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After writing The Jungle, his scathing indictment of the meatpacking industry, Sinclair turned his sights on the early days of the California oil industry in a highly entertaining story featuring a cavalcade of characters including senators, oil magnates, Hollywood film starlets, and a crusading evangelist. This lively and panoramic book, which was recently cited by David Denby in the New Yorker as being Sinclair's "most readable" novel, is now the...
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An edge-of-your-seat original prequel based on Showtime's hit series Homeland
Beirut, 2006. CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison barely escapes an ambush while attempting a clandestine meeting with a new contact, code-name Nightingale. Suspicious that security has been compromised, she challenges the station chief in a heated confrontation that gets her booted back to Langley.
Expert in recognizing and anticipating behavioral patterns—a
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V for Vendetta volume 1
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A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V For Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything, comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts in this gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological...
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V for Vendetta volume 1
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The seminal graphic novel masterpiece V For Vendetta is available in this new deluxe edition, featuring an essay from writer Alan Moore, sketches from artist David Lloyd and other bonus material!
A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V For Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith...
5) Saul's Game
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Leading a mission to capture master terrorist, Abu Nazir, CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison discovers a dangerous threat inside the Agency in this thrilling second official prequel novel to Showtime's Emmy Award-winning hit series Homeland. Damascus, Syria, 2009. Carrie Mathison is leading an operation to capture or kill al Qaeda terrorist, Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound where he was supposed to be in hiding, they find it empty. Carrie...
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Un cocktail détonnant, mêlant audace, technologie, sport et démocratie.
Les yeux rivés sur l'écran géant, Kevin, accompagné de ses amis Paul et Carl, assiste dépité à une nouvelle défaite de son équipe. Au fond, ce n'est pas une surprise, mais cette fois, convaincu de trouver la solution dans l'intelligence collective de son pays, le jeune entrepreneur est bien décidé à se rebeller contre cette fatalité. L'objectif est clair : renverser...
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Joachim Mukangoma, demandeur d'asile rwandais en France, confie à l'écrivain Jean Louis Delayet la vérité sur le meurtre camouflé du journaliste et reporter français Richard Grideau. Ce dernier, dans un contexte de forte tension diplomatique, s'était rendu au Rwanda pour effectuer un reportage sur la détention d'un Franco-Rwandais dans la prison de Kigali. Séquestré et torturé à mort par la suite, son corps fut abandonné sur le lieu d'un...
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"The most popular evangelist of his day, John Luther simply wants to share the Gospel and enjoy a quiet life with his family. He never asked to be at the center of a political controversy, but an ill wind has been blowing through the halls of Congress, and supporters of a new religious-equality bill see Luther's endorsement as critical. When he refuses to lend his support, he sets in motion an explosive plan bent on destroying his reputation and undermining...
11) Jack & Coke
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Jack Ranger is a young journalist ready to set the world on fire. As a freshly minted college graduate, he follows an enigmatic mentor on a quest to expose the corrupt governor of Massachusetts. But society's institutions have a way of keeping themselves in power and Jack finds himself enveloped in conspiracy and sabotage that threatens to silence both the truth and his future. In his attempt to re-write the rules, Jack creates Flint Media to breathe...
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Sarah-Jane Zdanski volume 1
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"A teacher. A soldier. An immigrant. A joker. A loner. A chancer. A carer. A mosaic of seven regular townsfolk are going about their days, blissfully unaware their lives are about to interweave, interchange and interact; entangling into such a messy web that, together -- and unbeknownst to them -- their lives end up changing the face of America forevermore." -- author's website.
13) Blood Brothers
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Based on the History's series Six, an action-packed military thriller following the elite, legendary SEAL Team Six.
The elite Navy unit known as SEAL Team Six is made up of some of the most renown and fearsome warriors of all time, deployed for only the toughest missions in the most dangerous places on Earth. Richard Rip” Taggart used to lead this unit, until after seeing and experiencing too much on the battlefield he snaps and executes an American...
14) End Game
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Based on History’s series SIX, the action-packed sequel to SIX: Blood Brothers.
In this thrilling follow-up to SIX: Blood Brothers, the elite unit known as SEAL Team Six arrives at an abandoned village in Nigeria mere minutes too late to rescue former team leader Senior Chief Richard Rip” Taggart. What they find instead are a group of battle-hardened Chechen fighters and a lot of dead Boko Haram. After a deadly firefight, they’re left only...
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"What's the point of being Irish anyway if you don't think the world will break your heart?" asks Jack Kennedy. He is spellbound by a song about Ireland's neverland of dreams: "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?"
No one better knew the real JFK's dreams and passions than Lem Billings, a prep-school roommate who made himself "sidekick everlasting." The late Peter Collier had the great fortune to obtain oral histories from Billings himself, and they became...
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