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Author: Shute, NevilSummary:
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Author: Jacq, ChristianSummary:
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Author: Deary, TerrySummary:
"The facts behind these stories are true. However, they have been dramatized to make them into gripping stories, and some of the characters are ficticious."
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Author: SMITH, WilburSummary:
At the dawn of a new century, the pioneers of Rhodesia have staked their claims and stocked their farms in the land they carved as their own. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are preparing...
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Author: SMITH, WilburSummary:
After the prospectors and hunters had opened the way to the African interior, the miners and adventurers followed. Here we see Cecil Rhodes forging an empire based on diamonds and land, and the...
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Author: Stark, RichardSummary:
This novel Firebreak takes Parker to a palatial Montana "hunting lodge" where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters, which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can...
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Author: Straley, JohnSummary:
Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day. Clive McCahon returns to his tiny hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing coke with a lot to...
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Author: INNES, HammondSummary:
A young deserter fights for life against nature and modern smugglers based in a disused Cornish tin mine.
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Author: Shapiro, IraSummary:
While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its...
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Author: Westlake, Donald E.Summary:
Hospitalized after a liaison with another man's wife ends in violence, Paul Cole has just one goal: to rebuild his shattered life. But with his memory damaged, the police hounding him, and no way...
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Author: Scheffler, Ian.Summary:
When Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented the Rubik's Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in the 1970s out of wooden blocks, rubber bands, and paper clips, he didn't even know if it could be solved,...
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Author: Berger, GlennSummary:
In 1974, at the age of seventeen, author Glenn Berger served as "schlepper" and apprentice to the legendary recording engineer Phil Ramone at New York City's A&R Studios, and was witness to...
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Author: Mcdougall, JohnSummary:
From Atkins to Dukan, fear of the almighty carb has taken over the diet industry for the past few decades-even the mere mention of a starch-heavy food is enough to trigger an avalanche of shame...
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Author: McDougall, JohnSummary:
The bestselling author and internationally celebrated physician and expert on nutrition offers an appealing, approachable health solution-eat the foods you love to lose weight and get healthy.
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Author: Smith, Wilbur A.Summary:
A romance in Egypt in 2000 BC. Tanus, ayoung warrior, loves Lostris, the daughter of Lord Istris, the grand vizier. But the father is against the match, wanting his daughter to marry Pharaoh...