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Beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley investigates the death of several friends


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1995 Agatha Best First Novel, 1995 Macavity Best First Novel

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Jordan Poteet returns to Mirabeay, Texas to work as a librarian, not expecting the troubles that arise when he finds Beta Harcher dead in the libr


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Beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley is summoned to a yacht where the black-sheep son of a senator lies dead


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Kareem takes us inside the world of professional basketball and the climax of one of the greatest careers in sports history


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The revolution of data on the web from relations to semistructured data and xml


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A trilogy of Arthur Dent's odyssey through space


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Set in the depression, Carl Wilcox handles everything from rustling to solving murders


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An abundance of games and exercises to limber up your mental muscles, involving you in activities that increase your ability to think productively


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Jane Adams' second novel brings Detective Inspector Mike Croft back to investigate violent intimidation in Portland Close


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The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage - management


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Detective Neil Hockaday enters the dark maze of a killer named Picasso who works in paint, flesh and blood


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Detective Neil Hockaday in his fourth mystery is after a brutal serial killer of homosexuals


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It is 1921 and the bloodied bodies at the manor house in Surrey bring DI Madden from Scotland Yard


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Legendary nineteenth-century London judge Sir John Fielding returns in Alexander's fourth mystery


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Denver P.I. Jacob Lomax is on the trail of jewelry stolen twenty years earlier


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Albert Campion went to Pig Peter's funeral.  Five months later, Campion was to investigate a freshly dead body of Peters, no sooner the body was g


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Albert Campion must solve the riddle of the nasty pranks being played on dancer Jimmy Sutane before they lead to murder


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Albert Campion must solve the mystery of two murders, separated by a twenty year span


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Albert Campion lures Judge Crowdy Lobbett to Mystery Mile to protect him from criminal mastermind Simister


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Albert Campion stood between the woman and the ruthless killer, an evil man loose in a city blinded by fog


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Albert Campion had an accident, woke up in the hospital with no identity.  His mind was wiped blank, only vague, indistinct nightmares remain


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The Turkish police dossier of Greek fig-packer Dimitrios stated that he was stabbed in the back, but the story was just beginning


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San Francisco Chronicle quote: "The greatest spy novelist of all time."


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International intrigue and murder accompany the young English engineer returning home from Turkey


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Michael Howell is the Levanter, struggling to keep his government-sponsored battery factory going in spite of the Syrian government


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A mysterious international conspiracy centered in Istanbul


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An Indian clerk finds a cache of guns and before long Mr. Nilsen is the frontman for a Chinese pirate


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Meg Langslow deals with the murder of an offensive newcomer and the wacky behaviour of her extended family


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Meg Langslow solves a murder in the midst of an island full of bird watchers and relatives


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Meg and boyfriend Michael search for a murderer amidst a siege of Yorktown revolutionary war reenactment


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Professional geologist Em Hansen heads to Utah for a conference but winds up a suspect in the killing of her host


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An all new collection of shocking tales from a mad and lonely world full of tortured souls and inner demons


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Incubus is a novel that lures us into its spellbound world and holds us enthralled


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A thriller where the sex is sexy, the horror horrific, and the plot is the skeleton for a well-fleshed-out piece of storytelling


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College professor Ken Gibson believes poison is the solution to keeping his lovely young wife


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A double story book by a leading mystery writer of the 1940s and 1950s


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J. Middleton Little did not intend to overhear conversations between his hospital roomate and the roommate's visitor, but he became the key to a m


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Atherton's second Aunt Dimity novel steps back in time as Aunt Dimity helps Emma Porter meet Derek Harris


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Atherton's sixth Aunt Dimity novel has Aunt Dimity helping Lori Shepherd solve a mystery posed by a cache of World War I letters


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Atherton's fourth Aunt Dimity novel has Aunt Dimity helping Lori Shepherd solve a mystery of the village's history


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Atherton's seventh Aunt Dimity novel has Lori Shepherd solving a murder in the town of Finch


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Atherton's fifth Aunt Dimity novel has Aunt Dimity helping Lori Shepherd solve the mystery of the tramp found in the lilac bushes


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Atherton's first novel has Aunt Dimity leaving her estate and a mystery to Lori Shepherd


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Atherton's third Aunt Dimity novel has Aunt Dimity helping Lori Shepherd with her second honeymoon and the Willis family history


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Connor Gibbs, P.I., is hired by Leontine Chevalier to stop her from committing murder


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Another compelling suspense novel featuring Ellis Portal, a homeless man who was once a respected judge


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By the time night falls on Poplar St, the surviving residents will find themselves in another world


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Bahr died of a heart attack while finishing this story of forensic psychiatrist Simon Rose


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This breathtaking suspense novel introduces Virgil Tibbs


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Virgil Tibbs travels to Singapore when his friend, Madame Motamboru, is framed for murder


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Perry Trethowan is assigned by Scotland Yard to track down a vicious criminal and solve a century old literary mystery


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CID Detective Inspector returns home to investigate the embarassing manner of his father's death


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Chief Inspector Dominic McHale is stumped on his very first homicide case when the townsfolk want to give the murder a medal


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This riveting collection of seventeen stories is Barnard's second story collection


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Peter Proctor, retired Member of Parliament, investigates the thirty year old murder of a young aristocrat


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Events in Colin's past are tangling with the present.  He finds himself in incidents designed to bring down his career, but later on, his life


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Carlotta Carlyle, Boston's favourite redheaded, wisecracking P.I. deals with a tenant-landlord dispute that leads to murder


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A real find for those who like Western desert and inside information with our mystery


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Introduced in "The Innocents," P.I. Wil Hardesty is back and this time he searches for a dead friend, rumoured to be alive


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Barre's first novel introduces P.I. Wil Hardesty as he investigates the murders of seven long-buried children uncovered by a flash flood


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Marshall Quinnmust deal with desperate characters in searching for his missing son


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Barry tries his hand at fiction in this satiricalromp through Miami's wacky, criminally infested mean streets


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You'll learn how to produce attractive, high impact documents when you have absolutely nothing to say, use Internet short hand and more


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How Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. manufactured power and profits


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A timely, practical guide for campus leaders seeking strategies for creating the new, technology-based academic organization


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Get the winning techniques and methods for effective post play that are applicable to any offense or defense


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Women are being killed by a peregrine falcon under the control of a killer


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Identified differences between human and computer information processing, and predict that humans will outperform machine in the future


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The professor's guide to integrating writing, critical thinking and active learning in the classroom


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One of the best original anthologies in years - a solid collection of unequivocally science fiction stories


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Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

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Agatha stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in a Cotswold village's famous natural spring


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Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden

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Romance hungry Agatha in search of the murderer of a witch


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Recalcitrant Lochdubh policeman Hamish Macbeth investigates two kinds of monsters: a mysterious loch denizen and a brutal drug kingpin


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A return to Manderley and du Maurier's original Rebecca


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The 3rd in the P.I. Tony Cassella series, Tony tries to retire to the operation of a laundromat in the Austrian Alps


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Tony Cassella is hired to bug the secret testimony of a lawyer, but must hunt for the killer when the lawyer is murdered


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It is a future dominated by artificial minds, a future in which humans have about the same status that cockroaches do today in Manhattan


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Private investigator Rachel Alexander has an ace in the hole: Dash, her devoted pit bull terrier


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The secrets of 6 history's of great groups uncovers and how they became so successful


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Readers of the book will learn to write a variety of programs in Pascal, design switching circuits, and much more


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PI Sunny Childs investigates murder at a posh hunting lodge


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As lead detective at Atlanta's Peachtree Investigations, hardnosed, fast-talking PI Sunny Childs is always capable of cracking a case


