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The criminal - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted... -
The covenant - James A. Michener
Product DescriptionAdventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hun... -
The concrete blonde - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyIn this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly's LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-... -
The clan of the cave bear_ a no - Jean M. Auel
Amazon.com ReviewWhen her parents are killed by an earthquake, 5-year-old Ayla wanders through the forest completely alone. Cold, hungry, and badly injured by a cave lion, the litt... -
The claiming of Sleeping Beauty - Anne Rice; A. N. Roquelaure
The first of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty"Something very special...at once so light and yet so haunting." -The AdvocateIn the traditional folktale of "Sleeping Bea... -
The charm school - Nelson DeMille
From Publishers WeeklyThis highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted b... -
The brazen gambit - Lynn Abbey; Brom
Pavek of Urik, templar of Hamanu and lower-level bureaucrat, has grown accustomed to the benefits of his station. Neither aggressive nor rebellious, he accepts his position, follow... -
The blue edge of midnight - Jonathon King
Amazon.com ReviewPenzler Pick, This is the first entry in what I hope will be a series by journalist Jonathon King, who has written for the Philadelphia Daily News -
The black echo - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyConnelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. ... -
The art of nonfiction_ a guide - Ayn Rand; Robert Mayhew
EDITORIAL REVIEW: A remarkable series of lectures on the art of creating effective nonfiction by one of the 20th century's most profound writers and thinkers-now available for the ...