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2) Knife music
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Six months after saving the life of teenage accident victim Kristen Kroiter, emergency room surgeon Ted Cogan is shocked when he is questioned by police in the wake of her baffling suicide, which causes the womanizing Cogan to be wrongly accused of rape.
3) Middlesex
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In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riots of...
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Finding shelter in a Sioux village after a Cheyenne attack, Lew Dorset and Chuck Morris absorb the native culture. Chuck marries the beautiful maiden Zintcallasappa, but after Lew returns from a battle between Sioux and Pawnee, he finds Chuck has deserted his wife. His attempts to reconcile them result in great danger and, ultimately, a threat to his life.
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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...
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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...
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The political theorist and author of After Progress examines the future of U.S. dominance on the world stage in this persuasive and provocative book.
The decline and fall of America's global empire is the central feature of today's geopolitical landscape. How we respond to this reality will determine much of our future trajectory, with implications that reach far beyond the limits of one nation's borders. In Decline and Fall, John Michael Greer examines...
8) Fools Die
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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,...
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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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A stunning revision of our founding document's evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution?
Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But in a shrewd rereading of the founding era, Jonathan Gienapp upends this long-held assumption, recovering the unknown story of American constitutional...
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In the remote hills of old England, Vaughn discovers a mysterious arrangement of stones on his doorstep in The Shining Pyramid. With the help of his old friend and investigator Dyson, they work to unravel the mysterious truth about the changing symbols and discover underground dwellers best left untouched.
In this compilation from Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, The Shining Pyramid is paired with The Three Impostors, a masterpiece of gothic...
12) Colony
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In the future, everything is different-but nothing has changed. "The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries, and global anarchy seems imminent. Yet a single ray of hope remains…" Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation-a man with a brain as advanced as any computer...
13) Unshaken
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Reporters around the world have told Dan Woolley's story of being trapped for three days after Haiti's devastating earthquake. They focused on how he used his iPhone to survive injuries to his head and leg. They showed pictures of the bloody journal where he wrote notes for his wife and sons. But the reporters missed the real story. While trying to survive physically, Woolley realized he was dying spiritually. A Christian since childhood, Woolley...
14) Carlucci's Heart
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The third cyberthriller featuring Lt. Frank Carlucci from Philip K. Dick Award-winning author Richard Paul Russo
In a future, gritty San Francisco, Lieutenant Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend. As Carlucci digs deeper, the corruption and decay he finds is nothing compared to a final horror that could have devastating implications: a secret known only as Cancer Cell.
15) Carlucci's Edge
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Carlucci's Edge brings to life a chilling scenario in the bleak urban landscape that is twenty-first-century San Francisco and marks the return of Lt. Frank Carlucci, first seen in Destroying Angel.The San Francisco Police Department is stonewalling seemingly unrelated murder investigations, and Carlucci is determined to find out why. His unauthorized investigation leads him to an insidious black market run by top political officials.
16) Destroying Angel
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This electrifying cybershock thriller by a Philip K. Dick Award-winning author takes listeners on a terrifying ride through the gritty, neon-lit streets of a future San Francisco. Beyond the future shock of Blade Runner, a new breed of killer is born … In mid-twenty-first-century San Francisco, a group of corpses is found chained together on the bottom of the bay. Retired police officer Louis Tanner must find the killer among a city full of serial...
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Whether you take it with you on your morning run or listen to it in your car, this provides a month's worth of inspiration and wisdom. The 31 daily installments, drawn from Psalms and Proverbs in the King James Version Bible, make for truly inspired listening - the ideal way to start your day with praise, wisdom and hope.
19) Vengeance
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All Cyn wants is justice. Kolya Kurev murdered her family in cold blood and got away with it. Single-minded in her determination, Cyn becomes the killer she needs to be. Until she meets Lee, a man also deeply wronged by Kurev. Cyn's new problem? Lee.
Lee is stealing her revenge and screwing with the carefully carved life she's made for herself. As if his mere presence and counter-productive ambitions weren't enough, he's going to get her caught...
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