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Critical Judgment
In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients. It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages. As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors make it clear her probing is unwelcome. Soon Abby will learn just how high the cost of the truth may be—and how far someone will go to keep a lethal secret. But she may not find the answer until it's too late to save her patients, her career...her life.
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The Shirt Off His Back
After a brief relationship in college, Catherine and Terry found themselves the parents of twin baby girls; Catherine, a reluctant mother from the start, abandoned the children for a successful career overseas. With the help of family and friends, Terry has raised the twins by himself, and now, eleven years later, is about to expand his family again by marrying Jackie, herself a single parent. Suddenly, realizing she needs a better family image to advance her career, Catherine shows up and demands custody of the twins. With a nasty battle developing, Terry teams up with his best friend, Roland, a powerful attorney, to fight for custody of his children. As Catherine pits the twins against each other, Terry struggles to keep his cool. With an engaging blend of humor and drama, and characters who seem as if they live right down the block, Parry "EbonySatin" Brown has written an entertaining novel of friendship, romance, and one man's determination to keep his family together.
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The Smoke Jumper
His name is Connor Ford and he falls like an angel of mercy from the sky, braving the flames to save the woman he loves but knows he cannot have. For Julia Bishop is the partner of his best friend and fellow “smoke jumper,” Ed Tully. Julia loves them both--until a fiery tragedy on Montana’s Snake Mountain forces her to choose between them, and burns a brand on all their hearts. In the wake of the fire, Connor embarks on a harrowing journey to the edge of human experience, traveling the world’s worst wars and disasters to take photographs that find him fame but never happiness. Reckless of a life he no longer wants, again and again he dares death to take him, until another fateful day on another continent, he must walk through fire once more...
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From Doon With Death
When Margaret Parsons disappears, Inspector Burden tries to reassure her frantic husband that she will be back by morning. Privately, though, he is certain Margaret has run off with another man. But then the missing woman's body is found, strangled and abandoned in a nearby wood. And when Mr. Parsons lets the police into his home, a startling discovery leads everyone to question just who Margaret Parsons really was . . .
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Demon Rumm
It was the publicity stunt from hell as far as Kirsten Rumm was concerned. She may have been writing the book about her late husband, aeronautical daredevil Demon Rumm, but she didn’t see the need to play host to the arrogant bad-boy actor starring in the film version’s title role. Still, for the good of the project, Kirsten agreed to share her beachfront home with the impossibly sexy screen idol. Any other woman would do anything to be in her sandals, but Kirsten wasn’t falling for Rylan North, even if he did play his role of male lead to perfection. His down-home charm, his gentleness and virile charisma, might be seducing her in every sense of the word, but he was an actor, after all. Seducing an audience was his job. Rylan could have any woman he wanted. So why was he so desperately pretending to want her? From the moment he saw her, Rylan North knew that Kirsten Rumm was the woman he’d been waiting all his life to cast as the star in his real-life love story. What did it matter if he was every woman’s fantasy if he couldn’t get Kirsten to so much as glance his way? He’d caught the look of past hurt behind her sky-blue eyes–a dark secret that shadowed the sparkle. Rylan was determined to find out what tragedy held this passionate woman back from a second chance at love even if it cost him his reputation, his career, and his life. But first he’d have to get Kirsten to act on her instincts . . . and to trust the flesh-and-blood man behind the fantasy.
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Hart's War
During World War II, two men - one white, one black - find themselves in extraordinary circumstanses, confined with the enemy, struggling to preserve a shred of dignity against impossible odds. They thougt survival was their only purpose - until they realized that living means nothing without the truth. And when murder explodes the precarious order of their lives, they become unlikely allies in a momentous fight for honor and justices. With these complex, vivid characters, John Katzenback has written a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat novel, the most acclaimed of his career.....
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Time's Eye
In an instant, Earth is carved up and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the planet and every living thing on it no longer exist in a single timeline. Instead, the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. Scattered across the planet are floating silver orbs impervious to all weapons and impossible to communicate with. Are these technologically advanced devices responsible for creating and sustaining the rifts in time? Are they cameras through which inscrutable alien eyes are watching? Or are they something stranger and more terrifying still? The answer may lie in the ancient city of Babylon, where two groups of refugees from 2037—three cosmonauts returning to Earth from the International Space Station, and three United Nations peacekeepers on a mission in Afghanistan—have detected radio signals: the only such signals on the planet, apart from their own. The peacekeepers find allies in nineteenth-century British troops and in the armies of Alexander the Great. The astronauts, crash-landed in the steppes of Asia, join forces with the Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan. The two sides set out for Babylon, each determined to win the race for knowledge . . . and the power that lies within. Yet the real power is beyond human control, perhaps even human understanding. As two great armies face off before the gates of Babylon, it watches, waiting. . . .
