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"On the morning James McCloud, a Seattle district attorney, gets a call from his sister, Celeste, he senses his own long-buried family history is about to be dragged into the light. James's father, Daniel, a police officer, disappeared eight years ago. Now his body has finally been found. James always believed that his father committed suicide after being diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the evidence leaves no doubt: Daniel was murdered. James...
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While investigating the apparent suicide of their best friend, four students at an elite boarding school uncover a series of past murders connected to ancient fairy tale curses, and they fear that their own fates are tied to the stories, dooming them to gruesome deaths unless they can forge their own paths.
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"When Kate Vincent and her partner travel to Spain, Kate is accidentally transported back in time...way back in time...to 1085. What does a woman like Kate do in a world of no antibiotics, no feminism, no Diet Coke? She denies it as long as possible, then sets her mind to getting home. Tricky with her now useless twenty-first century skills. Things don't go well. Kate is captured by a band of mercenary soldiers and becomes an unwitting pawn in the...
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A world-renowned pop music icon. A legendary basketball star. A billionaire cable-TV mogul. All rich. All famous. All closeted. All about to join forces with a renegade band of activists to ignite the next wave in the gay rights revolution, a radical wave they hope will culminate in the assassination of The Right's most revered anti-gay champion, a powerful Southern senator. Together, the Three Wisemen, as they come to call themselves, and their foot...
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This astonishing debut espionage thriller depicts the collision course between two geniuses, one a tortured hero and one a determined terrorist, in a breakneck story reminiscent of John le Carr©♭ and Robert Ludlum at their finest. PILGRIM is the code name for a world class and legendary secret agent. His adversary is a man known only to the reader as the Saracen. As a young boy, the Saracen barely sees his dissident father beheaded in a Saudi Arabian...
8) Flight risk
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For Blayne Keller, being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might turn out to be the best thing that has ever happened to her -- once she stops running for her life. A typical day at a Chicago travel agency turns deadly when Blayne witnesses a mafia murder. Overnight, her life is turned upside down, and she is thrust into WITSEC, the Federal Witness Protection Program. But the mod is determined to keep her from testifying and has a fed on its...
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Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen...
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"While studying history on a Caribbean island in the Turks and Caicos, Janet McMillan meets the alluring Michelle and realizes she's falling in love with a woman for the first time. But paradise is soon shattered when she discovers Michelle's brother dead on the beach, and seventy tons of marijuana mysteriously appear behind the customs shed. Janet must sort out mysteries old and new as a storm brews among the islanders, sweeping her along in a tide...
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"Kat is a Chicana detective who can fight her way through anything -- the U.S. marine Corps, CIA espionage, California swimming pools, S&M bars, even rape -- anything except her passion for the beautiful Angel Stone, a best-selling feminist author certain people are out to destroy...Romantic and political passion glow through increasing levels of suspense and violence until all is resolved in a breathtaking finale that leave you feeling as though...
13) Body and Blood
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Dangerous secrets unravel as two Catholic priests rekindle their forbidden romance in this steamy suspense tale.As a sixteen-year-old Catholic seminarian, Chris Sieb had a deep crush on fellow student Jack Canston. Now, twenty-five years after parting ways, Jack has transfered to the Kansas City diocese where he once again encounters Chris - now Father Sieb - a devoted priest and closeted gay man. After seeing each other for the first time, the two...
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"Jude Alta has her music, her friends, and the love of smart, sexy Toni Dilano. Yet, There is an inexplicable void in her life. She visits her dying friend Rosalie, whose disposition of her vast property is awaited by several concerned factions -- including the inhabitants of nearby Circle Edge, a secluded and mysterious feminist community. Eagerly welcomed by this community, Jude finds herself entranced by the beauty of her surroundings, by the charismatic...
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"While covering a gruesome murder, Chicago Tribune crime photographer Cole Evans finds herself strongly attracted to the victim's niece, Tray Roberts. Disabled by an auto accident that ended her medical career, the financially-strapped Tray is trying to start her life over by launching a small business. Although Cole has yet to resolve her feeling for her ex-lover and best friend, interior designed Jan Hart, she and Tray begin a heated flirtation...
17) Bottled up
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Sean Bielecki has built a new life, leaving an infamous identity and painful past behind. Now Sommelier Wines is Sean's dream. And after taking in Bobby, a homeless teenager who was attacked in the alley behind his store, parental instincts wake in him that didn't know he had, giving him new courage and direction. Officer Sam Davis has been watching Sean for a while-not because of his past-but because Sam wants to be a part of his life now. Sam finally...
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Oliver Park, a recovering addict from Indiana, finally has everything he ever wanted: sobriety and a loving, wealthy partner in Nathan, a prominent DC trauma surgeon. Despite their difference in age and disparate backgrounds, they've made a perfect life together. With everything to lose, Oliver shouldn't be visiting Haus, a gay bathhouse. But through the entrance he goes, and it's a line crossed. Inside, he follows a man into a private room, and it's...
20) Last night
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In a long letter to a his Cuban lover, John recounts the events that brought him from Manhattan to a Cuban jail on the eve of his execution