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PI Sunny Childs investigates the kidnapping and murder of singing sensation Georgia Burnett


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Nigel Strangeways in a case of a grief-striken father enduring a living hell to square accounts with his son's killer


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Inspector Memendes deals with a baffling case in the Mexican town of San Luis


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The eighteen-year-old murder of a young girl has not been solved and when the case is reopened, another young woman disappears


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Three easy-to-master management techniques that are guaranteed to change your life


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Can a man go too far to protect his family is the issue as a patient begins to stalk a psychiatrist's family


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An examination of the perils of heroism when the hero is suspected of planting the bomb


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Probation officer Steven Baum struggles to retain his idealism in dealing with a deranged young sociopath


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Jake Powell, destroyed by Manchester.  Now he is the boss of a smart West End casino, but inside he's living a half-life fogged by old regrets


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All hell breaks loose as Scudder signs on to help his friend Mick Ballou


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Bernie Rhodenbarr, the burglar, is locked in Crystal's closet and when he got out, Crystal's dead on the floor and the jewels are missing


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As a bookseller, Bernie Rhodenbarr's always in search of a valuable edition and this time he believes he's found it, a rare first edition of The B


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Bernie Rhodenbarr must solve a murder or tow to right some wrongs and to clear his name


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Bernie Rhodenbarr tries to go legit by opening a secondhand bookstore called Barnegat Books


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Somewhere between a bungled burglary, a nasty case of double homicide, and a rare nickel is a case that makes little sense to Bernie Rhodenbarr


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Bernie Rhodenbarr, back on the job in order to pay his rent, finds a stash of cash and a body


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Evan Tanner's 2nd appearance as the intelligence agent go to Prague to free a Nazi war criminal


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A collection of 71 short stories from Block, including many of Block's best loved series characters


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Matthew Scudder has been hired to prove that socialite Richard Thurman orchestrated the brutal murder of his beautiful, pregnant wife


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Sadecki wants Scudder to prove that his madman brother is innocent for the death of Glen Holtzmann


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No writer conveys the streets, saloons, stationhouses, furnished rooms, deserted churches, and lost sheep of New York better


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Matthew Scudder, ex-cop, ex-boozer, investigates a baffling thirty-year run of suicides


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Tanner is back, walking across Burma disguised as a monk, saving Katya from a fate worse than death


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Matthew Scudder lied to put Leo Motley behind bars but now the vengeful psychopath is free and people are turning up dead


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Matthew Scudder is paid in advance by a blackmailer to find the blackmailer's murderer and he is determined to complete the job


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Matthew Scudder works on behalf of the drug dealers to find a pair of thrill-kill extortionists threating the innocent families of the criminals h


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Matt Scudder witnesses a heist and the Morrissey brothers, owners of the ginmill, would like him to find the thieves


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Four teenagers missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay


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Extraordinary portraits of two young psychopathic killers and an evocative picture of Aix-en-Provence


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Bolter and Grusin offer a theory of mediation for our digital age that challenges the assumption that WWW, virtual reality, etc. should divorce th


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Monsieur Pamplemousse and his faithful dog Pommes Frites are true and original comic inventions


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Jenny Weston's body, limbs arranged as if dancing, is found in a ring of stones called the Nine Virgins


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Computers, chess and long-range planning

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Analyzing the algorithm published for chess programming


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Molly Murphy flees a murder in Ireland only to find herself the suspect of murder on Ellis Island


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Joe Pickett is a Wyoming game warden who tries to save an endangered species as well as his own life


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It is here that the mystical story of King Arthur begins


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All Mary Mullen wanted was a better life, but after hooking up with the notorious Egan brothers things began to spiral out of control


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Set in a military hospital during the Blitz, Inspector Cockrill has doctors and nurses as suspects


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A hideous double murder has rocked Galilee's ruling family, tearing the town apart


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Prize-winning reporter Qwilleran with cats Koko and Yum Yum is after whoever pushed J.J. Hawkinfield off the cliff


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A young, beautiful Jewish-American woman is willingly recruited by the Israeli secret service to seduce and marry a rich Saudi in order to live in


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The inside story behind the top of the charts, fascination facts about the making of 700 great pop recordings


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The true story of a new generation at the proving point of their lives, written by the most exciting and authentic literary voice to emerge from S


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The corpse of Ponsonby and the manner of his death speaks of unspeakable things


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Freddy spends time in jail and schemes to have the spies steal the false flying saucer plans


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Freddy and the denizens of the Bean farmyard deal with the landing of the spaceship from Mars


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Originally published as the first Freddy adventure in 1928 as "To and Again"


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Freddy solves a series of mysterious cases. The animals all become involved and there is a climatic trial in the barn


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Murder, corruption and a good bit of illicit romance abound in Charleston, South Carolina


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The bond between twins compels Gillian to avenge her sister's murder


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A killer escapes prison to return home to terrorize a deaf woman on an isolated farm


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A spellbinding tale of wealth, greed and violence set at the epicenter of America's diamond marketplace


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Set in World War I, Richard Hannay must elude police and spies alike in a plot to devastate the British war effort


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Cuban-American reporter Britt Montero investigates a series of bizarre deaths involving terminal sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete


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With everything a man could possibly have, Frank had it all, but someone else had to die first


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Art Buchwald has collected all the he good news and bad news of 1984 and 1985, as best he can remember it


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Antonelli's defense of a man he knew was guilty ended in murder


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A daring romp through history, sex, language and espionage built around a portrayal of Christopher Marlowe


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Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux's wife has been murdered and now they are after his little girl


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In this novel, the author demonstrates with unparalleled power that the dead will leave their traces on the living


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Crown, with trailing rumors of ties to the KKK was accused of assassinating the most famous black civil rights leader in Louisiana


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Lucas is really Billy Bob's illegitimate son and when Lucas is arrested for murder, Billy knows that he will have to confront the past to help Luc


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As a child he was frightened by the stories, and now he must face the terrible reality


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The first novel ever written by the best-selling author


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Texas defense attorney, Billy Bob Holland, defends Wilbur Pickett but must face his own history


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In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

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Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux hunts a serial killer preying on the young


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Hack Holland, hard drinker, lawyer and disillusioned man, rebuilds his life as he helps an old war buddy in a civil rights conflict


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Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux deals with the legacy of the mother who left him to the devices of a whiskey-driven father


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An assassination attempt and the death of a cop draw Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux to the case


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Cajun cop Dave Robicheaux must finally deal with the crucifixion of labor leader Jack Flynn forty years ago


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For four long years, no one has know what became of Julia Sayre, only her killer knows


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Irene Kelly's husband, Las Piernas Detective Frank Harriman, tries to prove detective Philip Lefebvre is innocent in a triple homicide


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Irene Kelly's best friend is dead because of an unsolved 3 decade old murder the blustery, big hearted newspaperman wouldn't let rest in peace


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Intrepid sleuth/reporter Irene Kelly is put to the test when her detective husband is taken hostage


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Superintendent Wycliffe investigates the murder of an M.P.'s son shortly after his release from a psychiatric hospital


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Superintendent Wycliffe investigates murder in an artists' colony known as the Guild of Nine


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Superintendent Wycliffe investigates the murder of socialite Caroline Bryce


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Superintendent Wycliffe investigates the latest tragedy involving the Tremain family


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Chief Inspector Wycliffe investigates the murder of a local builder whose murder may be a re-enactment of an old legend


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Detective Gabe Wager travels from Denver to rural Colorado to learn why the victims hold a picture of an angel


