Mel Foster
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In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, top photographer Hope Dunne fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who holds her in his thrall after she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers--an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness
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"Twin boys grow up in the same family, in the same town. Dramatically different, they become bitter enemies, even as children: one good, one bad. One leaves his peaceful hometown, but when all else fails, the prodigal son returns, twenty years later. The reunion of brothers, sweet and healing at first, exposes shattering revelations of good and evil. #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells a brilliant, suspenseful story of suspicion,...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a chilling novel of a traumatized woman and the terrifying place she'll never escape...
She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. What secrets are hidden within Susan Thorton's mind? What terrible accident brought her here? And who are the four shadowy strangers—waiting, like death—in the darkened corridors?
One by one, Susan unlocks...
She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. What secrets are hidden within Susan Thorton's mind? What terrible accident brought her here? And who are the four shadowy strangers—waiting, like death—in the darkened corridors?
One by one, Susan unlocks...
5) Lullaby town
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“Quick, cutting wit . . . a keen ear.”—The New York Times Book Review
Hollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure.
His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en...
Hollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure.
His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en...
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Amos Walker novels volume 23
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"Amos Walker doesn't mean to walk into trouble. But sometimes it finds him, regardless. The missing woman has left a handwritten note that said, "Don't look for me." Any P.I. would take that as a challenge, especially when he found out that she'd left the same message once before, when having an illicit affair. But this time it's different. The trail leads Walker to an herbal remedies store, where the beautiful young clerk knows nothing about the...
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Amid the dust, death, and chaos of Iraq, an American soldier on a routine patrol is killed by an unseen enemy. It is a tragedy but not a crime, until it is linked to the bizarre death of a decorated four star general who happens to be the dead mans' father and the son-in-law of the most feared and powerful U.S. vice president
8) Malice
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When a copy of his first wife's death certificate arrives in the mail, emblazoned with a red question mark, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles. He must return to the painful memories he's tried so hard to forget, and travels straight into a killer's web that catches Bentz as the prime suspect
9) Whitewash
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Sabrina Galloway has developed a clean alternative fuel that threatens the establishment and possibly her life.
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Brilliance Audio
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p2009
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Revolution takes you inside the winner-take-all battle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the people of the Middle East. It explains the implications of each movement, the importance of each leader, and does so not only through the lenses of politics and economics, but also through the third lens of Scripture.
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Widowed Lady Julia Winterset has just inherited a very shocking book, and now every gentleman in London seems to want it. Harrison Landingham, Earl of Mountdale, cannot permit obstinate Julia release a shameless memoir that could ruin his family's name. The only way to stop her may be equally sordid
12) Eye of vengeance
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With a sniper targeting Florida's worst criminals, a reporter must choose between revenge and the law in this thriller from the Edgar Award–winning author.
As a reporter for the South Florida Daily News, Nick Mullins has covered the worst of the Sunshine State's crooks and murderers. But the man he's obsessed with is Robert Walker, responsible for the deaths of Mullins's wife and daughter in a drunk driving accident. When
13) Snow blind
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Monkeewrench volume 4
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With the holidays over and the long cold winter looming, January can be a bleak month in Minneapolis. So what better way to bring a little cheer to the good people of the city than by sponsoring an old-fashioned snowman-building contest? In a matter of hours, a local park is filled with the innocent laughter of children and their frosty creations. But things take an awful turn when the dead bodies of police officers are discovered inside two of the...
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A Financial Times and Economist Best Book of the Year exploring world trade from Mesopotamia in 3,000 BC to modern globalization. How did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein, bestselling author of The Birth of Plenty, traces the story of global commerce from its prehistoric origins to the myriad controversies surrounding it today....
15) Gas City
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Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces-greed and corruption, ambition and desire-run out of control in the wake of a serial killer's grisly rampage.
A power struggle-between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city's vices in his powerful grasp,...
17) The moonpool
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Cam Richter novels volume 3
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2008
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Ex-cop Cam Richter, head of the detective agency that employed a private detective who was working in Wilmington, North Carolina, begins his own investigation when her dead body sets off the radiation alarms in the pathologist's office. What he discovers about Helios, the nearby nuclear power plant, is something that powerful forces will stop at nothing to keep secret
18) Vienna, 1814: how the conquerors of Napoleon made love, war, and peace at the Congress of Vienna
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The Napoleonic Wars had torn Europe apart, and the peace conference of 1814 was to be held in the continent's grandest city: Vienna. Everyone had an agenda in the postwar world, and spy networks, bitter hatreds, illicit affairs, and tangled alliances ensued.Despite the gravity of the situation, the Hapsburg Emperor of Austria, in opening his splendid rococo palace to the European royals and providing elaborate banquets and lavish entertainments, set...