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1) The sellout
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Pub. Date
2016
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Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens?on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles?the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since...
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Series
The Last Gunfighter volume 23
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In William Johnstone's bestselling The Last Gunfighter, Frank Morgan is the last of his kind--until he confronts a young gun who shares his name, skill, and maybe even his blood. . . Like Father. Like Son. Like Hell. Frank Morgan has one son he knows of--and Kid Morgan has become famous in his own right. But in Montana, Frank comes face-to-face with a young man with a deadly swagger and a stunning claim: that he's Frank's son, too. And he's here to...
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Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The dragons are calling? Civil war is tearing apart the Kingdom of the Isles, for the throne lies empty and rivals are converging. Having spirited his beloved Princess Stephan� safely out of Roldem, Hal - now Duke of Crydee - must turn his attention to the defence of the ancient realm so that a king can be anointed by the Congress of Lords, rather than by right of might. But the greatest threat may well lie out of the hands of men. Somewhere in...
4) Past tense
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Series
Jack Reacher volume 23
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The most hotly anticipated thriller of 2018 follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past, and climaxes in the most blood-curdling ticking time bomb of an adventure yet. The present can be tense . . . A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they?re trapped in an ominous game of life and death. But the past can be worse . . . Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out...
5) Steal
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Series
Instinct volume 3
Pub. Date
2022
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Description
For Dr Dylan Reinhart, the stakes are sky high. When Carter von Oehson, a student in Reinhart's psychology class, threatens to kill himself, everyone hopes it's a hoax. But when Carter isn't found after 24 hours, it seems the worst is confirmed. Did he really do it? Carter's father, a powerful hedge fund CEO, is convinced he didn't. He has his own secrets to hide and can't go to the police. But there's still someone he can turn to. Reinhart is now...
6) Intermezzo
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2024
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Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old...
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Missed signals, cloaked motives, false postures, and panicked responses echo tragically across borders and generations when, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a father and son recount the tense events of nearly thirty years before. In 1961, just before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in West Germany travel to the Communist side of the divided city to join a rally. Unknown to them, their parents have unfinished business reaching...
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