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The Heat of Ramadan

Israeli Military Intelligence agents Eytan Eckstein and Benni Baum set out with their team to eliminate master terrorist Amar Kamil in Germany. But tragically, Eckstein kills the wrong man, is badly wounded himself and put out to pasture. Then, in a brutal hunt across the globe, Kamil turns the tables, eliminating the team one-by-one as he heads for Jerusalem in a plot to assassinate the Israeli Prime Minister. Eckstein is summoned back in from the cold, because only he can stop Kamil.Steven Hartov was born in the United States and educated at Boston University. After serving in the U.S. Military Sealift Command, he emigrated to Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces parachute corps and Military Intelligence special operations. He is the author of the espionage trilogy, "The Heat of Ramadan," "The Nylon Hand of God," and "The Devil's Shepherd," and co-author of the New York Times best seller "In the Company of Heroes" and "The Night Stalkers." For six years, Hartov...
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A Fool's Alphabet

The events of Pietro Russell’s life are told in 26 chapters. From A-Z, each chapter is set in a different place and reveals a fragment of his story. As his memories flicker back and forth through time in his search for a resolution to the conflicts of his life, his story gradually unfolds.
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Time and Tide

A newly reissued novel from the author of Girl, "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition)"As her disturbing novel clearly reveals, Edna O'Brien possesses what Henry James called an imagination fordisaster...[Time and Tide] is an anthology of heightened moments...never less than brilliantly expressed." —Joel Conarroe, The New York Times Book ReviewTime and Tide is a fragmented novel detailing the loves and catastrophes—and catastrophic loves—of Nell, an Irish woman trying to make a life for herself in the literary world of London. "A whimsical beauty who has swapped the suffocating narrowness of her native land for the loveless brutality of England" (The Independent), Nell is in flight from bitter, controlling, and small-minded parents, yet risks becoming just such a mother to her own sons. She seeks comfort and acceptance,...
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Daniel's Bride

Bestselling author Linda Lael Miller's beloved novel of the American West shimmers with the unbridled passion of two adventurous hearts brought together first by dire convenience and second by blooming attraction.When a woman has to choose between death and marriage to a total stranger, she must be in a dire predicament... And for Jolie McKibben, about to pay by hanging for a terrible crime she didn't commit, salvation by marriage couldn't come a moment too soon. Housekeeping for Daniel Beckham, a widower who invoked the town's wedding ordinance to rescue Jolie from the gallows, is better than the alternative...but understanding the silent stranger who is now her husband might just about kill her. Daniel doesn't believe in Jolie's innocence. And despite his willingness to marry the pretty, defiant "outlaw" on the spot, the prosperous farmer had little to say to her after "I do." But for Jolie, their arrangement of convenience soon deepens into a rich and...
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Sotah

Set against the backdrop of Jerusalem's ancient rituals, Sotah is a contemporary story of sacred and profane love, and a young woman's struggle to reconcile tradition with freedom. Ninety three weeks on the best-seller list.Sotah introduces a family with three daughters approaching the age of marriage: Devorah, Dina and Chaya Leah. In the strict orthodoxy of their world, a Sotah is a wife suspected of infidelity who can be tried by ordeal to prove she is guiltless. Which sister could be capable of such a thought, let alone the act? Into the pious world of strict chaperoning and modest clothing, where a married woman's hair must never be seen by a man other than her husband--insinuates this serpent suggestion of evil. Ragen's powerful tale of three sisters spins endless questions: Which one? Could she? Did she? What changes could come into this orderly world because of unthinking actions?
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Blood Trillium

Three princesses bestowed with the awesome powers of trillium talismans… It is now twelve years since the events recounted in Black Trillium. Haramis has devoted herself to the study of magic and science; Anigel and her loyal husband, King Atar, govern their provinces with affection, seeking always to teach and see the right side of life; Kadiya has not changed—she's still impetuous, wild … and careless. There are problems but the world seems peaceful enough. Then it all changes. Kadiya loses her talisman in the deep waters off the Windlorn Isles and Anigel's husband and children are kidnapped by a mysterious sorcerer who goes by the name of Portolanus. The ransom for their return? Anigel's talisman. The world is losing balance. Storms rage, wars loom. And Portolanus is smiling…
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Update on Crime

/MEGA-BOOKS Nancy is brought on board to work as an investigative reporter after threats are made on the life of handsome WRVH-TV News anchorman Hal Taylor. Nancy finds the evening news to be filled with violence, ambition, and greed--and that's just behind the camera. And Nancy's sure that if she doesn't get to the bottom of things so
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A World of My Own: A Dream Diary

Graham Greene was always deeply interested in the role played by the subconscious in his writing, and the private world of his dreams was one that he nurtured carefully, recording it almost daily in his dream diaries.  Selecting from these dream diaries, he prepared this small treasure for publication just before his death in 1991— a last gift from a great writer to delight and entertain his readers. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Masters of Fantasy (1981) Anthology

