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Terminal list volume 1
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English
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"A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller. On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming,...
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Camel Club novels volume 5
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English
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A bomb detonates in the White House immediately after the British Prime Minister departs from the State Dinner. Oliver Stone, who witnesses the event, believes the Prime Minister and the President were the targets of a terrorist plot. MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is assigned to assist the Stone and his Camel Club with the investigation, which reveals that the bombing may have actually been botched and is part of a darker, deadlier conspiracy.
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Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
5) The drifter
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English
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"Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static", the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the...
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W.W. Norton & Co
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English
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Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.
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When Emily sees her developmentally disabled classmate Belinda being attacked, she does nothing at all. Belinda, however, manages to save herself. When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people. But can they do anything that will actually help the one person they hurt the most?
10) Fists of fury
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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Cheng is a factory worker who has made a vow never to fight again. He does his best to put up with an abusive boss, until his beautiful cousin is kidnapped by company thugs.
11) The big boss
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Bonzai Media Corporation
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Widescreen; Special remastered edition.
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English
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Chen is an idealistic young man sworn to an oath against violence who travels abroad to Thailand looking for work. Accepting a meager labouring job at a local ice factory, Chen must resist the urge to stand up to local thugs who have the run of the town.
12) Skin trade
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
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Title from container.
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English
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New Jersey cop Nick heads to Thailand to track down Russian human-trafficking thugs who killed his family after he busts them in New York. Once in Thailand, he teams up with local cop, Tony as their road to retribution leads through high-speed chases and multiple confrontations uncovering corruption, pay-offs and personal vendettas.
13) Pity the beast
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And Other Stories
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English
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"Millennia ago, Ginny's family ranch was all grass and rock and wild horses. A thousand years hence, it'll all be peacefully underwater. In the matter-of-fact here and now, though, it's a hotbed of lust and resentment, and about to turn ugly, because Ginny's just cheated on her husband Dan with the man who lives next door. Out on these prairies, word travels fast: everyone seems to know everyone's business. They know what Ginny did, and they know...
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St. Martin's Press
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First edition.
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English
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"9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
15) The Black Hills
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Berkley Books
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Berkley trade paperback edition.
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English
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Ediciones B
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1a. edición.
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Español
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"Después de ser abandonada abruptamente, Sophie Kincaid huye al lugar que su amiga Kim Aldredge llama el cielo en la tierra. Pero después de que su auto se descompone en un camino rural, casi es atropellada por un coche deportivo que va a exceso de velocidad..."--Amazon
After being jilted at the altar, artist Sophie Kincaid hopes to start a new life in the small Virginia town of Edilean, where she finds herself being drawn to arrogant Dr. Reede...
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