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"The novel made into the major motion picture released October 2008, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell "Clever [and] well-paced, Body of Lies is hard to put down."―John Miller, Wall Street Journal CIA soldier Roger Ferris has come out of Iraq with a shattered leg and an intense mission― to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as "Suleiman." Ferris's plan is inspired by a masterpiece of British intelligence during World War...

Jane Gable thinks 1947 will be like every other year in Morgan Hill, Tennessee, but it's the year everything changes. Jane first sees young Milo Turner the day that her abusive, alcoholic father is buried in the Morgan Hill cemetery. The Turners are the first black family ever to move into the area, and while their presence challenges the comfort of many in the small, tight-knit community, Jane and her brother, John, have found new friends. Then tragedy...

For Jon and Erin Bennett, the world seems to be spinning dangerously out of control. A new dictator is rising in Iraq. China is making threatening new moves toward Taiwan. North Korean forces appear ready to strike south. Israel is feverishly trying to complete the Third Temple. Oil prices are surging. And in the wake of an horrific war in the Middle East, President James MacPherson's second term is coming to an end. Now the battle to succeed him...

"In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest-nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Having retreated to her western Washington hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is determined to free the extraordinary...

"At the reception of Jordan Buchanan's brother and best friend, Kate MacKenna they have a wedding crasher. He claims that there's bad blood between the Buchanan and MacKenna clans that goes back to ancient Scotland, involving the Buchanan theft of a coveted MacKenna treasure."--From source other than the Library of Congress

The Civil War has ended, and federal officials have taken control of Texas as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. As a child he was a captive of the Comanche; as a young man he proudly protected settlers from Indian raids. Shannon's fate is intertwined with his companion's: young Andy Pickard, himself recently rescued from Comanche captivity. But Texas is in turmoil, overrun with murderous outlaws, vengeful lawman, night riders...

For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, here is the first thrilling adventure in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now featuring an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire.
In this town, it pays to be bad . . .
Allison is an L.A. celebrity, a folk hero, and a modern-day Jesse James who loves a good armed robbery. She has a compulsion...

Charles Blakey's life is slowly crumbling. His parents are dead, he can't find a job, he drinks too much, and his friends are deserting him. Worse, he's behind on the mortgage payments for the beautiful home that's been in his family for generations. When a stranger offers him nearly 50,000 dollars in cash to rent out the basement for the summer, Charles can't say no.

The romance of Sarah Ferguson, an 18th century countess who flees her abusive husband in England to join her French lover in America. It is presented through the eyes of a modern man who reads her diary, drawing inspiration from it to improve his own love life.

After the death of her adoptive mother, thirty-six-year-old Chelsea Kane is consumed by the need to uncover her biological heritage, so she travels to the New Hampshire town where she was born, determined to uncover the truth about her past.