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The Blue & the Gray

The Blue & the Gray by John Leekley

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Personal relationships are tested and lifestyles are altered as civil war divides the nation and the Hale and Geyser families must choose sides.
 
An Acquaintance with Darkness

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi

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When her mother dies, fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush is forced to go live with her uncle Valentine. She is immediately suspicious of her uncle's unusual late-night activities and fears he may be involved with body-snatching, but every time she resolves to confront him, she is thrown off balance by something good...
 
On Leaving Charleston

On Leaving Charleston by Alexandra Ripley

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Continues the story of the Tradd family, begun in "Charleston". Elizabeth is a fierce matriarch, wealthy and indepenent. Her grandniece, Garden, marries the dashing yankee, Sky Harris. It was the match of the decade until betrayal and the vengeful secrets of her past sent her home to Charleston.
     
Scarlett's Women: "Gone with the Wind" and Its Female Fans

Scarlett's Women: "Gone with the Wind" and Its Female Fans by Taylor

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Fifty years after the screening of "Gone with the Wind", the author looks at the reasons why the book and film have had such an appeal, especially for women. Drawing on letters and questionnaires from female fans, she brings together material from southern history, literature, film and feminist theory and discusses...
   
Mercy

Mercy by Jodi Picoult

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Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the town's residents by blood and honor. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald...
 
The Girls

The Girls by Lori Lansens

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'I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I've never used an aeroplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that...So many things I've never done, but oh, how I've been loved. And, if such...
 
Three Great Novels - The Bourne Trilogy: "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Bourne Ultimatum"

Three Great Novels - The Bourne Trilogy: "The Bourne Identity", "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Bourne Ultimatum" by Robert Ludlum

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THE BOURNE IDENTITY: He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was fished out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face, a Swiss bank account containing four million dollars, and a...
 
All That Remains

All That Remains by Patricia Cornwell

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Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner, is faced with the disappearance of five young couples from their cars, who, when found dead months later in deeply wooded areas, are without socks and shoes. Using the latest forensic techiques, she tracks the murderer.
 
Chocolat

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

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When the exotic stranger Vianne Rocher arrives in the old French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique called "La Celeste Praline" directly across the square from the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock. It is the beginning of Lent: the traditional season of...
 
The Take

The Take by Martina Cole

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Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections, and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie, just wants her husband home, but she's forgotten the rows, the violence, and the girls Freddie can't leave alone. Bitter, resentful, and...
 
Step on a Crack

Step on a Crack by James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge

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Meet Patterson's most compelling hero yet: Detective Michael Bennett, father of ten, as he pursues the most diabolical criminal ever to terrify New York City.
 
Under the Knife

Under the Knife by Tess Gerritsen

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For David Ransom, it begins as an open-and-shut case. Malpractice. As attorney for a grieving family, he's determined to hang a negligent doctor. Then Dr. Kate Chesne storms into his office, dating him to seek out the truth -- that she's being framed. First, it was Kate's career that was in jeopardy. Then, when...
 
The Jump

The Jump by Martina Cole

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Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he's been set up and persuades Donna to help him escape. Implementing 'the jump' takes Donna into a twilight world she never believed existed - a world of brutal sex and casual violence. Finally, she is...
 
King Lear

King Lear by William Shakespeare, Roma Gill

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The latest addition to this series. It is fully annotated, with the notes facing the text, and contains a wide range of questions for students, as well as the background to Shakespeare's England. This book is intended for age 14 - 16.
 
Panic

Panic by Jeff Benedict

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Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he...
 
The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly

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They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it. When a Beverly Hills rich...
 
The Death Collectors

The Death Collectors by Jack Kerley

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A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's 'Art of the Final Moment' remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band...
 
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