For Jon and Erin Bennett, the world seems to be spinning dangerously out of control, and in the wake of a horrific war in the Middle East, President James MacPherson's second term is coming to an end, but now the battle to succeed him is heating up into one of the most fiercely contested presidentia ...
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Hoping to lose those extra pounds in order to arrange a face-to-face meeting with the British hunk she met online and to win a big cash prize to pay for the slinky new clothes she yearns to wear, Kat Larson signs up to become a contestant on the new reality show, From Fat to Fabulous. A first novel. ...
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Counterterrorism ops Mitch Rapp and his protigi Mike Nash come head to head with Al Qaeda terrorist cells, as well as Washington with its covert activities. In his tenth book, Vince Flynn pulls off another zooming, exhilarating political thriller.
In book number six from Sherrilyn Kenyon's bestselling B.A.D. series, an agent is asked to investigate a dangrous crime ring, only to find her suspects being murdered by what many call a "phantom".
Recovering from a showdown with a master terrorist in Jerusalem, art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon is enlisted by a ruthless papal secretary to assist in the investigation of a murdered Swiss guard whose killer may be targeting the pope. By the author of <IT>Prince of Fire. <RO>Reprint.
Ashley Baxter keeps her family and God at a distance trying to prove she can survive on her own, until the tragedy of September 11 changes her life forever. Book available.
A New England boarding school is rocked in the wake of a sex scandal in which participants were caught on videotape, a situation that derails the innocence and best intentions of students, parents, and others in life-shattering ways. (General Fiction)
Angry and humiliated after his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in understanding by learning to read and in courage with the help of his devoted dog, Sounder. Read by Avery Brooks. Book available.
Recalled to service in Israel after terrorists steal secrets about his past, art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon finds himself stalking an elusive master terrorist in a deadly cat-and-mouse game. By the author of The Kill Artist and A Death in Vienna. Reprint.
Jodi Picoult has a knack for turning hot-button contemporary issues into morally troubling and fiercely paced bestsellers. She follows up the phenomenal success of MY SISTER'S KEEPER with NINETEEN MINUTES, a complex and disturbing novel about high-school shootings.
The author of The Stananic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mistaken for a heroic World Trade Center victim, financial manager Eric Michaels, who is suffering from amnesia, struggles to relate to a family he does not remember, while his real wife, believing herself a widow, is comforted by her adoring brother-in-law. Original.
Seeking to gain independence from his benefactor, Ebenezer Scrooge, Timothy Cratchit loses himself in the underworld of 1860s London, where the discovery of two murdered girls prompts him to protect a third would-be victim and follow leads to a dangerous force. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50, ...
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Set during the Depression in the depleted farmloads surrounding Augustus, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932. It is the story of the Lesters, a family of destitute white sharecroppers debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness.
In the sequel to Separation of Power, CIA operative Mitch Rapp, on domestic assignment after his high-profile mission to Iraq, finds himself investigating an attack on a team of Navy SEALs in the Philippines, searching for a possible State Department traitor, and racing against time to stop a Middle ...
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Leaving her charmed life in Florida behind to move to Manhattan with her boyfriend and to star in a reality TV show called Party Girls, Sunny Langstein, posing as a single woman of the world, finds herself transformed into a media sensation, forcing her to choose between fame and true love.
<B>A compassionate tale of friends lost and found.</B><BR><I>The Teddy Bear had a good home . . . a warm, cozy place to sleep . . . many friends . . . and someone who loved him. </I><BR>The little boy and his teddy bear were always together. Every night, when the little boy went to sleep, his teddy ...
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Having disowned his youngest son for the latter's decision to join the Marines and marry a girl from the city, successful Massachusetts painter Todd is devastated by his son's death in Iraq, after which he struggles to understand his son's life and anticipates a fatherless grandchild's birth.
A momentous bestseller when it was first published in 1949, John O’Hara’s sprawling novel <b>A Rage to Live</b> offers up a gorgeous pageant of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness. These memorable ch ...
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Janet is divorced from teenage Wendy's father and happily remarried to a musician. Life is good. Then Janet is killed in the World Trade Center disaster, and Wendy's life falls apart on all levels, including the appearance of her father, who wants custody, and whisks her away to California before sh ...
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On September 11, 2001, two sisters from South Africa find a good use for the roses they have grown when the flower show in New York City is canceled due to the attack on the World Trade Center.
4 Compact Discs / 6 HoursRead by David Dukes(Also available on cassette)Tom Clancys most shocking story to date - and closer to reality than any government would care to admit.Over the course of nine novels, Tom Clancy's "genius for big, compelling plots" and his "natural narrative gift" (The New Yo ...
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Orwell vividly and movingly details his experience of appalling poverty and hardship while he struggles to become a writer. Orwell spent nearly two years toiling in the revolting kitchens of the chic Hotel Lotti on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris--years in which he developed a loathing for the very rich. ...
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Fourteen-year-old Raspberry Hill tries to sort out her confused feelings of disgust, shame, and love for her homeless, drug addicted father and worries that she may have inherited his lying and stealing ways.
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear. Reprint.
Follows the efforts of American and British counterterrorist agents to identify and take out an Al Qaeda terrorist who has secured his release from the Guantanamo prison and who is hiding in a remote desert outpost while plotting to bomb a western city. Reprint.