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Overload
From Airport to Hotel and from In High Places to Wheels, Arthur Hailey's incisive thrillers, set at the heart of the great institutions of the modern world, are unmatched for authenticity, power and human drama. In Overload we enter the high-tech, high-tension environment of the power industry. Nim Goldman is Vice President of Golden State Power & Light, the giant corporation supplying electricity to the power hungry state of California. He's a man with a big job and all the women he can handle, but he knows the crunch is coming. Soon, very soon, power famine will strike the most advanced society the world has ever known… '3,200,000 kilowatts, OPEC terrorists, power thieves, dwindling energy reserves, hypocrisy and paralysis in high places, darkness and chaos for power-guzzling California…Hailey hits with another blockbuster' Observer.
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Changers
It was on Tuesday that old Ben Rosekki,president of First Mercantile American Bank and grandson of the bank's founder, made an announcement - startling and sombre - which reverberated through every segment of the bank and far beyond.And the next day,Wednesday, the bank's "flagship" downtown branch discovered the presence of a thief - beginning a series of events which few could have foreseen,and ending in financial wreckage, human tragedy and death.' The genius of a master story-teller combines Money,People and Banking into a tense,totally absorbing story of the financial and personal crises behind the dignified bronze doors of a major bank. Interwoven with the dreams,passions,rivalries and guilty secrets of its employees are currency and credit card frauds, embezzlement, a prison gang-rape,Mafia torture,and the call-girl sex that sweetens irregular business deals. The Moneychangers blends action,suspense,mystery and torrid love scenes in a powerfully entertaining novel that is as topical as tomorro's headlines.
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In High Places
In High Places focuses as never before on the world of politics,taking us into the very core of any nation's power,its government.In this,one of his greatest achievements,he exposes the passions that seethe behind the blank facades of government offices as politicians in power fight to stay there - batering, back-stabbing,browbeating,bribing with honours,money and women. In Ottawa,Vancouver and Washington three apparently unconnected events bring startling consequences for the head of a great government - a man whose destiny hangs on a scrap of paper...
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Wheels
From the grime and crime of a etroit assembly line, through top-secret design studios to executive boardrooms and bedrooms…here is the heart of the motor metropolis, its men and women, their lives, ambitions, treacheries,successes,disasters and loves…
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Hotel
Through the suites and foyers of the St Gregory Hotel in New Orleans move a host of vividly drawn characters - the hotel industry tycoons, the guests, the staff, men and women, young and old, the totally dedicated, the utterly amoral. There is robbery and blackmail, a near-disastrous orgy, a take-over battle, and a love story that you will never forget…
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Mayada
Mayada Al-Askari was born into a powerful Iraqi family. When Saddam Hussein seized power, Mayada little imagined the devastation this would wreak upon her life. But soon she found herself alone in Baghdad, a divorced mother of two, earning a meagre living as a printer - until she was arrested in 1999 by the secret police & dragged to the notorious Badayat prison, accused of producing anti-government propaganda. She was thrown in a cell with 17 other 'shadow women'. They came from different backgrounds but all shared the same fate: imprisonment & torture without trial and the threat of execution. To block out the screams of other prisoners, the women told each other their stories. Mayada's tales of her privileged former life were a source of particular fascination, including her own encounters with Saddam himself.
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4th Of July
Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their most thrilling case ever - one that could easily be their last. In a late-night showdown, Lindsay has to make an instantaneous decision - in self-defense she fires her weapon - and sets off a chain of events that leaves a police force disgraced, a city divided and a family destroyed. Now everything she's worked for her entire life hinges on the decision of twelve jurors. To escape the media circus, Lindsay retreats to the picturesque town of Half Moon Bay. Soon after, a string of grisly murders punches through the community. There are no witnesses; there is no pattern. But a key detail reminds Lindsay of unsolved murder she worked on years ago. As summer comes into full swing, Lindsay and her friends in the Women's Murder Club battle for her life on two fronts - in court, and against a ruthless killer.
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Daughters Of Arabia
Millions of readers worldwide were shocked at Princess Sultana´s extraordinarily open and honest story, Princess, the first-hand exposé of women´s lives behind the weil inside the royal family of Saudi Arabia. In Daughters of Arabia, the Princess turns the spotlight on her teenage daughters, Maha and Amani. Surrounded by unbelievable opulence, Sultana´s daughters have grown up taking their luxuries for granted. Yes, stifled by the horrendous restictions imposed on all females, even royals, they have reacted in very different, but equally desperate ways. This is a compelling story, set against the background of a turbulent society pitting authoritarian royal rule against fundamentalist religious demands, external political pressures and the tug of economic hardship in a land overflowing with oil revenues. This is the land that produced Osama Bin Lade. And yet it is a land of beauty, history and religion, home of Islam´s holiest sites. It is in this enviroment of paradox and contrast that Sultana tries to rear her daughter as she seeks to expose injustice. In her courageous quest, Sultana once more strikes a chord amongst all women lucky enough to live their lives in freedom.
