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The incumbent - Alton Gansky
SUMMARY: An abduction a trail of disturbing clues Politics are about to become deadly. As the controversial mayor of the beautiful coastal community of Santa Rita, Madison "Maddy" ... -
The holy thief - Ellis Peters
SUMMARY: The 19th chronicle of Brother Cadfael. In the chill autumn of 1144, rising flood waters endanger the sacred remains of St. Winifred, the abbey's most cherished possession.... -
The gunslinger - Stephen King
SUMMARY:The foundation of the epic Dark Tower series This heroic fantasy, set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, features one of Stephen King's most powerfu... -
The great American steamboat ra - Benton Rain Patterson
SUMMARY: Running from New Orleans to St. Louis in the summer of 1870, the race between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez remains the world's most famous steamboat race. This book t... -
The girl in the blue dress - Mary Burchell
Can a man fall in love with a painting? The girl in the blue dress was in a portrait that Franklin Lowell had owned and admired for years. And when, at last, he met the original mo... -
The gates of November - Chaim Potok
SUMMARY: From the author of The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev comes an epic work of nonfiction chronicling the stormy lives of a Jewish father and son whose stories span the enti... -
The favorites_ a novel - Mary Yukari Waters
SUMMARY: When Mary Yukari Waters's short-story collection, The Laws of Evening, was published, Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio's Fresh Air said that "Waters's empathic im... -
The fall of the dream machine - Dean Koontz
SUMMARY: Summary of The fall of the dream machine: when all the world's a stage, director Cockley will run it. -
The essential writings of Machi - Niccolo Machiavelli; Peter Cons
FromThe synonym for political cynicism, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote much more than The Prince, for which he is (in)famous. It leads off this anthology, which both spans his range of.... -
The dark side of the sun - Terry Pratchett
SUMMARY: Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages.As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfa...