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Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something... |
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Two-Way Murder
E.C.R. Lorac
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderIt is a dark and misty night—isn't it always?—and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There waits the charming Dilys Maine, and a party buzzing with rumours... |
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The Chianti Flask
Marie Belloc Lowndes
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It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper...An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish. It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper, but according... |
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Five Little Pigs, Bundle
Agatha Christie
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TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! From the Queen of Mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in which Hercule Poirot solves his first case, and Five Little Pigs, where Poirot races to solve a case from the past.THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESWho poisoned the wealthy Emily... |
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / The Hollow, Bundle
Agatha Christie
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TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! In THE MURDER OF ROGER ACROYD, Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken... |
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Murder's a Swine
Nap Lombard
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"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die..."In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls... |
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The Dead Letter
Seeley Regester
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"Another triumph with this pioneering crime novel."—Publishers WeeklyThe sixth book in the Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress. This classic crime fiction mystery features a love triangle... |
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D.C. Noir 2
George Pelecanos
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In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location... |
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Last Seen Wearing
Hillary Waugh
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No one saw her leave, and no one knows where she went...It's a perfectly typical day for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly ordinary university in Massachusetts. She goes to class, chats with friends, and retires to her dorm room. Everything is normal until suddenly it's not—in the blink... |
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Her Private War
David Laws
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A woman of humble origins fights to overcome every obstacle to pilot a plane in World War I Britain, in a novel by the author of The Fuhrer's Orphans . . .
Being female means that Charlotte Dovedale's dreams are likely out of reach. Her mother is eager to support Charlotte's brother... |
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The Winter Murders
Jeffrey Birch
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Another Chance Colter murder mystery set in northern Minnesota where Chance extends his fishing trip stay to assist a young female Native American temporary sheriff upon the death of her sheriff uncle. |
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Between Victory and Defeat
Subhankar Bhattacharyya
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Torn between the high Marxist ideals of the bygone days and the lures of an aggressively captivating market economy, Abhi, the protagonist, can keep his trust in none but himself. The novella is a political thriller that breathlessly narrates the inside story of the deteriorating student... |
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The Trees Endure
Joyce L. Kieffer
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In 1901, after three tumultuous years as a student nurse at Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses and a relationship with a doctor who stole her heart, Rebecca Wagner returns to her family farm and the disappearance of virgin forests surrounding rural McAlisterville, Pennsylvania.
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Luisa de Bustamante
José María Blanco White
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José María Blanco White (1775-1841). España.Nació en Sevilla en 1775. Hijo del vicecónsul inglés Guillermo White. Fue canónico magistral en Cádiz y Sevilla y formó parte de la Academia de Letras Humanas (1793-1802). Tras una crisis espiritual marchó... |
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El hechicero
Juan Valera
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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (Cabra, Córdoba, 1824-Madrid, 1905). España.Político y diplomático, fue un hombre culto y refinado, con numerosas aventuras amorosas y amistades literarias. |
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Los siete libros de la Diana
Jorge De Montemayor
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Los siete libros de la Diana is one of the first examples of pastoral poetry in Spain. It is distinguished by being written in a mixture of verse and prose and for combining various settings in the same story. Among others, it includes the pastoral atmosphere, the supernatural, urban, and even... |
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El espejo de Matsuyama
Juan Valera
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«Mucho tiempo ha vivían dos jóvenes esposos en lugar muy apartado y rústico. Tenían una hija y ambos la amaban de todo corazón. No diré los nombres de marido y mujer, que ya cayeron en olvido, pero diré que el sitio en que vivían se llamaba Matsuyama,... |
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La fuerza de la sangre
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
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La fuerza de la sangre tells the story of a young woman who is raped by a member of a noble family in Toledo. |
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El periquillo Sarniento IV
José Joaquín Fernández Lizardi
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El Periquillo Sarniento is the first novel of entirely Latin American content. It was written in Mexico by José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi in 1816. The book shows a marked neoclassical influence and moralizing pretensions. It tells the story of an old man who, in the face... |
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