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The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams

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"Thousands and thousands of people will love this book!"THE BOSTON GLOBEA lyrical, engrossing tale, by the author of WATERSHIP DOWN, Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal...
 
Hell Island

Hell Island by Matthew Reilly

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This revised edition of the short novel originally published in Australia is specially adapted for readers of all ages with reading difficulties. There is no hell like a man-made one...It is an island that doesn't appear on any maps. A secret location where classified experiments have been conducted. Experiments...
 
The Darkest Evening of the Year

The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz

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A fast-paced and emotionally devastating suspense novel from the bestselling author of Velocity,The Husband and the Good Guy Amy Redwing recklessly risks everything in her chosen field of dog rescue. When she confronts a violent drunk in order to rescue Nickie, a beautiful golden retriever, Amy has no misgivings....
 
Toxin

Toxin by Robin Cook

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Dr Kim Reggis takes his daughter for a special night out to a fast-food restaurant. But the good time turns to tragedy when the young girl becomes ill and dies as a result of E coli poisoning. Kim devotes all his energies to tracing the cause of contamination, against even violent opposition.
 
Sphinx

Sphinx by Robin Cook

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"Fever" tells of a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukaemia resulting from a gigantic chemical plant conspiracy. The conspiracy not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it.
 
The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

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Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to...
 
Disgrace

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent...
 
Autobiography of a Face

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

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""I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in...
 
The Specialist

The Specialist by Rhonda Nelson

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When you're this good, they call you The Specialist, and Major Brian Payne is that good. Whether it's in battle or in the bedroom, there's nobody more "detail oriented." And that's the reason he's on this wild-goose chase, to find a priceless military antique--before the competition does. He's sure he can handle...
 
The Sheikh's Unwilling Wife

The Sheikh's Unwilling Wife by Sharon Kendrick

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Its been five years since Alexa set eyes on her attractive husband - five years since she walked out on their sham of a marriage and took with her a precious secret. But she's always known he will come for her, and when he does she will be lost to the sensual promise of his glittering black eyes...
 
Acorna's Children: Second Wave

Acorna's Children: Second Wave by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Anne Mccaffrey

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Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her own through a universe filled with new adversaries and adventure. In "First Warning", she became a hero in her own right as she fought to save the universe from a...
 
Fatal

Fatal by Michael Palmer

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In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more than the flu like symptoms begins haemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into lethal paranoia. In West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a...
 
Sula

Sula by Toni Morrison

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A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken.
 
Relics

Relics by Shaun Hutson

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A series of murders in which the victims are horrifically mutilated is triggered by the archaeological discovery of a hidden chamber filled with the skulls of children. Investigations reveal the possibility of an even greater evil. The author's other novels include "Shadows" and "Death Day".
 
Brain

Brain by Robin Cook

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Hatchet

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

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There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake ...Brian is a city boy. Not used to living rough. Until his plane crash-lands in the Canadian wilderness. All he has is a hatchet - and a desperate will to survive. Now...
 
Night

Night by Elie Wiesel

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Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, dignity and...
 
Your Heart Belongs to Me

Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz's compelling and high-concept new thriller is the story of a young man who owes his life to a heart transplant ...but confronts an imminent and far worse death because of whose heart it was. At 34 Ryan Perry suddenly finds himself on a waiting list for a heart transplant. Although he keeps working and...
 
Name to a Face

Name to a Face by Robert Goddard

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""He'd seen her somewhere once--he was sure of that. But the young woman gave no hint of recognition and before this could be explained, everything fell apart. . . . Tim Harding has come to Cornwall at the behest of a friend to represent him in an auction and facilitate the purchase of a much-coveted antique ring....
 
Contest

Contest by Matthew Reilly

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The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles, and spiral staircases. But for Dr Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because, for just one night, this historic building is to become...
 
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