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The Snow Angel
by Glenn Beck
Years after losing her mother in a car accident that rendered
her father emotionally distant, Rachel resolves to escape from
an abusive marriage to protect her young daughter. |
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A Time For Patriots
by Dale Brown
When the nation's economy collapses and thousands of Americans
turn against their own government, Patrick McLanahan must enlist
the aid of his son and fellow citizens to hunt down terrorists
any way they can. |
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Locked On
by Tom Clancy ; with Mark Greaney
Coming out of retirement to run for president, Jack Ryan finds
himself in the middle of a high-stakes attack from his opponent
as his close comrade, John Clark, is the subject of treacherous
charges, at the same time Jack Ryan, Jr. and other members of
Campus struggle to stop terrorists. |
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Definitely Not Mr.
Darcy
by Karen Doornebos
A divorced mother who runs an antique letterpress business and
is obsessed with all things from the Regency era auditions for
a Jane Austen-inspired TV show that turns out to be a reality
dating show set in 1812. |
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Ranchero
by Rick Gavin
Attacked by a belligerent man who steals an important car and
flees with a television that was being repossessed, Nick Reid
and his best friend, Desmond, pursue the man and find themselves
on the trail of a notorious meth producer. |
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The Uninnocent :
Stories
by Bradford Morrow
This collection of gothic short stories from the author of Trinity
Fields features tales of a young man who becomes obsessed with
his brother's girlfriend and a blind motivational speaker who
regains his sight and discovers he was better off before. |
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The Counterfeit Bride
by Nancy J. Parra
Lillian Picken discovers the perfect solution for the problem of
being a female entrepreneur in the 1870s. She invents a husband,
Donovan West, and convinces the townsfolk that he will return as
soon as his army commission is up. The ruse works, until the day
a man comes to town claiming to be Donovan West. |
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Wife-in-law
by Haywood Smith
Sharing a decades-long friendship in spite of disparate personalities,
prim conservative Betsy and irreverent hippie Kat struggle to
retain their bond when Kat marries Betsy's ex-husband, whose philandering
becomes a shared grievance for both women. |
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The richest Hill
on Earth
by Richard Wheeler
When newspaperman John Fellowes Hall arrives in Butte, Montana,
in 1892, he finds himself deeply embroiled in the fight among
the Copper Kings, as they battle for control of the money-making
copper mines. |
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The Darling Dahlias
and the Naked Ladies
by Susan Wittig Albert
The Dahlias become suspicious of the newest visitors to Depression-era
Darling, Alabama, rumored to be the Naughty and Nice Sisters from
the Ziegfeld Frolic, who specialize in dancing nearly naked, and
dig for the truth when one of the pair denies the association. |
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Twelve Drummers Drumming
by C.C. Benison
The Reverend Tom 'Father' Christmas, the newest vicar of Thornford
Regis, an idyllic rural town in England, turns detective when
one of his parishioners turns up dead in a drum, and everyone
in town seems to have something to confess. |
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The Alloy of Law
by Brandon Sanderson
After twenty years in the Roughs, Waxillium Ladrian is forced
by family tragedy to return to Elendel, where he learns the hard
way that the elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be more
dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.
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Newspaperman : Inside
the News Business at the Wall Street Journal
by Warren H. Phillips
When Warren Phillips was eleven years old, his father took him
on a guided tour of the New York Daily News, where he got his
first look at the frenzied yet surprisingly ordered and controlled
world of newspaper publishing. Phillips was hooked. He knew exactly
what he wanted to do with his life. |
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You Are Not So Smart
: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory is
Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself
by David McRaney
You believe you are a rational, logical being who sees the world
as it really is, but journalist David McRaney is here to tell you
that you're as deluded as the rest of us. But that's OK- delusions
keep us sane. You Are Not So Smart is a celebration of
self-delusion. |
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Does the 21st Century
Belong to China? : The Munk Debate on China : Kissinger and Zakaria
vs. Ferguson and Li
edited by Rudyard Griffiths and Patrick Luciani
In this edition of The Munk Debates, former U.S. Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger and CNN's Fareed Zakaria square off against leading
historian Niall Ferguson and world-renowned Chinese economist David
Daokui Li to debate the biggest geopolitical issue of our time:
Does the 21st century belong to China? |
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It's Your Money :
Becoming a Woman of Independent Means
by Gail Vaz-Oxlade
It’s Your Money is designed to inspire and inform
you to take charge of your money and your life, and come to terms
with what you have to do to get to where you want to be.
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Currency Wars : The
Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards
Making cautionary predictions about imminent global financial
changes, an assessment of threats against international economics
includes coverage of such factors as the collapse in the European
periphery, Chinese neomercantilism and the current scramble for
gold. |
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Pricing the future
: Finance, Physics, and the 300-year Journey to the Black-Scholes
Equation : A Story of Genius and Discovery
by George G. Szpiro
Financial economist George G. Szpiro tells the fascinating stories
of the pioneers of mathematical finance who conducted the search
for the elusive options pricing formula. Pricing the Future retraces
the historical and intellectual developments that ultimately led
to the widespread use of mathematical models to drive investment
strategies on Wall Street.
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363.19 D121
Toxic Free : How
to Protect Your Health and Home From the Chemicals That Are Making
You Sick
by Debra Lynn Dadd
In Toxic Free, Debra Lynn Dadd, hailed by The New York
Times as the "Queen of Green," discusses the hidden
toxic chemicals already present in our homes, their varying degrees
of danger, and precise, proven methods for eliminating them from
our lives in a cost- effective, environmentally friendly way. |
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The Map of My Dead
Pilots : The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska
by Colleen Mondor
Accompanied by the history of Alaskan aviation, this candid and
gripping expose of small plane piloting in the wildest territory
of the United States takes readers into a world that demands a
close communion with extreme physical danger and emotional toughness. |
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Geek Nation : How
Indian Science is Taking Over the World
by Angela Saini
The fascinating story of how India is transforming itself into
a global science superpower.
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Bento's Sketchbook
by John Berger
This book is an exploration of the practice of drawing, as well
as a meditation on how we perceive and seek to explore our ever-changing
relationship with the world around us.
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Ian Fleming's Commandos
: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII
by Nicholas Rankin
In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming was personal assistant
to the Director of Naval Intelligence - the dynamic figure behind
James Bond's fictional chief, 'M'. Here, Fleming had a brilliant
idea: why not set up a unit of authorized looters, men who would
go in hard with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence? |
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The Unmaking of Israel
by Gershom Gorenberg
Based on groundbreaking historical research—including documents
released through the author’s Israeli Supreme Court challenge
to military secrecy—and on a quarter century of experience
reporting in the region, The Unmaking of Israel is a brilliant,
deeply personal critique by a progressive Israeli, and a plea
for realizing the nation’s potential.
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