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Creole Belle begins where the last
book in the Dave Robicheaux series, The Glass
Rainbow, ended.
Creole Belle is James Lee Burke at
his very best, with beloved series hero Dave
Robicheaux leading the charge against the
destruction of both the land and the people he has
sworn to protect.
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James Patterson
No husbands allowed
Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best
friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter
the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering
hotel they have ever been to.
What happened last night?
In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a
yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has
happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie,
Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused
of the foulest crime imaginable.
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Tristan Miller
When Tristan Miller lost his job as a
result of the global economic crisis, he set himself
a huge personal challenge. He would spend a year
seeing the world, each week running an official
marathon in a different country. This is the story
of an ordinary man who chased his dream, 42.2
kilometres at a time.
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Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright,
beautiful son - who just happens to be autistic. Since
Merlin's father left them in the lurch shortly after his
diagnosis, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world.
By the time Merlin turns ten, Lucy is seriously worried
that the Pope might start ringing her up for tips on
celibacy, so resolves to dip a poorly pedicured toe back
into the world of dating.
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Amped Daniel H. Wilson
Once again, Daniel H. Wilson's
background as a scientist serves him well in this
technologically savvy thriller that delivers
first-rate entertainment, as Wilson takes the "what
if" question in entirely unexpected directions. |
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The Bourne Imperative
Eric Van Lustbader
Jason Bourne is back,
practically looking in the mirror
in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's bestselling
series written by New York Times bestselling author
Eric Van Lustbader. The man Jason Bourne fishes out
of the frozen lake is near death, bleeding profusely
from a gunshot wound and drowning. He awakens as an
amnesiac, with no memory of who he is or why he was
shot--and Bourne is eerily reminded of his own past. |
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Wild Cheryl Strayed
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an
eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a
young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her
back up again. |
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All that I am
Anna Funder
When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit
group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws
overnight. United in their resistance to the
madness and tyranny of Nazism, they flee the
country. |
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On the Road Jack Kerouac
Typed out as one long, single-spaced
paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that
he later taped together to form a 120-foot scroll,
this document is among the most significant,
celebrated, and provocative artifacts in
contemporary American literary history. |
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Great Gatsby
F Scott Fitzgerald
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's
finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate
summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating
expose of the "Jazz Age".
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To uncover the dark truth hidden
within our genetic code and shrouded by a
centuries-old conspiracy, Commander Gray Pierce and
Tucker Wayne must team up to save an unborn child, a
child whose very existence raises a pair of ageless
questions:
Could you live forever?
Would you live forever?
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The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009
Man Booker Prize winner and New
York Times bestseller, Wolf
Hall delves
into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of
Anne Boleyn |
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