When ruthless assassin Klaus Reiner is hired to kill an American industrialist vacationing in France, he doesn't count on three tourists getting caught in the crossfire. And he certainly doesn't count on any trouble from an aging yet...
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Author:Jay, GeraldSummary: - Author:Meier, AndrewSummary:
A brilliant Columbia University graduate, Isaiah Oggins went to Berlin to establish a safe house and spy for his country--but he turned coat. Working for the Soviets, he was nevertheless poisoned in 1947 on Stalin's orders.
- Author:Thor, BradSummary:
A novel of political intrigue and international terrorism with an ex-Navy SEAL as the hero who risks his life to find the culprits in a sinister plot.
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Mma Ramotswe's attention is focused on a pesky disciplinary problem at her adopted daughter's school--while Grace Makutsi adjusts to wedded bliss and the famed Clovis Andersen arrives in Botswana looking for more than bush tea.
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Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:An American youth in 1930s Mexico City, Harrison Shepherd works for artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and their houseguest, Russian exile Lev Trotsky. Returning to the United States, Shepherd becomes a bestselling author, but his...
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Author:Snyder, CarrieSummary:Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction and selected as a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book Juliet Friesen is ten years old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary...
- Author:Bunn, T. DavisSummary:
Eager to minister to the poor, well-bred Abigail ignores her parents' warnings and ventures into the slums of London. But instead of gaining converts, she causes a scandal when she ventures into a seedy theater. To save the family...
- Author:Messud, ClaireSummary:
"A Simple Tale" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek...
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Author:Ghosh, AmitavSummary:Off the eastern coast of Inda lies an extraordinary cluster of islands known as the Sundarbans. It is a raw but a beautiful sea--a place of man-eating tigers, river dolphins, huge crocodiles and devistating tides that sweep across the...
- Author:Connor, Jennifer J., Side, KatherineSummary:
Dr Wilfred Grenfell, physician and folk hero, recruited thousands of volunteer workers for his Newfoundland and Labrador seamen's mission, many of them Americans from Ivy League institutions. As the medical mission grew to become...
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Author:McCullough, David G.Summary:Through this inspiring history, McCullough offers an account of ambitious Americans who traveled to Paris between 1830 and 1900 to make their greatest accomplishments.
- Author:Marshall, PauleSummary:
In 1949, jazz pianist Sonny-Rhett Payne leaves New York for Paris, where he will be free from racism and his family's disapproval of his music. Three decades later, Sonny's grandson comes to New York for a memorial concert. On the...
- Author:Banks, SydneySummary:
Beset by daily life's trials and tribulations, many people search for the elusive wisdom that will help them make sense of their journey and find inner peace. So, too, do the characters in this wonderful story by Sydney Banks. In this...
- Author:Fitzgerald, ConorSummary:
On a hot summer morning, Arturo Clemente is sloppily murdered in his Roman apartment by a mysterious slasher. The killing is brutal, amateurish and by all appearances random. But Clemente is no ordinary victim.
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Author:Wharton, EdithSummary:Beautiful, calculating Undine Spragg wants more than anything to be stylish. Never satisfied, she is constantly planning her next social accomplishment. In her struggle, she encounters Ralph Marvell, a gentleman from the upper class,...
- Author:Olmstead, RobertSummary:
Set in 1950, this novel follows Henry, a marine who arrives in Korea just before the devastating Chosin Reservoir battle. Days of brutal fighting leave Henry forever haunted by what he's seen, but the true depth of his scars doesn't...
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Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather, but her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her through Cornwall. Her only clue is an ancient ring she wears that bears the family crest.
- Author:Leonard, ElmoreSummary:
The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid...
- Author:London, StefanieSummary:
American Angie Donovan has never wanted much. When you grow up getting bounced from foster home to foster home, you learn not to become attached to anything, anyone, or any place. But it only took her two days to fall in love with...
- Author:Curtis, HerbSummary:
An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world’s terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, the annual influx of American anglers, with their money, fishing gear, and thirst for...
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