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In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
3) Dracula
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The quintessential horror tale of the powerful, centuries-old vampire follows his bloodthirsty trail from the mountains of Central Europe to England, until the savvy Dr. Van Helsing comes up with a way to end his reign of terror.
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[1998]
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Anne McCaffrey draws the reader back in time to an earlier Pern to tell the story of one of Pern’s great and true heroines. An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch. Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders...
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Jack Reacher races to solve the perfect crime in the fourth novel in Lee Child’s New York Times bestselling series. Across the country, women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only one thing that links the victims. Each one of the women knew Jack Reacher-and it’s...
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Broken in rank and transferred in disgrace, Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell arrives at his new posting in Newenham on Bristol Bay to find lost love and bush pilot Wyanet Chouinard crouched over the body of Bob DeCreft, who may or may not have been murdered with the propeller of her Piper Super Cub.
11) Deep lie
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[2001]
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A woman CIA analyst battles to force her superiors and the U.S. government to act against a Soviet plot involving a Russian spymaster and a military base hidden on the coast of Latvia.
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In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful young wife, a rising star in America's top-ranked computer corporation, and a prosperous husband, the scion of a family building business.
14) Faking it
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[2002]
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Reformed art forger Tilda Goodnight reluctantly joins forces with semi-reformed con man Davy Dempsey to steal a dubious painting and several million embezzled dollars from a lethal widow named Clea who has targeted a mild-mannered art collector as her next dearly departed. Complications include her sister, the female impersonator; his best friend, the reformed cat burglar; a recidivist embezzler named Rabbit; a hitman; some lousy sex; and a jukebox....
15) Picture perfect
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Cassie Barrett and Alex Rivers had a fairy-tale wedding, but once they returned to Hollywood, a troubling pattern began to emerge. Should Cassie stay or leave?
16) The pursuit
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[2002-2008]
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The charisma between Melissa MacGregor and Lincoln Burnett is undeniable from the moment they meet. Melissa's uncles, however, detest Lincoln and go to great lengths to keep the two lovers apart. Their love endures nonetheless, and after passing test after test, their romance may very well end happily.
17) Birthright
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[2003]
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When ancient bones are discovered at the construction site of a Maryland housing development, archaeologist Callie Dunbrook is eager to participate in the investigation--even if it means working alongside her hunky yet irritating ex-husband Jake. Disaster, however, plagues both the site and the project--and then a local businesswoman shows up with the tale that Cassie is her long-lost daughter, kidnapped as an infant ...
19) Distant shores
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •--“Hannah examines whether love and commitment are enough to sustain a marriage when two people who have put their individual dreams on ice get a chance to defrost them... in fast-moving prose punctuated by snappy asides. ”-People
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture...
Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a family. From a distance, their lives look picture...
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