Jason Culp
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English
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Bedridden after a freak accident, a novelist begins to question his own sanity as he moves through dreamlike memories of his own fictional characters.
Injured in a freak accident, novelist Gerry Andersen lies in a hospital bed in his glamorous but sterile apartment, isolated from the busy world he can see through his windows. He is utterly dependent on two women he barely knows: his young assistant and a night nurse whose competency he questions....
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Series
Oregon files volume 8
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest threat against US security that the country has ever...
3) Blind tiger
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day he arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher, the only stranger in town, is suspected of her abduction, and worse. Standing between him and exoneration are a corrupt mayor, a crooked sheriff, a notorious cathouse madam, a sly bootlegger, feuding moonshiners...
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Time Warner Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2001
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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After a brief sojourn into historical fiction, Baldacci is back in the thriller mode. When his FBI Hostage Rescue Team is ambushed, sole survivor Web London has to prove his innocence.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he receives a call from social services: Noah is the closest available relative of an eleven-year-old great-nephew he's never met, who urgently needs someone...
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HarperAudio
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English
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One of a handful of lawyers in the new state of Oregon, recently widowed Matthew Penny agrees to help Worthy Brown, a newly freed slave, rescue his fifteen year old daughter, Roxanne, from their former master, a powerful Portland lawyer. Worthy's lawsuit sets in motion events that lead to Worthy's arrest for murder and create an agonizing moral dilemma that could send either Worthy or Matthew to the hangman.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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An all-new mystery from the bestselling author of Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game!A boy in a small town who has a different way of seeing.A curious girl who doesn't belong.A mysterious notebook.A missing father.A fire.A stranger.A death.These are some of the things you'll find within The Danger Box, the new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett.Open with care. Blue Balliett is the author of several bestselling, acclaimed mystery...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A modern-day Huck Finn, Rinker Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 5
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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The crew has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate - and as perilous - as any he has ever known, and...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available to rally a town,...
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English
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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This book makes recommendations for meeting four major challenges currently facing the United States, including globalization, the information technology revolution, chronic deficits, and unbalanced energy consumption. America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In this book the authors analyze those challenges, globalization, the revolution in information technology, the...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Cayleb Ahrmahk's Charisian Empire is threatened by the Group of Four, a powerful clique that controls most of Safehold and has declared war on Cayleb's empire, forcing Cayleb to turn to the mystic warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes for aid.
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English
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"From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history. What is the purpose of a map? Nell Young's whole life and greatest passion is cartography. Her father, Dr. Daniel Young, is a legend in the...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The 2024 election could be the last free election held in a unified America. So warns Robert Kagan in this brilliant and terrifying analysis of the perilous state of democracy in the United States today. If Donald Trump loses the upcoming election, as he did in 2020, but refuses to accept the result, as he also did in the last election, he is likely to call on his millions of followers to repudiate the election results. It will be a short step from...
19) Dune
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English
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Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.