of the rites of female passage, the acclaimed Dao Strom takes us f...

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In fear of Spanish aggression, renegade French Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, in a great Sacred Sin, pirate Spanish Treasure Galleons. Knowing they will be held in disgrace on their return to France, they secret the plunder where it can’t be found wi...

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A woman learns that she is ill with terminal cancer. She decides that it is in her best interest to allow herself to be killed in order to accomplish something which is important to her. As the investigation into her death proceeds, the lives of t...

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Anyone who has ever had a dream will be enchanted by the adventures of Kendu, a young fox whose search for a giant leaf takes him on an unforgettable journey. With a rambunctious monkey named Yitshak at his side, Kendu ventures into the blackness of ...

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This meandering tale follows the misadventures of two young men, Darren and Reed, as they hitchhike across the southwestern part of the U.S. Reed finds his direction through love, while the protagonist, Darren, grapples with a love interest tugging a...

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In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a green-eyed boy who lives in Brasov, the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. But under the Ceausescu dictatorship, paranoia infects everyone; soon Mona...

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Three Weddings...And a Murder

So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptuals of three loved ones--each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. O...

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For best friends Mike, Max, and Ahmad, the bonds of friendship, love and respect, are put to the ultimate test as each one of them is forced to take a long, hard look at themselves, and the women they love. They all said their 'I do's', but did...

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Anita was ever man s dream: beautiful, smart, and now a year away from completing her doctrine. Prince, fresh out of jail on a murder charge, walked into her life. He knew he would give anything to be with Anita; in his eye she was perfect. When Leah...

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In the darkness, in the cold dark regions of the Carpathian Mountains a battle rages on between the allied forces of the West and the Dark Serbian Empire which has invaded the borders of Romania, ensuing in the bloodiest conflicts since the Second Wo...

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Katie Nash -- the beloved heroine of Elizabeth Berg's previous novels Durable Goods and Joy School -- is thirteen years old in 1961, and she's facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has enlisted her in two care-taking jobs -- baby...

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Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, is a gentleman to be envied. He lives a rakish life of well-celebrated ease and contentment and has one person to thank for his perfectly ordered existence—his dearest wife, Emmaline. She never complains about hi...

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A phone call at two thirty in the morning is never good news. Lucie Montgomery's semiestranged brother, Eli, calls her in France to tell her their father, Leland, has been killed in a hunting accident on the family's five-hundred-acre Virginia vineya...

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The year is 1991. When Jasira's mother finds out what has been going on between her boyfriend and her thirteen-year-old daughter, she has to make a choice -- and chooses to send Jasira off to Houston’ Texas, to live with her father. A remote discipli...

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FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS - While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her. - THEN, THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETS - The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm GLOCK, has a bad atti...

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Janet Evanovich is the hottest author in America, and her Stephanie Plum novels have taken the nation by storm!

#1 New York Times
#1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Los Angeles Times
#1 Ente...

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This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pu...

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"Los hombres son como los perfumes. En un
instante, sin más juicio que mi ágil olfato, o me
enamoro de ellos o los echo a un lado".

Marisol es una exuberante poeta y archivista de historia que vive en el Mia...

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From emerald jungles to the high seas to the glittering ballrooms of Regency London, beloved author Gaelen Foley tells a sweeping, sensual tale of the ruggedly handsome Lord Jack Knight and the passionate beauty who lays claim to his heart.

An...

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With a name like Ray Vereker, the mercenary Eli Conners had hired to rescue his irresponsible brother should have been a tank of a man with tattoos and a prison record. But the gorgeous creature demonstrating her karate skills on an unfortunate bar t...

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"[Foster] drew me into this amazing tale easily, with masterful yet not overly complex language that flows beautifully into a story one will remember always...Though clearly creatures of fiction, the characters in

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Meg Powell and Carson McKay were raised side by side on their families’ farms, bonded by a love that only deepened as they grew. Everyone in their small rural community in northern Florida thought that Meg and Carson would always be together. But at ...

