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Cropper's cabin - Jim Thompson
SUMMARY: For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the qu... -
Crooked House - Agatha Christie
Three generations of the Leonides family live together in a large, if somewhat crooked looking, house. Then the wealthy patriarch, Aristide, is murdered. Suspicion falls on the who... -
Crispin_ At the Edge of the Wor - Avi
From School Library JournalStarred Review. Grade 5-9–At the conclusion of Crispin: The Cross of Lead (Hyperion, 2002), Crispin and Bear have escaped and are enjoying... -
Crime beat_ a decade of coverin - Michael Connelly
SUMMARY: From #1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the gripping, true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Before he became a n... -
Create Dangerously - Edwidge Danticat
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. In order to shield our shattered collective psyche from a long history of setbacks and disillusionment... we cultivate communal and historical... -
Covering_ The Hidden Assault on - Kenji Yoshino
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law... -
Count Zero - William Gibson
SUMMARY: Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautifulwoman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission moredangerous than the one ... -
Corduroy Mansions - Alexander McCall Smith
SUMMARY: A delightful new setting—London—a delightful new cast of characters, and one incredibly clever dog. Corduroy Mansions is the affectionate nickname given to a genteel, crum... -
Conviction - Tom Clancy; David Michaels
Product DescriptionSeveral disastrous missions have depleted the ranks of the Splinter Cells. Third Echelon is training new recruits when a stunning piece of evidence is uncovered.... -
Contamination - John Vornholt
SUMMARY:The U.S.S. Enterprise is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's grea...