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Viktor is an aspiring writer with only Misha, his pet penguin, for company. Although he would prefer to write short stories, he earns a living composing obituaries for a newspaper. He longs to see his work published, yet the subjects of his obituaries continue to cling to life. But when he opens the newspaper to see his work in print for the first time, his pride swiftly turns to terror. He and Misha have been drawn into a trap from which there appears...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
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209 pages ; 21 cm
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The former president of an unnamed Latin American country receives a journalist in his famed gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe, and wonders if he should share a strange secret of a long-ago imprisonment and a loud-mouth frog.
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St. Martin Press
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[1995]
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392 pages ; 24 cm
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The body of a young black naval officer is found chained in the boiler of a mothballed battleship in Philadelphia. Naval investigators Dan Collins and Grace Snow discover a link to a hushed sex scandal involving a senior naval officer and a young lieutenant. The discovery puts both their lives in peril. By the author of The Edge of Honor.
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Anchor Books
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[2007]
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768 pages ; 21 cm
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Set in the fictional Free Republic of Aburiria, Wizard of the Crow dramatizes with corrosive humor and keenness of observation a battle for the souls of the Aburirian people, between a megalomaniac dictator and an unemployed young man who embraces the mantle of a magician.
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Goose Harbor volume 6
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Claire Atwood is about to make all her dreams come true. With her newly adopted son, Claire's back in Goose Harbor, running for mayor and going toe-to-toe with Evan Danielsthe man who left her at the altar twelve years ago. But she refuses to let their history get in the way of her future. Evan's come a long way from the poor teenager Claire's powerful father intimidated. And he can't help noticing Claire's grown into a beautiful woman and caring...
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Dre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful political consultant, his aggressive tactics have put him on thin ice with his boss, Mrs. Fitz, who plucked him from juvenile incarceration and mentored his career. She exiles him to the backwoods of South Carolina with $250,000 of dark money to introduce a ballot initiative on behalf of a mining company. The goal: to manipulate the locals into voting to sell their pristine public land to the...
11) Halcyon: a novel
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2023.
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Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
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1 online resource
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Don't miss the #1 New York TimesThe President Is MissingSet over the course of three days, The President Is Missing #1 New York TimesPittsburgh Post-GazetteSunday Times (London)"Ambitious and wildly readable." -- New York Times Book Review
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Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department...
14) Six angry girls
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Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group
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2020.
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264 pages ; 22 cm
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"Raina Petree is crushing her senior year, until her boyfriend dumps her, the drama club (basically) dumps her, the college of her dreams slips away, and her arch-nemesis triumphs. Things aren't much better for Millie Goodwin. Her father treats her like a servant, and the all-boy Mock Trial team votes her out, even after she spent the last three years helping to build its success. But then, an advice columnist unexpectedly helps Raina find new purpose...
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Alfaguara
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2022.
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260 pages ; 24 cm.
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"1971. The small American town of Camel City is shaken when the heiress to a billionaire empire disappears from her room in an exclusive boarding school for young girls. Her neighbor down the hall, a Mexican named Rosario Navarro, could be involved. While the political climate rarefies, the police follow clues increasingly ominous. 1973. In Sinaloa, law professor Bernardo Ayala tries to dissuade his students from enlisting in the ranks of the Liga...
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Evan Reed mystery volume 2
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Tim Donovan is a Catholic priest with a guilty conscience-though not in the way you'd guess. And Katherine Donne is a Parisian socialite who long ago kicked her self-respect to the curb-for good and for ill. And much closer, we have a group of men whose fortunes, graying temples and positions in life are distinguished and enviable. But their morals? Anything but. And that's where Evan Reed comes in. Evan (short for Evangeline) is a highly principled...
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Jack Logan novels volume 1
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-- is a provocative, pulse-pounding novel that dares to ask the question: who's really in charge?
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
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1 online resource
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“Teddy Wayne has written a brilliant book. Karim Issar is one of the freshest, funniest heroes I’ve come across in a long time.” — Ben Fountain, bestselling author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara— Kathryn Davis, author of The Thin Place, Hell: A Novel, Kapitoil provides an absorbing look into American culture and New York finance from an outsider’s perspective.
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2017.
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, a love story that unfolds in a world being irrevocably transformed by migration. In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, thrust into premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city. When it...
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