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What's love got to do with it? Not a damn thing as far as Sara Livingston can see. Girlfriend has serious attitude. Life and love have not been kind. The last thing on her mind is getting into yet another doomed relationship. Sara's got too many othe...

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Hell to Pay by Pelecanos, George P....

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Outline Joshua: The Homecoming is Joseph F. Girzone's sequel to the immensely popular Joshua. The title character, a kind and solitary carpenter, returns to the small town of Auburn after a 20-year ab...

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In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married a beautiful young writer named Aura Estrada in a romantic Mexican hacienda. The month before their second anniversary, during a long-awaited holiday, Aura broke her neck while body surfing. ...

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Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said she'd run off with a lover. S...

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Camille, Jade, and Shy are best friends and have always had each other's backs. Jade and Shy's boyfriends, Roscoe and James, are partners in a lucrative drug business, but one night they get caught up in a shoot-out that goes horribly wrong...

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In early 2007, only months after boldly testing a series of ballistic missiles and an underground nuclear device, North Korea suddenly and inexplicably agreed to dismantle its menacing nuclear weapons program. Even the most severe economic sanctions ...

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This is a brilliant and revelatory first novel by a woman who is both an Arab and an American, who speaks with both voices and understands both worlds. Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers...

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In the remote, wintry reaches of Michigan's upper Peninsula, it's hard for a man to remember what springtime is like, let alone Spring Training. But when a former teammate tracks him down, erstwhile minor league player Alex McKnight is instantly...

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Cathal MacNachton and Connall MacAdie are cousins bound by far more than blood ties and the rugged Highland landscape their clan calls home. The ancient curse of their ancestry has fated them to live by night with an unquenchable thirst that neither ...

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In the snug study of a two hundred forty-year-old manor house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, two Richmond City homicide detectives and a famous genealogist cordially sip after-dinner scotch. As the fire burns low, the genealogist abruptly turns to...

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Two brothers fight to claim one fatherâ?s blessing. Two sisters long to claim one manâ?s heart. In the autumn of 1788, amid the moors and glens of the Scottish Lowlands, two brothers and two s...

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People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school don't mix with locals; even within the school, hierarchy rules, as freshman and faculty members find out where they fit in and what is expected...

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From the New York Times Bestselling
Author of The Third Angel

Alice Hoffman’s previous novel, The Third Angel, was hailed as "an unforgettable portrait of the depth of true love" (USA Today), "stunning" (Jodi Pi...

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In "one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly), Howard Frank Mosher returns to Kingdom Common, Vermont, to spin a touching coming-of-age tale in an America that has almost disappeared. From this...

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Set in northern Vermont in 1930, On Kingdom Mountain is the story of Miss Jane Hubbell Kinneson. She is a renowned local bookwoman, eccentric bird carver, and the last remaining resident of a wild mountain on the U.S.-Canadian border, now threat...

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Jackson Steeg is a disgraced cop at loose ends in Hell's Kitchen, when a dead hooker shows up on his doorstep. Family matters is New York noir at its finest....

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What can a California girl do with a few dusty acres of land in rural Nebraska? So Kennedy Blaine wonders after she inherits a ranch in the small, Western-style town of Valentine, Nebraska. As Kennedy makes arrangements to sell the property, she find...

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No one ever tells the real truth about their secret bedroom play. Many fight to keep their sexual escapades hush-hush. Tarron, a successful businessman and father of two, has his pick of the sexiest women in town. Between wild nights on the tow...

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Cortland Jamison, a member of CIA's elite ZODIAC strike team, is charged with highest priority missions in Afghanistan, Zaire, post-Perestroika Russia, Colombia and the US. In addition to fighting against the Soviets, Jamison rescues a deep cover CIA...

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In the dead of night, well-known Washington D.C. journalist Cassie Danforth receives a startling call. Her father has only hours to live. She rushes home to Clayton Landing, North Carolina, just in time to hear her father's last wish-that Cassie leav...

