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The Cay The Cay
Theodore Taylor

Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand – until the freighter he and his mother are...

Hard Times Hard Times
Charles Dickens

Originally written for Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, this short novel follows the fate of Sissy Jupe, a warm-hearted circus child, and the family that adopts her. Deserted by...

Oedipus the King Oedipus the King
Sophocles

FULLY DRAMATISED

This new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece starts a cycle of drama. recordings by Naxos AudioBooks. The anguished tale of Oedpus, who having...

The Unbidden Truth The Unbidden Truth
Kate Wilhelm

When a well-bred client hires Barbara Holloway to defend a young woman pianist accused of murder, the tough, tenacious attorney becomes convinced of the woman’s innocence. But her determination to get...
Four of a Kind Four of a Kind
Gilbert Morris

Reverand Alvin Flatt has something that New Orleans' most notorious mobster wants, but he's not about to give it up without the fight of his life. In the good pastors mind there is no room for...

The Seventh Sinner The Seventh Sinner
Elizabeth Peters

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of all her dreams-until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra....

The Last Battle The Last Battle
C. S. Lewis

One last battle against evil, one final journey to the magical land of Narnia.

Narnia...where the last king makes a stand and sad farewells turn to joy...where the Adventure begins...

Incubus Dreams Incubus Dreams
Laurell K. Hamilton

As consultant to the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Unit, Anita's called in on what appears to be a case involving a serial killer - a vampire serial killer - who may be preying on...
Life Sentence Life Sentence
David Ellis

Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politician - also his childhood best friend - who is running for governor. The two have shared political success and undying loyalty. They also share a dark...
Shadow Men Shadow Men
Jonathon King

It begins with an 80-year-old mystery. Three men - a father and his two sons - vanished while working as laborers on a dangerous project to build the first road through the Florida Everglades. Now,...

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Without Fail Without Fail
Lee Child

Jack Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States," she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the...
Tombstone Courage Tombstone Courage
J. A. Jance

As newly elected Sheriff of Chochise County, Joanna Brady is faced with two murders, committed years apart, that are apparently hiding a prominent family's secret.

H. M. S. Surprise H. M. S. Surprise
Patrick O'Brian

Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India...

Reckless Abandon Reckless Abandon
Stuart Woods

Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City; but this time he is joined by the tenacious Holly Barker from Orchid Blues, the lady police chief of Orchid Island, Florida. In Reckless...
Deep Black Deep Black
Stephen Coonts

A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out-the...
The Last Camel Died At Noon The Last Camel Died At Noon
Elizabeth Peters

The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool,...

Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
Paul Strathern

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how...

The Tutor The Tutor
Peter Abrahams

When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled teenage son Brandon, Julian seems like the answer to a prayer. He's bright, courteous, refined, and connects with Brandon in a...
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Roald Dahl

Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket is back for another adventure. When the giant elevator picks up speed, Charlie, Willy...
Shoot / Don't Shoot Shoot / Don't Shoot
J. A. Jance

A vigilante killer is depositing his partially clad victims in the cool Arizona desert, terrifying even the most intrepid of area women.


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City at the End of Time City at the End of Time
Greg Bear

In a time like the present, three young people dream of the fabulous ruins of a decaying city somewhere in the distant future: the Kalpa. The dreams of Ginny and Jack overtake them without warning,...

Darkest Fear Darkest Fear
Harlan Coben

Manhattan sports agent Myron Bolitar is shocked when his former college lover informs him he is the father of her 13-year-old son, who has anemia. But the girlfriend—now inimically divorced from her...

Love & Lies Love & Lies
Kimberla Lawson Roby

Best friends Charlotte and Janine have serious problems with their love lives. Charlotte's husband, the flashy preacher Curtis Black, may keep her living in luxury, but his book tours and evangelism...

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Kate Atkinson

On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever ... On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective Jackson...

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James Patterson

Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror.

Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and...

Descent into Chaos Descent into Chaos
Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid is the voice of reason amid the chaos of Central Asia today. His unique knowledge of this complex, war-torn region gives him a panoramic vision and grasp of nuance that no Western writer...
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It's the day before Mike Frame's fiftieth birthday and his quiet provincial life is suddenly falling apart. But perhaps it doesn't matter, because it's not his life in the first place. He has a past...

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Jordan Dayne

They never found her sister's body, but Detective Rebecca Montgomery knows her murderer is still out there. In the five months since Danielle went missing, there have been two more brutal...

Sea of Poppies Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh

At the heart of this vibrant saga is an immense ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its purpose to fight China's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for...
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Ian Rankin

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he is sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known as "resurrection men," he joins a...
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Terry Goodkind

Terry Goodkind returns to the epic Sword of Truth saga in a tale of sweeping fantasy adventure bound to enthrall his growing legion of fans. In Temple of the Winds, the New York Times bestselling...
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Suzanne Brockmann

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann knows exactly what makes hearts race and pulses pound: peril and passion. No one succeeds more brilliantly at blending these exhilarating elements in...
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Henry David Thoreau

Originally entitled "Resistance to Civil Government," the classic libertarian essay on self-reliance advocating the active refusal to disobey unjust laws.
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One of the great innovative figures in American letters, Walt Whitman created a daring new kind of poetry that became a major force in world literature. His poems have been woven into the very...

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Young David Balfour escapes on the high seas to return to Scotland.
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The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner - and who volunteered at Ford's - is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched cops...
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On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break into a house they believe is empty. It isn't, and within minutes an old woman is dead and the house is in flames. Soon after, the men...
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John Bunyan

Next to The Bible, The Pilgrim's Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language-and rightfully so. It is considered by most critics as the...

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New York City: A thirteen-year-old boy named Tyler lies in a hospital, his brain damaged in a tragic accident. By his bedside, his father stands helplessly, as two very different scientists take charge...

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Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins...

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