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1) Middlesex
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Oprah's book club volume 2007
Language
English
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Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage
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Fleet school volume 1
Language
English
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Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
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English
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist revisits the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era and draws bold parallels to our own Age of Anxiety. For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of our citizens. Haynes Johnson re-creates that time of crisis of the Republican senators who cynically used McCarthy to win...
4) Pathfinder
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Series
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
5) Fools die
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English
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From the blockbuster author of The Godfather comes this bold international best-seller about the feverish world of a big-time gambler. Merlyn and his brother, Artie, obey their own code of honor in the ferment of contemporary America, where law and organized crime are one and the same. Set within America's golden triangle of corruption and excess—New York, Hollywood, Las Vegas—the novel plunges into the glittering and ruthless worlds of gambling,...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After a snafu at the airport, Ashley is forced to rent a car in order to make it home to Seattle by Christmas. She ends up sharing the last car on the lot with Dash, a handsome stranger, who also needs to get to Seattle. Little does Ashley know that the snafu is because she is on the FBI's no fly list, and Dash is an undercover agent assigned to trail her.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Tom Burns may be at the top of his game, but he₂s still considered a dinosaur for being over forty in the youthful, trendy business of advertising. In a moment of desperation, he hires young con-artist Dick Sweeney to be his stand-in at an ad agency while Tom does all of the hard work behind the scenes. The scheme works until Tom falls for Dick₂s co-worker Harriet Foster, forcing Tom and Dick to make a choice between love and getting a paycheck...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
High-powered Manhattan attorney Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmothe'₂s dying wish - to deliver a mysterious letter to a man who owns a blueberry farm. As Ellen sets out on her grandmother's mission, she unravels the mysterious love story her grandmother left behind.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A newlywed couple proves their crime-solving prowess when their political ties and successful private-eye business suddenly puts them in grave danger. When their parents are taken hostage by a vengeful kidnapper looking for justice for the wrongful murder conviction of his brother, the duo must work together to uncover the clues that will save their parents' lives, and put their own on the line.
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English
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In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Richard Yates's classic novel is about how both women struggle...
13) Knife music
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Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
The novel pits Ted Cogan, a forty-three-year- old surgeon and self-described womanizer, against Hank Madden, a handicapped veteran detective. From the outset it's not clear who is victim and who is victimizer, as the usually dispassionate Madden grapples with his long-suppressed prejudices and his obsession with bringing Ted Cogan to justice at any cost. It all leads up to the most stunning surprise ending since Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent.|David...
14) A good school
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Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.
In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's entry into World War II, A Good School tells the stories of William Grove, the quiet boy who becomes an...
15) Saint Joan
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The Irish playwright's dramatic presentation of Joan of Arc as peasant, genius, saint and fifteenth century feminist.
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In the Napoleon of crime, Professor Moriarity plots with would-be blackmailers to have Holmes killed. And the normally love-proof Holmes falls for an exceptional woman. The play was co-authored by the American matinee idol William Gillette, who played the title sleuth. A smash hit from the beginning, the play remained in Gillette's repertoire until he retired more than thirty years after its premiere.
What is the secret of the shocking death of poor...
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Based on a story by Truman Capote (In Cold Blood), this absolutely riveting, award-winning drama features Alan Alda and Vic Morrow in the performances of their careers. Mild-mannered university professor Jonathan Paige (Alan Alda) is sentenced to one year in prison for manslaughter. He is completely unprepared for prison life, and once inside he refuses to adapt, although he does realize he is going to need some protection if he is to survive his...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
A Seven Stories Press first edition.
Language
English
Description
Norman got everything a man could want...He got a hand-painted tie at $35...and a shiny new job at $35,000...he got an apartment on Sutton Place...and the respect of the toughest old tyrant who ever sold soap...he got Marguerite...and Connie...and glamorous red-headed Jean. He got everything a man could want...but he didn't know what he wanted. Not til he met Kay, cool, blonde, lovely Kay. Then he knew what he wanted but didn't know how to get it!...
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Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new—and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded every aspect of popular culture.
But it all started on that dreadful night in a remote farmhouse. Nights of the Living Dead returns to that night, to the outbreak,
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fifty Years After the Sharon Tate/Labianca Murders, a New and Terrifying Investigation into the Modern Rebirth of Charles Manson’s Killer Family Perhaps the most notorious American murderer of the twentieth century, Charles Manson’s legacy extends far beyond his horrific crimes. As the wild-eyed, swastika-tattooed, nightmarishly charismatic leader of the Manson Family, he was convicted of the brutal killings of nine people in 1971…including...
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