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Never Call Retreat

SUMMARY:"...one of the great historical accomplishments of our time...will have an enduring place in our national records."--New York Times.
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Dirty Harry 05 - Family Skeletons

FOR “DIRTY HARRY” IT’S A HOMECOMING IN HELL AS HE BLAZES THROUGH BOSTON’S COMBAT ZONE! “Dirty Harry” Callahan stalks a mass murderer through Boston’s infamous underworld where crooked cops are usually looking the other way. Once it was the Boston Strangler—now the killer’s got a knife and is carving up college girls. Dirty Harry will slice through the slime to find him.
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Monster: Tale Loch Ness

Whittenfeld - An oil king who seeks a black bonanza in the depths of Loch Ness.Lefebre - The security boss who fulfill his lust for killing on the shores.Father McPherson - the crusader who seeks the shape of the devil in the menace of Loch Ness. Mary Mackenzie - the fiery radical, fighting to preserve for her people the beauty of Loch Ness. Scotty Bride - The adventurer who finds the passions of his life, as he confronts the beast of Loch Ness.
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Love in the China Sea

Anne Hunter, Hong Kong foreign correspondent, was devoted to her career to the exclusion of personal relationships. But then she met Kai Shanpei, a wealthy diamond merchant whose British military father and Chinese nobility mother had given him a unique perspective on living. She learned passionate lessons in his arms, but could she adopt his remarkable tranquility as well? Contemporary Romance by Fran Baker writing as Judith Baker; originally published by Silhouette Desire
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Deep and Crisp and Even

Glasgow was under snow, deep and crisp and even - and still it fell. PC Phil Hamilton sees a pedestrian knifed and fall dead in Argyle Street, but the snow immediately covers the killer's tracks. Soon another man is knifed, and again found by PC Hamilton. Soon vigilantes are patrolling the streets and anyone and everyone falls under suspicion from both them and the police investigating the murders.Turnbull's experience as a Glasgow social worker enables him to draw authentic characters from every walk of life, and he perfectly captures the atmosphere of menace and fear overtaking the snowbound city.
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The Audacious Miss

Lord Greydon had mistaken Audacia Aderly for a boy—because he’d caught her in her brother’s breeches. So Audacia was sent to her godmother in London to learn the ways of the ton. Amused at the impossibility of such a lesson, Lord Greydon arrived to find Audacia surrounded by beaux—and by scandal. Regency Romance by Joan Vincent; originally published by Dell Candlelight Regency
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Not My Thing

Sherman Jamison is rich, very rich. He has amassed millions and now wants someone to pass them on to, the next in the family line. But he has no heir as his wife has been unable to have children. Refusing to let this stand in his way, Jamison pleads for a divorce but his wife, a devout Catholic, refuses to give into his demands. If she will not agree, she will have to be removed. Jamison hires a professional killer to do the deed but this is only the beginning of a thrilling and electrifying story of revenge, betrayal and murder.
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Poltergeist

FROM A DIMENSION BEYOND THE LIVING, A TERROR TO SCARE YOU TO DEATH POLTERGEIST From the imageless eye of the TV set, from the flickering snowy light, it calls to Carol Anne, six years old and innocent. From beyond the world of the living, it reaches out in unholy anger, ripping her from the arms of her family into the thrall of the POLTERGEIST
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Dirty Harry 06 - City of Blood

ONLY “DIRTY HARRY” CALLAHAN CAN STOP THE “SNUFF” PSYCHO ON HIS ’FRISCO RAMPAGE! Winos burtally slain on San Francisco’s skid row. Beautiful young women butchered in the act of sex by a perverted killer. The acts of two men—or one? Not even Dirty Harry knows. But he’s going to find out, if he has to break every law to do it. From ’Frisco’s sexual underground to the boardrooms in the city’s sky, Harry plunges into a blood-streaked manhunt that will leave only one survivor.
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A Dream Came True

After her parents' deaths, and her brother's departure for America, Jemima had no choice but to make a new life for herself. Since she wasn't trained for anything, that wasn't going to be easy. On the whole, she realized she had been very lucky to be taken on as companion-help to Lady Manderly, yet Jemima knew that her life was somehow unsatisfactory, and she felt unfulfilled. Such thoughts might, of course, have something to do with Lady Manderly's nephew—Professor Alexander Cator!
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