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The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief by John Grisham

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Late one night Abe Rosenberg, the Supreme Court's liberal legend, is gunned down in his own home. The same night, Myron Jensen, the court's youngest and most conservative justice is strangled. What linked the two men and what caused their deaths? Darby Shaw thinks she knows the answer.
 
Season of the Machete

Season of the Machete by James Patterson

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Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure for a confrontation with...
 
Great Expectations

Great Expectations by Peter Ackroyd, Charles Dickens

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Philip Pirrip - known more commonly as Pip - is an orphan. His visits to the mysterious Miss Havisham are his only escape from his childhood of poverty. But then an anonymous bequest changes his life for ever - until secrets from Pip's past emerge, threatening to destroy the genteel new life he has built for...
 
Street Boys

Street Boys by Lorenzo Carcaterra

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A gang of street urchins and an American soldier fight off the German army in the streets of Naples Naples, late September, 1943. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless; Mussolini already arrested by anti-fascists. The city has been evacuated, but the German army is moving towards Naples to finish the...
 
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

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In this work the author asks the question "How could the Holocaust happen?" and in his response explores German society and its ingrained anti-semitism, that demands a revision of thinking of the years 1933-1945. Using testimonies from the actual perpetrators, the book shows that the killers were ordinary Germans...
 
Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bront (1816-1855) was a British novelist, the eldest of the three famous Bront sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. Charlotte Bront is best known for Jane Eyre (1847), one of the most famous of British novels. Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head, Mirfield, from 1831...
 
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander Mccall Smith

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As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency there are the usual number of cases to be pursued, from persistent...
 
The Constant Princess

The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

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Splendid and sumptuous historical novel from this internationally bestselling author, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. Katherine of Aragon is born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, to parents who...
 
The Emperor's Children

The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud

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Danielle, a junior television producer, is on the hunt for the documentary idea that will make her reputation; Marina, the beautiful daughter of a famous and wealthy liberal journalist and intellectual, is desperate to prove her worth - while unsure exactly of how this is to be achieved; Julius, a freelance writer...
 
The Boleyn Inheritance

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

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From the bestselling author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl' comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens. The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle...
 
Regina's Song

Regina's Song by David Eddings, Leigh Eddings

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A brutal serial killer stalks the Seattle nights. Regina Greenleaf was one of the victims. Her beautiful twin sister, Renata, is deeply traumatized. Renata barely knows she's alive. She talks only rarely, and then always in twin-speak, the special language she and Regina made up long before they'd learned to speak...
 
Endless Night

Endless Night by Agatha Christie

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Volume 68 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1967) Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea -- and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, among the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a wonderful girl and live...
 
See How They Run

See How They Run by James Patterson

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The Fourth Hand

The Fourth Hand by John Irving

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While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the reporter her husband's hand, that is, after her husband dies. But the husband is very much alive.
 
Neither Here Nor There

Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson

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Bryson brings his unique brand of humour to travel writing as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. Travelling with Stephen Katz--also his wonderful sidekick in "A Walk in the Woods"--he wanders from Hammerfest in the far north, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia. As he...
 
Quest for Lost Heroes

Quest for Lost Heroes by David Gemmell

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The Drenai fortress of Dros Delnoch has fallen and blood hungry Nadir hordes sweep across the land, bringing desolation and despair. But, with the Nadir triumphant, slavers seize a young girl in the tiny realm of Gothir and a peasant boy stes off on a quest that will shake the world. To rescue her, Kiall must cross...
 
Sandworms of Dune

Sandworms of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert

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As the no-ship Ithaca flees through space, the heroes of HUNTERS OF DUNE finally meet the Enemy who followed the violent fanatics, the Honored Matres, back to their universe. The thinking machines vanquished by Serena Butler's jihad were not destroyed, only driven into exile - and now, tens of thousands of years...
 
Hunters of Dune

Hunters of Dune by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert

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The sequel to Frank Herbert's CHAPTERHOUSE:DUNE appears at last. Fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres - dark counterparts of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood - Duncan Idaho, the military genius Bashar Miles Teg, a woman named Sheeana who can talk to sandworms, and a group of desperate refugees explore the...
 
Circle of Friends

Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy

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Big, generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the selfish but beautiful Nan Mahon, whose ambition will drag them all into trouble....
 
The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

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Welcome to the dollhouse, baby! When Andrea first sets foot in the plush Manhattan offices of Runway she knows nothing. She's never heard of the world's most fashionable magazine, or its feared and fawned-over editor, Miranda Priestly. But she's going to be Miranda's assistant, a job millions of girls would die...
 
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