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3) Codex
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#1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Magicians: A "fabulously entertaining" novel of a medieval manuscript, a modern video game, and a man obsessed (The Boston Globe).
About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When he's asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books,...
About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When he's asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books,...
4) On Palestine
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The sequel to the acclaimed Gaza in Crisis from world-famous political analyst Noam Chomsky and Middle East historian Ilan Pappé.
Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in...
Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in...
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For the first time, the eBook includes a video of Dr. Benson teaching how to elicit the relaxation response. This video allows the reader to access his or her innate capacity to counteract the harmful effects of stress. When Dr. Herbert Benson introduced this simple, effective, mind/body approach to relieving stress forty years ago, his book became an instant national bestseller. Since that time, millions of people have learned the secret - without...
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Lady Harriet Fareham had agreed to support her older sister in a London Season, but she was more interested in working with the poor than cavoring with in the ton. She became a temporary instructor to the young women at the Temple of Venus brothel. Adrian Chalfont, Marquess of Kidderham, discovered her there and took an immediate fancy to her. Regency Romance by Evelyn Richardson; originally published by Signet
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From the author of Shelter Me—a funny and poignant novel about having your heart in the right place.
Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly nice- even to telemarketers-but now her temper is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dad's departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town...
Newly divorced Dana Stellgarten has always been unfailingly nice- even to telemarketers-but now her temper is wearing thin. Money is tight, her kids are reeling from their dad's departure, and her Goth teenage niece has just landed on her doorstep. As she enters the slipstream of post-divorce romance and is befriended by the town...
8) Past tense
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 18
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Brady Coyne is a middle-aged Boston attorney with a small, select clientele - one that leaves him sufficient time to pursue a personal life. That personal life currently focuses on Evie Banyon, a hospital administrator Brady has been seeing for the past year. While they are on a weekend vacation in Cape Cod, though, a determined stalker from Evie's past turns up to torment her anew. After an unpleasant confrontation with him, Brady and Evie return...
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Lady Caroline Waverly had decided when she was a girl that she would never marry. As a young woman she is mistress of her own estate and wants no man who would mock her intellectual pursuits. Let the charming Lord Nicholas Daventry be ensnared by the bewitching Countess Lavinia Welham. Caro shan't interfere-if she can resist! Regency Romance by Evelyn Richardson; originally published by Signet
10) The magicians
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As a senior in high school Quentin Coldwater became preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. After graduating from college and being admitted into a highly exclusive, secret society of magic in upstate New York, he makes a stunning discovery: Fillory is real. But the land of Quentin's fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he could have imagined for his childhood dream...
11) Sunday pancakes
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Dial Books for Young Readers
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2022.
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"Cat invites their friends Bear and Rabbit to enjoy stacks and stacks of pancakes on a cozy Sunday morning."--
12) Dead winter
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 8
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When a minister's son is accused of murder, Brady doesn't know whom to trust Desmond Winters has had more trouble than a Unitarian minister deserves. Over six years ago, his wife disappeared with their fourteen-year-old daughter, promising to return someday. The daughter came back after six months; the wife never did. The experience scarred Desmond's son, Marc, who acted out by getting involved with cocaine smugglers and marrying an exotic dancer....
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A politician's son gets involved in a murder, and drags Brady along with him Running for governor on the Republican ticket, Tom Baron needs his image to be squeaky clean. He employs men like Brady Coyne, a compassionate Boston attorney, to keep problems far away from his campaign. But when his son doesn't come home one night, Tom's political strategy becomes a criminal matter. His son's girlfriend has been murdered, and the boy has no alibi. To protect...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 2
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To solve a murder, Brady must find a copy of the world's rarest stamp It is a small paper square with uneven edges, dark blue in color and bearing a smudged portrait of a long-dead king. It doesn't look like much to Brady Coyne, but the stamp known as the Dutch Blue Error is one of a kind-a philatelic freak worth at least one million dollars. It is the prize possession of Ollie Weston, a wheelchair-bound Boston banker, and it is valuable enough that...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 4
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Brady investigates what appears to be the murder of a homeless man The man is found on the icy streets of Boston, vomit in his beard, alcohol in his system, and ice in his veins. The police assume he is just another in the dozens of derelicts whom the urban winter claims each year, but Brady Coyne knows better. Attorney to New England's upper crust, he was the dead man's lawyer, and he knows that Stuart Carver was no bum: He was a senator's nephew....
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Signet Regency romance volume AE 9715
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Lady Charlotte Winterbourne has long managed Harcourt for her brother and herself. When her long-absent father dies, grasping Cousin Cecil has designs on the estate. But Charlotte's father had appointed bachelor Maximillian Stanford, Marquess of Lydon, as guardian to his children. Charlotte forces the reluctant marquess to discharge his duties, but William, being the heir, is in danger and Max must protect him-and his sister. Regency Romance by Evelyn...
18) Client privilege
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 9
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Defending a client, Brady gets himself implicated in a murder charge Brady Coyne has known Chester "Pops" Popowski since law school. An honest, battle-hardened Massachusetts judge, Pops is more soldier than scholar-and has been known to defend what's right with his fists. After years on the bench, Pops has been nominated for a federal judgeship, with a possible Supreme Court appointment in his future. Only one thing stands in his way: blackmail. A...
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Brady searches Red Sox Nation for a ballplayer's kidnapped son For two years, Eddie Donagan was on track to become the greatest Red Sox pitcher of all time. Then one day, without warning, he went from unhittable to ineffective-forcing him to drop out of the Majors before he even hit his prime. Attorney Brady Coyne met Donagan before he turned pro, and stays friends with him even as the faded star drifts into depression, disappearing from his wife...
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Brady Coyne mysteries volume 22
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Brady Coyne is a Boston attorney, whose routine legal work and sedate lifestyle usually keep him far away from trouble. Unfortunately, one cold January morning, trouble comes to him. When Brady lets his dog out into the backyard of his Back Bay brownstone, he finds a girl buried under the snow in Brady's back yard. A teenager, maybe fifteen or sixteen, who had apparently crawled into the backyard, bleeding, in the middle of the night, only to die...
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