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Detective Gabe Wager masquerades as a drug dealer in order to investigate the grisly slayings of two exotic dancers


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First published in 1905, Bury provides a complete and accessible biography of St. Patrick


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The death of an undercover policewoman in a booby-trapped Devon farmhouse puts three detectives on the trail of the Snow Man


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Systems Modeling for Business Process Improvement

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Editors: David Bustard, Peter Kawalek, and Mark Norris. An examination of change from business, IT, and software engineering perspectives


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Superintendent John Coffin tries to connect missing little girls with the outings of the UFO watchers club


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The handbag found with the murder victim indicates she is the wife of Chief Commander John Coffin


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John Coffin must find his identical twin before he gets killed


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The best werewolf novel in fifteen years


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A classic of the roman noir, the amoral young tramp helps dispose of an inconvenient husband


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Forsten and Sherman have a plan of stunning ingenuity almost too monstrous to comprehend


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Cameron's tautly written page-turner concerns a smart Chicago cop chasing a serial killer, or perhaps a copycat


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Jimmy Flannery, precinct captain of Chicago's 27th ward, is out to prove the gorilla isn't the killer


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L.A. private eye Whistler deals with Alice as she seeks to settle an old score


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Vice cop Eddie "Panama" Heath knows that you can't stop the juice (loan sharking) from flowing but the politicians don't


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Chicago's Jimmy Flannery is a tough Irish Ward Captain who deals with the bombing of an abortion clinic


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In Campbell's 6th novel about Jimmy Flannery, precinct captain of Chicago's 27th ward, has to save old friend Chips Devlin from a nursing home


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In the third La-La land novel, Whistler must deal with former love Faye and her murderous hillbilly weirdo


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Ellie Simons longs to be thin but her death is more likely as she attends a family reunion


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John Kingsford is settling back into the country gentleman's life until he discovers murder in the Kingsford past and future history


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This book provided what the authors believed to be the final answer to the riddle of who fired the lone bullet that fatally wounded Manfred von Ri


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Spellbinding account of what really went on behind closed doors, revealing the forces that dismantled this once great icon of American business


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The use of object-oriented methods and languages in commercial applications and how to apply them to business


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Exploration of the lives of a diverse group of people whose work has helped change the face of modern society


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It is 1896 in New York city and the city hunts for a serial killer


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It is 1897 and the team who successfully hunted down the serial killer bands together again to search for the kidnapped daughter of a Spanish dipl


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A fiendishly clever locked-room mystery by one of the Golden Age's greatest authors


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This book describes a quite different instructional paradigm that uses what learners do spontaneously to find meaning in the activities of learnin


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A gritty, violent, brooding thriller about a woman on the run from a brutal killer and her own dark past


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Explaining a paradoxical world through the science of surprise


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Based on the complicated provisions of a will executed fifty years earlier, this is the 2nd appearance of Caudwell's legal historian Hilary Tamar


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Regina and two friends pooled and invested in equities, now the tax man demands his due which has already been paid.  Can they get out of the tax


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Cantrip is called in because the trustees of a strange discretionary trust have somehow managed to forget who the original owner was


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Young barrister Julia Larwood, on holiday in Italy, after being cleaned out by Inland Revenue, has a fatal one night stand with a tax man


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Detective Lt. Tony Scanlon must deal with a series of brutal killings


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This engaging history covers modern computing from the development of the first electronic digital computer through the advent of the World Wide W


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The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window, The Lady in the Lake


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Marlowe is constantly on the move with a case involving a war scarred drunk and his nymphomaniac wife


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A collection of quotes, including remarks about the joys and jaundices of teaching, learning, education, and the scholarly life, from a class of c


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Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher and a mysterious woman are held for an impossible ransom in Lee Child's second novel


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Jack is in Texas in this Jack Reacher novel that is less dependent on government agencies. Still a good read with the action coming near the end o


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Jack Reacher is a drifter, just passing through, but while in Margrave, Georgia, four policemen arrive, shotguns in hand, to arrest him for murder


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The only connection between the women being murdered across the country is that they all knew Jack Reacher


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Reacher is forced to follow the dead man's cold trail to find the people who dispatched him


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A tale of how the wealthy barber became wealthy


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Charlie Plato, manager of a country-western club outside San Francisco, takes lessons in self-defense


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Hercule Poirot is asked to prove beautiful actress Jane Wilkinson did not kill her husband


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Originally published as Ten Little Indians: Ten bodies on Indian Island to baffle Scotland Yard


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in Four-in-One volume Postmark: Murder, a Hercule Poirot murder mystery


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Originally written as a play by Agatha Christie in 1930, Black Coffee was adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne in 1998


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Miss Marple is sure she knows who will be murdered next


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Each clue leads the lovers closer to the diabolically clever killer and into his trap


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Adventure involving a strange inheritance, a mysterious house, black magic,...


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in Four-in-One volume Postmark: Murder, a Miss Marple murder mystery


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Leading scientists disappear without a trace. Hilary Craven is offered an alternative to taking her own life


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Hercule Poirot The Complete Short Stories

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The complete collection of over fifty Hercule Poirot short stories


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No holiday from murder for Hercule Poirot when wealthy Simeon Lee decides to change his will


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Twenty stories featuring Miss Jane Marple


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Inspector Narracott wants no help from spirits to catch the murderer of Captain Trevelyan


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Hercule Poirot finds everyone has something to hide after the deaths of the attractive widow Ferrars and Roger Ackroyd, the man she was to marry


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Agatha Christie's first novel introduces Hercule Poirot as he deals with strange goings on at Styles St. Mary


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World War II, Nazis posing as ordinary citizens


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Mary Jordan did not die naturally, and sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill


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Death seems to follow ravishing Virginia Revel, claiming her husband, a prince and a blackmailer


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A missing alarm clock, a stolen document and an unfinished love letter are the clues to the two murders at Chimneys, the country estate


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Originally written as a play by Agatha Christie in 1958, The Unexpected Guest was adapted as a novel by Charles Osborne in 1998


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A tale of detection, romance, and magic that unfolds across a miraculously disjointed world at once recognizably familiar and completely unknown


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A book that a business manager ought to read to keep up with computers, it presents timeless advice on technology usage


Other Awards:
1990 Agatha Best First Novel, 1990 Macavity Best First Novel

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Jane Jeffrey, mother of three, needs help with the housework, but a charwoman strangled with the vacuum cleaner hose gets in the way


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Someone steps over the line they have drawn, deploying covert-action teams in Colombia


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The President is killed and Jack Ryan is the new president


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John Clark, ex-Navy SEAL, must deal with a group of terrorists unlike any the world has ever seen


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Insider's view of how Netscape became the object of Gate's envy and hatred


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Connie is forced to face the powerful bond that has endured for 400 years and binds her still to Jarrow


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A young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked, despite the 110 years that separate them


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Lacey is forced to give up her old life and must live under a new one due to witnessing a murder and hearing the dying words of the victim.


