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1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel

by Anne Holt

Published: 2012-08-07

Paperback: 313 pages

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A train on its way to the northern reaches of Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers head for a nearby hotel, centuries old and practically empty. With plenty of food and shelter from the storm, the evacuees think they are safe, until one of ...

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1225 Christmas Tree Lane (Cedar Cove)

by Debbie Macomber

Published: 2011-09-27

Hardcover: 288 pages

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The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local ve...

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127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

by Aron Ralston

Published: 2010-10-26

Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages

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THE ?EXTRAORDINARY? (Booklist) #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER?THE ?HARROWING? (The Washington Post) SURVIVOR?S MEMOIR YOU WILL NEVER FORGET Aron Ralston, an experienced twenty-seven-year-old outdoorsman, was on a day's solitary hike through a remote and narrow Utah canyon when he dislodged an...

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12th of Never (Women's Murder Club)

by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

Published: 2013-12-24

Paperback: 432 pages

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It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby daughter is born! While Lindsay and Joe are at home in bliss, San Francisco gets hit with multiple killings. An eccentric English professor has been having vivid night...

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13 1/2

by Nevada Barr

Published: 2009-09-29

Hardcover: 320 pages

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In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the ?Butcher Boy? incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide.Now, in present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads ...

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13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

by Walter Moers

Published: 2006-08-29

Paperback: 704 pages

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"A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest," says the narrator of Walter Moers's epic adventure. "What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll,...

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13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

by Simon Johnson, James Kwak

Published: 2010-03-30

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Even after the ruinous financial crisis of 2008, America is still beset by the depredations of an oligarchy that is now bigger, more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever. Anchored by six megabanks?Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and...

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13 Little Blue Envelopes

by Maureen Johnson

Published: 2006-10-01

Paperback: 338 pages

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Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket. In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat. The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist. Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called K...

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13 Steps Down

by Ruth Rendell

Published: 2006-06-06

Paperback: 340 pages

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Mix Cellini has just moved into a flat in a decaying house in Nottinghill, where he plans to pursue his two abiding passions--supermodel Nerissa Nash, whom he worships from afar, and the life of serial killer Reggie Christie, hanged fifty years earlier for murdering at least eight women. G...

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13, rue Thérèse: A Novel

by Elena Mauli Shapiro

Published: 2011-02-02

Hardcover: 288 pages

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American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of artifacts from World War I as he settles into his new office in Paris. The pictures, letters, and objects in the box relate to the life of Louise Brunet, a feisty, charming Frenchwoman who lived through both World Wars. As Trevor ...