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Cotton Malone novels volume 5
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English
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. But narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally--an American Secret Service agent--and help him stop the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 8
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English
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Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. One case. New Year's Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina "hot-sheets" motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Two Special Forces soldiers-the...
4) A good woman
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Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to...
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Against a backdrop of stunning natural beauty, and in the shadow of a mysterious legend, one woman digs deep into her own past to find a family and a future that she never could have imagined without leaving home. "Light of the Moon" Boarding a trascontinental flight on the evening of her birthday, Susannah Connolly has decided to give herself a long-deferred gift and take a break from the demands of her everyday...
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House of Winslow volume 38
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English
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When Tyler Winslow is expelled from college in New York, he decides to study art in Paris. When he fails at that as well, and with no family or career to return to in the United States, he settles further south in France, painting for his own pleasure and pursuing a woman he had dated in college. Sequel to: The High Calling.
10) Sarah's key
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English
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American journalist Julia Jarmond researches the brutal 1942 Nazi roundup in Paris and stumbles upon a connection between her family and one of the victims, which compels Julia to learn more about the girl's life.
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English
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"A World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives"--
Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstacles-- including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can do.
13) Second chance
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English
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Fiona Monaghan lived a life as hectic and high-toned as the fashion world itself, jetting back and forth between her stylish Manhattan brownstone and the couture shows of Europe. Fiona was utterly content with her life, until the sweltering June day John Anderson strolled into her office.
A free-spirited editor-in-chief of New York's leading fashion magazine meets a conservative widower with two daughters in this novel about second chances in both...
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Mac Reilly novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Experiencing relationship troubles with Mac during a visit to Monte Carlo, Sunny is enmeshed in a series of jewelry store robberies involving a sociopath acquaintance and a dowdy friend's makeover by movie star Allie Ray.
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[2016]
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English
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During World War II, two African American musicians, Harlan and Lizard, are captured by the Nazis in Paris and imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp which changes the course of Harlan's life.--
When Harlan and his best friend, trumpeter Lizard Robbins, are invited to perform at a popular cabaret in the Parisian enclave of Montmartre, Harlan jumps at the opportunity. But after the City of Light falls under Nazi occupation, Harlan and Lizard...
18) Mirror image
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When World War I breaks out, the adventurous New York heiress, Victoria, is prevented from taking part because she is married. So she changes places with her lookalike sister, Olivia, who is a homely type. Everything works, until Olivia falls in love.
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"It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees...
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2006
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English
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Mrs and Mrs Spragg are hoping to forge an entree into society and arrange a suitably ambitious match for their only daughter. We follow the career of the selfish, spoiled Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York and determined to conquer high society. Her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity and her father's money.
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