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The god of war
Chris Stewart
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"It's meant to be the triumphant debut of the Ares, a U.S. superjet named after the Greek god of war. Outfitted with an ultrapowerful laser, stealth technology, and the ability to easily outmaneuver anything else in the sky, the Ares can strike without warning and escape without a trace - ushering in a new era in war. But when the plane is stolen before ...
2008; 318 p.; isbn:0312289561 More Information |
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The Orpheus deception
David Stone
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CIA agent Micah Dalton challenges a powerful Serbian warlord after a daring assassination attempt in Venice, during which he uncovers a conspiracy linking an act of piracy, a missing agent, and a hospital ship's covert agenda
2008; 462 p.; isbn:0399154639 More Information |
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The ginseng hunter
Jeff Talarigo
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"A Chinese ginseng hunter lives alone in the valley and spends his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter. He is scarcely aware of the larger world until shadowy figures hiding in the fields, bodies floating in the river, and rumors of thievery and murder begin to intrude on his cherished solitude. On one of his monthly ...
2007; 177 p.; isbn:0385517394 More Information |
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Toronto noir
edited by Janine Armin & Nathaniel G. Moore
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2008; 272 p.; isbn:9781933354507 More Information |
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Friday nights : a novel
Joanna Trollope
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"It's Eleanor who starts the Friday night get-togethers. From her window she sees two young women with small children, separate, struggling, and plainly lonely - and decides to ask them in." "Gradually a group of six different and disparate women forms. They range in age from Jules, who is twenty-two and wants to be a DJ, to Eleanor herself, who is ...
2008; 330 p.; isbn:1596914076 More Information |
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The song of everlasting sorrow : a novel of Shanghai
Wang Anyi ; translated by Michael Berry and Susan Chan Egan
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"Set in Post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods." "Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment ...
2008; 440 p.; isbn:9780231143424 More Information |
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Certain girls : a novel
by Jennifer Weiner
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The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling novel "Good in Bed" picks up with the beloved Cannie Shapiro, who is now older, wiser, and (seven pounds) thinner, and raising her lovely, rebellious 13-year-old daughter, Joy.
2008; 386 p.; isbn:9780743294256 More Information |
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The Lady Elizabeth : a novel
Alison Weir
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"Following the success of her first novel, Innocent Traitor, Alison Weir turns her storytelling skills to the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would grow up to become England's most intriguing and powerful queen." "Even at age two, Elizabeth is keenly aware that people in the court of her father, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her ...
2008; 480 p.; isbn:0345495357 More Information |
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The world before her
Deborah Weisgall
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2008; 278 p.; isbn:9780618746576 More Information |
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The calling
Inger Wolfe
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"Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef has lived all her days in the small town of Port Dundas and is now making her way toward retirement with something less than grace. Hobbled by a bad back and a dependence on painkillers, and feeling blindsided by divorce after nearly four decades of marriage, sixty-one-year-old Hazel has only the constructive criticism ...
2008; 374 p.; isbn:0151013470 More Information |
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Santa Fe dead
Stuart Woods
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"In this thriller featuring the colorful Santa Fe trial lawyer, Ed Eagle finds the tables turned when he testifies as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of his ex-wife, Barbara Eagle, who has been a very, very bad girl. The trial ends in a way Ed had not anticipated, and Barbara is still in a position to make his life, and that of others, a ...
2008; 309 p.; isbn:9780399154904 More Information |
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The shack : a novel
by William P. Young
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Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for ...
2007; 249 p.; isbn:9780964729230 More Information |
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