Alexander Adams
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Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, "A Farewell to Arms "is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this...
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When Alex encounters a lover from his past, she begs him to help her settle some personal problems, but Alex refuses, thinking their past will interfere with her therapy, but when she turns up dead, Alex begins to dig into her past and finds a childhood terror that destroyed the woman's life.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
4) Monster
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Alex Delaware novels volume 13
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A woman doctor is murdered in Los Angeles, her death predicted by the mumbling of a killer while in a drugged state. But the killer is locked in an asylum, he therefore must have an accomplice on the outside. Forensic psychologist Alex Delaware investigates.
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"Presented by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the author's son Patrick Hemingway, this enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supplementary material, including three previously uncollected short stories on war by one of history's greatest writers on the subject."--
6) On the road
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Follows the counterculture escapades of members of the Beat generation as they seek pleasure and meaning while traveling coast to coast. As he travels across 1950s America, aspiring writer Sal Paradise chronicles his escapades with the charismatic Dean Moriarty. Sal admires Dean's passion for experiencing as much as possible of life and his wild flights of poetic fancy.
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Two Supreme Court justices, one liberal and one conservative, are assassinated in one night. The country is stunned and baffled; the FBI has no clues. But Darby Shaw, a brilliant law student at Tulane, thinks she has the answer. Days of digging in the law library's computers have led her to an obscure connection between the two justices. She fleshes out her beliefs in a meticulous though wildly speculative brief that builds a strong case against a...
8) Blood test
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Alex Delaware novels volume 2
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It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life.
10) Devil's waltz
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Alex Delaware novels volume 7
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Called in as a consultant for a possible child-abuse case, child psychologist Alex Delaware begins to suspect that the hospital has come under the sway of Chuck Jones, the financial whiz administrator who seems overly interested in profits.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 10
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Psychologist Alex Delaware received an all-expenses-paid trip to the South Pacific in return for helping Dr. Moreland organize some paperwork, but secretive houseguests, midnight visitors, and Dr. Moreland's elusive personality soon reveal a shocking truth.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 6
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Twenty years after her actress mother, Gina, was irreparably scarred by a vengeful assailant, Melissa Dickson fears for her own and her mother's lives when the assailant is released from prison.
14) Pronto
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Raylan Givens thrillers volume 1
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Harry Arno, a profit-skimming Miami bookie who wants to retire to the Italian Riviera, becomes the fall guy in an FBI sting and is suddenly on an intercontinental run from lawmen and gangsters alike.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 11
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For three months, the police find no clues in the stabbing death of Hope Devane, the author of a pop-psychology bestseller. So they turn to Dr. Alex Delaware to study the case for insights that might point to a killer. As Alex unlocks the private compartments of Hope's life, the murder looks calculated and vengeful. A study of her childhood reveals that she kept secrets from everyone. It also helps Alex set a trap for the killer."Kellerman mines new...
17) Bad love
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Alex Delaware novels volume 8
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Child psychologist Alex Delaware returns in a story that begins with a childlike chant and finishes with Alex at the end of a chain of unexpected deaths.
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Alex Delaware novels volume 12
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Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware confronts an almost unimaginably cruel, arrogant and obsessed killer after the slightly retarded daughter of a diplomat is murdered on a school field trip.
19) Time bomb
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Alex Delaware novels volume 5
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt.
“Virtually impossible to put aside until the final horrifying showdown.”—People
While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy...
By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt.
“Virtually impossible to put aside until the final horrifying showdown.”—People
While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his therapy...
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Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 1
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Traces the youth of Anakin Skywalker, who emerges later as Darth Vader.