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"In a glamorous Newport mansion filled with secrets, a debonair lawyer must separate truth from deception. Spring 1921. The Great War is over, Prohibition is in full swing, the Great Depression is still years away. Wealthy families flock to the glittering "summer cottages" they built in Newport, Rhode Island. Having sheltered in Newport during his misspent youth, attorney Adrian de la Noye is no stranger to the city. Though he'd prefer to forget the...
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The New York Times–bestselling author’s cult classic skewers America’s obsession with money, fame, guns, and sex—“A satirical gem” (John Berendt). Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy....
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The Satirical and Bitter Side of Mark Twain. "Man is made of dirt, I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities, he comes today and is gone tomorrow, he begins as dirt and departs as stench. I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself." The Mysterious Stranger and Other...
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When a mysterious houseboat appears on the river Styx, it brings an influx of famous souls who begin to flock towards the new favored location. A Houseboat on the Styx is a series of different stories that tie into one exciting narrative.
Charon is a mythological character who navigates the Styx river under the guidance of Hades. The water acts as a border between the living world and the afterlife. As a ferryman, Charon transports deceased souls...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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Offered a large sum of money to perform an assassination, Thomas Lang chooses instead to warn the intended victim, only to find himself on the hit list and up against such adversaries as rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer.
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Winner of The Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction 2023 Eyes down to find a killer who's playing to win... An irresistible slice of murder and mystery – there's a killer on the loose in the Lake District, and the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they're the ones to catch the culprit... Jason Brazel is an out of work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family and mother-in-law, Amita. She knows everyone and everything that's going on...
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Set in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois during May 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Scott Hatcher and his neighborhood must come to terms with the disappearance then discovery and follow-on official death investigation of Scott's wife Marie and their neighbor John Bergman.
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Serge Storms novels volume 26
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"Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey"--
After a long and arduous COVID-19 quarantine, Serge A. Storms is fully vaccinated and ready to hit the road. Along with his condo neighbors, he cooks up a wild plan to celebrate in true Serge fashion: each week, they rent a shuttle van and head out for funky Florida road trips and some serious revelry. Meanwhile, a...
9) Nowhere
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Detective Russel Wren takes a case in what just might be the oddest country on earth A phone call warning of a bomb threat is all Detective Russel Wren needs to get out the door. He makes it to the next block before an enormous explosion destroys his entire building. Without his Manhattan office, Wren finds himself forced to accept a strange mission to the tiny central European nation of Saint Sebastian. Saint Sebastian is unlike any country...
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A ridiculed intellectual dreamer opens a 1960's retro disco and surrounds himself with an array of characters that have a distorted view of reality and who put fun into dysfunctional in this screwball murder mystery farce that is more farce than mystery.
Bo Pepperwall's intelligence dwarfed Mensa's parameters. He was perceived as strange thereby resulting in his being ridiculed by many, shunned by most and being called, Bo the Schmoe...
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America's greatest satirist sets his sights on England's most celebrated detective in this boisterous tale of revenge, murder, and the limits of logic Tortured, humiliated, and abandoned by her fiancé, a woman gives birth to a boy with an unusual gift. Blessed with a bloodhound's sense of smell, Archy Stillman can track a man clear across the country. His mother, who has spent sixteen years dreaming of vengeance, finally has the means to achieve...
12) The Titan
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Trilogy of desire volume 2
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The sequel to Dreiser's The Financier, which continues the saga of the ups and downs in the life of Frank Cowperwood.
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Jay Omega mysteries volume 1
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In the midst of a science fiction and fantasy convention, bestselling fantasy author Appin Dungannon is murdered, and while some wonder who would want to kill him, others think, "Who wouldn't?"--Cover.
15) Mesopotamia
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Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is flat broke. Nonetheless, she's still a crack reporter, and when a tabloid offers her a freelance assignment in Memphis-just a stone's throw from her childhood home in Mesopotamia, Tennessee-she takes it. Though sent there for one story,...
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Texas cowboys Billy Birthday (aka Shortcut) and Wallace F. Fidgle (aka Tapes) are touring Florida to see the lighthouses there. In the midst of a storm, they give a ride to a jogger who turns out to be the governor of Florida. And as soon as they drop him off, he's murdered. Stuck in a hotel on remote Gasparilla Island by the vicious tropical squall, the pair are accused of murder by the Lieutenant Governor, who has them arrested them and begins building...
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What you are about to read is a Political satire of events Past, Present and Future. The main characters in this story are two Detectives who are fictional, while other references to events, locations, and names may or may not be fictional. In part the story is a fictional telling of events that have in part some truth to them and the conclusions of those event may or may not have actually happened or may still happen. The objective of this Political...
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A messy crime scene in the kitchen of a popular Italian restaurant with evidence of a ritual murder, several missing puzzle pieces connected to the crime-- including the only witness and the corpse: this is the case that has just ruined Friday night for Detective Stevenson Simms. The Chief of Police has already bungled the crime scene investigation by the time Simms arrives, and he is further hampered when the Chief assigns him a partner whom most...
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No one believed the town drunk when he claimed an extinct animal had awakened him in a bus shelter. Now he is leading a community revolt!
This story goes back to the beginning of the funny Windy Mountain series.
So although it's Book 6, feel free to climb aboard here and go back to see how the series unwinds.
Who Knew Tasmanian Tigers Eat Apples is set in the 1990s. Although that isn't long ago, it was a very different world in rural Tasmania.
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20) Foreign affairs
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Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children's folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel. Also in London is Vinnie's colleague Fred Turner,...
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