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Ice Princess

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:15:16 PST

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The Darkest Room

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:14:44 PST

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'For several hours I believed that my daughter had drowned and my wife as alive, when in fact the reverse was true'. It is bitter mid-winter when Katrine and Joakim Westin move with their children into the old manor house at Eel Point on the Swedish island of Oland. But their new home is no remote idyll. Just days later, Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. While Joakim struggles to kee ...

Echoes from the Dead

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:14:40 PST

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Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that ...

The Fate of Katherine Carr

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:08:14 PST

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:07:53 PST

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The Loch

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:55:07 PST

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Loch Ness holds secrets, ancient and deadly. Does a monster inhabit its depths, or is it just myth? Why, after thousands of reported sightings and dozens of expeditions, is there still no hard evidence? Marine biologist Zachery Wallace knows, but the shock of his near-drowning as a child on Loch Ness have buried all memories of the incident. Now, a near-death experience suffered while on expediti ...

City of Thieves

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:53:12 PST

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As wise and funny as it is thrilling and original—the story of two young men on an impossible adventure A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won’t talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate od ...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:52:42 PST

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Editorial Reviews *From Publishers Weekly The letters comprising this small charming novel begin in 1946, when single, 30-something author Juliet Ashton (nom de plume Izzy Bickerstaff) writes to her publisher to say she is tired of covering the sunny side of war and its aftermath. When Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams finds Juliet's name in a used book and invites articulate—and not-so-articulate—n ...

Perdido Street Station

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:51:58 PST

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Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavor ...

Iron Kissed

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:51:06 PST

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Blood Bound

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:50:13 PST

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Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind. But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.

Moon Called

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:49:33 PST

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Mercedes, è una camminatrice, il che significa che può trasformarsi in coyote, non grazie al virus della licantropia, ma grazie alla magia che le scorre nel sangue e che ha ereditato dal padre indiano. Padre che è morto prima della sua nascita. Perciò lei, per quanto ne sa, è l'unica rimasta con questi poteri. E' stata cresciuta in un clan di licantropi fino a sedici anni e poi ha finito gli stud ...

Dead in the Family

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:29 PST

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Definitely Dead

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:26 PST

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Sixth in the Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.

Dead as a Doornail

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:24 PST

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When Sookie's brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling population-and Jason's new panther brethren suspect he may be the shooter. Now, Sookie has until the next full moon to find out who's behind the attacks, unless the killer decides to ...

Dead to the World

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:18 PST

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Dead to the World is the fourth novel in Charlaine Harris's Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. It continues the story of psychic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who has fallen out with her undead lover, Bill. Bill has no sooner departed for Peru, than Sookie finds the head vampire, Eric, running naked and terrified through the rural night. She helps Eric, and discovers his memory has been ...

Club Dead

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:13 PST

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Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead--a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill--caught in an act of betrayal--she's not sure whether to save him or sharpen some stakes. Original.

Living Dead in Dallas

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:11 PST

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When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond and one small mistake for things to turn deadly. [예스24 제공]

Dead Until Dark

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:47:08 PST

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Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's n ...

The Desert Spear

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:03:51 PST

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The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a general—some would say prophet—who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. Those ...

The Warded Man

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:03:39 PST

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Morrigan's Cross

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:02:47 PST

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As a storm rages, the tale of a powerful vampire's lust for destruction-and of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her-begins. One of the chosen is a medieval sorcerer whose quest will take him through time-and into the arms of a woman courageous enough to link her destiny to his own.

Dance of the Gods

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:02:45 PST

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Second in the new paranormal Circle Trilogy. With one vampire determined to rule the earth, the Circle of Six prepares to battle for their lives-and their hearts.

Incarceron

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:01:59 PST

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Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old ...

The Name Of The Wind

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:01:46 PST

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Carolina Moon

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:00:09 PST

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author-a spellbinding tale about a woman who, though battered in both body and spirit, never loses hope...

Jewels of the Sun

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:59:08 PST

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Return to the lush green hills of Ireland, where love is touched by magic--and where the Gallagher siblings explore the depths of their fiery hearts.

