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At the start of this scorching if somewhat formulaic thriller from bestseller Brown (Play Dirty),
Charleston, S.C., TV reporter Britt Shelley wakes up in bed next to the dead body of police
detective Jay Burgess. While Jay had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, the authorities suspect
foul play. Jay's former best friend, ex-fireman Raley Gannon, suffered a similar shock five years
earlier, waking up next to party girl Suzi Monroe's naked corpse after a party at Jay's home.
Raley had been investigating a fire at a local police station that took seven lives, despite the
heroic efforts of Jay and several other cops, one of whom is now South Carolina's attorney
general. Cleared of Suzi's death, Raley eventually teams with Britt to look into a nasty arson
coverup. Brown laces her dependable romantic fireworks with a solid action-filled plot, though
readers should be prepared for a few stereotypes, including a limp-wristed gay, a macho skinhead
and a power-mad female politician. (Aug.)
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Jason Bourne returns to Georgetown University and the mild world of his alter ego, David Webb,
hoping for normalcy. But after so many adrenaline-soaked years of risking his life, Bourne finds
himself chafing under the quiet life of a linguistics professor.
Aware of his frustrations, his academic mentor, Professor Specter, asks for help investigating the
murder of a former student by a previously unknown Muslim extremist sect. The young man died
carrying information about the group's terrorist activities, including an immediate plan to attack
the United States.
The organization, the Black Legion, and its lethal plot have also popped up on the radar of
Central Intelligence, where new director Veronica Hart is struggling to assert her authority.
Sensing an opportunity to take control of CI by showing Hart's incompetence, National Security
Agency operatives plan to accomplish what CI never could-hunt down and kill Bourne.
In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most
tangled operations of his double life-the pursuit of the leader of a murderous terrorist group
with roots in the darkest days of World War II-all while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as
himself is getting closer by the minute...
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The biggest publication event in Dark-Hunter history from #1 New York Times bestselling author
Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Acheron, leader of the Dark-Hunters, is used to having things his way. But then a mysterious woman
barges in on an equally mysterious quest, and they must band together or get slaughtered. With a
one-day laydown on August 5; national tour. Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.
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" I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct
in books that brings them to their perfect readers." January 1946: London is emerging from the
shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who
could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the
island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...
As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man
and his friends-and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peel Pie Society-born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking
curfew by the Germans occupying their island-boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of
characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island,
their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives.
Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her
forever.
Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written
word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
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A terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon on a desperate search for a kidnapped
woman, in a race against time that will compromise Allon's own conscience-and life...
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