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Dante's Destiny is a thrill ride that will keep you guessing, until the very end. The battle between good and evil goes beyond the natural and into the supernatural, where nothing is what it seems. Dante struggles with the constant turmoil that plagu...

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A Snug Life Somewhere is about Penny Joe Copper, daughter of a roustabout shingle weaver, who is caught up in a 1916 union tragedy known as the Everett Massacre. Her brother Horace is killed, as is the cousin of a radical organizer, Gabe. When her lo...

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In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself.

There is her love affa...

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Piet Verboom is found dangling from a beam in the Hindist Society he ran as a restaurant-commune in a quiet Amsterdam street. Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force are sent to investigate what looks like a sim...

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When big-city girl Stephanie Walters agrees to move to rural West Virginia with her college- professor husband, her greatest fear is boredom. The setting of Wentworth College is idyllic, but the college and village community are far from welcoming. T...

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Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide off her glasses, gaze into her eyes, and tell her sh...

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All kinds of addictions are harmful; however, there’s one that’s deadly enough to play cat and mouse that goes far beyond one man’s control. His name is Patrick Dawson, and he’s made a terrible mistake by killing his father. The taste for murder goes...

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David Trench cared little if anything about anyone. He was wanted in three states for robbery and had ten dollars in his pocket to show for it. Then fate stepped in one night on a deserted Texas highway. David met Blake Curtis and following a frea...

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Charles Avenue Henderson claims to want nothing more than to relax in rural West Virginia with his beloved wife Mary Jane and live the genteel life of a successful bed-and-breakfast proprietor. But readers of Lehrer's Blue Hearts will know that ...

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"'Waiting' provides a crash course in Chinese society during and since the Cultural Revolution, and a more leisurely but nonetheless compelling exploration of the less exotic terrain that is the human heart" {New York Times' review}...

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Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten t...

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Deceit can cause unforeseen consequences not only for those directly involved, but for future generations. Twenty-year-old Rachel learns this truth as secrets from her parents' past threaten to destroy her new life in the small city of Eastridge....

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For many young men and women in rural America, the armed services have long represented a ticket to a wider world. The 11 stories in this critically acclaimed collection illuminate the irony behind that thinking....

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WARNING: THIS BOOK CAN BE EXPLOSIVE. Senators have always lived in fear of being the next terrorist target. But never did they suspect they would be staring down the gun barels of US Army officers. Colonel Christine Davis has taken seventy-five of th...

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THE SEARCH FOR ROSITA is a fascinating tale about a murder in a plush resort in Arizona that takes Joe Kepper across the Atlantic to three foreign countries to find the elusive Rosita. The novel is a continuation of a short story written by the autho...

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The One Watching In a small Maryland town there is an evil, an evil that has been sleeping in the shadows of the towns notorious Barrens, awakening only to feed upon the souls of the innocent and to look through the eyes of its disciples for the ...

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Suburbia is a jungle, filled with lots of vicious creatures.

Take the Paradise Heights Women’s League board. Lyssa Harper should have warned golden-haired DILF du jour Harry Wilder what he was getting into when she invited him to meet the m...

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Katina Lowery has given birth to Deliece Ayana Southerland?no doubt who the real father is...Kevin and Katina have been friends since childhood. His undying love for her kept him there for the children. Without biological children of their own, Kevin...

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Chicago designer Jenna Mitchell settles in Crestridge, Kentucky, and embarks upon a new career. Angry words are exchanged when she first meets the handsome Drew Kelsey. A neighbor becomes matchmaker and brings the couple together. Despite their rocky...

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'Tis the season to be jolly? Not for Pastor Abby Shaw, who finds a body in her Frederick County, Maryland, church four Sundays before Christmas. The dead woman, altar guild president Nancy Huff, has enough enemies to fill the pews at St. Luke's Churc...

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Rascal Brodie Chisholm has more charm than the law allows, which is a good thing given that he's bailed out of university to run the local pub. Brodie loves everything about the pub life: the community, the darts, trading barbs with the lads, flirtin...