Black Rose

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:58:59 PST

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Number-one bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the second novel of her In the Garden trilogy (following Blue Dahlia), as three women must discover the secrets from the past contained within their historic home... Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow-and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a wom ...

Blood Brothers

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:58:57 PST

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In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse. Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplain ...

Blue Dahlia

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:58:51 PST

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel in the new In the Garden trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret-finding in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Stella has a passion for planning that keeps ...

Valley of Silence

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:57:23 PST

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Having traveled through the Dance of the Gods to the land of Geall, the circle finds themselves convincing then training the people of Geall to defeat Lilith's vampire army. The Valley of Silence is a forbidding place for the battle of all battles, but the circle continues to prepare through magic and a few early stakeouts that test their strength individually and as a team. Moira finds herself p ...

The Other Boleyn Girl

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:55:56 PST

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"Two sisters competing for the greatest prize: the love of a king When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled by the king, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wan ...

Voyager

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:55:38 PST

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Diana Gabaldon holds a bachelor¿s degree in zoology, a master¿s degree in marine biology, and a Ph.D. in ecology, none of which has anything whatever to do with her novels. She spent a dozen years as a university professor before turning to writing full-time. Diana Gabaldon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her family. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Dragonfly in Amber

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:55:33 PST

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With her now-classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters — Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser — delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful follow-up to Outlander.... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returnin ...

The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:53:01 PST

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Water for Elephants

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:33:12 PST

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An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town af ...

A Soldier of the Great War

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:32:28 PST

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For Alessandro Giullani, the young son of a prosperous Roman Lawyer, golden trees shimmer in the sun beneath a sky of perfect blue. At night the moon is amber and the city of Rome seethes with light. He races horses across the country to the sea, and in the Alps he practices the precise and sublime art of mountain climbing. At the ancient university in Bologna he is a student of painting and the ...

The Chalice

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:29:34 PST

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The stunning conclusion to The Sword, the Ring, and the Chalice trilogy. As the final confrontation with the darkness approaches, two mortal enemies will search for the key to life itself.

The Covenant Rising

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:27:09 PST

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"In a land where magic defines the social order, the ruling tyrants alone control the most powerful sorcery ... One of the last of a massacred race of warriors -- an unparalleled swordsman magically afflicted by spells of blind, uncontrollable rage -- Reeth Caldason wanders Bhealfa seeking vengeance ... and freedom from his strange malady. Now word has come from a sorcerer's apprentice of a myst ...

The Righteous Blade

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:27:02 PST

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" Cursed with immortality and fits of blind, deadly rage, swordsman Reeth Caldason has wandered the world seeking both revenge for his slain tribe and a cure for his affliction. His travels have brought him to Bhealfa, where the authorities use magic and brute force to control the entire population. The paladin clans, an order of mercenary knights, are determined to crush the growing revolutio ...

No Graves as Yet

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:25:18 PST

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Through Anne Perry's magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privile ...

The Observations

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:24:03 PST

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The Observations is a hugely assured and darkly funny debut set in nineteenth-century Scotland. Bessy Buckley, the novel's heroine, is a cynical, wide-eyed, and tender fifteen-year-old Irish girl who takes a job as a maid in a once-grand country house outside Edinburgh, where all is not as it seems. Asked by her employer, the beautiful Arabella, to keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts ...

The Four Forges

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 3:22:16 PST

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Brought to the world of Kerith by an unknown cataclysm, the Vaelinar race is both magical and arrogant, considering themselves far superior to the natives whose own magic has been shorn away by a civil war. As hated as they are revered, the Vaelinars have retreated to seclusion after anchoring their magic to the new world by a series of Talent-wrought Ways, passages of power, always hoping that ...

The Darkness That Comes Before

Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:43:22 PST

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Zorro

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:20:47 PST

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Bestselling author Isabel Allende's first adult novel since 'Portrait in Sepia' - beautiful, disturbing and atmospheric. Beneath the mask, there is a man. And in his heart burns the fire of injustice ...Duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates and impossible rescues - these are the deeds that forged the legend of Zorro. But where did the man begin? Southern California, late 18th century: Diego ...

