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First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...
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When her fiancé dies exactly as described in one of her novels, mystery writer Harriet Vane becomes the prime suspect. Can Lord Peter Wimsey find the real poisoner in time to save her from the gallows? Impossible, it seems. The Crown's case is watertight. The police are adamant. The judge's summing-up is clear: Harriet Vane is guilty. But Lord Peter is determined to find her innocent - as determined as he is to make her his wife.
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Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its aftermath, chose a hiking trip rather than the comforting presence of Lored Peter Wimsey as a remedy, until, on an empty beach, on a lonely rock, she saw a clump of seaweed which turned out t obe the body of a bearded young man, with his throat cut. Apparently his death was recent. Unable to move the body by herself, Harriet (detective story writer that she was) photographed the corpse and...
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Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
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Jack Savage, a former Royal Marine Commando, is approached by shipping magnate Dimitri Aleko to mastermind a breakout from the island prison of Sinos. Savage will do anything for money until he falls in love with a beautiful woman who becomes a pawn in Aleko's deadly game of international intrigue.
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The stories of a young veterinarian making his way in the rugged English countryside?and of the people and animals he met along the way? In the rolling dales of Yorkshire, a simple, rural region of northern England, a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice. A stranger in a strange land, he must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and...
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Anne Rivers Siddons is well-loved for her evocative and revealing portraits of Southern women coming into their own. In Heartbreak Hotel, she brings to the reader a young woman coming-of-age in the South of the 1950s-amid the racial revolution and the strife of a humid Alabama summer.
10) Now and forever
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After a faithless encounter with another woman, Ian Clarke struggles to rebuild his marriage.
11) A pirate's love
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Bettina Verlaine sets sail to fulfill her promise to marry the count she has never met, but en route, the spellbinding pirate Tristan wins her heart, inspiring a love that must be consumated at any cost.
13) Sphinx
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The treasures of Tutankhamen have enthralled the world for half a century. In Robin Cook's Sphinx, even this fabulous hoard pales to insignificance when a young Harvard Egyptologist stumbles across the unplundered tomb of a pharaoh who ruled after Tut. Mesmerized by a centuries-old statue in a Cairo antique shop, Erica Baron believes she has found the key to the untapped treasure. But how is she to decipher the riddle of the ancient relic without...
14) Crossfire trail
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Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch in Wyoming for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.
15) Loving
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Eighteen-year-old Bettina lived a fairytale existence of luxury. Then in one tragic moment her father was dead, and Bettina discovered he had run up millions in debt. A wealthy publisher of sixty-two offered a way out: marriage. What lay ahead for Bettina was a life filled with shocks and surprises.
17) A gentle feuding
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Duty demands that Sheena, the beautiful jewel of the Fergusson clan, wed to end the violent feud that has devastated her family. But never could she give herself completely to the handsome and dangerous laird Jamie MacKinnion - the most feared man in the Scottish highlands.
The captive prize of Jamie's sword, Sheena struggles in vain to escape the desire awakened by his touch. And though pride insists she hate her dashing enemy, Sheena's heart...
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All of England rejoiced at the marriage of Gavin Montgomery to the heiress Judith--all except Judith herself. At the altar, Gavin looked deep into his bride's eyes and burned with desire for her...but his heart had been pledged to another. Alone in a strange castle, Judith resolved to hate this husband who took her body but rejected her love...though she would never admit her fear of losing him. But destiny held another fate for Judith--a fate more...
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B is for Burglar, from Sue Grafton's #1 New York Times bestselling Kinsey Millhone Alphabet mystery series
Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be
20) Counterfeit lady
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Nicole was a passionate French beauty, kidnapped by mistake and swept accross turbulent seas...to be the bride of a stranger. In eighteenth-century Virginia, the lush lands embraced the rivers that bounded the great plantations. There Clayton awaited his English lady...but when he showered his bride with ardent kisses, the woman he found in his arms was Nicole Courtalain!
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