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The Road To Oz
The Road to Oz in which dorothy and shaggy man inexplicably find themselves in oz Where they meet polychrome the abandoned daughter of the rainbow and a host of others on their way to ozma's lavish birthday party.
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Blind Alley
Her job is to put a face on the victims of violent crimes. But as forensic scupltor Eve Duncan works on the skull of a newly discovered victim, she's about to get the shock of her life. The murdered Jane Doe's face has been erased beyon recognition. But whoever killed her wasn't trying to hide her identity. The plan is far more horrifying. For as Eve's skilled hands reveal the murdered girl's face, she recognizes someone she knows all too well. Someone who isn't dead. YET! To stop this twisted psychopath, Eve must put her own life in the balance. But that's not the worst of it - when her adopted daughter Jane reveals a bizarre connection to the case, Eve can't stop her from joining the hunt for the killer. A hunt that will lead to a terrifying confrontation........
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The Golden Ball
It was an offer the St. Vincent family could not refuse -- a splendid mansion, complete with servants, with nothing asked for in return! But young Rupert St. Vincent suspected a sinister trap, and will not rest until he has unmasked the mastermined behind it all.
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2010: odyssey two
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed and delighted millions in the late 1960s the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on it. Yet, along with almost universal acclaim, a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years. Who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star Child? What purpose by behind the transformation? What would become of the Star Child? What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out in space? What could drive HAL, a stable intelligent computer, to kill the crew? Was HAL really insane? What happened to HAL and the spaceship Discovery after Dave Bowman disappeared? Would there be a sequel? Now all those question and many more have been answered in this stunning sequel to his international bestseller, Clarke has written what will truly be one of the great books of the 80's Cosmic in sweep eloquent in its depiction of Maris place in the Univer se. and filled with the romance of space this novel is a monumental achievement.
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Mad Jack
Mad Jack is brand-new and lots of fun. You're going to meet two of the neatest people in 1811 London. In addition, you'll revisit the Sherbrookes--Douglas and Ryder, and see what's going on with them eight years after you first met them. As for Sinjun, she and Colin Kinross have been married for four years and Colin is in a real tizzy. Mad Jack is in reality Winifrede Levering Bascombe, who, happily, ahs her name changed very quickly in the story. She arrives in London with the aunts, Mathilda and Maude, to beg the assistance of Lord Cliffe, Grayson St. Cyre. He welcomes the aunts, briefly spots the valet, Jack, and proceeds very quickly after their arrival to fall down the rabbit hole. He catches the valet, Jack, stealing his horse, Durban, chases Jack down, and then all sorts of interesting things happen. Enter Sinjun with her frantic husband, Colin, on her trail. Amidst all the laughter, however, there lurks a deadly secret that's ready to leap out and crush both Jack and Gray. You'll hold your breath when a tough-brained Jack and a furious Gray get together and discover the truth of the accusation that could do them in before they can even get started with their lives.
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The Testament
In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives. Because Troy Phelan's new will names a sole surprise heir to his eleven-billion-dollar fortune: a mysterious woman named Rachel Lane, a missionary living deep in the jungles of Brazil.Enter the lawyers. Nate O'Riley is fresh out of rehab, a disgraced corporate attorney handpicked for his last job: to find Rachel Lane at any cost. As Phelan's family circles like vultures in D.C., Nate is crashing through the Brazilian jungle, entering a world where money means nothing, where death is just one misstep away, and where a woman--pursued by enemies and friends alike--holds a stunning surprise of her own....
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Foundation
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction.
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Weep no more my lady
Elizabeth Lange is still reeling from the death of international film starlet Leila De Salle, her beloved sister. In the frame for the killing is Leila's handsome, famous fiance Ted Winters. Before the trial in which she is the chief witness, Elizabeth decides to take a break and relax in Pebble Beach, an exclusive Californian spa.She made the wrong decision.Before too long, from all around her, people begin to emerge - people who all had cause to hate, and maybe even murder, her sister. Elizabeth realises her idyllic vacation is about to take a horrifying turn for the worse - and that someone is out to shatter the peace and quiet by silencing her forever....
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The Final Odyssey
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be stirring once again. . . .
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Mistress of Justice
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's pre-eminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anywhere she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion dollar case he's defending but his career as well. Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant and very private man, Taylor signs on...only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know - including a plenitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer...
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The Ninja
This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't control and between a past he can't escape and a destiny he can't avoid. A sprawling erotic thriller that swings from postwar Japan to present-day New York in a relentless saga of violence and terror elaborately designed for the most savage vengeance of all...
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If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!
“The most important things that each man must learn no one can teach him. Once accepts this disappointment, he will be able to stop depending on the therapist, the guru who turns out to be just another struggling human being. A fresh, realistic, approach to altering one’s destiny and accepting the responsibility that grows with freedom Using the myth of Gilgamesh, Siddahrtha, the Wife of Bath, Don Quixote… the works of Buber, Ginsberg, Shakespaere, Kafka, Nin, Dante and Jung… a brilliant psychotherapist, guru and pilgrim shares the epic tales and intimate revelations that help to shape everyman’s journey through life.
