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Lady Sherlock novels volume 1
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Central - Adult Detective
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D THOMAS
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Aurora Hills - Adult Detective
D THOMAS
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D THOMAS
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Shirlington - Adult Detective
D THOMAS
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D THOMAS
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"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her...
102) A tale of two cities
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In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England....
103) War and peace
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An epic novel featuring the Russian role in the Napoleonic wars and providing a complex panorama of the life of the time.
104) Altered carbon
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Takeshi Kovacs novels volume 1
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In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself--a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly...
105) Atlas shrugged
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Central - Adult Fiction
F RAND
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F RAND
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Shirlington - Adult Fiction
F RAND
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F RAND
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The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of objectivism.
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Darker shade of magic volume 1
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Kell is one of the last Travelers -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes -- as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne -- a place where people...
107) Heart of darkness
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Everyman's library volume 174
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Columbia Pike - Adult Fiction
F CONRA
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F CONRA
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Glencarlyn - Adult Fiction
F CONRA
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F CONRA
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Heart of Darkness is Joseph Conrad's disturbing novella recounted by the itinerant captain Marlow sent to find and bring home the shadowy and inscrutable Captain Kurtz. Marlow and his men follow a river deep into a jungle, the "Heart of Darkness" of Africa looking for Kurtz, an unhinged leader of an isolated trading station. This highly symbolic psychological drama was the founding myth for Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 movie Apocalypse
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6 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler, who, at the end of his career in postwar England, reviews his life and secretly questions the "greatness" of the nobleman he served. This Booker Prize-winning novel is now a Merchant-Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.