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The wife of a slain doctor has been arrested for the brutal murder of her husband


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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1939. The body of a beautiful dime-a-dance girl is found on a hillside


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Humans versus computers in chess and computer chess programming


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On the eve of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the  State Premier Hans Vanderberg is assassinated by a sniper. Detective Scobie Malone handles the c


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Detective Scobie Malone finds that the routine arrest of a fugitive leads to disturbing allegations against a Crown Prosecutor


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The IRA kidnap the pope in order to raise funds


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Jackie Walsh and her crime-solving ex-police shepherd, Jake, look to figure out who killed the ex-screenwriter Ralph Perrin


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Classics professor Antonia Nielsen searches for her missing graduate student, suspected of being a thief


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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A

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A photographic reproduction from the first edition of 1889


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With Linda's golf-pro husband making a run at the US Open championship, Myron is about to find out how deadly this game can get


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Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time until his client gets a call from a dead woman


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A dirty US senator, a jealous mother, and the mob all drawn into the case, Myron finds himself playing the most dangerous game of all, up against


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Myron Bolitar is unraveling the strange, violet ride of a sports hero gone wrong and coming face to face with a past he can't relive, and a presen


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Twelve years ago a young agent named Bolitar tried to help an up-and-coming athlete, it was a fatal mistake and how he has to pay the price


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Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star and he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic ridd


Other Awards:
2002 Macavity Best Novel Nominee, 2002 Nero Nominee

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Dr. David Beck's wife was killed eight years ago, or so it seems until a strange e-mail arrives to taunt him


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British P.I. Anna Lee starts by dealing with theft of haute couture but is soon in hot water


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Anna Lee's life is at risk in London's decadent film world as she searches for answers in the death of Deirdre Jackson


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Fay Jassahn follows the Rift Valley north through Africa and into a revolution in Ethiopia


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British P.I. Anna Lee searches for a missing man only to find his corpse with a crossbow bolt in its side


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Vicky Holden is ready to do whatever she can to protect the land and her people from construction of a nuclear waste storage site in the Wind Rive


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Howard Aiken: Portraits of a Computer Pioneer

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A biography of Aiken offers a clear and often entertaining introduction to Aiken and his times


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Mallory, bored ex-cop, Vietnam vet, and struggling writer, agrees to deliver meals to elderly women, only to have a client murdered


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Eleventh in the Nathan Heller series, Heller uncovers a mysterious military group called the Majestic Twelve.


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A twisted trail of deception, betrayal, and danger that ends in the most explosive act of violence Heller has ever seen


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Nate Heller is an ex-cop turned private investigator in prohibition Chicago with Al Capone as a client and Eliot Ness as a best friend


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Detective Dan Fortune investigates the disappearance of a neighbourhood kid that may be tied to several killings in the tough Chelsea district of


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Holly Winter learns about hearing dogs as she is drawn into the murder of a recently deceased friend


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Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter takes her malamutes to the nationals for judging but first has to determine who murdered the judge


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Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a lawyer infamous for filing lawsuits against his own LAPD


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For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is personal, a former Vietnam buddy


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Former FBI investigator Terrell McCaleb comes out of retirement to deal with one more case


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Harry Bosch kills the serial killer, only to be sued by the dead man's widow


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LAPD detective Harry Bosch and former FBI investigator Terry McCaleb are both investigating murders that begin to overlap


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A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at large, killing homicide cops


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Traces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation to live the fast life of crime and payoffs, even while on probat


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Debut novel has a serial killer using body parts for works of art


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Mario Balzic, police chief of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, on his fifth case, deals with too-early ripening tomatoes, contract negotiations and murder


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Management, organization development, personality, modeling, tools, methods, process, and human-computer interaction intersect


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This book presents a witty, well-written personal view about the experience of being a department head


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How to put business management back in charge of processes and information, using easy to understand principles that have worked since antiquity


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A young woman arrives in the small Cape Cod village of Chatham, leading to catastrophe and the mystery of what really happened on Black Pond


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Paul Graves, a mystery writer, was asked to write a story based on the murder of Faye Harrison, a teenage girl


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P.I. Frank Clemons has two cases involving women, one wanted for murder and one wanted by Frank


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A riveting story of a top secret new Advanced Tactical Aircraft and the hunt for a soviet mole


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Why high-tech products drive us crazy and how to restore the sanity


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta tries for the hat trick against a killer who attacks couples in cars--five couples so far


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the putrefied remains of a man found inside a container ship


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta must conduct a grisly forensic investigation at a clandestine research facility in Tennessee known


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta tries to solve the murder of reclusive author Beryl Madison


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta investigates the death of an Associated Press reporter killed while nosing about in a navy yard


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A boy was killed with a fingerprint of a convict that was strapped to the electric chair at the time of the boy's death


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta must hunt down a psychopath whose string of horrible murders is heading to Kay herself


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Meet the police department of Charlotte, North Carolina and find out why they call it the "hornet's nest of America"


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in The Last Precinct is a far cry from the irritably independent woman of previous books


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Scarpetta must match Grethen's every move with one of her own to douse the inferno of evil that threatens everyone around her


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta senses the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer


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Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland and four similar vic


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Coughlin's last book has lawyer Charley Sloan in a case involving the bizarre murders of small children


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Full of karate, pistol-whipping, and other malevolent mayhem, Catherine Coulter's The Maze could be described as a junior-varsity Silence of the L


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Judge Ramsey Hunt has fled to the Colorado mountains to recuperate after being forced to shoot a man during a melee in his courtroom


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Coupland gives readers intimate, deadly accurate, and funny view of a way of life living in the trapdoors of the new electronic order


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Carol Starkey, former bomb squad technician, is now a Detective-2 in LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section


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Elvis Cole is a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix


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For Joe Pike, the city of L.A. will never be the same again.  His ex-lover, Karen, is dead, brutally murdered with a gunshot to the head


Other Awards:
1988 Macavity Best First Novel, IMBA 100

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Elvis Cole digs into Hollywood's netherworld of drugs and sex in searching for Ellen Lang's husband and son


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There is a sinister plot to confer immortality on a select, elite group of government scientists


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A Department Z story has the world's nations converging on London for the First Congres of Europe


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Gordon Craigie, head of England's elite secret service, must determine if wealthy Sir Basil Riordan is a killer


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When Irma Cardew came back into Richard Rollison's life, he can only wonder who was marked as her current victim


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Too many killers spoil the murder, until the Toff is marked as the next victim


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Would the Toff's skill be enough to bring justice to the kidnapper of an innocent child and save himself from being burnt alive


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A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry


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Technology allows historians to visit the pastand to be caught in the past


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Dan Rhodes, Sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas investigates when local historical society members are murdered


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Dan Rhodes, Sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas handles deaths at a romance writers' convention


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Dan Rhodes, Sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas is working on the theft of a case of Moon Pies until a young woman is killed


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How the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition and still can't get a date


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Poet Cadogan turns to his friend, amateur sleuth Gervase Fen, when the toyshop containing the body of the old woman disappears


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The last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria


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Gemma gets a promotion that ends her partnership with Duncan Kincaid


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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present


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Crombie's debut novel of Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid of Scotland Yard and Sergeant Gemma James


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Kate Fransler's old friend Janet Mandelbaum's appointment to Harvard's English Department results in her death


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Kate discerns a fantastic pattern of events, a shocking secret that fifty years have done nothing to defuse, and a strange truth that she can neve


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The perilous trail leads Professor Kate Fransler to a one-room cabin in Berkshires, alone with a killer


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Kate Fransler is lured out of her sabbatical by a desperate appeal from her Theban School to conduct a seminar, but only to find a dead body in th


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C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator, follows the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade


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A tour-de-force contemporary western, a compelling and well-realized mystery


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How the world's most powerful software company creates technology, shapes markets, and manages people


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Shows how The Mississauga Hospital, which had never run a deficit in its history, becoming an even more vibrant hospital in its burgeoning part of


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Someone has invaded the privacy of Chicago cop Suze Figueroa's own home


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Aldo is eaten up by jealousy and resentment of Nick's success and makes it his business to ruin Nick's career.


