Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest....
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Author: Goldbach, JohnSummary: -
Author: Dozois, GardnerSummary:This dazzling anthology includes epic interstellar adventures, tales of space and wonder, from some of the brightest names in science fiction. Authors include Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Gregory...
Genre: Science fiction, Short stories -
Author: Hunt, RobertSummary:Townies is the sequel to Robert Hunt’s memoir Corner Boys and takes us back to the mean streets – and schools – of St. John’s in the 1950s and 1960s. This is a coming-of-age...
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Author: MacKinnon, RobertSummary:
This eclectic collection of stories shares with readers many other aspects of Robert's professional and personal experience. He tells a chilling story of being the first RCMP officer at the crash...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays -
Author: Falls, Robert WilliamSummary:An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management...
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Author: Thompson, DavidSummary:
Recapturing the experiences of naturalist and painter Robert Parker, Thompson showcases a man's battle against bloodthirsty prospectors.
Genre: Western fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: Thomas, B. G.Summary:Robert Daniels is always dating the wrong guys. He doesn’t understand it. Then, one day, on a particularly bad date, he dies only to wake up in the body of a man named Jimmy, who was shot and...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Gribbin, JohnSummary:
What if Newton had never lived' A compelling dual biography argues that Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley easily could have filled the giant's shoes-and deserve credit for the birth of modern science...
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Author: Martin, George R. R.Summary:
In this sequel to A Game of Thrones, George Martin pursues the embattled Seven Kingdoms through a bitter 10-year winter in which good and evil contend for power. When cruel Queen Cerisi's son...
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Author: Roberts, CleaSummary:Poems like single larches, each in an immense white plain—spare
and clean, their exactness startling and arrestingWhether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: Scott, JoannaSummary:New writings-on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us-from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood...
Genre: General fiction, Short stories -
Author: Summerscale, KateSummary:
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a...
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Author: Ashford, JaneSummary:How does a gentleman rescue a lady' Lord Robert Gresham has given up all hope that the beautiful and independent Flora Jennings will ever take him seriously. He heads to an exclusive country...
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Author: Malouf, Pierre K.; Fortin, PierreSummary:Deux amis d’enfance, Robert Daigneault, lutteur professionnel et Jean-Luc Dupré, comptable, se croisent le 6 décembre 1989 devant l’école Polytechnique, où leurs filles étudient. Les deux hommes...
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Author: Harrington, AnnaSummary:
L'ART DE SÉDUIRE... Miranda nourrit un seul rêve: épouser Robert Carlisle. Elle n'en peut plus d'attendre. Aussi, durant le bal masqué des Carlisle, se glisse-t-elle dans sa...