Spies

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:19:52 PST

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In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and underground laboratories. Then one day Keith announces an even more disconcerting discovery: th ...

The Time Traveler's Wife

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:17:14 PST

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This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor con ...

Ship of Magic

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:13 PST

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From the author of the classic Farseer trilogy, Ship of Magic is is the first part of the Liveship Traders. Set in a land bordering the Six Duchies, it tells of a group of sea traders, purveyors of rare goods which often border on the magical. Wizardwood, a sentient wood. The most precious commodity in the world. Like many other legendary wares, it comes only from the Rain River Wilds. But how c ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:13 PST

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The Final Chapter

The Lion of Senet

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:12 PST

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On the world Ranadon there is no night as both suns shine brightly. The intervention of Belagren, High Priestess of the Shadowdancers, and the sacrifice of a child of royal blood, has banished the Age of Shadows from the skies. Belagren's position is unquestioned . . . until circumstances begin to tip political rivalries into a deadlier game altogether. A volcanic eruption rocks the seas se ...

Memoirs of a Geisha

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:12 PST

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In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative o ...

Assassin's Apprentice

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:12 PST

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A glorious classic fantasy combining the magic of Ursula Le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea with the epic Mastery of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Now reissued in gorgeous new livery. In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma. Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chilvary Farseer, is a royal ...

Ring

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:11 PST

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From its eerie opening to its chilling conclusion, this novel ... will keep readers glued to its pages. Library Journal

The Bottoms

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:11 PST

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When young Harry Collins discovers a black womans body, mutilated and bound to a tree with barbed wire, he unleashes a storm of dread. With his younger sister, they fix their suspicions on the legendary horror called the Goat Man who, the locals say, lurks beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River. More real than any child could ever imagine, the creature holds the key to a string ...

The Sword

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:11 PST

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Two men. One is a prince of royal blood. The other is a half-breed, part human, part elf. But the part that is human is also royal. Two women. One is a princess, pampered and protected. The other lives in the forest, the leader of a band of rebels. She too has eleven blood. This is their story--the tale of love and hate, courage and cowardliness, and magic both dark and light... KLIATT ha ...

The Fifth Sorceress

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:23:10 PST

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Not since Terry Goodkind unsheathed the Sword of Truth has there been such an epic tale of heroism and magic that so captures the imagination as this monumental new work by a master storyteller. In The Fifth Sorceress, Robert Newcomb conjures a time and place wrought with exquisite detail, characters vividly drawn and deeply felt, and a history rich in glory and horror, splendor and secrets. . . ...

Roots of Evil

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:22:01 PST

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Fatal Flaw

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:22:01 PST

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When two people turn up dead at a girl's school and neighboring stables during the Christmas holiday, the twists and turns of the case lead Chief Inspector Neil Paget to a woman he is dating. Martin's Press.

Cheri

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:22:01 PST

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Cheri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. Exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic, Cheri is the only son of a wealthy courtesan, a contemporary of Lea, the magnificent and talented woman who for six years has devoted herself to his amorous education. When a rich marriage is arranged for Cheri, Lea reluctantly decides their relationship must end. Cheri, despite his ap ...

Slight Mourning

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:22:01 PST

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When Bill Fent dies in a car crash, the post mortem reveals a lethal dose of barbiturate. And the poison must have been administered by either his family or by a fri end at his dinner party. Inspector C.D. Sloan has a murderer to uncover. '

Skinner's Rules

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:22:00 PST

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As head of Edinburgh's CID, Bob Skinner has seen it all—but even he is shocked by the mutilated corpse discovered in a dark alleyway. The motive for the brutal murder remains a mystery, until an elaborate smokescreen emerges which shrouds an intricate conspiracy.