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When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disas...

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When businessman Carl Perreira disappears during his vacation in Mexico, his loyal assistant Gloria-who's secretly been in love with him for years-decides to journey across the border herself to retrieve his body. But the deeper into the desert she t...

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In high school, Bill Brannon was head over heels for his childhood friend Lettie Campbell. Twelve years later, Bill has almost forgotten his crush on the wild and feisty Lettie. Almost. But when fate reunites them, he realizes that some opportunities...

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Journalist and suburban mom Claire Cooper suffers from panic disorder. Most of her anxieties seem irrational, nothing that can't be fixed with the help of some Xanax. But late one stormy summer night, when her husband, Sam, is away on one of his freq...

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Here at last is one Irish family's epic journey, capturing the tragedy and triumph of the Irish-American experience. In a rousing tale that echoes the myths and legends of Ireland herself, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a family,...

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Landstrike is the gripping story of Hurricane Nicole from its birth in the Altantic Ocean to its catastrophic rampage up New York City's Hudson River. It is also an enthralling account of the horrific storm's aftermath as residents, suddenly isolate...

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Family and friends are shocked when Mary Kate Sasser throws herself into the adventure of a lifetime. The small-town Southerner follows her imagination on a quest to Africa, refusing the escort of her boyfriend. His marriage ultimatum echoes in her e...

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To win a spot in an elite workshop for studio photographers, Leonora Westcott must put together an extensive portfolio. Her efforts--and inspiration--get a boost when Claudia Galloway, a teacher intern in town for only a few months, volunteers to mod...

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A Mexican tourist town is in the stranglehold of a tyrannical police chief who has effectively poisoned the former police chief, Juan Bautista, during the Cinco de Mayo festival. The town is disheartened over the death of their favorite son and must ...

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Camille Logan feels trapped. After she is sexually and emotionally abused by her foster parents, she turns to the one person she knows she can trust--her boyfriend Chu, a mid-level drug dealer. But when life finally starts looking up for Camille, Chu...

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arried for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a...

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Behind the moss-draped trees, Mint Juleps and stately mansions of the American Deep South lies a foreboding and deadly dark side. Multimillionaire drug lords do power lunches with Southern aristocrats by day and lay waste to their rivals by night in ...

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Down on his luck, a farmer raffles off a dead mule. While preparing a Sunday dinner, a woman finds her lost diamond in a chicken gizzard. A rural post office closes for bush-hogging and dog dipping. A litter of orphaned baby possums finds a home.

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An idealistic rookie cop is teamed with a wildly cynical training officer in small, blue-collar Wislow, California. They confront a beserk biker amped out of his skull on meth. This bloody confrontation propels them down a twisted path of violence, c...

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Kayla Hopkins is young, beautiful and can't win for losing. That's why everyone calls her the Drama Queen. She doesn't go looking for drama, it just happens to her. Take for instance, her love life. Kayla's not satisfied with just one man. She has tw...

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This collection of 14 stories--each a harrowing sketch of the Vietnam War and its aftermath-- offers American readers a glimpse offamiliar territory, but from an unfamiliar perspective. Often writing from a young woman's point of view, Le Minh K...

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Antique print dealer Maggie Summer is teaching a college course on "Myths in American Culture," using prints by Currier & Ives and other nineteenth century artists to illustrate her points. As a faculty advisor, she's also dealing with the problems o...

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Murders are rare in Vermont and almost unheard of in the sleepy Connecticut River town of Oak Pond. But in a single day, Oak Pond Chief of Police Jake Frazier has not one, but two murders to solve. Two woman therapists, both involved in bizarre New A...

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Is life stranger than fiction, or vice versa?

Frankie McNally has found the perfect solution for life's perplexing problems: as head writer for the daytime soap Lust for Life, she works them out on the air!

Meanwhile, Frankie's being ...

