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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young...
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young...
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A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens's great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author's novels, A Tale...
3) The fury
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"Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time--it caused a real stir in the tabloids, if you remember. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity; a private...
4) Archenemies
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Renegades volume 2
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2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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As Nova, Adrian, and the rest of their crew face escalating crime in Gatlon City, covert weapons and conflicting missions have Nova and Adrian questioning not only their beliefs about justice, but also their feelings for each other.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 2
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When a mysterious woman is kidnapped by a politically motivated fringe group and taken to their compound, Jack Reacher must help her escape with her life--from the inside out...
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Wild and Passionate Classic Gothic Romance
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person, from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant, running
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IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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The story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most deliciously readable. The cast of characters includes kindly Joe Gargery, the loyal convict Abel Magwitch and the haunting Miss Havisham.
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In the wake of a personal tragedy, former CIA operative Teddy Fay -- now a successful Hollywood film producer known as Billy Barnett -- takes a leave of absence to travel and grieve, and lands in Santa Fe in the company of his friends Stone Barrington and Ed Eagle. There, fate hands him an unexpected opportunity to exact quiet revenge for his recent loss, from a man who helped to cover up the crime. But when his enemy wises up to Teddy's machinations,...
10) True blue
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2009
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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What begins as a fairly routine homicide investigation quickly turns into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal for Mace Perry--a former D.C. cop working gang narcotics--who is rebuilding her life after being framed and imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit.
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A powerful tale of forbidden love, shame, and revenge comes to life in Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter. Faithfully adapted by Crystal Chan from the original novel, this new edition features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into the Nathaniel Hawthorne's tragic saga of Puritan America.
12) The forever song
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Blood of Eden volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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Embracing her vampire side after the death of her beloved Zeke, Allie teams up with her companions to hunt the psychopathic vampire responsible for his murder only to be confronted with brutal surprises.
13) Point of impact
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 1
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In the jungles of Vietnam, Bob Lee Swagger was known as 'Bob the Nailer' for his high-scoring target rate at killing. Today the master sniper lives in a trailer in the Arkansas mountains, and just wants to be left alone. But he knows too much... about killing.The mission is top secret. Dangerous, patriotic, and rigged from the start. One thing goes wrong: double-crossed Bob has come out alive. Now he is on the run. His only allies: an FBI agent in...
14) Three-inch teeth
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"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fianc©♭ of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out...
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"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"--
16) Envy
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New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed, captivated by an unsolicited manuscript, goes in search of the novel's author and becomes caught up in his tale of betrayal and murder--a story that she begins to think is more truth than fiction.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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An unsolved murder, the vengeance exacted for the crime, and the subsequent distortions of truth, transform the lives of the people from the town of Pluto, North Dakota, and the Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation.
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Mortalis trilogy volume 3
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Ex-Intelligence agents try to account for the disappearance of 11 old men - ex-Nazi SS officers.
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2015.
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The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes -- like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the Company's finest men, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts him face-to-face...
20) Hannibal
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Hannibal Lecter volume 3
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FBI agent Clarice Starling's involvment in a dramatic drug bust brings her once again to the attention of cannibal killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter who escaped from custody seven years earlier after helping Clarice nab a serial murderer.
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