Unabridged: Classics, Adventure, Suspense
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| FANNIE FLAGG (© 1998) | WELCOME TO THE WORLD, BABY GIRL! -
Set during the late '70s, Fannie Flagg's novel follows the career of Dena Nordstrom, a tall, blonde, corn-fed girl who makes it big in Manhattan when, as a top TV anchorwoman, she makes ungodly amounts of money and to everyone in the industry and outside she has it made. However, Dena is beset by private devils of her own and finally consults a psychiatrist, who helps her face her traumatic feelings about her mysterious, emotionally distant mother and her nomadic childhood. Finally unlocking the secret of her racial heritage, Dena decides to give up her life in New York for the slower pace and friendly atmosphere of her hometown of Elmwood Springs, Missouri. | Y
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| STEPHEN JAY GOULD (© 1996) | DINOSAUR IN A HAY STACK (PART 1) -
In his seventh volume of witty and erudite essays, Gould casts a wide net, though he always returns to the central theme of evolution. His topics are diverse: Edgar Allan Poe's bestseller, a textbook on shells; Alfred, Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam as an account of the psychology of mourning; the infamous Wannsee Protocol, Hitler's plan for the "final solution of the Jewish question." Gould is a master of making connections?Linnaeus and Erasmus Darwin (Charles's grandfather), the Razumosky brothers, Aleksei and Andrei; King Lear and the importance of negative results. He discusses evolutionary spin-doctoring, fossil whales, movies (Jurassic Park), museums and theme parks. As might be expected, Gould takes a swipe at creationists. Dinosaur measures up in every way to Bully for Brontosaurus; readers will not be disappointed.
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| STEPHEN JAY GOULD (© 1996) | DINOSAUR IN A HAY STACK (PART 2) -
Gould covers a wide range of subjects in natural history, literature, and popular culture--from the wisdom of Charles Darwin to that of the Old Testament Psalms, from the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park to the dinosaurs of the latest scientific theories, from the thwarted human ity of the Frankenstein monster to the inhuman fallacies of eugenics and other pseudoscience.
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1986) | THE SOLDIER SPIES (OSS#3) -
November 1942. War is raging in Europe. The invasion of North Africa has begun. In Washington, OSS chief William J. Donovan finds himself fighting a rear-guard battle against rival intelligence chiefs back home. In Morocco, Second Lieutenant Eric Fulmar waits in the desert for a car containing two top-level defectors - or will it be full of SS men instead? And in England, Major Richard Canidy gets the mission of his life: to penetrate into the heart of Germany and bring out the man with the secret of the jet engine, before the Germans grab him first. The only hope? An experimental pilotless flying bomb. Or at least that's what a lieutenant named Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. thinks.
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1983) | THE CAPTAINS (BOW#2) -
A deadly assault across the 38th parallel is more than an incident; it sparks the Korean War. In a strong response, America calls legions of reserves. Many are veterans who once again man the trenches and sandbag bunkers.
From Pusan to the Yalu, the troops drive forward in new combinations but with outdated tanks. Battle makes them the brothers they wouldn't be in peace.
"...a well-written, absorbing account of military life." (Publishers Weekly)
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1983) | THE MAJORS (BOW#3) -
Griffin continues The Brotherhood of War. He maintains the action and gives you a brief look into the action from the VC. His characters will keep your attention.
Hanoi. Saigon. Dien Bien Phu. These exotic names surfaced in 1954 during a French offensive halfway across the world. But now American soldiers -- tested on Normandy's bloody beaches and Korea's minefields -- help challenge Ho Chi Minh's guerilla forces.
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1983) | THE COLONELS (BOW#4) -
In Indochina, in Greece, in Korea and in the mine-covered European terrain, they were the men who were chiseled into fighting professionals. Now, as a decade flickers to an end, they must return to the States to sculpt a new kind of soldier: one that's rigorously tested in a new, simmering war.
"...captures the rhythms of army life and speech, its rewards and deprivations." (Publishers Weekly)
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1988) | MEN IN BLUE (BOH#1)
W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling series, The Corps and Brotherhood of War, have captured the pride and glory of the military community. Now he reveals a city police force with the same unique blend of realism, drama and action in MEN IN BLUE, first in his new Badge of Honor series.
Here are the brave men and women behind the badge as you've never seen them before -- their hopes and fears, their courage and heroism, sparked by a single, shocking event: the killing of a cop in the line of duty.
"He captivates you with characters the way few authors can!" --Tom Clancy
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| W.E.B. GRIFFIN (© 1997) | THE INVESTIGATORS (BOH#7) -
Special Operations detective Matt Payne and his colleagues have their hands full. With the commission of a brutal crime, an ongoing investigation into a squad of dirty cops suddenly turns ugly, and Payne must track down a key piece of evidence before things grow even worse. At the same time, a woman he meets at a party may provide a vital link to a group of urban terrorists. If he doesn't act now, the woman will disappear. Over the next few days, Payne needs - and uses - all of his skills to survive. From the cop on the beat to the commissioner himself, W.E.B. Griffin has woven a narrative of men and women who put their lives on the line. It's police drama at its best.
"W.E.B. Griffin might be the best sheer storyteller in all of the crime fiction. THE INVESTIGATORS is a remarkable achievement. Go buy it!" (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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| ANDREW GREELEY (© 1998) | A MIDWINTER'S TALE -
A MIDWINTER'S TALE is the first volume in the twentieth century saga of the O'Malley family of Chicago. It begins with the story of Charles Cronin O'Malley's coming of age, graduation from high school in 1946 and service with the Army in a still much traumatized Germany. He finds hunger everywhere, the black market booming, government agents hunting down refugees for the ruthless Russians, and streets filled with human suffering. All that O'Malley wants is to go to Notre Dame, become an accountant, and have a nice, orderly life...but the Deity seems to have other plans for him.
Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, has written numerous bestselling novels, among them ANGEL LIGHT, CONTRACT WITH AN ANGEL, SUMMER AT THE LAKE and WHITE SMOKE, his novel about the next papal election.
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| JUDITH GUEST (© 1925) | ORDINARY PEOPLE -
This is the story of the Jarrett family, Calvin is a determined, successful provider; Beth, an organized efficient wife. They had two sons, Conrad and Buck. Now they have one. They are ordionary people. And they are coming apart.
Ordinary People is the critically acclaimed novel by the author of Second Heaven. Its subsequent adaptation as a film won Academy Awards for Best Direction and Best Picture.
"A poem of a book ... .leaves us with a sense of havig lived, for a while, with a family we care for." | Y
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| MARY MCGARRY MORRIS (© 1995) | SONGS IN ORDINARY TIME
Songs in Ordinary Time is set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocence. It centers on Marie Fermoyle, a strong but vulnerable divorced woman whose loneliness and ambition for her children make her easy prey for the dangerous con man Omar Duvall. Marie's children are Alice, seventeen - involved with a troubled young priest; Norm, sixteen - hotheaded and idealistic; and Benjy, twelve - isolated and misunderstood, and so desperate for his mother's happiness that he hides the deadly truth only he knows about Duvall. Among a fascinating cast of characters we meet the children's alcoholic father, Sam Fermoyle, now living with his senile mother and embittered sister; Sam's meek brother-in-law, who makes anonymous "love" calls from the bathroom of his failing appliance store; and the Klubock family, who - in complete contrast to the Fermoyles - live an orderly life in the perfect house next door.
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| VLADIMIR NABOKOV (© 1955) | LOLITA -
When Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged, European intellectual, meets the twelve-year-old nymphette Dolores Haze, he is reminded of his lost adolescent love Anabel. Constructing an elaborate plot to seduce her, the obsessed Humbert soon discovers that even with her mother out of the way, Dolores would never conform to the image he has conjured up for her. Playfully humorous, beautifully written, and still raising as many eyebrows as in 1955 when it was written, Nabokov s classic is at once a linguistic masterpiece and a wry commentary on the post-WWII relations between the ubercivilized Europe and the young, cheerfully barbaric America.
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| DOROTHY L. SAYERS | THRONES, DOMINATIONS -
Dorothy L. Sayers is perhaps best known for two unique characters: newlyweds Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. Their marriage commenced with a corpse in their honeymoon cottage but readers were never able to see the couple after the honeymoon -until now. Now, Sayers's story opens in 1936 where, in Paris, Harriet and Peter are enjoying a brief respite between the execution of the murderer he brought to justice and the social demands of the Wimsey family back home. Murder intrudes on the newly domesticated couple as news comes that a close acquaintance, Rosamund Harwell, herself a society newlywed, has been strangled. Unfinished and unpublished for over sixty years, this partial manuscript was completed in Sayers's voice and according to her outline by Jill Paton Walsh, the celebrated novelist and Booker Prize finalist.
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| DOROTHY L. SAYERS | THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE -
The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was of a man who had died horribly-with a dish of mushrooms at his side. His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill thirty people. Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species? a clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in london, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about, except the dead man's son. | Y
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| SIR WALTER SCOTT | IVANHOE (part 1) -
In IVANHOE, Scott brings to life 12th century England. The disinherited knight Ivanhoe, his fair lady Rowena, Richard the Lion-Hearted and Robin Hood -- these are people shaped by the forces of tradition, molded by their nation's history. Through them the past of England comes alive -- a past of crusades, chivalry and courtly love.
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| SIR WALTER SCOTT | IVANHOE (part 2) -
Sir Walter Scott gathered a popular audience, larger than any writer before. A great innovator, he created one of the outstanding literary forms of the past 200 years -- the historic novel. His books still glow with color and spectacle, with romance, action and suspense.
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