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It is October 1781 and the war for America's freedom has ended. Lives have been lost, lives have been changed, and lives have been destroyed. Joshua Merrick has lost everything and everyone he loves. The only thing left of his life before the war is ...

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Where does an outlaw go when he's ready to turn straight? For Wyatt Yarbro, reformed rustler and train robber, Stone Creek is his place of redemption. And lovely Sarah Tamlin is the perfect angel to help him clean up his act.…

But Sarah keeps ...

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The Second Milagro is a suspense tale of kidnapping, corporate espionage, and forgotten love that takes the reader from the red dirt roads of Alabama to the silver mines of Mexico. A deadly mine cave-in at Real de Catorce, Mexico, changes Patricia Mo...

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Ahysterical phone call from his ex-wife and a familiar face in a photograph upend Henry Archer’s wellordered life. They bring him back into contact with the child he adored, a short-term stepdaughter from a misbegotten marriage long ago. He...

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YOU THOUGHT YOUR LIFE WAS COMPLICATED

Private investigator Isabel Spellman is back on the case and back on the couch—in courtordered therapy after getting a little too close to her previous subject. As the book opens, Izzy is on hiat...

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Our hero is a quiet, upstanding citizen of Athos, an obstetrician in a world in which reproduction is carried out entirely via uterine replicator, without the aid of living women. Problem: the 200-year-old cultures are not providing eggs the way they...

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Honk If You Love Real Men is a contemporary erotic anthology featuring some of the brigh...

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A father, his son about to become a teenager, decides the two should take a long weekend to visit the cathedrals of baseball: Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Cooperstown. Along the way, he nearly loses his life savings at Tiffany?s, teaches his son t...

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Plenty of action and western atmosphere create a suitable and satisfying substitute for readers who've been pining for the years when L'Amour produced two novels annually. --Booklist...

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A Separate Beginning explores the healing capacities of the human condition through the eyes of two surgeons, whose different beliefs collide with all the subtlety of merging weather fronts, altering the terrain of their lives.

Noted surgeon E...

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Sometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond.
"What's the story on Bond?"
"Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the doctor reported.
"I know that. I want to know what's wrong with him!
And be straight with me, man. ...

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Nationally bestselling author Madeline Hunter has captivated fans with unforgettable romance novels filled with suspense, seduction, mystery, and love. Now meet "the Saint" in this sizzling tale of a mysterious aristocrat, a high-spirited American be...

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In a 1987 article, Southern Magazine called Madison Jones's A Cry of Absence "the last pure tragedy written by a Southerner." Set in 1957 in a small Tennessee town just awakening to shifting racial and social attitudes, the novel concerns the inevita...

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She lost her job. She almost lost her life. Now Hannah Ives is taking her first brave steps back into the world, wearing a wig and her heart on her sleeve after a frightening bout with breast cancer. But in the small Chesapeake Bay town where she cam...

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Cancer survivor Hannah Ives looked Death in the eye . . . and walked away victorious. But the terror she once felt in its shadow pales before the ice-cold fear that now grips her heart in the wake of an unthinkable crime: the kidnapping of Hannah...

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WINNER OF THE ESSENCE LITERARY AWARD IN FICTION


In 1946, Hollywood’s most famous swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, arrived in Jamaica in a storm-ravaged boat. After a long and celebrated career on the silver screen, Flynn spent the last years of ...

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According to legend, Sacajawea—the Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American wilderness—is buried on the Wind River Reservation. Now, a college professor—and longtime fr...

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The economic downturn has hit New Bern, Connecticut, and Tessa Woodruff's herbal apothecary shop, For the Love of Lavender, is suffering. So is her once-happy thirty-four-year marriage to Lee. They'd given up everything to come back to New Bern from ...

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In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet he...

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The St. Louis Memorial Arch, 630 feet of gleaming stainless steel, twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, built to withstand earthquakes, has been so severely damaged that it's barely standing. What's even more unsettling to a nervous nation: The...

