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Overview: First published in Italy in 1957 amidst international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Here is a masterful chronicle of its outbreak and the consequences: army revolts, irrational killings, starvation, epidemics, Communist Party inquisitions. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself...
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It's not that used bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr believes the less legal of his two professions is particularly ethical. (It is, however, a rush, and he is very good at it.) He just thinks it's unfair to face a prison term for his legitimate activities. After appraising the worth of a rich man's library — conveniently leaving his fingerprints everywhere in the process — Bernie finds he's the cops' prime suspect
...4) Tiger prince
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Escaping from her high-pressure Washington job and a painful divorce, Caren Blakemore finds romance with Derek Allen, a mysterious man hiding from a scandal-hungry press, but she soon discovers that their affair has painful repercussions.
6) Black market
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From the author of the #1 bestseller Along Came a Spider comes an explosive tale of terrorism on Wall Street. When an elite terrorist group marks Wall Street for destruction, a powerful anti-terrorist man/woman team races from Manhattan to Paris to the Oval Office to circumvent the plot.
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Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum adjust to being fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwilleran samples the life styles of the rich and famous by hiring a staff of eccentric servants. When the maid disappears, Koko and Jim look for clues.
9) Surrender
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At four and twenty Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters ... until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale. But becoming Stonevale's companion in adventure was a far more dangerous undertaking than Victoria could ever imagine.
10) Palindrome
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For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. This time it takes an emergency room to keep her from death. Now, the beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia's coast to find solitude--and herself.
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When Qwill rents Euphonia Gage's mansion in Moose County, he and Koko discover fifteen closets jammed with junk. But what starts out as junk soon turns into something more. Word comes that Euphonia is dead, an apparent suicide. Why would someone as happy as Euphonia kill herself? And what is the connection between the Gage family and dead potato farmer Gil Inchpot? Can Qwill and the cats uncover a family secret before the winter yields another dead...
13) Family blessings
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The classic New York Times bestseller.
Lee Reston has a fulfilling life imbued with the love of her three wonderful children. Then a shattering event-the loss of her oldest son, Greg-tears her world apart. In her anguish, she turns to police officer Christopher Lallek, Greg's best friend. Their shared mourning develops into friendship, and then something deeper. But life is never simple. The family that was once the core of her...
Lee Reston has a fulfilling life imbued with the love of her three wonderful children. Then a shattering event-the loss of her oldest son, Greg-tears her world apart. In her anguish, she turns to police officer Christopher Lallek, Greg's best friend. Their shared mourning develops into friendship, and then something deeper. But life is never simple. The family that was once the core of her...
15) Missing Joseph
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When the vicar who has given her so much support is found dead, Deborah St. James begins a journey of personal discovery in order to find out who is responsible--Novelist.
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Proulx has followed Postcards , her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea. The fulcrum is Quoyle, a patient, self-deprecating, oversized hack writer who, following the deaths of nasty parents and a succubus of a wife, moves with his two daughters and straight-thinking aunt back to the ancestral manse in Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town of no great distinction. There, Quoyle finds...
18) The bingo palace
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[1994]
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"Louise Erdrich's brilliant novels of contemporary Native American and Midwestern life have brought her legions of fans and great critical acclaim. Here, in her latest and most luminescent work in the series begun with Love Medicine, the central character is Lipsha Morrissey, the illegitimate son of June Kashpaw and Gerry Nanapush. Lipsha brings together in his birth, rearing, and inheritance all of the major families from Erdrich's previous books,...
19) Happy endings
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Raven a glamerous, high powered attorney with a haunting past meets Nicholas an assumed "gardener" while her client Jason restles with a writer who feel his adaptation of her story may not the happy ending she intended.
20) The intruders
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Lieutenant Jake Grafton, the hero of Flight of the Intruder, turns teacher, training Marine aviators on the aircraft carrier, Columbia, and finding them a little too arrogant for his liking. The highlight of the novel comes when Grafton is shot down and captured by pirates.
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