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The 5 greatest warriors
Matthew Reilly.
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xi, 381 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
"New York Times"-bestselling author Matthew Reilly returns with this work, in which Jack West, Jr., and his loyal team race to uncover the secrets of the five chosen warriors.
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The 13th hour
Richard Doetsch.
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338 p. 24 cm.
A mesmerizing thriller -- told in reverse! The 13th Hour is the story of a man given the chance to go back in time in one-hour increments to prevent a vicious crime from destroying his life. Nick Quinn is being held in jail, accused of the murder of his beloved wife, Julia. He knows she's dead; he saw her bloody corpse, shot in the head at point-blank range. The police tell him they found the murder weapon with his fingerprints on it in the trunk of his car. Nick is confused, grief-stricken --and completely innocent. At 9 p.m. on July 28, a gray-haired gentleman visits Nick in the police interrogation room and asks him a simple question: "If you could get out of here, if you could save her, would you?" He hands Nick a golden talisman that allows Nick to go back in time, one hour at a time, for a total of twelve hours. With each hour that Nick travels back, he finds more clues to the identity of Julia's real killer, but he also discovers that his actions in the past may have unexpected repercussions in the future. In his race against time to save the woman he loves most in the world, Nick will find that friends become enemies, old loyalties are tested, and Julia's murder is part of a larger scheme that has its roots in greed and vengeance. Nick has the ability to save Julia, the chance to put his own world in balance, but he is venturing down a precarious route. If he hasn't set things right by the thirteenth hour, his desperate attempts to save Julia's life may lead to a far greater catastrophe than he could have ever imagined. A surprising and utterly original thriller, The 13th Hour is pure page-turning suspense -- full of double crosses, cliffhangers, and shocking revelations.
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36 arguments for the existence of God : a work of fiction
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
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402 p. ; 25 cm.
After Cass Seltzerrsquo;s book becomes a surprise best seller, hersquo;s dubbed ldquo;the atheist with a soulrdquo; and becomes a celebrity. He wins over the stunning Lucinda Mandelbaum, ldquo;the goddess of game theory,rdquo; and loses himself in a spiritually expansive infatuation. A former girlfriend appears: an anthropologist who invites him to join in her quest for immortality through biochemistry. And he is haunted by reminders of the two people who ignited his passion to understand religion: his mentor and professor-a renowned literary scholar with a suspicious obsession with messianism-and an angelic six-year-old mathematical genius who is heir to the leadership of a Hasidic sect. Each encounter reinforces Cassrsquo;s theory that the religious impulse spills over into life at large. 36 Arguments for the Existence of Godplunges into the great debate of our day: the clash between faith and reason. World events are being shaped by fervent believers at home and abroad, while a new atheism is asserting itself in the public sphere. On purely intellectual grounds the skeptics would seem to have everything on their side. Yet people refuse to accept their seemingly irrefutable arguments and continue to embrace faith in God as their source of meaning, purpose, and comfort. Through the enchantment of fiction, award-winning novelist and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger Goldstein shows that the tension between religion and doubt cannot be understood through rational argument alone. It also must be explored from the point of view of individual people caught in the raptures and torments of religious experience in all their variety. Using her gifts in fiction and philosophy, Goldstein has produced a true crossover novel, complete with a nail-biting debate (ldquo;Resolved: God Existsrdquo;) and a stand-alone appendix with the thirty-six arguments (and responses) that propelled Seltzer to stardom.
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Alice I have been : a novel
Melanie Benjamin.
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viii, 351 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.
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Altar of Eden
James Rollins.
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x, 398 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Pregnant veterinarian Maura Kelly, along with U.S. Marshall Jack Menard, risks everything, including the life of her unborn child, to unravel the mystery of a smuggler's cache of mutated animals, a puzzle that involves fractal intelligence, stem-cell research, and a secret history of the Book of Genesis.
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Among thieves
David Hosp.
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373 p. ; 24 cm.