Portion for Foxes

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:22:00 PST

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A sinister link between the disappearance of a young college girl and a series of murders of vagrants poses a daunting challenge in this fourth mystery featuring Chief Inspector Morrissey and the Malminster CID. On Pel's Copse, near the college of Brindley, two foxes court - and they are the first to witness the chilling murders that horrify the village of Malminster. Desperate homeless men are t ...

The Cage

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:59 PST

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ALA Notable Book. The story of a nature photographer on an otherwise all-male documentary expedition to the Canadian tundra. From within a small iron cage, this small, often fearful woman is challenging herself to face the planet's largest land carnivores in the bone-aching cold of an unforgiving terrain. Before long, disaster strikes, and she must draw on her every strength in order to survive. ...

The Neighbors

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:59 PST

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Fleeing from a violent relationship, Kate Ashenberry arrives in London and finds sanctuary in a vast Victorian apartment building which will, she hopes, give her the anonymity and security she seeks. Disillusioned by her lover and abandoned by her family, she faces the prospect of Christmas alone with only a stray kitten for company. Gradually, though, she gets to know her new neighbors: the daff ...

A Modern Instance

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:58 PST

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She stopped. Bartley looked at her a moment, and then caught her to him and fell a-laughing over her, till it seemed as if he never would end. "And you thought--you thought," he cried, trying to get his breath,--"you thought you were Eily, and I was Hardress Cregan! Oh, I see, I see!" He went on making a mock and a burlesque of her tragical hallucination till she laughed with him at last. When he ...

The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:58 PST

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It is 1891, and London is still reeling fromt he horror of the unsloved Jack the Ripper murders when Inspector Sholto Lestrade is sent to the Isle of Wight to investigate a strange corpse found walled up in Shanlkin Cline.

Except the Dying

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:58 PST

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As the brutal winter of 1895 bears down on Toronto, a young girl's body turns up in a desolate alley. When it's discovered that the girl was pregnant. Detective William Murdoch suspects someone was trying to hide a scandal. But when he learns more about the girl's life. he realizes her death is the work of someone with a far more sinister purpose. Just as Caleb Cart brought old New York to life i ...

House of Stairs

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:58 PST

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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:57 PST

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Now available in a portable multi-volume format, The Norton Anthology of American Literature is the classic survey of American literature from its sixteenth-century origins to its flourishing present. The Sixth Edition offers the work of 242 writers30 newly includedrepresenting the extraordinary wealth and diversity of American literature. Among the many major works included in their entirety ...

Native American Writing in the Native Southeast

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:57 PST

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The first comprehensive anthology of Native American literature representing tribes of the southeastern United States.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:56 PST

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This is a real life account of enslavement, degradation and sexual exploitation; it is just as relevant today as it was first published in 1861, for slavery and racism still exist today under various guises, names, shapes and shades.

A Century of British Mystery and Suspense

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:56 PST

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It's impossible to discuss the 20th century's great mystery fiction without acknowledging the tremendous contributions of British writers. This anthology includes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Frederick Forsyth, Ngaio Marsh, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Michael Gilb ert, Antonia Fraser, Patricia Moyes, Reginald Hill, P.G. Wodehouse, Dorothy L. Sayers, A.A. Miln ...

Nice

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:56 PST

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First there was Clay--it just sort of happened. Then there was Pete--he was becoming way too attached. Ben, well, he totally had it coming. And then there was Sam... Grace is nice to a fault. She never picks fights, and doesn't like to criticize or hurt people's feelings. Problem is, the men in her life never seem to take a hint. And she just can't bear to tell them outright when she isn' ...

Keeping Up Appearances

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:55 PST

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Hyacinth Bucket - pronounced "Bouquet" - star of the BBC1 comedy series, "Keeping Up Appearances", imparts her personal views on protecting one's social standing. There are sections on etiquette in the home, entertaining, social obligations, how to strike up an acquaintance with members of the aristocracy, and improving the mind. They all give an insight into Hyacinth's philosophy of life, develo ...

