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Aaronovitch, Ben
Whispers underground
New York : Ballantine Books , 2012 - 299 Seiten ISBN 978-0-345-52461-4
It begins with a dead body at the far end of Baker Street tube station, all that remains of American exchange student James Gallagher—and the victim’s wealthy, politically powerful family is unders...
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Allison, Dorothy
Bastard out of Carolina
a novel
New York : Plume , 1993 - 309 S. ISBN 978-0-452-26957-6
A girl comes of age in '50's South Carolina fighting the label ``trash'' and the violent advances of her stepfather: an overly familiar story as Allison (Trash, 1988) handles the material in a surp...
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Berg, Elizabeth
Until the real thing comes along
New York : Ballantine Books , 2000 - 241 S. ISBN 978-0-345-43739-6
For the protagonist of Elizabeth Berg's Until the Real Thing Comes Along, the biological clock is ticking all too loudly. Alas, there are no likely partners on the horizon for Patty Ann Murphy. Eve...
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Grisham, John
A Painted House
New York Times Bestseller
New York : Random House , 2001 - 465 S. ISBN 978-0-440-29591-4
Until that September of 1952. Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of hit seventh year, two groups of migration workers- and two very dangerous me...
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Grisham, John
The Appeal
New York Times Bestseller
New York : Dell Book , 2008 - 484 S. ISBN 978-0-440-29688-1
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town´s water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluste...
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Grisham, John
Playing For Pizza
New York Times Bestseller
New York : Dell Book , 2007 - 308 S. ISBN 978-0-440-29682-9
Rick Dokery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actualla got into the game. With a 17-poi...
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Grisham, John
The Rainmaker
New York Times Bestseller
New York : Random House , 1996 - 598 S.
Rudy Baylor, a new law school graduate, once dreamed of the good life as a corporate attorney. Now he faces joblessness and bankruptcy--unless he can win an insurance case against a heavyweight tea...
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Grisham, John
The Runaway Jury
New York Times Bestseller
New York : Dell Book , 1996 - 550 S. ISBN 978-0-440-22147-0
They are at the center of a multimillion.dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consults who will sto...
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Grisham, John
The testament
New York : Random House , 1999 - 533 S. ISBN 007-1-009-00799-4
Troy Phelan, a 78-year-old eccentric and the 10th-richest man in America, is about to read his last will and testament, divvying up an estate worth $11 billion. Phelan's three ex-wives, thei r gras...
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Grisham, John
The Summons
New York Times Bestseller
New York : Dell Book , 2002 - 373 S. ISBN 978-0-440-29600-3
Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton Mississippi- a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for fory years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a stic...
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King, Stephen
The Green Mile
New York : Pocket Books , 1999 - 534 S.
This novel (now complete in one volume) taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narra...
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Lu, Marie
The young elites
New York : Penguin , 2014 - 355 Seiten ISBN 978-0-399-17272-4
Adelina Amouteru is a survivor of the blood fever. A decade ago, the deadly illness swept through her nation. Most of the infected perished, while many of the children who survived were left with s...
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Monk Kidd, Sue
The secret life of bees
a novel
New York : Penguin Books , 2002 - 302 S. ISBN 005-1-4880-1400-3
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was lo...
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Morgan, Robert
Gap Creek
the story of a marriage
New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction , 2000 - 326 S. ISBN 978-0-7432-0363-0
Robert Morgan's Gap Creek opens with one wrenching death and ends with another. In between, this novel of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life works in fire, flood, swindlers, sickness, and starvat...
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Poole, Sara
The Borgia Betrayal
A Novel
New York : St. Martins Press , 2011 - 389 Seiten ISBN 978-0-312-60984-9
In the summer of 1493, Rodrigo Borgia, Alexander VI, has been pope for almost a year. Having played a crucial role in helping him ascend the chair of Saint Peter, Francesca, haunted by the shadows...
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Ripley, Alexandra
Scarlett
New York : Warner Books , 1991 - 823 S. ISBN 978-0-446-51507-8
The timeless tale continues... The most popular and beloved American historical novel ever written, Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is unparalleled in its portrayal of men and women at once ...
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Roberts, Nora
Morrigan's Cross
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Circle Trilogy, Band 1 )
New York : Jove Books , 2006 - Jove Mass-Marke. - 352 S. : 7,49 EUR ISBN 978-0-515-14165-8
Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family’s embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, s...
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Roberts, Nora
Public secrets
New York : Bantam Books , 2006 - 481 S. ISBN 005-0-694-00499-0
Complex relationships among a believable ensemble of characters give Roberts's ( Sweet Revenge ) new romantic thriller much of its appeal. Emma McAvoy, daughter of a British rock star, is only six ...
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Saperstein, David
A Christmas Passage
Some holidays bear the most unexpected gifts...
New York : Kensington Books , 2008 - 306 Seiten ISBN 978-0-7582-2580-1
A group of strangers spend a magical, soul searching and healing Christmas Eve. And when dawn comes, they discover that beyond the night of shelter, warmth and food, they have received an even grea...
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Sparks, Nicholas
See me
A novel
New York : Grand Central Publishing , 2015 - 486 Seiten ISBN 978-1-4555-2061-9
Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight ...
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Woods, Stuart
Reckless abandon
a Stone Barrington novel
New York : Penguin Group , 2004 - 288 S. ISBN 978-0-399-15151-4
It's double the pleasure and double the fun as Woods brings series character Holly Barker, chief of the Orchid Beach, Fla., police department (of Orchid Blues, etc.), onstage to co-star with PI Sto...
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