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After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him.

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After his father declares that the first of his sons to marry and produce a child will inherit his ranch, Rafe McKettrick finds himself beguiled by Emmeline Harding, his mail-order bride, despite the secrets he senses she hides.

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Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when her own brother Jason, a newly transformed were-panther, becomes the prime suspect in the deadly series of attacks. By the author of Dead Until Dark.

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In a deathbed confession, Father Urrutia, a Jesual priest and conservative literary critic, shares his memories of his work with agents of Opus Dei and his secret job of instructing Pinochet about Marxism to the Chilean junta generals can understand their enemy. Original.

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Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts.

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Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.

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The comic aspects of London society during the thirties are treated in Waugh's early novel.

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Harry Keogh, necroscope, thought that the war with the vampires had ended with the destruction of Boris Dragosani--his nemesis from Necroscope. But the man who talks to the dead lives on, more powerful than ever, able to transport himself instantly to any spot on the globe--and to speak mind to mind with both the living and the dead.

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This is the powerful, deeply personal story of Vietnam's war against Americans as lived from the inside by North Vietnamese soldiers and villagers on the front lines. Vietnamese dissident Duong Thu Huong bears personal witness to the horror and spiritual weariness of ten years of war that claimed millions of Vietnamese lives.

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Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsey are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.

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The wait is over for the millions of readers who fell in love with Rosamunde Pilcher's compelling novels filled with riveting storylines and unforgettable characters. Now, <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Rosamund Pilcher, has returned, giving her legion of fans another tale of love, loyalty, and rebirth...<p>Elfrida Phipps, once on the London stage and retired at 62, never anticipates going off with a man. But after a devastating tragedy, church organist Oscar Blundell asks for her companionship. So with her brown-and-white dog in tow, Elfrida begins her journey, not knowing that joining her and Oscar at a rundown Victorian house in Scotland will be a young woman nursing a broken heart, a teenager escaping an unhappy home, and a stranger arriving during a snowstorm... Now these five, very different people form an unexpected circle of friends that will forever change their lives...

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Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he has wrought in the French intelligence network in the New World, and the attentions of two privateers soon become menacing. The chase that follows is as thrilling and unexpected as anything O'Brian has written.

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The story of a lay community of mixed-up people encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns, follows the lives of Dora Greenfield, an erring wife who returns to her husband, and Michael Meade, who is confronted by his homosexual former lover. Repriint.

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Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, he is sent to an obscure village with one week's ration of canned meat and orders to guard a downed plane. Apparently forgotten by his unit, Chonkin resumes his life as a peasant and passes the war peacefully tending the village postmistress's garden. Just after the German invasion, the secret police discover this mysterious soldier lurking behind the front line. Their pursuit of Chonkin and his determined resistance lead to wild skirmishes and slapstick encounters. Vladimir Voinovich's hilarious satire ridicules everything that was sacred in the Soviet Union, from agricultural reform to the Red Army to Stalin, in a refreshing combination of dissident conscience and universal humor.

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A governess must never be alone with a man. <I>Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal.</I> She must never reveal personal emotions. <I>No matter how strong the provocation by her employer.</I> A governess never questions her employer's commands. <I>Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire?</I> She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station. <I>Especially a rake---no matter how devastating his kisses may be...</I> <P>Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire---and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London. Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...And that will never happen. For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love! </P>A governess must never be alone with a man.<i>Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal.</i>She must never reveal personal emotions.<i>No matter how strong the provocation by her employer.</i>A governess never questions her employer's commands.<i>Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire?</i>She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station.<i>Especially a rake---no matter how devastating his kisses may be...</i><p>Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire---and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London.Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...And that will never happen.For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!A governess must never be alone with a man.<i>Her reputation mustn't have even a hint of scandal.</i>She must never reveal personal emotions.<i>No matter how strong the provocation by her employer.</i>A governess never questions her employer's commands.<i>Even when he's tempting her to forsake respectability for desire?</i>She must never, ever, fall in love with someone above her station.<i>Especially a rake---no matter how devastating his kisses may be...</i><p>Alexandra Gallant is a governess extraordinaire---and if it weren't for that unfortunate incident at her last position, she wouldn't now be forced into the employ of Lucien Balfour, the most notorious rake in London.Though the sinfully attractive earl hired her to teach his young cousin, his seductive whispers and toe-curling kisses suggest he has something far less respectable in mind...And that will never happen.For although Lucien seems determined to teach her about pleasure, she has a few lessons to teach him about love!