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CORRIE STEPHENS is eager to learn about ranch life, but reluctant to become involved; it s just not worth the heartache. Rancher J McClure, on the other hand, has been alone too long. Tenderfoot draws the reader into the story s strong emotions based...

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In the tradition of Philippa Gregory’s smart, transporting fiction comes this tale of dark suspense, love, and betrayal, featuring two star-crossed sisters, one lost and the other searching.

Bright and inquisitive, Hannah Powers was raise...

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An ancient mystery, a hidden language, and the secrets of a bizarre Egyptian sect collide in modern-day London in this ingenious novel of seduction, conspiracy, and betrayal alter Rothschild is an American Egyptologist living in London and charged by...

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Joshua, a premature baby, is delivered on a dilapidated picnic table in the picturesque Valley Falls State Park in the midst of West Virginia's obstetrical shortage and sky-rocketing malpractice crisis. The incident thrusts the state into the nationa...

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The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, ...

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"There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I love those stories. And since I work in the National Archives, I find those stories for a living."

Beecher White, a young archivist, spends his days working with the most importan...

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"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportu...

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Michael Guista's emotionally adept, psychologically acute debut collection explores the vast mysteries of the human mind and the fascinating intricacies of the soul. Turning a keen fictional eye to the rich terrain explored by Kay Redfield Jamis...

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Based on the life of the author’s thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowed Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir’s wife, Shira, a devout but rebelli...

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Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a self-described loner whose family expects nothing from her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to be on The Real World, Trisha struggles to find her own place among...

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From celebrated comic artist Mike Mignola and award-winning novelist Christopher Golden comes a work of gothic storytelling like no other. Reminiscent of the illustrated tales of old, here is a lyrical, atmospheric novel of the paranormal—and a chill...

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Saying Earl Kiddering is rich is like saying Babe Ruth hit a couple of homeruns, but saying he's dead is more accurate. A month after the billionaire drowns in his own swimming pool, Earl's great-niece hires private investigator Chase Michael DeBarlo...

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Now in paperback, Laura Moriarty's breakthrough novel of growing up and growing wise.

Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty's captivating debut novel hit the stores in June '03. Janet Maslin of the <...

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ANOTHER FANTASTIC TRADE FIRST EDITION, WITH DUST JACKET, NEVER READ !!!...

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In 1961 Easy Rawlins gave up the street life and began working as a janitor at Sojourner Truth Junior High School in Watts, California. Two years later a corpse is discovered in the school garden, and another body turns up shortly thereafter. The pol...

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The beloved—and hated—Jasmine larson bush returns to battle her own past in a compelling new novel of love, faith, and shame from the Essence bestselling novelist. In Temptation, A Sin and a Shame, and most recently, Too Little, Too Late, Jasmine Lar...

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"In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld...

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THE NEW MOON?S ARMS is a mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. Calamity, born Chastity, has renamed herself in a way she feels is most fitting. She?s a 50-something grandmother whose mother disapp...

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According to archivists at the Library of Congress, South Carolina is richer in folklore than any other state. After traveling almost every back road in several South Carolina counties, Nancy Rhyne wholeheartedly supports the claim. With her tape re...

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The laughs, the drama, and the many takes on class and race relations are unrelenting in this comic novel about a streetwise character named Watt who lives in Harlem with his grandmother, a renowned voodoo priestess.

Watt’s job is to administer...

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Set in the elite foxhunting community of Middleburg, Virginia, this fast-paced mystery, packed with scandal, envy, vengeance, and love, unfolds when Doug Cummings, an attractive and driven lawyer and horseman, realizes that someone is out to kil...

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An engrossing novel about politics, love, war, and one of history’s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. Writing from Bellevue asylum – where the dream shrieks of the other inmates keep her awake at night – a famous widower shares the story of...

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents a novel set deep in the bayou of Louisiana-where the only witness to a long-ago tragedy is a once-grand house... Declan Fitzgerald had always been the family maverick, but even he couldn't un...