Members of Boston's criminal underground are turning up dead. When Scott Finn learns that one of his clients, Devon Malley, was part of a $300 million artwork heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork--a hunt that may cost Finn and his colleagues their lives.
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Apparition & late fictions : a novella and stories
Thomas Lynch.
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216 p. ; 22 cm.
"These stories are linked by the gone and not forgotten: former spouses, dead parents, and missing children. In pursuit of love and its redemptions, these are pilgrims haunted by memory, dogged by desire, made radiant by romance and its denouements." -- Dust jacket.
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Arms-commander
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
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527 p. ; map ; 25 cm.
Saryn, Arms-Commander of Westwind, is dispatched to a neighboring land, Lornth, to seek support against the Gallosians while the trading council of Suthya forms a secret alliance with Gallos against Westwind.
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At the duke's pleasure
Tracy Anne Warren.
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375 p. ; 18 cm.
"Edward Byron, Duke of Clybourne, has everything a man in Society needs...except a wife. Duty requires he wed, so he decides that a long-standing arranged marriage will do nicely. He knows his bride is beautiful, biddable, and bright enough to run his household and nursery. He expects his betrothed, Lady Claire Mardsden, will be thrilled with his decision--unfortunately she's not! Claire has longed for Edward since she was sixteen, but how can he expect her to agree to his proposal when he barely knows her and doesn't love her? Nothing will convince her to accept a loveless marriage. And so she begins a battle of outrageous resistance, forcing Edward to learn that he must lose his heart in order to win his bride..."--p.[4] of cover.
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Baja Florida
Bob Morris.
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242 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Fancy yachts, fast-living scoundrels, and pirates in the tropics--Chasteen is back for another thrilling island adventure in this bestselling series.
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Be careful what you pray for
Kimberla Lawson Roby.
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x, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby returns with this delightful sequel to The Best of Everything, in which the infamous Reverend Curtis Black's beautiful daughter, Alicia, is all grown up-and headed for trouble of her own. Her first marriage didn't work out, but that isn't going to stop Alicia Black, the privileged daughter of the charismatic Reverend Curtis Black, from getting what she wants. One month after her wedding to her second husband, she can't believe her good fortune. God has heeded her prayers, blessing her with Pastor JT Valentine, a handsome, dynamic man of the cloth with his own large congregation, just like her father. Unfortunately, Alicia doesn't understand just how much like Curtis her new husband truly is. She doesn't know that JT has been sneaking around town with other women-or that he only married her to get close to her father's money and fame. But while Alicia is blinded by love, her dad certainly isn't. He warned his little girl that JT simply can't be trusted. After all, it takes one to know one, and who better to see into the darkness of a sinner's heart than Curtis? It will take a miracle to save the day. But God acts in mysterious ways, and soon a host of lies, longtime secrets, and acts of betrayal comes to light, and Alicia must face some very crucial and life-changing decisions. This time, she's got to be careful what she prays for. . . .
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Before the throne : dialogs with Egypt's great from Menes to Anwar Sadat
Naguib Mahfouz ; translated by Raymond Stock.
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164 p. ; 21 cm.
In this extraordinary drama-in-dialogue, Naguib Mahfouz reveals his love for all of Egyptâs extensive historyâand his deep knowledge of it. In Before the Throne, he summons nearly sixty of Egyptâs rulers to the afterlife Court of Osiris, from a king who unified Egypt for the first time, around 3000 BC, to a president assassinated by religious extremists in 1981. He includes names as familiar as the pharaoh Ramesses II and as obscure as the medieval vizier Qaraqush. Defending their behavior before the divine tribunal, those who acted for the nationâs good are honored with immortality, but those who failed to protect it leave the gilded hall of eternal justice with a very different verdict. Full of Mahfouzâs unique insight into his countryâs timeless qualities, this controversial work skillfully traces five thousand years of Egyptâs past as it flows into the present, through the mind of its most acclaimed author.
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