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Chicago journalist Cat Marsala and semi-significant other Dr. Sam Davidian lose interest in their romantic dinner when the dog begins to chew on a


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Chicago journalist Cat Marsala has just begun her assignment on the state lottery when murder literally falls into the picture


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First in the series, Dorothy Martin is an inquisitive American who has retires to Sherebury, England upon her husband's death


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Amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin expects to vacation on the Scottish island of Iona but runs into an accident that she believes is murder


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Dorthy and husband Alan travel to Dorthy's old home in the USA when a friend's will requests that Dorthy investigate his murder


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Dollhouses and death attract Dorthy Martin's involvement in this first adventure after her marriage to Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt


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Amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin shares a train compartment with a dead man who disappears


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Codes for Sargon in Z-80 Assembly Language


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Traces the lives and fortunes of a pioneering family in Oxford County, Canada West.


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Chef turned sleuth Goldy Schulz goes on live television to prepare a meal to die for...but discovers that murder is already on the menu


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A psychopathic killer evades detection right under the noses of the police


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A fragmented scroll holds the key to the most ruthless treasure hunt of all time


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Davidson's first novel has Nicholas Whistler caught in Prague between the secret police and the amorous Vlasta


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The second of Robertson's Cornish trilogy, two angels narrate the story of the mysterious life of famous art collector Francis Cornish


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Marcus Didius Falco and his partner Petronius Longus, investigate when body parts start showing up in the water supply


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With one star gladiator dead, Falco is forced to investigate and the trail leads from Rome to the blood-soaked arena in North Africa


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It happens on the night of his birthday celebration, in full view of Lilly and most of his repertory "family", any one of whom might have a pretty


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Davis illustrates, lies in the fact that computers are essentially engines of logic, using concepts developed sty by step over centuries by mathem


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Dr. Alex Seacourt, internist, deals with a plot to hold the world hostage through the threat of plutonium poisoning


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Davis's first novel involves P.I. Dave Strickland searching for the son of Reverend Vernon Bauer


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In 1905 Fremont Jones has moved from Boston to San Francisco to work as a "type-writer" but is soon involved in a murder mystery


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Sparta, NY, is enduring its most severe winter ever when responsibility for a string of seemingly unrelated deaths is claimed by a man who identif


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Matt Cobb is assigned to the Special Projects division at Network headquarters to cover up embarrassments but can't cover up his arrest for murder


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Trapped in a town full of sinister secrets and deadly deceptions, Pellam fears that death will imitate art, as the film shoot


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A sadistic hacker named Phate hacks his victims' computers and lures them to their death


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Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, is a quadriplegic now but is called upon to track a killer who leaves clues to the location of his victi


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Detective Lincoln Rhyme, foremost criminalist in the NYPD, joins his protege, Amelia Sachs, in hunting the Coffin Dancer serial killer


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Rune plans to file the bombing of a triple X theatre through the eyes of Shelly Lowe, but just hours after the film, Shelly got bombed.


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New year's Eve, December 31, 1999, and Washington is under siege and being asked for a $20 million ransom


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Rhyme versus the criminal to whom he taught everything he knows


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If Rune can prove that Randy Boggs is innocent, then Rune will get a spot on Current Events


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John Pellam uncovers in Hell's Kitchen has a darkness all its own


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School children are held hostage and the negotiations are tense and deadly


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Rune searches for clues in Mr. Kelly's video tape based on an old bank robbery


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Attorney Mitchell Reece requests Taylor Lockwood's help in finding a lost document that could cost him a multimillion-dollar case


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Michael Hrubek has escaped from the mental hospital and seeks to revenge himself against his accuser, Lis Atcheson


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Pellam's illusionary world is shattered by a savage murder, and Pellam is suddenly center stage in an unfolding drama of violence, lust, and consp


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Tate Collier races against the clock to find Megan, his kidnapped daughter


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A series of vignettes spanning the period of the Cold War


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What happens if your lover turns out to be a serial killer?


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19  Computer experts talk about their views on how computers influence people


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This book introduces human centered computing, a radical change in the way we fashion and use computer systems that will make this goal possible


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How the new world of information will change our lives


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Page after page of creative concepts, common sense, and special tips that can not be found anywhere else


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Arthur Beauchamp, Vancouver's leading criminal attorney, comes out of retirement to defend the Dean of Law against a rape charge


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A history of basketball in Saskatchewan from 1891 to 1989


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Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis investigate the murder of Dr. Felix McClure


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Morse hadn't planned a second visit but he was back later the same day, as the officer in charge of a suicide investigation


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Morse is on the trail of the murderer of a dead woman


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Contains "The Dead of Jericho," "Service of all the Dead," and "The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn"


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Lewis worries about Morse's failing health and his former relationship with Yvonne Harrison as the re-investigation into her death proceeds


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Contains "The Secret of Annexe 3," "The Riddle of the Third Mile," and "Last Seen Wearing"


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Morse is alone among the congregation in suspecting continued unrest over the churchwarden's murder


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While on Holiday in Lyme Regis, Morse reads an article about a missing woman that leads him to Wytham Woods near Oxford


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As Morse recovers from surgery, he becomes convinced that two men hanged for murder were innocent


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Barrister and client: two lives joined by a crime, jeopardised by a woman


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A collection of Dibdin's Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen stories: Ratking (Gold Daggar), Vendetta, and Cabal


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Former Detective Superintendent Jimmy Pibble, retired by a massive stroke, begins to recover after discovering the corpse in his nursing home


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Large print version of a story of murder at the Herryngs country house


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As death approaches, two life-long lovers discuss the question of how Gerry Grantworth died so many years ago


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Birth of a new Dalai Lama with international conspiracy that will carve trails of death


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Secrets abound as students, teachers, and staff get an education in savagery and murder as the semester gets underway at Bishop's Hill Academy


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No one is immune from suspicion as, one by one, three young girls vanish in Aurelius, a small town in upstate New York


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When Charlie's boss is brutally murdered, Charlie finds himself swept into the seamier side of life among the powerful and prestigious stable owne


Title:
Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan


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A brutal murder of a middle-aged couple punctures the tranquillity of a rural England idyll


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A well-stocked menagerie of seventeen stories involving animals and crime


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A progressive guide to transforming your company into a place where killer apps are born


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A collection of Sherlock Holmes stories and others


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Having been killed off by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes reappears in this mystery of the infamous hound


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An epic, a love story, and a historical novel


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Gardner Dozois is the editor of this collection of tales of unearthly love


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A brilliant officer who had achieved command rank the hard way, through the ranks, he had one flaw - a conscience


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du Maurier's classic tale of the new wife who cannot escape the memory of the husband's first wife Rebecca


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Edmond Dantes vows revenge on the ones who framed him and put him in jail for over 20 years


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Mattie's father has been a target for animal rights activists, the police round up the usual suspects while Hannah's sleuthing uncovers something


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Ex-cop and jaded Dallas P.I. Rafferty deals with the mob's involvement in murder


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Ex-cop and jaded Dallas P.I. Rafferty deals with nuclear waste and X-rated video


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Jill Smith invesigates the poisoning death of the owner of a local restaurant


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Brash, brainy Berkeley cop Jill Smith visits the new guru in time to see him murdered


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Book-loving Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway is after a psychpath he suspects murdered a down-and-out rare book dealer


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Dunning's second novel about the Denver cop-turned-book-dealer Cliff Janeway has Janeway in Seattle in pursuit of a possible missing edition of Po


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Jim Ryan discovering the horrible truth of his missing past


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A mix of intrigue, romance, conspiracy and shrewd villains set during the time of WWII


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P.I. Fortune Fanelli is on the trail of the killer of Jennie Baker, left bleeding and poised as a mannequin in the boutique window


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NYPD detective Donato and his daughter, Lt. Dina Donato, track down a serial killer


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Fresh insights on issues of enduring importance, from how students learn and how to make the best use of the classroom to the nuts and bolts of as


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A brilliant collection of playful parodies of historical events


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Enter the labyrinth, unravel the mystery, you will never look at death or life in quite the same way again


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The real story of Gates' Microsoft told by the people who design the software and write the code


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A clerical corpse in the cathedral, is it suicide or is it murder?  Who will likely to be next?