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Blood Storm
Three junior Cabinet Ministers, the Macomber brothers, are plotting to convert Britain into a Police State GB. In secret circles they are known as The Cabal. They have persuaded almost half the Cabinet to support the conspiracy. Fighting to stop the creation of the sinister State Security are Tweed and Paula Grey of the SIS. Added to this massive task, Tweed is asked by his old friend, Commander Buchanan of the Yard, to investigate the horrific murders of society beauty Viola Vander-Browne and her raunchy sister, Marina. With one hand Tweed tracks the killer of the sisters. With other, he ruthlessly sabotages The Cabal. From early on, Tweed has suspected there is a link between the two murders and The Cabal's conspiracy. Unable to identify the killer, he sets about identifying the nest victim. Disagreeing with him, Paula goes her own way. The Parrot (so nicknamed because she talks so much) is the senior Civil Servant who attends the Cabal. Her assistant is the attractive Coral Flenton. Are they the key?
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Body Double
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan city, she has seen more than her share of corpses every day–many of them victims of violent murder. But never before has her blood run cold, and never has the grim expression “dead ringer” rung so terrifyingly true. Because never before has the lifeless body on the medical examiner’s table been her own.Yet there can be no denying the mind-reeling evidence before her shocked eyes and those of her colleagues, including Detective Jane Rizzoli: the woman found shot to death outside Maura’s home is the mirror image of Maura, down to the most intimate physical nuances. Even more chilling is the discovery that they share the same birth date and blood type. For the stunned Maura, an only child, there can be just one explanation. And when a DNA test confirms that Maura’s mysterious doppelgänger is in fact her twin sister, an already bizarre murder investigation becomes a disturbing and dangerous excursion into a past full of dark secrets.Searching for answers, Maura is drawn to a seaside town in Maine where other horrifying surprises await. But perhaps more frightening, an unknown murderer is at large on a cross-country killing spree. To stop the massacre and uncover the twisted truth about her own roots, Maura must probe her first living subject: the mother that she never knew . . . an icy and cunning woman who could be responsible for giving Maura life–and who just may have a plan to take it away.
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Pretend You Don't See Her
Lacey Farrell is a witness to horrific murder, and to the last words of the dying victim, Isabelle.Now, she's under witness protection - with a new life, new name and the beginnings of a new romance with radio talk show host Tom Lynch. He doesen't know who she really is ...but someone does.Someone who's hunted her down. Someone who knows what she saw and what she learned from Isabelle. When Lacey realises the danger she is in, she knows that only she can stop a relentless killer from claiming another life: hers...
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American Star
American Star . . . a fantastic love story - as only she can tell it!
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Acts Of Malice
Amid the sparkling snow-swept mountains of Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly has made a home, juggling the demands of her one-woman law practice and raising a teenage son alone. Now Nina has taken on a case that will threaten everything she holds dear, drawing her into a tangled web of loyalties and alliances within one of Lake Tahoe's most prominent families. Her client: a man accused of murdering his own brother--on the ski slopes of Tahoe. The law says Nina must give Jim Strong the best possible defense. But Strong's family has turned violently against him, and suddenly Nina is at the center of the storm. As she works a flawed and troubling case and gets swept into an unexpected love affair, the two sides of Nina's life come crashing together...in the ultimate act of malice.
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The Autobiography
In this fully updated and extended edition of his bestselling autobiography, Sir Richard Branson talks about his latest intrepid ventures in the areas of health, environment, media and, of course, exploration. Discover new details about Sir Richard’s commitment to the future, as shown by the Virgin Health Bank and its contribution to regenerative medicine, and Virgin Fuels’ pledge of £200 million to invest in renewable energy projects. In addition to describing his charitable body Virgin Unite and its work in Africa and other countries, Sir Richard also discusses the earth-based launch of Virgin Media, and the progress toward the quite literal launch of Virgin Galactic and a new era of commercial space travel.Featuring many new insights into his family life, Losing My Virginity is an amazing memoir that reveals Sir Richard’s powerful story, and his unique philosophy on life, the Virgin brand and business.
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Sins Of The Fathers
It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . .
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Duma Key
When Edgar Freemantle moves to Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn´t expect to find much there. But Duma Key and its mysteries have been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint.
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A Perfect Family
Three generations of Crightons have gathered at the family estate for a 50th birthday party. But the expected celebration turns into an ugly battle for power, with the family inheritance as the prize. Brothers become rivals and allies become adversaries as family scandals become the weapon of choice. Past love affairs, embezzlement scams--nothing is sacred and all secrets can be betrayed for a price. The Crightons' carefully polished facade is crumbling. Will they learn to accept their not-so-perfect family in time to save it?
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Night Moves
The year is 2010, and, as predicted, computers have taken over as the world's financial and political leaders. In the hopes of managing progress, Congress has created a watch dog computer security agency within the FBI called Net Force. Alex Michaels is its fearless leader. When a vicious computer hacker begins posting classified information, outing government spies and the progress of drug cartels on the Internet, Alex must stop a string of murders and defend the very existence of Net Force to a disgruntled Senate committee. This second book in the Net Force series is also the subject of an ABC television miniseries.
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The Firm
When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. The firm leased him a BMW, paid off his school loans, arranged a mortgage and hired him a decorator. Mitch McDeere should have remembered what his brother Ray -- doing fifteen years in a Tennessee jail -- already knew. You never get nothing for nothing. Now the FBI has the lowdown on Mitch's firm and needs his help. Mitch is caught between a rock and a hard place, with no choice -- if he wants to live
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The Matarese Circle
Only two rival spies—and one mysterious woman—can stop them: Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB. They share a genius for espionage—and a life of terror and explosive violence. Sworn enemies, they have vowed to terminate each other—yet now they must become allies. Because only they possess the brutal skills and ice-cold nerves vital to destroy an international circle of killers, the Matarese.