John Bedford Lloyd
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Is there really such thing as a lucky charm? The hero of Nicholas Sparks's new novel believes he's found one in the form of a photograph of a smiling woman he's never met, but who he comes to believe holds the key to his destiny. The chain of events that leads to him possessing the photograph and finding the woman pictured in it is the stuff of love stories.
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Kindle County novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2020.
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"At 85 years old, Alejandro "Sandy" Stern, a brilliant defense lawyer with his health failing but spirit intact, is on the brink of retirement. But when his old friend Dr. Kiril Pafko, a former Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, is faced with charges of insider trading, fraud, and murder, his entire life's work is put in jeopardy, and Stern decides to take on one last trial. In a case that will provide the defining coda to both men's accomplished lives,...
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Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
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"Dodge City, Kansas, is a place of legend. The town that started as a small military site exploded with the coming of the railroad, cattle drives, eager miners, settlers, and various entrepreneurs passing through to populate the expanding West. Before long, Dodge City's streets were lined with saloons and brothels and its populace was thick with gunmen, horse thieves, and desperadoes of every sort. By the 1870s, Dodge City was known as the most violent...
6) Blue heaven
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
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10 CDs (ca. 12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
8) The pioneers
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
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8 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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Set in 1920s Paris, A Moveable Feast is a memoir of Ernest Hemingway's expatriate years in France, including details of the cafes, restaurants, and apartments he frequented. Scattered throughout his narrative are cameos by other prominent expatriates, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
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10 CDs (11 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Included are three short stories on war-by one of history's greatest writers on the subject-that were never published in any print or audio collection before 2019: “A Room on the Garden Side,” “Indian Country and the White Army,” and “The Monument.” Also featured here are almost twenty stories from The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: “One Trip Across,” “The Tradesman's Return,” “The Denunciation,” “The Butterfly...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
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9 CDs (10 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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It is remarkable now to imagine, but during the 1870s, the American West, for all its cloud-topped peaks and endless coastline, might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad had made history by linking East and West, but, relying heavily on federal grants, it left an opening for two brash new railroad men, the Civil War hero behind the Rio Grande and the corporate chieftain of the Santa Fe,...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019.
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3 CDs (2 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. It is Hemingway's reflections on the nature of the writer and on elements of the writer's life, including specific and helpful advice to writers on the craft of writing, work habits, and discipline. The Hemingway personality comes through in general wisdom, wit, humor, and insight, as does his insistence on the integrity...
13) John Adams
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While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
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Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized — and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-century
feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not...
feudal France.
Imagine the risks of such a journey.
Not...