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301) Hunting Eve
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Pub. Date
2013.
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In the second book of Iris Johansen's heart-stopping new Eve Duncan trilogy, the stakes get higher. Eve Duncan is on the run. Kidnapped by Jim Doane, a mysterious man who wants her to complete a sinister forensic sculpture, she now has no time to savor the victory of escaping from him. He's back on her trail and closing in fast. Doane desperately needs Eve's skill to reconstruct the skull of his son -- a sick and twisted killer who still holds Doane...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
949 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Description
Oprah's latest book club selection! New York Times Best Seller At 40, Dominick Birdsey's entire life has been compromised and constricted by anger and fear: by the schizophrenic twin brother he both deeply loves and resents, and by the past they shared with their adoptive father, Ray, a spit-and polish ex-Navy man and their long-suffering mother, Concettina, a timid, self-conscious woman. Born in the waning moments of 1949 and the opening minutes...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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253 pages ; 24 cm
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"A breakout book from Stephen Marche, The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the way we live now: a sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream and the men and monsters who profit in its pursuit set in New York, London, and the Canadian wilderness. Hunters found his body naked in the snow. So begins this breakout book from Stephen Marche, the provocative Esquire columnist and regular contributor to The Atlantic, whose...
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Ralph Azham volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
150 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"From the award-winning mind of cartoonist Lewis Trondheim comes the expansive and rich anthropomorphic medieval world of Ralph Azham. After failing the test of the Chosen One as a young duck, Ralph had a tough time growing up as the village pariah, often getting into trouble due to an innate extra sense that's rather unbelievable, embarrassing, and unfortunate. That was only compounded by the constant visit of spirits that only he, Ralph, could see....
308) What daddies do
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Simple, rhyming text celebrates all the amazing things fathers can do.
309) Play with fire
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
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243, 26 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Description
"Alaska's worst fire in decades left behind 125,000 acres of razed forest, three feet of ash, and one unburnt corpse. A ten-year-old boy has hired Kate Shugak to find his father. Daniel Seabolt has been missing since the previous summer, but his disappearance has never been reported. The boy's grandfather, the Right Reverend Pastor Simon Seabolt, has forbidden the tight-knit community even to speak Daniel's name. Unfortunately for the boy, Kate is...
310) Last acts: a novel
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son's resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--
311) Going dark
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Pub. Date
2013.
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294 pages ; 25 cm
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"The New York Times Book Review calls Edgar Award-winner James W. Hall a 'master of suspense' and this new high-stakes thriller shows why as Thorn embarks on a mission to save his newfound son. Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF, is a loosely knit organization comprised of environmental activists scattered around the country. These extremists take a 'by any means necessary' approach to defending the planet. In the last decade ELF has been responsible...
312) Seeing red
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Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary...
313) The grand promise
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Pub. Date
2022.
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298 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
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"THE GRAND PROMISE takes us back to the 1930s New Deal public works program. An Eastern Washington town is uprooted and a family grapples with personal and financial dilemmas. A father resists inevitable change, and enters into a fierce conflict with his son. The historic construction of the Grand Coulee Dam, a massive project destined to bring prosperity to the Pacific Northwest, will also destroy the family's home and their town, but it will change...
314) Pedro Páramo
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xiii, 129 pages ; 21 cm
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A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man's quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met--Pedro Páramo--but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the...
315) Farmer in the sky
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Pub. Date
2008, ©1977
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290 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
A youth and his father emigrate from the mechanical and organized world on overpopulated Earth to become colonists on Ganymede, the third moon of Jupiter.
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