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Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Who was his father? Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret. Eight years later, Wayland makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and others in his town want to keep buried. With the help of two friends, Wayland searches...
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Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics. One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences...
23) Isolate
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The grand illusion volume 1
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"Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance. Something is about to give. Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political...
24) Edge of eternity
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
25) Winds of wrath
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Destroyermen volume 15
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"Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker are positioned to push the line of battle to the breaking point on an alternate Earth, in the thrilling return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. Matt Reddy and his sailors have fought, bled, and died for their Lemurian friends and other allies from across time, but their enemies are still operational. In Africa, the Grik General Esshk has escaped defeat to build a new army and new weapons,...
26) Day of wrath
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Prince Ibrahim al Saud is amember of the Saudi royal family and a brilliant international businessman with a personal fortune worth billions of dollars. He is also the world's most dangerous terrorist, having purchased nuclear weapons from Russia's corrupt military.
Only two people stand in his way: U. S. Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen Gray.
Following a trail that leads from the former Soviet Union, across Europe, and
...27) Holdout: a novel
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"When evil forces are going unchecked on earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try and seek justice in the only place she knows how to--the international space station. Walli Beckwith is a model astronaut. She graduated at the top of her class from the naval academy, had a successful career flying fighter jets, and has spent over three hundred days in space. So, when she refuses to leave her post at the international space...
29) Nunca
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Un oasis que se encoge en el desierto del Sahara; un dron robado del ejército de los Estados Unidos; una isla japonesa deshabitada; y el alijo secreto de venenos químicos mortales de un país. Pauline Green, la primera mujer presidenta de los Estados Unidos, navega por los ataques terroristas, el comercio ilegal de armas y las campañas de difamación de su fanfarrón oponente político con una diplomacia cuidadosa y hábil. Hará todo lo que esté...
34) Czas patriotów
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Zamach na ksiecia Walii. Jack Ryan, przypadkowy swiadek, staje sie przypadkowym bohaterem. A wkrótce celem IRA. I najbardziej fanatycznego terrorysty, który nie wybaczy Ryanowi smierci swojego brata.
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"An unhappy Chinese virologist. A master seamstress who thinks Italy should be for Italians. An unemployed twenty-something who believes Artificial Intelligence is the future and America in fatal decline. And an ordinary Joe from Pittsburgh who doesn't like being told what to do by the government. Or its lying leaders. Their lives, and the lives of billions more, will be twisted together by an invisible viral intruder that knows nothing of national...
36) The translator
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An old friend betrays linguist Sydney Van Damm by revealing his language skills to intelligence sources who are trying to create a new Eastern Europe out of the remnants of the old communist order.
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"En esta nueva aventura de Charlotte y Thomas Pitt magnificamente realizado, Anne Perry nos lleva bajo la superficie de la sociedad victoriana acomodada en un mundo de pesadilla de miedo e intimidacion, donde las mujeres son demasiado a menudo culpadas de los ataques violentos contra ellas, y los hombres poderosos toman lo que quieren, dejando a los demas que paguen el precio."--Amazon
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"Born into poverty, Kishan Chand Das marries his childhood sweetheart and builds a fortune, but in 1905, when India is firmly in the grip of the Raj, he abandons it all to fight British rule. His young family's survival is threatened. Willful Leela--his teenage daughter-in-law--and errant son Ishaan, gather the pieces but when the aged patriarch dies from beatings inflicted at a peaceful protest, the family is once again torn apart. Journalist son...
39) Blood run
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Emma Caldridge thrillers volume 5
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Biochemist Emma Caldridge joins Jackson Rand, pharmaceutical CEO, on a humanitarian mission to deliver vaccines to remote villages in Africa. But after narrowly escaping a crew of trained assassins, Emma realizes that there is more to this mission than she anticipated. Rand is keeping secrets from her, information that could cost both of them their lives ... not to mention millions more. After its eradication nearly forty years ago, the smallpox virus...
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