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The complicated trail of murder, deception and high technology is leading straight to a royal visit to India


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Elkins introduces a new sleuth, Boston art expert Ben Revere, dealing with an art theft that dates back to the Nazis in 1945


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Gideon Oliver investigates the theft of a thirty-thousand-year-old skull


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Human bones unearthed in a cellar leads Gideon Oliver into a forty year old crime


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Seattle Art Museum curator Chris Norgren is suspicious of the Rembrandt being offered to the museum


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Professor Gideon Oliver knows bones. That is why the Chief Inspector in Les Eyzies calls upon him when a dog drags human bones from a cave


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Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective, is in Tahiti for a case that is not his cup of tea


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Marty Kalish is an investment banker in love with a married woman, that is, until the husband is murdered and he confesses


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Archaeologist Neil Watson did not expect to find the body of American veteran Norman Openheim in the ruins of the old chantry chapel


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Archaeologist Neil Watson's dig at a merchant's house in the West Country port of Tradmouth uncovers two murder victims


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Fritz reopening a case to return to moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love


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The Hell to which Fred Underhill has been assigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no soul


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A portrait of the first Rothschild and his time


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Jack Fleming, a vampire detective, can risk his life, after all, in dealing with girl friend problems and his all-too-mortal partner


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Bruce makes movies about killers and on Oscar night he gets to meet the real thing


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P.I. Thomas Black searches for Lance Tyner, sole heir to a large fortune


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Edinburgh in 1879 and a convicted murder pleads with Dr. Bell, professor of anatomy and Arthur Conan Doyle's teacher, to help


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Also called "The Billion Dollar Sure Thing," the fall of the dollar will allow unscrupulous speculators to make a billion dollar killing


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The true story behind the rise of a tyrannical genius, Bill Gates, how he transformed an industry, and why everyone is out to get him


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Walker is hot on Ann's trail after she disappeared


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In the private eye business, mistakes can be fatal, and if Amos Walker doesn't watch his back, the next one will be his last


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Amos Walker is forced to find Marla Bernstein by a mobster who don't take "no" for an answer


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Amos Walker investigates the disappearance of Neil Catalin, a video entrepreneur and fan of 1940s crime movies


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Amos Walker investigates the disappearance of Eugene Booth, a writer of steamy crime fiction


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Amos Walker is hired to look for a grandson missing for nineteen years


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Waist-deep in questions that seem to have no answers, Moses must find a way to solve them


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Stephanie Plum is after Maxine Nowicki, but the key action is when she movies in with boyfriend Joe Morelli


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Rewrite of 1989 book begins a new series


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Stephanie Plum sets to find her missing uncle


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Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice-cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the son of international arms dealer


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Stephanie Plum begins her career out of desparation. She is broke and the work looks easy


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Bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum deals with the case of the "saintly" old candy-store owner who is on the lam


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Stephanie Plum is on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, who has just shot his best friend


Other Awards:
2002 Macavity Best Novel Nominee, 2002 Nero


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Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, has producer Bruno Huntley thrashing around on the dance floor, but he isn't getting up


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A university student dressed up as Santa Claus is left hanging from a meat hook in Montreal


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Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is lured to a familiar ice fishing spot in order that he discover the body visible in the ice fishing hole


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Through her antiheroine's wacky but seductively witty voice, Austrian writer Faschinger edgily satirizes notions of sin, piety, and sexual politic


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Two stories about Masao Masuto, Nisei detective with the Beverly Hills police force: "Samantha" and "The Case of the One-Penny Orange"


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Older brother of Sherlock, Mycroft Holmes protects a European prince from assassination on board the Flying Scotsman train


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A brooding, unsettling thriller that manages to redefine the meaning of skeletons in the closet


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Describes important scientific concepts in straightforward terms and colorful images that everyone can understand


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Vlado Petric is a homicide investigator in war-battered Sarajevo when he discovers a wartime black market of huge scope


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Law professor Claire Chapman defends her husband against charges that he committed a military atrocity while serving in the US Army


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Amateur sleuth and photographer Nessa Van Horne investigates when the body of wealthy Calder Maddox is found on the beach


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Winning industry control in the age of temporary advantage


Title:
Introduction to Matrices and Linear Transformation


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Si Morley is transported back in time to the 1880s


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A young aviator is caught up in the First World War


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Five complete novels: Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Casino Royale, Live and Let Die


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A whacky English girl is saved from murky fate by an unwordly philosopher


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A broad, sweeping saga of the near future and the science, people, and politics needed to move us into space permanently


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Continuing the Firestar story, a space station is constructed in near earth orbit


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His code name was The Needle, a tall, handsome German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence, and England's most dangerous enemy.


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The pope is assassinated in the midst of a conspiracy to establish a new Holy Roman Empire in China


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Soft-hearted sleuth Leo Waterman is hired to find Caroline Nobel, an errant mob heiress


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For half a million dollars the Jackal's mission is to kill French President Charles de Gaulle


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This book explains where ideas come from, why some people get so many of them and if there some secret technique to getting more of them


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Benni Harper, ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert is left a house and a mystery


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Brilliant psychological suspense with a savage, surprising twist


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Benedict Juliard, easy-going amateur jockey, is the path to the destruction of his father's political career


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Neil Griffon takes charge of his father's stables, only to be forced to train his son to race in the Derby


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A jockey is trying to find out who is behind the newspaper campaign jeopardizing Bobby's career


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Sid Halley, ex-champion jockey turned investigator, is back after appearances in "Odds Aagainst" and "Whip Hand"


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British First Secretary Peter Darwin holidays in England only to be caught up in the mysterious death of several racehorses


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Three jockeys are warned not to win and one is killed for doing so


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York uses Joe's underworld connections to go on the trail of the killers


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Lee Morris is drawn into the family fight over Stratton Park racecourse


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Contains "Odds Against," "Flying Finish," "Bood Sport," and "Rat Race"


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Retired steeplechase jockey Freddie Croft runs a fleet of motor horseboxes and a hitchhiker on one winds up dead


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For the first time, a volume of Dick Francis short stories


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The pain involved in being an undercover could overturn all his pleasure in the chase


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Racing reporter with polio-stricken wide uncovers rackets but faces blackmail to keep him quiet


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Dirty work with a crooked trainer and an agreeable American girl ranges from Regent's Park to Florida


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Malcolm Pembroke turns to estranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey, when his latest wife is brutally murdered


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John Kendall, survivalist expert, needs all his skills when he agrees to write a biography of racehorse trainer Tremayne Vickers


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A party becomes a bloody tragedy when a driverless horsebox plunges into a marquee full of guests


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This is Dick Francis's fortieth book and the setting is the path of a giant hurricanr rather than the more familiar racetrack


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Gerard Logan is a glass-blower is embroiled in a terror campaign after the death of his jockey friend Martin Stukely


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Dick Franklin, an injured jockey, inherits his brother's jewellery business, his mistress and his enemies


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Alexander Kinloch, artist, lives peacefully on a remote Scottish mountain until attacked without warning


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Soviet heavies breathing down necks and a KGB pornographic set-up


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Halley had better return to winning ways, because to lose is to die


