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Blowback: A Vanessa Pierson Novel

by Valerie Plame, Sarah Lovett

Published: 2014-10-07

Paperback: 400 pages

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Introducing Blowback, an exhilarating new espionage thriller by former CIA ops officer Valerie Plame and thriller writer Sarah Lovett. Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing Bhoot, the world’s most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer. One of her ass...

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Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)

by Thomas Mann

Published: 1995-08-10

Paperback: 80 pages

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One of the most famous literary works of the 20th century, the novella "Death in Venice" embodies themes that preoccupied Thomas Mann (1875–1955) in much of his work; the duality of art and life, the presence of death and disintegration in the midst of existence, the connection between l...

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Death in Venice (A Norton Critical Edition)

by Thomas Mann

Published: 1994-06-17

Paperback: 256 pages

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Thomas Mann is widely acknowledged as the greatest German novelist of this century. His 1912 novella Death in Venice is the most frequently read example of Mann's early work. Clayton Koelb's masterful translation improves upon its predecessors in two ways: it renders Mann into American (no...

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The Royal We

by Heather Cocks, Jessica Morgan

Published: 2015-04-07

Hardcover: 464 pages

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The Washington Post and USA Today Bestseller"I might be Cinderella today, but I dread who they'll think I am tomorrow. I guess it depends on what I do next."American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy tales. Her twin sister, Lacey, has always been the romantic who fantasized about glam...

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City of Masks: A Cree Black Thriller (Cree Black Thrillers)

by Daniel Hecht

Published: 2003-01-08

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Introducing Cree Black, a parapsychologist with a haunted past.The 150-year-old Beauforte House, located in the Garden District in New Orleans, has some secrets. When Lila Beauforte takes up residence in her ancestral home as an adult she begins to see some of those secrets literally come ...

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On the Street Doing Life

by Anne keegan

Published: 2007-01-17

Paperback: 184 pages

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What Readers Say: "'On the Street Doing Life,' captures the gritty reality that cops face working dope on the west side of Chicago. No cop did it better than Mike Cronin and I'm proud to say I had the opportunity to work with him." Philip Cline, Superintendent Chicago Police Department "Mike Cronin ......

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Golden Age: A novel (Last Hundred Years Trilogy)

by Jane Smiley

Published: 2015-10-20

Hardcover: 464 pages

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From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: the much-anticipated final volume, following Some Luck and Early Warning, of her acclaimed American trilogy—a richly absorbing new novel that brings the remarkable Langdon family into our present times and beyond   A lot can happen in one hundred y...

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Matthew Flinders' Cat

by Bryce Courtenay

Published: 2004

Mass Market Paperback: 560 pages

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Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

by Ted Koppel

Published: 2015-10-27

Hardcover: 288 pages

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In this New York Times bestselling investigation, Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared.   Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or m...

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The Bunco Club (The Bunco Club Series) (Volume 1)

by Karen DeWitt

Published: 2013-04-10

Paperback: 412 pages

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THE BUNCO CLUB has been named 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST by the Chicago Writers Association.No Bunco experience is necessary to enjoy this book, so grab the dice and share the fun and favorite recipes of Bunco night! Eight women, eight months, eight individual tales merge into one comp...