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1) Home song
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A novel that strikes a universal chord in all of us and asks: Are there sins of the heart beyond forgiving?
When a new student transfers to principal Tom Gardner' s school, Tom instantly recognizes that this teenager is the son he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand years before. Raised by an adoring and fiercely independent mother who never revealed the name of his biological father, Kent is a fine young man. But his very...
3) Original sin
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"Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a venerable London publishing house located in a dramatic mock-Venetian palace on the Thames. The victim is Gerard Etienne, the brilliant but ruthless new managing director, who had vowed to restore the firm's fortunes. Etienne was clearly a man with enemies - a discarded mistress, a rejected...
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The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer.
5) Finding moon
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An American undertakes a dangerous search in Asia for his Amerasian niece. When his brother is killed in a helicopter crash and the Vietnamese wife dies soon after, Mathias Moon, a Colorado newsman, flies to find the girl. In the course of the search -- from the teeming streets of Manila to the jungles of Cambodia -- Moon finds himself too.
6) Mind prey
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In the wake of the abduction of a woman and her two young daughters, deputy chief Lucas Davenport faces the most challenging case of his career, while the victim, psychiatrist Andi Manette, applies all her skills to outwit her captor.
12) Dead man's walk
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Lonesome Dove saga volume Prequel
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Dead Man's Walk is a powerful prequel to best-selling author Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are still teenagers when they enlist as Texas Rangers. Soon they are roaming the untamed West, coming of age while they cheat death. Under the command of a former pirate, the young men ride for Santa Fe, where the mission is to forcibly take the city out of Mexican hands.
13) The witness
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A woman flees across the South, pursued by people who want to kill her. She is Kendall Burnwood, witness to a racial murder committed by her husband, a newspaper editor. She has been summoned to testify at the trial and the family want to silence her.
14) Lightning
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1995.
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Alexandra Parker, a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, finds her successful career and long-time marriage turned upside down by a shattering medical misdiagnosis, while her retiree husband is haunted by his own ghosts and a career disaster, as he seeks a recall to his former workplace.
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Cat Who mysteries volume 17
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The affluent owner of a historic steam locomotive and private railcar disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose county investors. Journalist-detective Jim Quill probes the embezzlement with the aid of his Siamese sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum. The case is complicated by a train wreck and a murder in a railroad tavern.
16) The glass lake
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Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass until she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Helen McMahon, a Dubliner, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her genial pharmacist-husband Martin belonged, or their daughter Kit. Now Kit is haunted by the memory of her mother, seen through a window, alone at the kitchen table, tears streaming...
18) Self-defense
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Alex Delaware novels volume 9
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1995.
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A woman suffering from recurring nightmares sees a psychiatrist. He traces them back to a crime committed 20 years earlier and goes to the scene to obtain confirmation.
19) Moo
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Everyone at the large agricultural college dubbed Moo U has an agenda. Whether it's massaging data, running secret experiments, or seducing the powerful, each person is dedicated to a plan. As these agendas begin to collide, Moo trots toward a deliciously loony climax.
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Alex Cross novels volume 2
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Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider.
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