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Should Thomas Lyon reveal the secrets told to him by a confused and dying old friend


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The long term friendship of trainers Charlie Patterson and Nick Ryder is threatened when Major Patterson decides to sell Willow Star


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When Mike Powell is killed in a car crash, his business affairs and his will are indeed mysterious


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Sister Frevisse deals with the death of Lady Ermentrude and the suspicion cast upon an innocent nun


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Sister Frevisse is sinfully good at discerning the mysteries of the soul and solving the crimes of the human heart


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Former Santa Barbara D.A. Luke Garrison comes out of virtual retirement to defend the man charged with killing the tycoon's daughter


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A prominent lawyer defends a young black man charged with a series of rape murders


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Van der Valk has to deal with robbery, rape and cats in a seaside town


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Two women had committed suicide, and a third had had to be led gently away by men in white coats


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No one had broken any laws, but a millionaire had disappeared with a naked girl.  Van der Valk was given the job of finding out why


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Arlette van der Valk, widow of the famous Dutch detective, is happily remarried and running a counselling service


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The story mixes the comic realism of life in a young household with chilling suspense


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Three women are linked by a sociopath who wants to love them ... to death


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Story of love and madness, eroticism and death as Alice Loudon impulsively begins a passionate affair with a stanger


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Skeleton of Natalie's unearthed.  Does Jane hold the key to the mystery?


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A beautifully crafted psychological thriller about safety and survival


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Surveys our current understanding of human chess skill and discusses the subtleties of coaxing a machine to play chess


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Jessie Hayes, a young IRS agent, finds herself in the middle of a terrifying mystery while investigating a high-profile Senate candidate


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A bloody London seance and a terrifying supernatural contact lead to a chilling conspiracy aimed at England's future


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Ken Tanaka stages a mock mystery and winds up in Tokyo with a mutilated corpse


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Unemployed computer operator and amateur sleuth Ken Tanaka returns to Tokyo to encounter a 300-year-old mystery that threatens his life


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A story of psychological subtlety, intelligence, excitement, tension, mystery and horror


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Fyfield's third novel with Crown Prosecutor Helen West and Chief Superintendent Geoffrey Bailey has them investigate the death of "Caring Chemist"


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London lawyer Sarah Fortune worst fear is the dentist's chair and her worst enemy knows that


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A West & Bailey mystery with a woman's body found with stab wounds to the head and shoulders


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Crime of rape calls out for vengeance, but the accused is a police officer


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Three-time Schenley Award winner for Outstanding Canadian Football Player Tony Gabriel gives fans the inside info on Canadian football


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Feisty Cuban-American P.I. Lupe Solano's case starts with an art masterpiece left behind in Cuba but expands to two murders


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Miles Kendig had been a great spy and it wasn't easy putting him out to pasture


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Agent Nick Buchanan has come face-to-face with society's worst monsters and depraved minds in his work for FBI


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A female cardiologist and a male street hustler join forces as an investigative team


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Lovejoy takes on the job of finding a pair of dueling pistols so rare that even he has doubts about their existence


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Lovejoy advises the rich on their valuables only to find himself in a major antique scam in France


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Second installment in Gash's new series with beautiful doctor-cum-detective Clare Burtonall and her partner, Bonn, in London's underworld


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Lovejoy goes to Ireland to find gold in a Bronze Age burial chamber


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Lovejoy witnesses the murder of a fellow dealer who had purchased unimportant items from a recently deceased doctor


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P.I. Brock Callahan searches for the killer of his former associate Joe Puma


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A highly entertaining and useful look into the human activity of problem solving


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Outraged by the failure of the criminal justice system to make the child molesters pay for their heinous crimes, someone has taken the law into le


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A plane goes down, a big-time lawyer goes on trial, and the resulting investigation blows the lid off a cover-up


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Sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice are the last to see the victim alive prior to his body being found in the pub's wishing well


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Sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice land in the Birmingham jail when they set out to save a friend's husband from a murder conviction


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Sergeant Barbara Havers places herself at the center of an investigation in Essex concerning the mysterious death of a recent immigrant from Pakis


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D.I. Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers investigate the seemingly senseless and brutal murder of student Elena Weaver


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Scotland Yard D.I. Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers travel to Keldale to handle an ax murder


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Calder Moor is the wild and deadly ground where D.I. Thomas Lynley must investigate the death of his former mentor's daughter


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D.I. Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers search for the kidnapped, secret love child of an ambitious politician


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D.I. Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers search for a murdered student of a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex


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A tale of passion that begins when 21yr. Cleopatra, desperate to return from exile, seeks out the one man who can help her, Julius Caesar


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Toby hunts for a missing patient with serious viral infection to the brain


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In Los Angeles, in the near future of 2005, a pair of stolen sunglasses turn out to be something else altogether


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Part detective and part historical thriller, the computer age arrives a century early when Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine


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Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr, head of the murder squad of the Irish Garda Siochana, in his first appearance


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Chief Superintendent Peter McGarr, head of the murder squad of the Irish Garda Siochana, investigates three murders on Clare Island


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Mrs. Pollifax searches for Amanda Pym who disappeared after facing down hijackers


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A new science offers a way of seeing order and pattern where formerly only the random, the erratic, the unpredictable had been observed


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Gmelch outlines the chief forms of faculty stress and its major causes and provides concrete advice on what you can do about the negative stressor


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Photographer Ian Jarrett leaves his wife for Marian Esguard but she disappears mysteriously


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Lenny Schneider, calling himself "the Hebrew gumshoe," is hired to prevent an aging Holocaust survivor from killing his former prison camp guard


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Goldsborough recreates Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe successfully


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The broken promises and shattered dreams of big money basketball at Jim Valvano's North Carolina State


Comment:
Toronto sportswriter Kate Henry appears in her debut novel as she deals with the death of the designated hitter


Title:
World's Finest Mystery & Crime Stories Second Annual Collect

Comment:
A collection of the outstanding mystery and crime stories of the year 2000, edited by Ed Gorman


Title:
Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories Seventh Edition, The

Comment:
A collection of the outstanding mystery and crime stories of the year 1997, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg


Comment:
Lt Jack Stryker investigates the brutal murder of a hated member of the English Department


Comment:
Vancouver Police detectives Jack Willows and Claire Parker handle the case of a dead Panamanian policeman


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone is hired by the dead man's wife and convicted killer to prove her innocence


Comment:
Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie case to Kinsey Millhone


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone is asked by Bobby Callahan to find out who forced his car off the road


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone investigates whether the families of John Daggett's vehicular manslaughter victims killed him


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone takes herself on as a client to avoid losing her license


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Kinsey Millhone tries to prove the innocence of a man already convicted of murder


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Kinsey Millhone is hired to find Agnes Gray, Irene Gersh's missing mother


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone works on a case involving the death of a claims adjuster for a California insurance company


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Kinsey Millhone takes on the last-minute murder investigation of a murdered artist


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone searches for a missing businessman, lost at sea, but reported seen in Mexico


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone is back, after lukewarm I and J stories, to investigate a year-old death of a secretary who died rich


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone teams up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in a cross-country adventure


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone searches for the missing brother of four brothers who stand to inherit $40 million


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone investigates the case of detective Tom Newquist who dies while on a mysterious case


Comment:
Kinsey Millhone reexamines her first marriage after buying a storage box with an undelivered love letter


Comment:
The 69 year old doctor had said goodnight to his colleagues, had climbed into his car and driven away, never to be seen again


Other Awards:
1989 Macavity Best First Novel, IMBA 100

Comment:
Chief Inspector Barnaby is unwillingly dragged into what looks like a natural death in Badger's Drift, that is, until the second killing