Sacred Dust

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:55 PST

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Rose of Sharon had cried out to the man on the boat, tried to warn him the night he was shot for fishing where he wasn't welcome. Then she retreated into silence--and guilt. Rose might have kept quiet if it hadn't been for Lily, the outsider whose infidelities titillated Prince George County. Brassy, blonde Lily saw straight through Rose, the dutiful wife of an abusive man. Lily pushed her over t ...

Dekok and the Dying Stroller

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:54 PST

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Mary McGreevy

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:54 PST

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Walter Keady, author of Celibates and Other Lovers, spins outlandish magic in his rollicking tale of life and scandal in a small 1950s Irish town. With wit and Irish wisdom, Keady explores the natures of innocence and honor in a God-fearing community that is shattered by a strong-willed ex-nun named Mary. Delightful Mary McGreevy is a redheaded force to be reckoned with, but no one seems able t ...

Man's Storm

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:54 PST

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In the autumn of 1703, a great gale ripped through London. Many were killed, among them Joan Fletcher, the shrewish wife of Alan Fletcher, an ironmonger. But the savage blow that split her head points to more suspicious circumstances. Surreptitiously, George Man, a young parish watchman, trails the ironmonger through the dangerous back streets while the storm rages on. And as Fletcher¹s secret li ...

A People and a Nation, Dolphin Edition

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:53 PST

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The Dolphin Edition, based on the text's 7th edition preserves the text's basic approach to American history as the story of all Americans. It is known for its emphasis on social history, well-respected author team, attention to race and racial identity and balanced and engaging narrative. New authors, Beth Bailey and Fredrick Logevall, have thoroughly revised the recent history chapters in Volum ...

Malice in the Highlands

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:53 PST

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INTRODUCING ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD Crime, investigation, punishment. They're all in a day's work to Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard. As a member of the Yard's Murder Squad, Powell tracks miscreants all over London. Now, seeking distance from the criminal constituency--and the bureaucratic drudgery of the Yard--Powell embarks on a salmon-fishing comp ...

Dekok and the Dancing Death

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:53 PST

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Carousel

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:21:52 PST

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Paris, December 1942. The corpse of a naked girl has been found, strangled. Not far away, the body of a young man is discovered with his throat slashed, tied to the back of a carousel animal. A Wehrmacht corporal is killed. Scattered ancient Roman coins connect the three victims. Is it the Resistance? Or are sex and greed, the oldest of motivations, still rampant in a country groaning under the b ...

Picture of Innocence

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:14 PST

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East Midlands farmer Bernard Bailey, a violent man with a brutal temper, stands to pocket a hefty inheritance if he fathers a male child. After destroying one wife to achieve this end, Bailey turns his next marriage into a twisted business arrangement. If his new spouse produces a son, she will be paid handsomely for her trouble. But the real trouble is just beginning. After six months of recei ...

Loose Screws

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:14 PST

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In the space of a few hours, thirty-year-old Ginger Petrocelli had gone from bride-to-be to bride-who-never-was. So here she sat, alone in her cramped apartment, wedding crinolines askew, drowning her sorrows in a hundred-dollar bottle of Veuve Cliquot, when her doorbell rang. And her trip to hell in a handbasket was about to escalate. At the door: Nick, Ginger's "first." Only, he's a police off ...

Western Societies

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:13 PST

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In the Kingdom of Mists

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:13 PST

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While Claude Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths, arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper. Craston, a green diplomat at the Foreign Office, is unwillingly drawn into the police investigation-and ordered to keep an eye on the visiting French artist. All the while, neither man knows that the source of the horror stalks ...

The Fiend in Human

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:02 PST

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It's 1852, and the ranks of the London poor have doubled. In the swollen shadow of the great St. Giles Rookery, fallen women attract the perfumed dandies of the West End into a vicious circle of venality, vanity, and vice. Edmund Whitty, correspondent for The Falcon, the city's second-best sensational tabloid, writes whatever will stimulate the reader, delay his (increasingly physical) credito ...

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 2

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:02 PST

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The Sixth Edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature continues to be the indispensable anthology. Like its predecessors, the Sixth Edition offers the best in English literature from the classic to the contemporary in a readable, teachable format. More selections by women and twentieth-century writers, a richer offering of contextual writings, apparatus fully revised to reflect today's ...

