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The crystal skull
Manda Scott
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""It's a lump of rock, Stella; nothing more. No stone is worth dying for."" "Except it's not just a lump of rock. It's a blue crystal skull made by the Maya to save the world from ruin, a sapphire so perfect, so powerful that for centuries men have killed to own or destroy it." "Ancient prophecies say that if the thirteen skulls already in existence ...
2008; 373 p.; isbn:0385340109 More Information |
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On account of conspicuous women
Dawn Shamp
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"Welcome to Roxboro, North Carolina, a crossroads hamlet in Person County where, in 1920, tobacco and bootleg liquor thrive and most folks seem to agree that women are meant to know their place. But four extraordinary, determined young ladies are about to leave their boot prints on this small Southern town, and nothing will ever be the same." "Bertie, ...
2008; 306 p.; isbn:0312379978 More Information |
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All eyes on her
Poonam Sharma
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2008; 331 p.; isbn:9780373895519 More Information |
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The law of second chances
James Sheehan
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Trial attorney Jack Tobin takes on two death row cases when he is asked to represent Benny Avrile, a New York City gangster set up in the killing of a retired oilman, and Henry Wilson, a career criminal whose Florida execution is just weeks away
2008; 346 p.; isbn:0312366302 More Information |
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Island life
Michael W. Sherer
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2008; 385 p.; isbn:9781594146336 More Information |
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The locktender's house : a novel
Steven Sherrill
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"Janice Witherspoon's stagnant life is abruptly upended by the senseless death of her boyfriend thousands of miles away. Fueled by shock, steered by fate, uncertainty, and fear, she gathers her belongings from the North Carolina apartment they shared and takes to the road, intending to meet the soldier's body on its journey back from the Iraqi desert. ...
2007; 254 p.; isbn:9781400061532 More Information |
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The god of war
Marisa Silver
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The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate, forgotten place, whose inhabitants thrive amidst seemingly impossible circumstances. Where birds ...
2008; 271 p.; isbn:9781416563167 More Information |
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By reason of insanity
Randy Singer
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2008; 379 p.; isbn:141431633X More Information |
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A Hollywood ending
Robyn Sisman
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2008; 307 p.; isbn:9780452286139 More Information |
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Child 44
Tom Rob Smith
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"Robert Harris meets Gorky Park in Child 44, Tom Rob Smith's stunning thriller--sure to be one of the most talked about debut novels of the year"--Provided by the publisher
2008; 439 p.; isbn:9780446402385 More Information |
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A carrion death : introducing Detective Kubu
Michael Stanley
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In the aftermath of the murder of an anonymous victim, assistant superintendent David Bengu begins his career on Botswana, where his convivial passions and determined methods earn him a local nickname that likens him to a hippopotamus
2008; 467 p.; isbn:0061252409 More Information |
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The ancient rain
Domenic Stansberry
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"After a career with a shadowy security firm with interests on both sides of the law, Dante Mancuso has come home to San Francisco to work for a private investigator. A call alerts him early one morning that Bill Owens, a fellow PI, has been charged with a notorious thirty-year-old killing. Bill was involved in a political group in the late sixties ...
2008; 293 p.; isbn:0312364539 More Information |
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