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Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century novel "The Vicar of Wakefield" was so popular in Victorian times that it is mentioned in many classics of that era including George Eliot's "Middlemarch," Jane Austen's "Emma," Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", amongst others. It is the story of Dr. Charles Primrose, the titular Vicar, his wife Deborah and their six children who live an idyllic life in a country parish. The Vicar...
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It was 1970 when thirteen-year-old runaway Kit Walker was abducted by Manny Romero, a smooth-talking, low-level criminal, who first coddled her and then groomed her into his partner-in-crime. Before long, Kit and Manny were infamous for their string of gas station robberies throughout Texas, making a name for themselves as the Texaco Twosome. Fourteen years later, Kit has scraped together a life for herself and her daughter amongst the pecan trees...
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Nine-year-old Rachel Fox's beauty has made her the center of attention wherever she goes, but when a repairman takes an unhealthy interest in the young girl, his obsession leads to Rachel's abduction, sending her mother on a desperate search for her daughter.
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Carrigan and Miller novels volume 3
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When a distressed young woman arrives at the police station claiming that her friend has been abducted, and that the man will return and "claim her next," detectives Carrigan and Miller are drawn into a terrifying new world for cyberstalking -- where online intimidation and control can be deadly. Under scrutiny themselves, and with old enmities re-surfacing, how long will Carrigan and Miller have to discover the truth behind what happened to these...
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Winnie Parker, mother to an angst-ridden teenage daughter and ex-wife to a successful game show host who left her for a twenty-something contestant, begins a normal day in her hum-drum existence by dropping her car off at the repair shop. After accepting what she believes is a ride to pick up her rental car, Winnie realizes too late that she's been kidnapped. What follows is a riveting psychological game of cat and mouse set in the kidnapper's tropically...
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