Thirty-one tales of fantasy and horror by such authors as H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, James Blish, Philip Jose Farmer, Robert Bloch and Shirley Jackson. CONTENTS Introduction - TERRY CARR, MARTIN HARRY GREENBERG The Rats in the Walls - H. P. LOVECRAFT The Woman of the Wood - A. MERRITT Trouble with Water - H. L. GOLD Thirteen O'Clock - C. M. KORNBLUTH The Coming of the White Worm - CLARK ASHTON SMITH Yesterday Was Monday - THEODORE STURGEON They Bite - ANTHONY BOUCHER Call Him Demon - HENRY KUTTNER Daemon - C. L. MOORE The Black Ferris - RAY BRADBURY Displaced Person - ERIC FRANK RUSSELL Our Fair City - ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Come and Go Mad - FREDRIC BROWN There Shall Be No Darkness - JAMES BLISH The Loom of Darkness - JACK VANCE The Rag Thing - DONALD A. WOLLHEIM Sail On! Sail On! - PHILIP JOSE FARMER One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts - SHIRLEY JACKSON The HellBound Train - ROBERT BLOCH Nine Yards of Other Cloth - MANLY WADE WELLMAN The Montavarde Camera - AVRAM DAVIDSON Man Overboard - JOHN COLLIER My Dear Emily - JOANNA RUSS Descending - THOMAS M. DISCH Four Ghosts in Hamlet - FRITZ LEIBER Divine Madness - ROGER ZELAZNY Narrow Valley - R. A. LAFFERTY Timothy - KEITH ROBERTS Through a Glass—Darkly - ZENNA HENDERSON Jeffty Is Five - HARLAN ELLISON Within the Walls of Tyre - MICHAEL BISHOP
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Moose Street

Welcome to Moose Street Lena Rosen is eleven years old, and her life is pretty typical. From babysitting her little sister to spending time with friends to sticking up for the class outcast to sneaking off to buy candy from the corner store, she is just like all of the other kids on her block. Except for one thing—she's Jewish. Lena's family is the only one on all of Moose Street that isn't Catholic or Protestant. "You're the ones who killed Christ," her classmates tell her. Lena knows that they're wrong, but she can't help feeling different. Anne Mazer's captivating novel of youth, difference, and acceptance is a must-read.
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Priceless

She was one of the celebrated Sirens of Ireland, a captivating creature of fiery spirit. Bronwyn Edana stunned titled society with her courageous exploits and daring adventures. Yet in nobeleman Adam Keane, she met her match. From the moment they first clashed, the headstrong Bronwyn was swept away by a breathless desire. Betrothed to Adam, a man branded by his haunting past, Bronwyn soon found herself at the center of a shocking conspiracy that could rock the British realm. From the dangerous streets of London to sweeping Boudasea Manor, she followed her most passionate dreams—and risked everything for the only man she would ever love.
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The Bridges of Madison County

If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world were so moved by this small, unknown first novel that they made it a publishing phenomenon and #1 bestseller. The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, the farm wife waiting for the fulfillment of a girlhood dream, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY gives voice to the longings of men and women everywhere-and shows us what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.
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A Bone to Pick

THE SECOND AURORA TEAGARDEN MYSTERY—NOW A HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERY ORIGINAL STARRING CANDACE CAMERON BURE!Death comes calling on small-town librarian Aurora Teagarden in this entertaining mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.Going to two weddings—one of a former lover—and a funeral for a member of her disbanded crime study club keeps Aurora “Roe” Teagarden quite busy for a few months. Unfortunately, her personal life seems to be at a standstill—until her fortunes unexpectedly change.   After the funeral Roe learns that Jane Engle, the deceased, has named her as heir to a  rather substantial estate, which includes money, jewelry, and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seat. Knowing Jane, Roe concludes that the elderly woman has purposely left her a murder to solve. So she must identify the victim and figure out which one of Jane’s ordinary-seeming neighbors is a murderer—without putting herself in deadly danger...
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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

It is spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in the little creek that feeds the Wallowa River, and brings word of them to her father. "They are the first, but more are on the way," he says. "We are few and they are many. They will devour us." It is Sound of Running Feet who narrates the story of her tribe's fate. Readers will be gripped as she shares with us her respect for her father, her love for handsome Swan Necklace, and her destiny.
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Orbital Resonance

Melpomene Murray's concerns are those of any teenager: homework, friends, dates. But Melpomene lives on the Flying Dutchman, an asteroid colony located thousands of miles from an Earth almost destroyed by disease, war, and pollution. She and her spaceborn classmates are humanity's last hope, and Mel's just starting to realize how heavy a responsibility that is. Her parents and teachers have trained her from birth to lead mankind into the future.What they never realized is that Melpomene might have plans of her own...
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