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"Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbevilles, and meeting her "cousin" Alec proves to be her downfall. When Angel Clare offers her love and salvation, she must choose whether to reveal her past or remain silent in the hope of a peaceful future."--from NoveList.
2) The citadel
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This is the story of a young physician, and it portrays his career through the vicissitudes of success and failure, happiness and sorrow. Andrew Manson, whose creed was "take nothing for granted," shows early promise of doing great things. The adventurous days, from his start in a colliery town through the realization of his ambition for a London practice, picture a sincere, conscientious young man almost broken and defeated through the arrogance...
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The classic medical novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Arthur Hailey takes readers behind the scenes of a great hospital. Change is in the air when a new board chairman sets out to modernize and expand Three Counties Hospital in Burlington, Pennsylvania - a once venerable institution whose standards have slipped. Dynamic Dr. Kent O'Donnell, a Harvard Medical School-trained surgeon, accepts the board's offer to lead and reform the rundown,...
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Keith Stewart, a retiring and ingenious engineer, could not have been happier in his little house in the shabby London suburb of Ealing. There he invented the mini-motor, the six-volt generator, and the tiny Congreve clock. Then a chain of events sweeps him into deep waters and leads him to his happiest discovery yet.
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'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.' Haunting, moving, evocative, The Go-Between is L.P. Hartley's heartbreaking novel about social constraints and childhood innocence. During the long hot summer of 1900, young Leo Colston is invited to stay for a month at a lordly, aristocratic manor in Norfolk. There he falls in love with his friend's older sister, who commissions him to ferry secret messages to the local farmer, her...
7) Sea Leopard
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: A captured submarine must be retrieved from the Russians before they can decode its cutting-edge technology . . .
The Royal Navy is testing Sea Leopard, an anti-sonar device that can make its subs virtually undetectable. But before the work can be completed, their nuclear submarine Proteus is targeted and trapped by the Soviet Union-whose military is determined to figure out, and steal, this new technology.
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During the Depression the ebullient American entrepreneur Charles Flanagan assembles 2,000 runners from all corners of the earth, to run from Los Angeles to New York for prize-money of $150,000. Flanagan's Trans-America runners face 3,000 miles, across the Mojave desert and the frozen Rockies, running a daily average of 50 miles for three months. The American sports establishment, however, is desperate to crush what it sees as a professional challenge...
9) Winter kills
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A whistleblower looks too deeply into a president's assassination in this darkly satiric conspiracy thriller from the author of The Manchurian Candidate. It has been more than a decade since the assassination of US President Timothy Kegan, who was gunned down while riding in a motorcade through the streets of Philadelphia. The "lone gunman" responsible was arrested and convicted, and the country has moved on. President Kegan's half-brother Nick tries...
10) Firefox down!
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New York Times Bestseller: The follow-up to the classic Cold War thriller continues the story of spies, stealth technology, and survival . . .
The plan was to steal the Soviet Union's prototype for the world's most advanced stealth fighter from under their noses. What could go wrong?
A lot, it turns out. A crash landing in remote, frigid Finland leaves daredevil pilot Mitchell Gant fighting for survival and trying to elude his pursuers....
11) Ice!
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Retiring on a pension after being torpedoed in WWII, Tristan Jones embarks on a test of endurance that will last over two years, nearly killing him more than once. Attempting to sail farther North than anyone ever has, he embarks from Iceland on the Cresswell in the summer of 1959. His only companion? A three-legged, one-eyed Labrador named Nelson. He spends his first winter holed up near an Eskimo village in a Greenland fjord. After a violent snowstorm...
12) Jade tiger
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New York Times–Bestselling Author of Firefox: At the height of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall may finally fall-but who's really pulling the strings?
Sir Kenneth Aubrey remembers Wolfgang Zimmerman from a dramatic encounter back in World War II. In the intervening decades, Zimmerman has risen to become a top advisor to the West German chancellor. Thanks to Zimmerman, the prospect of a reunified Germany is now on the horizon. Until he falls ill...
13) Pastoral
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She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished, they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens.
14) Pay any price
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As the world still reels from the Kennedy assassinations, an English intelligence operative uncovers a sinister conspiracy: the CIA has joined with the Mafia and communist Cuba to create sleeper agents, unwitting pawns hypnotized to kill on command. Now London wants in, setting its sights on the IRA and other enemies of the British Empire. In this spine-tingling suspense about one of the darkest eras in American history, the bestselling author of...
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The trap is laid. Now, Nick Everard must wait for the U-boats to arrive…
Autumn 1942: Sir Nicholas Everard, Captain of HMS Harbinger, has a convoy to escort: big and slow, with just one destroyer, two corvettes and a few trawlers to protect it. This will not be an easy mission.
Meanwhile, U-boat pack commander Max Looff can hardly believe his luck. His nerve is going and he knows it: but now he has a one-in-a-million chance to annihilate an entire...
17) Exit lines
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Adapted into a long-running hit show for the BBC, the Gold Dagger Award–winning series is now available as eBooks. On the same night, three old men are offed: One is found in the icy rain sputtering the name "Polly" before expiring; another mumbles "Charley" after being beaten in his bathtub; and most alarmingly, the final words of the third, a cyclist knocked off the road by a drunk driver, implicate Superintendent Andrew Dalziel in the fatal...
18) The gatecrashers
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The extraordinary, breathless final volume in the Nicholas Everard Naval Thrillers.
Six submarines are about to be towed underwater from Scotland to Norway. Their targets: the giant German warships Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Lutzow.
The odds seem stacked against the smaller craft. But if they can survive the nightmarish 2,000-mile tow, Commander Paul Everard will have a chance to gatecrash the fjords and cripple the ship Churchill calls 'the Beast'.
Whether...
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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the German campaign against Scandinavia (The Observer).
Everard is returns in a new global conflict.
British Captain Nick Everard's destroyer is crippled by Nazi gunfire in the German invasion of Norway. Nothing seems able to stop the advance across Europe and the Royal Navy is in a tight situation.
Desperately attempting to repair his ship hidden...
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An incredibly dangerous and secret mission in a tumultuous Syria.
Charlie Swale of the SAS would never have dreamed of betraying his country. But nor could he ever have imagined that the Soviets would be able to dupe him.
Charlie had been a hero in his day. Then he'd hit the bottle. And then he'd hit hard times. So when he is given the chance to redeem himself in a top-secret SBS mission to Syria, he knows he has to pull it off.
Fuelled by a new...
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