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Desert Royal
In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana’s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia’s royal family. Royal women live as virtual prisoners, surrounded by unimaginable wealth and luxury, privileged beyond belief, and yet subject to every whim of their husbands, fathers, and even their sons. Daughters of Arabia featured Sultana’s teenage daughters, determined to rebel but in very different ways. And now, in Desert Royal, Sultana’s fight for women’s rights in a repressive, fundamentalist Islamic society, has an extra sense of urgency. The threat of world terrorism, the gathering strength of religious leaders and the discontent of impoverished Saudis are threatening to topple the comfortable world Sultana has known. But an extended family ‘camping’ trip in the desert brings Sultana and her relatives face to face with their nomadic roots, and nourishes her will to carry on the fight for women’s rights in all Muslim countries. This updated edition contains an all-new chapter as well as a letter from Sultana hersel f, encouraging all women to take up the struggle for freedom for their abused sisters throughout the world.
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Princess
Jean Sasson captures the flavour and reality of life in a country full of extremes and contradictions. Priness "Sultana", a real Saudi princess closely related to the King, lives those contradictions, with priceless jewels, many servants, unlimited funds at her disposal, but no freedom. A prisoner in a gilded cage with no vote, no control, no value but as a mother of sons, she is totally at the mercy of the men in her life… her father, her brother, her husband. For the first time, a royal Saudi woman opens the door to give readers an unvarnished look inside a closed society. "Sultana" lifts the veil on the shocking world of forced marriages, sex slavery, honour killings and other outrages against women, both royal and common.
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The Hades Factor
An unknown doomsday virus has claimed the lives of four people — including the fiancee of Covert One's It. Col. Jon Smith.Devastated and enraged, Smith uncovers evidence that this was no accident; someone out there has the virus and the pandemicthat threatens millions of lives was planned .. . Not knowing who to trust or where to turn, Smith assembles a private team to fight against the deadly virus. As the death -01 mounts, the quest leads them to the highest levels of power and the darkest corners of the earth. And Smith and his team must hunt down a genius determined to destroy them
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The Rhinemann Exchange
An exchange of diamonds for gyroscopes between Germany and the United States in the autumn of 1943 is arranged so that each country can carry out its planned strategy for winning the war
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Eternal Hunger
A vampire killer with a Las Vegas beat, Candace Steele has risked everything to vanquish the forces of darkness–and to resist her own passionate desire for Ash, a dark and seductive vampire. But suddenly the stakes are raised. Candace has been attacked by a member of the Board, an ancient, powerful, and secret vampire sect with a vendetta against Ash. Now the only way she can save her life is to give herself to Ash–body and soul–and become a vampire. Lusting for blood and starving for Ash’s embrace, Candace is pulled deeper and deeper into his world. She no longer trusts his promise that she will not have to remain a vampire forever. And as the hunger threatens to overwhelm her, it may be too late for her to leave the darkness behind.
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Bitter Medicine
Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble. Consuelo is sixteen. Diabetic. And the daughter of a friend. When she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child. Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room—and falling for a doctor who works there. Mixing business and love is always bad medicine, but V.I. finds herself listening to her heart, not her head. And when a brutal murder and the violent destruction of a women's clinic put her at the center of a very dirty conspiracy, justice may be the only remedy for a hurt that cuts deep...and chills right to the bone....
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Strong Medicine
Strong Medicine is the story of Celia Jordan - a modern-day heroine like no other - and her relationship with the people who work alongside her - and against her; of the cultured and wise Sam Hawthorne, the chief executive who never loses faith in her, but tragically loses faith in virtually everything else; of the brilliant young British researcher, Martin Peat-Smith, who races against time to give Celia the breakthrough the company desperately needs; of Vincent Lord, the disappointed scientist who is her bitter rival; of Dennis Donohue, the unscrupulous senator who vows to destroy her. And espeially of the gentle and steadfast doctor who is her equal and her partner in every way.
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Good Faith
Good Faith captures the seductions and illusions that can seize America during our periodic golden ages (every Main Street an El Dorado). To follow Joe as he does deals and is dealt with in this newly liberated world of anything goes is a roller-coaster ride through the fun park of the 1980s. It is Jane Smiley in top form.
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Windy City Blues
Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense Attitude, V.I. is out to make a living--by the skin of her teeth. In "Grace Notes," V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead. The paper leads V.I. to her newfound Italian cousin Vico, who's looking for music composed by their great-grandmother. What's the score? Clearly it's something to kill for... "The Pietro Andromache" finds V.I.'s friend Dr. Lotty Herschel with motive and means to dispatch her professional rival and steal his priceless statue. Lotty didn't do it--but does she know who did? V.I. soon cuts to the art of the case--and it's not a pretty picture at all! Summoned by an old high school friend to a race "At the Old Swimming Hole," V.I. ends up swimming with the sharks