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No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy....

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Sophia Giambelli has never worried about competition. For three generations, the Giambelli wines have been renowned for their quality-from Napa Valley to Italy, and throughout the world. The pride of the Giambelli family and a top PR executive, Sophi...

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Surrounded by the sweeping cliffs and beauty of Big Sur, Kate Powell treasured her life at Templeton House...and the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacked Margo's beauty and Laura's elegance, she knew she had somethin...

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Laura Templeton found out the hard way that nothing in life is guaranteed. The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, she had always known comfort, privilege, and security. But by the age of thirty, her storybook marriage had been destroyed by her husb...

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As a storm rages, the tale begins...of a powerful vampire's lust for destruction - and of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her....

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Marine archaelogist Tate Beaumonthas a passion for trasure hunting-onethat she shares with her father.Over the years they have had many fabulous finds, but one one treasure has eluded them...

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Three women learn that the heart of their historic home holds a mystery of years gone by, as number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts brings her In the Garden trilogy to a captivating conclusion, following Blue Dahlia and Black Rose<...

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NOvel of romance and suspense by the BEstselling author NOra Roberts....

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A two-time National Book Award finalist delivers a stirring tale of the passions - tender, obsessive, even murderous - that are unleashed by a wartime love triangle.

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, withi...

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Diamonds for the Dead is a 2010 Agatha Award finalist for Best First Novel.

When Josh Handleman returns to his boyhood home to sit shiva for his estranged father, he gets the shock of ...

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From the acclaimed author of Why Girls are Weird comes a second hilarious and surprising novel about love and family and the weirdo inside us all.

Belinda "Benny" Bernstein doesn't brag about her life in L...

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Since their mother's death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have been raised by their loving, possessive, and ambitious father. As the former mayor of Boston, Bernard Doyle wants to see his sons in politics, a dream the boys have never shared. But when an ar...

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Okay, there are worse things than bringing your gay hairdresser as your date to your ten-year reunion. Yet after grudgingly witnessing another friend's wedding, assistant bank manager Gina Perry has hit an all-time low... or so she thinks. Until her ...

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[A] haunting novel. . . . This book brims with the poetry of the working class, seldom sung lyrics of working men and women.-from the introduction by Larry Woiwode

"Shepherd is a master craftsman, and the subtlety of his art, the un...

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King Suckerman by Pelecanos, George...

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CityRats is an action-packed crime novel that tears its way through the tenements and streets of New York City during the ’50s and ’60s. This was a transitional period when immigrants and veterans alike were starting their families after WWII. Life w...

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A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historia...

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Anna has grown up haunted by her younger sister's death. In the life she constructs as a barrier against the emotional wreckage of her family tragedy, Anna settles comfortably into a career as a teacher of deaf children. But a challenge arrives—in th...

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A Train to Potevka will take you on an incredible winter's journey across Great Mother Russia along the 6,000-mile Trans-Siberian Railway. This fascinating story about an American itelligence agent from a small town in the Rockies, is a tale of faile...

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It is the year 2021 and Kaela is twenty-three years old when her father shares his secret about an extraordinary event that changed his very existence fifteen years earlier. She was taught many lessons in moral principles growing up, but it?s rare th...

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Phoebe, Lucy and J-J spend their entire childhood as best friends. College and careers separate them for two years. Their reunion is supposed to take place on the happiest day of Phoebe’s life, her wedding day. However it never comes to pass. Lucy is...

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4-7-14-17-21-25. Those numbers, printed on a slim paper ticket, are about to change the lives of two couples, lovers past and present, in Houston. When Nina Lawson wins $16 mil...

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When a solitary man stumbles upon a cache of photographs, sometimes?and only sometimes?he can sense the lives of the people in them. Sometimes he can find in their faces and in the way they hold themselves or the way they perform before the camera, t...

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A captivating financial thriller with a fast-paced plot, Nineteenth Street NW offers a rare glimpse into the mechanisms behind world economies.

