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Cool Hand Luke - Donn Pearce
From Library JournalPearce's 1965 novel depicts the lives of chain gang convicts with brutal honesty. The story, of course, was the basis for the film Pearce also wrote the screenp... -
Congo - Michael Crichton
SUMMARY: Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a mat... -
Cold Midnight - Joyce Lamb
SUMMARY: After she’s brutally assaulted, a woman returns to her quiet hometown only to discover that someone wants her dead. -
City of the Dead - T. L. Higley
Up from the sands of Egypt rises the Great Pyramid, where Hemiunu, Pharaoh’s Grand Vizier, commands the historic building project as he orders his life—with justice, truth, and pre... -
Cicero - Anthony Everitt
“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”—John AdamsHe squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the le... -
Chasing the Night - Iris Johansen
SUMMARY: A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Now, eight years later, this torment is something Catherine Ling awakens to every da... -
Brute Force - Andy McNab
SUMMARY: Nick Stone's eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best! A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough a... -
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
SUMMARY: Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that a Midwest car dealer is taking his fiction... -
Bone Harvest - Mary Logue
SUMMARY:A series of malicious pranks prompts Fort St. Antoine deputy sheriff Claire Watkins to collaborate with forensic experts to solve a mystery with links to the brutal ... -
Black Is the New White - Paul Mooney; Dave Chappelle
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A fascinating and fearless memoir from an enduring comedy genius -- the legendary, controversial, inimitable Paul Mooney.** Most comedians tell jokes. Paul Moon...