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Flight: A Novel of Suspense

Flight: A Novel of Suspense

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Hot off the publication of "Bones," the winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, Jan Burke explodes onto the suspense scene with "Flight," featuring the hard-edged Detective Frank Harriman,...
Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Novel

Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Novel

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Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl is a wonderfully intelligent, sexually frank, rollicking novel that introduces us to Nancy Chan, a turn-of-the-millennium call girl who lives and works on the...
Jewels

Jewels

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Geeta: The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna

Geeta: The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna

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The Gospel of the Lord Shri Krishna put into English by Shri Purohit Swami.'A beautiful rendering, and gives the reader a clearer and more truthful impression of what the Indian...
Philadelphia: A Novel

Philadelphia: A Novel

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Based on the screenplay of the major motion picture of the same name, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, and directed by Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme. A hot shot...
Spin Cycle: A Novel

Spin Cycle: A Novel

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Her husband left her for another man. Her boyfriend may be cheating. Her mother's got a secret. Is everyone having great sex but Rachel? Lately, stand-up comic Rachel Katz's life...
Capital Crimes

Capital Crimes

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Someone is out to kill the nation's high-level politicos in this electrifying new thriller in the bestselling Will Lee series. Will Lee, the courageous and uncompromising senator from Georgia, is...
Orchid Blues

Orchid Blues

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Holly is on her way to be married to Jackson Oxenhandler, her steady beau, when her wedding day is shattered by a serious crime that takes place very close to...

Hollowpoint

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Brooklyn prosecutor Andrew Giobberti can still remember himself as a father, as a husband, and as the chief of the Homicide Bureau, working out of a hard city's hardest precincts....
The Long Firm

The Long Firm

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London. The 1960s. The capital is swinging, but underneath the boomtown there's a dark underbelly. Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan....
Bet ME

Bet ME

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Iris

Iris

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Hell's Kitchen

Hell's Kitchen

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK . . .Cyrus is a millionaire recluse. Oh, and a serial killer. His first victims are Gus and Susie Niedermeyer, newlywed out-of-towners looking for a home...
Crazy For You

Crazy For You

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A comedy, thriller and crime novel all at onceAdultery, theft, stalking, gossip, seduction . . . and dog-napping. Just another day in Tibbett, Ohio. Quinn McKenzie is living what she...
The Nanny Diaries: A Novel

The Nanny Diaries: A Novel

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Wanted: One young woman to take care of four-year-old boy. Must be cheerful, enthusiastic and selfless-bordering on masochistic Must relish sixteen-hour shifts with a deliberately nap-deprived pre-schooler Must love getting...
Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay

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The latest novel from Australia's most popular, and award-winning romantic suspense writer, Helene Young. Photojournalist Ellie Wilding has been running from her past, but when the residents of Half Moon...
The Good Wife

The Good Wife

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Step into a very public marriage, in the compulsive novel from the bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now...
One-hit Wonder

One-hit Wonder

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Sophisticated new reissue of the bestseller's emotional, intriguing novel about a quest to uncover a sister's past Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 - and was never...
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

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As she works her way from defiant teenager to reluctant career girl, growing older and getting smarter, Jane manoeuvres her way through love, sex, relationships, and the occasional perils of...
Heat Wave

Heat Wave

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Teresa's passionate love for Maurice fills her mother with dread. During the long hot summer, Pauline finds herself remembering the way that her possessive passion for Teresa's father eroded her...
Maximum Ride: Nevermore

Maximum Ride: Nevermore

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In the beginning, there was maximum ride...A girl. A Fighter. A Leader. A superhuman with a mission to save the world. She's gone to the ends of the earthseeking her...
Assistants

Assistants

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In a tale told from rotating viewpoints, five personal assistants to abusive Hollywood celebrities meet weekly at an unfashionable bar to commiserate, until a series of personal injustices prompts them...
The Run

The Run

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Will Lee, the hero of the acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Chiefs and Grossroots, has finally established himself at the heart of American government as the respected senator from his...
Swimming to Catalina

Swimming to Catalina

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New York Times bestselling author Stuart Woods kept a nation of readers glued to their seats as one of his best-loved characters, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan attorney and investigator Stone Barrington, battled a...
Why Mummy Swears

Why Mummy Swears

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The hilarious second novel, and Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller, from author of the smash hit Why Mummy Drinks. Monday, 25 July The first day of the holidays. I suppose...
The End of Miss Kind

The End of Miss Kind

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A noirish Hollywood murder mystery, from the acclaimed author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line A Hollywood screenwriter is brought to write up the grisly murder of a middle-aged,...
Capricornia

Capricornia

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Author: Xavier HerbertBinding: HardbackPublished: The Discovery Press., 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsSet against the harsh, beautiful landscape of...
Far and Wide, Nine Novels, Volume 1

Far and Wide, Nine Novels, Volume 1

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Author: W. Somerset MaughamBinding: HardbackPublished: THE COMPANION BOOK CLUB, 1955Condition:Book: AcceptableJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Name on page 2. This collection...
Mrs Harris Mp

Mrs Harris Mp

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Author: Paul GallicoBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1965Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerMrs Harris Mp presents a delightful tale of an ordinary woman's extraordinary...
The Four-Legged Lottery

The Four-Legged Lottery

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Author: Frank HardyBinding: HardbackPublished: T Werner Laurie., 1958Condition:Book: PoorJacket: DamagedPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Soiled DJ with some tears, tanning and foxing throughout entire book.This compelling narrative, The...
The Dizzying Heights

The Dizzying Heights

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In this 7th book of the highly acclaimed Grafton Everest Series, our indolent hero, Professor Dr Everest (former lecturer in Lifestyles and Wellbeing at the University of Mangoland) is surprised...
Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure

Going Out Backwards: A Grafton Everest Adventure

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Bumbling Mangoland academic, Professor Dr Grafton Everest, has been elected to the Australian Senate, without really knowing why, and due to the influx of weird Independents, finds himself holding the...
Brodeck's Report: WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE

Brodeck's Report: WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE

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Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2010 A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. From his village in post-war France, Brodeck...
Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

Attention. Deficit. Disorder.

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An impressive debut from a major new voice in American fiction. Days after his ex-girlfriend's suicide, Wayne flies to San Francisco for her funeral. When he learns that she aborted...
The Hummingbird House

The Hummingbird House

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When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -- a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped...
A WAG Abroad

A WAG Abroad

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You can take the WAG out of Luton but you can't take Luton out of the WAG.... Tracie Martin is back! But this time everyone's favourite Wag is in LA,...