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31723) Working murder
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Language
English
Description
Clara Gamadge used to be half of a detective team with her husband, Henry, but now that he has died, Clara has to fly solo. Her first case alone turns out to be more complex than she had thought. Fifty years ago, her cousin, Ellen, vanished, and her aunt May suddenly died after ignoring a letter advising her to give up the search for Ellen. Now Clara must sort through the muddled facts and try to make sense of two mysteries: a death and a disappearance....
31726) Man: a novel
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English
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With a Foreword by James Earl Jones & A Special Afterword by Irving Wallace's son, David WallechinskyThe time is 1964. The place is the Cabinet Room of the White House. An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States.This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s. It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman,...
31727) Capital crimes
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
A worldly cynic and a holy reprobate confront each other in a place where good and evil whirl in a storm of retribution.
31732) The changeling
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Series
Language
English
Description
Three young women bound by ties deeper than blood are swept up in a web of intrigue and betrayal in this haunting gothic tale Rebecca Mandeville arrives at Manorleigh with her mother amid rumors that Rebecca's politically ambitious stepfather may have murdered his first wife. Homesick for her native Cornwall, Rebecca feels she'll never belong at Benedict Lansdon's ancestral estate-a place haunted by the phantoms of past crimes. When tragedy strikes,...
31733) Remembering: a novel
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English
Description
It is 1976 and Andy Catlett, farmer and agricultural journalist, is walking the streets of San Francisco at dawn. In the eight months since losing his right hand to a corn-picking machine, he has also lost himself. Two thousand miles from his home in Kentucky, he begins to remember people, the land, and the comfort of knowing his place intimately. Andy's reveries evoke a membership governed by the principles of humanity and love. Inspiring and eye-opening,...
31737) Three novels
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Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
31738) Rich man, poor man
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English
Description
In Irwin Shaw's enthralling novel, the Jordache family grapples with the forces of change in mid-century America Siblings Rudy, Tom, and Gretchen Jordache grow up in a small town on the Hudson River. They're in their teens in the 1940s, too young to go to war but marked by it nevertheless. Their father is the local baker, and nothing suggests they will live storied lives. Yet, in this sprawling saga, each member of the family pushes against the...
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English
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Bernie Rhodenbarr has gone legit -- almost -- as the new owner of a used bookstore in New York's Greenwich Village. Of course, dusty old tomes don't always turn a profit, so to make ends meet, Bernie's forced, on occasion, to indulge in his previous occupation: burglary. Besides which, he likes it.
Now a collector is offering Bernie an opportunity to combine his twin passions by stealing a very rare and very bad book-length poem from a rich man's...


