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Death Benefit
by Robin Cook
Launching a private investigation when their mentor dies under
suspicious circumstances, medical students Pia Grazdani and George
Wilson uncover a sinister operation through which private life
insurance policies are being manipulated to allow investors to
benefit from the deaths of others. |
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Send Me Work : Stories
by Katherine Karlin
The stories in this collection encompass an unusually broad range
of experience -- refinery workers mourn a colleague's death; a
struggling young woman in post-Katrina New Orleans persuades a
welder to teach her his trade; an idealistic aerobics instructor
decamps for Nicaragua to pick coffee. Each of these stories offers
rare insight into the place of work in the lives of women. |
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The Devil's Elixir
by Raymond Khoury
When rival forces on both sides of the law discover the existence
of a lost herb that induces profound experiences capable of shattering
the foundations of Western civilization, a violent competition
to locate the herb is overseen by FBI agent Sean Reilly and his
girlfriend, Tess Chaykin, who race to prevent a cataclysmic disaster. |
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Copper Beach
by Jayne Ann Krentz
After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive
rare-book collector, Abby Radwell, a psychic who is able to detect
paranormal secrets in old texts, hires investigator Sam Coppersmith
to track down a killer with supernatural abilities. |
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You Deserve Nothing
by Alexander Maksik
William Silver is a talented and charismatic young teacher whose
unconventional methods raise eyebrows among his colleagues and
superiors. His students, however, are devoted to him. Emotionally
scarred by failures in his personal life Silver succumbs to a
temptation that will change the course of his life. His fall will
render him a criminal in the eyes of some and all too human in
the eyes of others. |
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The World We Found
by Thrity Umrigar
American divorcée Armaiti has six months to live and her
last wish is to see her three best friends again--Laleh, Kavita,
and Nishta, all in Bombay. But Nishta's husband, Iqbal, a fellow
university idealist turned fundamentalist, will be the biggest
obstacle to fulfilling Armaiti's final desire. |
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Taken
by Robert Crais
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the alleged kidnapping
of a wealthy industrialist's son, Elvis Cole goes undercover to
infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted
himself. |
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Believing the Lie
by Elizabeth George
Going undercover to investigate the death of a drowning victim
at the request of the man's wealthy and influential uncle, Inspector
Thomas Lynley uncovers dark secrets in his client's family while
one of Lynley's partners, Deborah St. James, becomes increasingly
obsessed with a chief suspect's wife. |
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Gun Games
by Faye Kellerman
Lieutenant Detective Decker and his wife, Rina, investigate an
apparent teen suicide witnessed by the son of a troubled former
friend who they have welcomed into their home in this new mystery
from the best-selling author of Mercedes Coffin. |
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Breakdown
by Sara Paretsky
When the teenage daughters of some of Chicago's most influential
families discover the body of a ritually murdered victim, investigator
Warshawski explores theories that the killing is linked to a hostile
media campaign against a senatorial candidate or a wealthy patriarch's
childhood in Nazi-occupied Lithuania. |
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The Jaguar
by T. Jefferson Parker
When the songwriter wife of a corrupt sheriff's deputy is kidnapped
by a ruthless Gulf cartel leader who orders her to compose a folk
ballad about his life, her resulting song captures the attentions
of her husband and Charlie Hood, who work together to rescue her. |
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Private : #1 Suspect
by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
When his former lover is found murdered in his bed, Jack Morgan,
former Marine and founder of the world's most effective private
investigation company, must clear his name while also solving
murders at a posh hotel.
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The Secret Thoughts
of Successful Women : Why Capable People Suffer From the Impostor
Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It
by Valerie Young
In The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women, Young helps successful
women defeat feelings of self-doubt so they can feel truly confident
in their abilities and accomplishments. |
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Love and Capital :
Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
by Mary Gabriel
An acclaimed biographer tells the story of the Karl and Jenny Marx's
marriage, painting a unique and human picture of the revolutionary
German socialist as a protective father, loving husband and a jokester. |
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From Far and Wide :
A Complete History of Canada's Arctic Sovereignty
by Peter Pigott
Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters
above the 60th parallel? From Far and Wide recounts exclusively
the historic activities of the Canadian military in Canada's Arctic. |
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332.6324 A167
Real Estate Riches
: A Money-making Game Plan for the Canadian Investor
by Tahani Aburaneh
Investors need to understand what an agent with the right credentials
and vision can bring to their business, and this book provides
key information about forming partnerships that will be mutually
beneficial. |
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Sybil Exposed : The
Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case
by Debbie Nathan
The true story of the three women behind Sybil, the famous multiple-personality
case. |
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641.563 B393
Leslie Beck's Healthy
Kitchen : 250 Quick and Delicious Recipes Plus Essential Kitchen
Tips
by Leslie Beck
Don’t sacrifice taste or your favourite foods to reap the
benefits of smart eating for a healthy lifestyle. Leslie Beck’s
Healthy Kitchen will show you a new way to eat with these delectable,
easy recipes and healthy kitchen tips. |
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658.4 D131
The IKEA Edge : Building
Global Growth and Social Good at the World's Most Iconic Home
Store
by Anders Dahlvig
IKEA's former CEO reveals the unique strategy he used to lead
his company to profit and growth through the worst global financial
crisis in history. |

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Distrust That Particular
Flavor
by William Gibson
Known primarily as a novelist, Gibson has, over thirty years,
been approached by different publication to share his insights
into contemporary culture. The resulting essays are collected
here for the first time. |

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Bon Voyage! : The
Telegraph Book of River and Sea Journeys edited
by Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr, deputy travel editor of The Daily Telegraph, has
gone back through the archives of the paper and its Sunday sister
to compile an enthralling anthology of the best writing they have
published on travel by river and sea. |

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951.02 A553
Lost Colony : The
Untold Story of China's First Great Victory Over the West
by Tonio Andrade
Exploring a period when the military balance between Europe and
China was closer than at any other point in modern history, Lost
Colony reassesses an important chapter in world history and offers
valuable and surprising lessons for contemporary times. |
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The Struggle for
Egypt : From Nasser to Tahrir Square
by Steven A. Cook
In The Struggle for Egypt, Steven Cook--a Senior Fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations--explains how this parlous state
of affairs came to be, why the revolution occurred, and where
Egypt might be headed next. |
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Collision Course
: Ronald Reagan, The Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That
Changed America by Joseph A. McCartin
The author tells the story of air traffic control system, the
two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the
government, and shows how the incident served as a harbinger of
the campaign against public sector unions that now roils American
politics.
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