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In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his bestselling novels, for years written under the pseudonym George Stark. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the voice on the phone uttering its obscene threats and demanding total surrender. But how
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A hijacked jumbo jet bound for London blows apart high above the English Channel. Two figures, Indian actors of opposing sensibilities, Gibreel and Saladin, fall to Earth, and are washed up on an English beach. Soon curious changes occur -Gibreel seems to have acquired a halo, while Saladin grows hooves and bumps at his temples. They are transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is the initial act in an odyssey that merges...
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Love comes softly series volume 7
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Book 7 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Belinda Davis had trained as a nurse to assist her older brother, Doctor Luke. But as time goes by and she sees those she's grown up with getting married and settling into their own lives, Belinda becomes restless. What had seemed exciting and fresh becomes dull and routine. When she meets an elderly woman who needs nursing care, Belinda jumps at the invitation to go to Boston--a large, "civilized"...
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Century trilogy volume 3
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
10) Nemesis
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[1989]
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A space colony arrives at a planet only to find it is slated for destruction.
11) The captive
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[1989]
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John, a mysterious deckhand, rescues Rosetta and Lucas from a shipwreck. Rosetta is then sold to a Turkish Pasha but is able to escape to England where she is obsessed with thoughts of John.
13) Star
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1989.
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Beginning just after World War II, Crystal Wyatt and Spencer Hill seem to kept apart by fate even as their stars are on the rise.
14) Straight
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[1989]
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The death of his brother Greville--an enigmatic figure with numerous enemies--bodes ill for Derek Franklin, who inherits numerous aspects of his life, including its dangers.
15) The edge
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1989.
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The Great Transcontinental Mystery Race is not only a glittering rail junket that promises the oportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses, but is something more: an intriguing mystery will be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve. But the pretend mystery quickly becomes real.
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1989.
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A band of renegades, led by Lady Thella, rose from the ranks of criminals and the disaffected and pursued Aramina, who had a telepathic link to the dragons, as their quarry. As long as the people of Pern could remember, the Holds had protected them from Thread, the deadly silver strands that fell from the sky and ravaged the land. In exchange for sanctuary in the huge stone fortresses, the people tithed to their Lord Holders, who in turn supported...
20) Morning glory
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2009.
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In town they called her "Crazy Widow Dinsmore", but Elly was no stranger to ridicule - she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a darkened old house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way. Will Parker drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy summer afternoon, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never...
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