Secrets of the Flesh

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:02 PST

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1999 National Book Award nominee! In 1900, a provincial beauty best known as the child bride of a famous Parisian rake captivated the Belle Epoque by writing a story that invented the modern teenage girl. It was the first in a series of wildly popular but also critically acclaimed novels that, combined with a flamboyant career on the stage, made this former country girl the first authentic super ...

Stone Dead

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:02 PST

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A corpse is found in the well of a cottage belonging to Peter Foster. Foster fears the body is the ex-husband of his girlfriend. Then his girlfriend mysteriously disappears and the true identity of the corpse adds a strange twist to the convoluted crime, which Paget is called in to investigate. "Publishers Weekly" calls this novel "instantly gripping and wonderfully perplexing." Martin's Press.

DANCING GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:00 PST

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Dancing Girls is Margaret Atwood’s highly praised first collection of short fiction. In it she explores the dark intricacies of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the clashes between cultures. In the stories, the mundane and the bizarre intersect in unexpected ways: ex-wives indulge in an odd feast at a psychiatrist’s funeral; a young student is pursued by an obsessed immigran ...

Miracle Game

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:00 PST

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Winter Frost

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:00 PST

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This, the fifth novel in R.D. Wingfield's popular mystery series, finds Detective Inspector Jack Frost dealing with a grisly parade of crimes.

Hard Frost

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:19:00 PST

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Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Division, is not beloved by his superiors. In fact, he's something of a pain in the brass: unkempt and unruly, with a taste for crude humor and a tendency to cut corners. They'd like nothing better than to bounce him from the department. The only problem is, Frost's the one D.I. who, by hook or by crook, always seems to find a way to get the job done ...

Autographs in the Rain

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:59 PST

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As Skinner takes an evening stroll with a gorgeous film star on his arm, surely the worst of his worries is back at Headquarters, where a new colleague is scheming to enlarge his territory at Skinner's expense. But when a gunshot has Skinner and his old flame diving for cover, it seems danger has zeroed in on him again. Meanwhile, the case of a pensioner found dead in his bath turns out to be any ...

Let There Be Blood

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:59 PST

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In the Kingdom of Mists showcased the talent of Jane Jakeman. In its wake comes the first of the Lord Ambrose historical mystery series, a "cleverly executed" (Yorkshire Post) tale of turn-of-the-last-century murder-and, perhaps worse, wrongful blame. Lord Ambrose has returned to England from the battlefields of Greece to heal his wounds in the peace and quiet of his country mansion. But when ...

Night Frost

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:59 PST

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A serial killer is terrorizing the senior citizens of Denton, and the local police are succumbing to a flu epidemic. Tired and demoralized, the force has to contend with a seemingly perfect young couple suffering arson attacks and death threats, a suspicious suicide, burglaries, pornographic videos, poison-pen letters...In uncertain charge of the investigations is Detective Inspector Jack Frost, ...

River of Darkness

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:58 PST

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As rural England slowly emerges from the sorrow of World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small Surrey village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Sent by Scotland Yard to investigate is Inspector John Madden, a man still recovering from his own war experience and from the deaths of his wife and child. The local police dismiss the slaughter as ...

The Italian

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:58 PST

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Napoleon has fallen and the Austrian Empire sweeps the continent. Dashing revolutionaries, traitors and spies lurk in every quarter in the turbulent Italy of the 1820s. Italian patriot Angelo Bartolini is a man of many faces: a devoted son and brother, a noble friend and a stalwart nationalist. As a member of the Carbonari, a secret society dedicated to freeing Italy from Austrian rule, Angelo i ...

Duplicate Keys

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:18:58 PST

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"Sharp and memorable...Finely wrought." NEWSDAY They were six friends from the Midwest who moved to New York City with high hopes of making it big in the music industry. Although the dream had faded, they had all remained friends--or so it seemed. One brilliant day, two of the group were shot in an apartment for which they all had duplicate keys. A riveting suspense story about the emotional ...