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28461) Gentle rogue
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When Georgina Anderson sails to London in search of her fiance and finds him happily married to someone else, she dresses as a cabin boy aboard a ship bound for America and falls for the ship's arrogant owner.
28462) The clocks
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Time is ticking away for a murderer in Agatha Christie's classic, The Clocks, as Hercule Poirot investigates the strange case of a corpse surrounded by numerous timepieces in a blind woman's house.
Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent—not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in
...28463) Where are the children?
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"Nancy Harmon had fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, the hostile front-page newspaper stories and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her red hair sable brown, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now she was married again, had two more beautiful children, and the terrible pain had begun to heal ... until the morning when she looked in the back yard...
28464) "B" is for burglar
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California private eye Kinsey Millhone takes on a case where nothing seems to add up-one apartment burgled of worthless papers, another mindlessly ransacked and destroyed, a house destroyed by arson and a woman brutally slain.
28465) The Corinthian
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Young Regency heiress runs away from a marriage and finds as her protector a "Corinthian" or man-about-town.
28466) A civil contract
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Georgette Heyer, the bestselling Queen of Regency Romance, brings her extraordinary plots and characterizations to an unexpected and delightful marriage of convenience love story.
Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife?
Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home
...28467) Goldfinger
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James Bond ; 7
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"Auric Goldfinger is the richest man in Englandthough his wealth cant be found in banks. Hes been hoarding vast stockpiles of his namesake metal, and its attracted the suspicion of 007s superiors at MI6. Sent to investigate, Bond uncovers an ingenious gold-smuggling scheme, as well as Goldfingers most daring caper yet: Operation Grand Slam, a gold heist so audacious it could bring down the world economy and put the fate of the West in the hands of...
28468) A cry in the night
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When Jenny MacPartland met dashing artist Erich Krueger, he seemed like the answer to her prayers. Handsome, good with her two daughters, he only wanted to whisk her away from her poverty-stricken life. But when she married him and moved to his ranch, Jenny began to worry. Stumbling across old family secrets, Jenny finds the shocking truth that lies behind a string of deaths--and fears she and her children may be next.
28469) Ramona the pest
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"Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled." --
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Eerie illustrations enhance a blood-curdling edition of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most-celebrated Sherlock Holmes mystery, bringing its delicious shivers to a new generation of readers. Is it true that a hellish hound is haunting the lonely moors, hunting down the hapless Baskervilles through the generations? If anyone can put this chilling legend to rest, it's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It seems the body of the latest owner of the Baskerville...
28472) Word of honor
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"Sixteen years after the Vietnam war corporate executive Ben Tyson thought he had put the horror of the war behind him, allegations of a civilian massacre by soldiers under his command brings him to trial." --
28473) Galloway
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Sacketts ; 14
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Louis L’Amour tells the story of two brothers who must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future.
Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their...
Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their...
28474) The unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
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A widowed matron decides to pursue her lifelong desire to be a spy, finds herself useful to the CIA, and successfully completes an assignment which takes her from New Jersey to Mexico City to Albania.
28476) To kill a mockingbird
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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages.
28477) Jurassic Park
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An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests.
28478) The charm school
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The disappearance in Moscow of American Greg Fisher prompts U.S. embassy and CIA agents to the discovery of a Soviet conspiracy that could devastate the West.
28479) Tender rebel
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Fall in love with the Malorys -- an unforgettable family of dashing rogues, rakehell adventurers, and beautiful ladies of incomparable spirit -- created by #1 bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, a master storyteller who spins romantic fiction like no other.
Scottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick needs the safety of marriage to protect her from an unscrupulous cousin and the fortune -- hunting scoundrels who covet her wealth. And Anthony Malory is precisely...
28480) A wizard of Earthsea
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When Sparrowhawk, a young student at the School for Wizards, becomes overanxious and tries his dangerous powers too soon, he unleashes a terrible evil throughout the land.
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