Freedom fighter Sophia Gemaye comes from an obscure, mineral-rich, third-world nation where the ...

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Under the summer sky, anything is possible....

Author of the acclaimed novels Cloud Nine and Follow the Stars Home, Luanne Rice returns with another moving portrait of a family in crisis—as three sisters come face-to-face with th...

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The world is at war over oil.  Gas riots rip the streets of American cities.  Tanks rumble in Washington to protect the White House.  But the last astronaut to walk on the moon found something that proves conventional wisdom is a deliberate lie.  "Bl...

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Surrender the Wind is the story of Seth Braxton, a patriot of the American Revolution, who unexpectedly inherits his loyalist grandfather’s estate in England. Seth is torn between the land he fought for and the prospect of reuniting with ...

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The newest in the number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series featuring Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke. Nora Roberts writing as J. D. Robb returns to the New York City of 2059-where Dallas will struggle to solve the murder of a see...

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Conducting a top secret investigation into the death of a fellow police officer has Lieutenant Eve Dallas treading on dangerous ground. She must put professional ethics before personal loyalties. But when a dead body is placed outside her home, ...

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*Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the modern novel, Akashic Books publishes a Don Quixote for the era of graft: racketeering politicians, stolen elections, and total-bullshit recalls!

*A selection of the Akashic Urban Surreal series.

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This suspenseful sequel to the captivating mother's novel Tommytown will rip through the hearts of all mothers. The young boys return with all the vigor and humor of their unique characters. The Boys from Tommytown is not a "Beaver Cleaver meets Op...

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Public Secrets by Roberts, Nora...

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Face the Fire is the third and last book in bestselling author Nora Roberts's trilogy of witches, magic, and an age-old curse that began with Dance upon the Air and Heaven and Earth. This novel boasts a vivid seaside setting, sympathetic characters, ...

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The author of "Sanctuary" and the first writer to be inducted into the Romance Writers Hall of Fame delivers another heart-pounding thriller. In "Homeport", Dr. Miranda Jones is summoned to Italy to verify the authenticity of a valuable Renaissance s...

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Number-one New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts returns to Chesapeake Bay and her beloved Quinn family for the story of Seth Quinn, the long-awaited conclusion to the breathtaking drama of "Sea Swept", "Rising Tides", and "Inner Harbor."...

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Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street-and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as Chief of Police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town. Aside from sorting o...

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This book is in excellent condition. The only thing even slightly wrong with it, is that the edge of the dust cover is folded down a little bit. Hardly even noticeable.All in all this book is great. Shop from thousands of books in our Amazon store. S...

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Valerie McFadden, a third grade teacher, is committed to working on the teachers' negotiations team to improve salaries and working conditions for her fellow teachers. When she meets Douglas Cooper, the handsome owner of Family Tire Center, they both...

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Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her patients' pr...

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When Hank Pualoa drives drunk, killing his beautiful wife, he tears apart his Hawaiian family (ohana) and leaves the Islands in shame. His children thrive with their grandmother until twelve-year-old Kekoa witnesses the murder of Big John, his loving...

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Calysta Jeffries is the hottest black actress in daytime and the diva of the soap opera world, known for her role as Ruby Stargazer on television's most popular soap opera, "The Rich and the Ruthless." 

After fifteen years, three retu...

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Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to Ch...

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"Mile zero" marks the location of Key West--the island that defines the end of the American road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds collide. Here lives St. Cloud, and American expatriate in his own country. Chronicling S...

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After dumping her fianc, decorator Rachel Fortier heads to the Louisiana Bayou to stay with her great aunt. There, she meets Remy LeDeux. For this unlikely pair, it's love at first sight--if they can get beyond the clash of her habits with his countr...

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Eighteen of Britain's most exciting authors have written brand new stories especially for this spellbinding collection, including Kate Atkinson, Celia Brayfield, Christopher Brookmyre, Lewis Davies, John O'Farrell, Sue Townsend, and Fa...

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Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her...