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"On the evening before Thanksgiving, Hal Chase, a guard in the San Francisco County Jail, drives to the airport to pick up his step-brother for the weekend. When they return, Hal's wife, Katie, has disappeared without a clue. By the time Dismas Hardy hears about this, Katie has been missing for five days. The case strikes close to home because Katie had been seeing Hardy's wife, a marriage counselor. By this time, the original Missing Persons case...
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A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
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Alexandra Cooper novels volume 2
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In New York, a woman brain surgeon is sexually assaulted and stabbed. Murder by a demented patient or a more sinister killer? Policewoman Alexandra Cooper investigates.
85) Les misérables
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"Les Miserables is widely considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. First published in France in 1862, it is Victor Hugo's greatest achievement--the ultimate tale of redemption. Former prisoner Jean Valjean struggles to live virtuously after an unexpected act of forgiveness by a kindly bishop changes his life. His righteous actions change people's lives in surprising ways and culminate in romance between two young people. Now available...
86) Private games
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"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when a Private investigator is called to the scene of a ruthless murder....
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" ... [B]oy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl. Ernest Hemingway conveyed this story chronologically, in a strictly linear fashion, with no flashback scenes whatsoever. In fact, the novel contains very little exposition at all. We never learn exactly where its narrator and protagonist, the American ambulance driver Frederic Henry, came from, or why he enlisted in the Italian army to begin with. (For that matter, we read chapter after chapter...
88) Grave goods
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When the bodies of two people are discovered in the remains of an arson fire that destroyed Glastonbury Abbey, Adelia Aguilar, Mistress of the Art of Death, is ordered by Henry II to determine if one of the sets of bones belongs to the legendary Celtic savior Arthur.
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It's been a year since the Pevensie children--Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley)--returned to England from Narnia, and they've just about resigned themselves to living their ordinary lives. But just like that, they're once again transported to a fantastical land, but one with a long-abandoned castle. It turns out that they are in Narnia again--and they themselves lived in that castle,...
90) The immortalists
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It's a question microbiologist Richard Draman thought he'd answered when he walked away from his career to focus on curing a genetic defect this is causing his daughter to age at a wildly accelerated rate. But now he and his wife must face the fact that eight-year-old Susie's time is running out. Determined to either save her life or die trying, the Dramans plunge into a bloody conflict between two powerful factions vying for control of a discovery...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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p2008
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Unabridged.
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5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A collection of short works featuring profoundly sympathetic protagonists whose inherent sensitivities render them particularly vulnerable to unexpected events.
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Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favorite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaptation. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and is befriended by three of them, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, with whom he embarks on a career of adventure and romance. Dumas is a brilliant...
94) Taken by storm
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Trauma nurse Julia McCarver was in shock when she answered the door and found the past standing there the person of former football quarterback S. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life together not just once, but three times after she had suffered from his selfishness, and she had no intention of making it a fourth. But S.T. wants two weeks to convince Julia that he's changed.
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Brilliance Audio
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c2008
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Abridged.
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15 sound discs (ca. 18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Mortal fear: When the woman with whom he has been having an online love affair is murdered by a serial killer specializing in female clients of EROS, an exclusive, erotic online service, Harper Cole devises a deadly plan to impersonate his dead lover online, hoping to lead the killer out into the open.
Spandau phoenix: The Spandau diary, what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful...
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2011
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Unabridged.
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1 sound media player (1260 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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Although his father was reluctant to become a field operative, Jack Ryan Jr. wants nothing more. Privately training with a Special Forces drill instructor, he's honing his skills to transition his work from intelligence analysis to hunting down and eliminating terrorists. Meanwhile, Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns for reelection as President of the United States. But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and the personal have just become...
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