Comment:
McCleary comes face to face with the killer of a butchered girl


Comment:
Superintendent Alan Markby and Meredith Mitchell of the Foreign Office investigate the death of Brussels-based lawyer Andrew Penhallow


Comment:
A serial killer who leaves no trace is killing people in a ski resort in the Canadian Rockies


Comment:
Bishop Blackie Ryan is the only man who can resist the widow's charms and solve the perfect crime


Comment:
Nuala Anne McGrail and Dermot Coyne investigate the story of a mass murder from 1882


Comment:
Nuala Anne McGrail and Dermot Coyne tackle the mystery of the assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, successor to Michael Collins


Comment:
Nuala Anne McGrail and Dermot Coyne, weeks from their wedding, are off on another historic mystery. This time it is the odd circumstances of the d


Comment:
Romulus Ledbetter, former family man and brilliant musician, now lives in a cave in New York's Inwood Park, a cave where someone leaves a dead bod


Comment:
An entry in the Cat Crimes series of feline mystery fiction, this one focuses on Hollywood


Comment:
Special operations detective Matt Payne deals with both dirty cops and urban terrorists


Comment:
Kelly Ryan has just moved to the Caribbean island of St. Chris to run a top-rated radio station. Murder is on the play list.


Comment:
Kelly Ryan deals with the possible murder of a homeless woman washed up in the wake of hurricane Gilda


Comment:
Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard visits the slightly disreputable pub called the Anodyne Necklace on the trail of a murderer and a tre


Comment:
When Melrose Plant finds the very dead body of faithless, greedy Simon Lean in a priceless antique secretaire, there's no shortage of suspects to


Comment:
Superintendent Richard Jury is off in Northern Ireland so Melrose Plant turns to Brian Macalvie for help


Comment:
The quiet town of Long Piddleton is stunned by a string of murders


Comment:
Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard's affair leads to being suspected of murder


Comment:
Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard stays at the Old Silent, a cozy Yorkshire inn, only to witness a murder


Comment:
Theresa Galloway, buppie or black urban professional, in her first case as an amateur sleuth


Comment:
Found money leads to a search as to the origins of the money and crimes commited to acquire it


Comment:
In a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane, the verdict belongs to Juror #2.


Comment:
A big time lawyer turned to the streets to see what it's like to be a bum


Comment:
A vibrant account of recent net issues and controversies written with just the right amount of critical distance


Comment:
Washington is being brought to its knees by a terrorist bombing campaign and the FBI are not equipped to deal with it


Comment:
A subtle, sad, and thought-provoking psychological thriller set in Jerusalem


Title:
Worst Rock n Roll Records of All Time, The

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The 50 worst singles, worst albums and the worst Rock & Rollers


Comment:
Russia is in chaos and faces the threat of the return of communism


Comment:
Intrique and violence in London as merchant bankers try to stave off a hostile takeover


Comment:
Sheer entertainment, edge of the chair suspense


Comment:
Drawn from 200 years of Irish short story writing


Comment:
A collection of short stories from the authors of TV's most famous detectives


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A collection of murder mystery short stories


Title:
Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The

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Eighteen tales of ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves and ghouls by Doyle, master of mystery and the macabre


Comment:
The excitement and excesses of the Silicon Valley


Comment:
Psychic Simon Haywood is able to travel back in time to commit crimes without any trace


Comment:
Hugo Bishop and his brilliant assistant, Vera Gorringe, are after two murderers in London


Comment:
Hugo Bishop and his brilliant assistant, Vera Gorringe, investigate a serious of mysterious deaths from Britain to the Orient


Comment:
Miami P.D. photographic specialist Alexandra Rafferty deals with a serial killer


Comment:
Faith confronts evil in Atlanta and Los Angeles in this combination of horror, romantic comedy and supernatural thriller


Comment:
Psychiatric nurse Sharon Blautner needs to know if the man see likes, Bill Kaiser, is crazy or a cunning serial killer


Comment:
Alex McKnight thought he finally put the killer away, but the same killing still appears in the town of Paradise


Comment:
The radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and the culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance


Comment:
Sweeney Cassidy, a college student, deals with scholar/magicians and a reawakened goddess


Comment:
Interesting mix with New York film critic Mitch Berger as State Police Lieutenant Desiree Mitry investigate murders on Big Sister Island


Comment:
Men's movement author Thor Gobbs runs off with his 18-year-old step daughter and soon makes trouble for Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag


Title:
Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald, The

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Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag ghostwrites a tell-all expose of the dirty business behind megabuck book deals


Comment:
The historical tale of the fall of Alamo


Comment:
Oklahoma in the 1930s has Okie Dunn becoming the Sheriff upon the murder of his friend Dub Ready


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Okie Dunn settles in as Cash County Sheriff when strangers arrive looking for an heiress


Comment:
Historian Fluke Kelso heads north of Moscow in search of a secret notebook belonging to Joseph Stalin


Comment:
Hannibal is back and resumes his relationship with FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling


Comment:
Graham, the FBI man who hunted Dr. Hannibal down, risks his sanity and life to duel a killer called the Red Dragon


Comment:
On the loose is a psychotic killer.  Locked away is a psychopathic madman.  To catch one, the FBI needs the other


Comment:
Jules Clement, sheriff of Blue Deer, Montana spends the summer investigating secrets stirred up by the discovery of a cache of old bones


Comment:
Inspector Bill Slider deals with the death of the wife of the man hired to build a new fence at the upper class West London residence


Comment:
Dr. Laura Aldridge, a young Harvard psychology professor, is hired to psychoanalyze the aberrant mainframe computer


Comment:
Sexagenarian sleuth Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins in her first case tries to determine who attempted to kill her former lover with cyanide


Comment:
Sexagenarian sleuth Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins believes her student Maggie Winslow died for investigating a local crime


Comment:
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance stages a Mystery Night that turns into murder


Comment:
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling get married but murder calls


Comment:
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and new husband detective Max Darling deal with murder at the community college


Comment:
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance must prove her boyfriend, detective Max Darling, innocent of murder charges


Comment:
A collection of renown scientist to show the evolution of hard science fiction


Comment:
Nicky Snape is only fifteen and already a suspect in a brutal killing


Comment:
Charlie Resnick of the Serious Crime Squad investigates a case of spousal violence


Comment:
Cardiologist Dr. Andrew Fenimore helps a boy bury his cat, but the gravesite is already in use


Comment:
Jonathan Dauntsey, son of the Major, confessed he killed his father.  The investigation stalls when the police can't find the body


Comment:
Linus's wife, Claudia, has taken a few days off in Chicago, but the FBI told Linus that she's dead in a plane crash on her way from NY to Brazil


Comment:
Josephine Tey's story mentions Saskatchewan on the last page of the book


Comment:
Third-string reporter Robin Hudson turns reluctant gumshoe when accused of murder


Comment:
Private detective John Cuddy investigates the murder of his best buddy from Vietnam


Comment:
Psychologically sophisticated and original thriller


Comment:
New York police detective Paul Devlin searches for the killer of an NYPD captain


Comment:
This book offers over 300 ideas for creating a dynamic, fun-filled work environment


Comment:
Alaska's famous Iditarod eleven-hundred-mile dog sled race sees the top contestants being murdered


Comment:
Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, is turning a green world into dessert


Comment:
The climax of the classic Dune trilogy, Dune Dune Messiah


Comment:
One of the most remarkable works of fiction by Frank Herbert


Comment:
A courier carrying a fabulous diamond necklace is killed and his precious booty is stolen


Comment:
Claire Malloy deals with a real murder at the mock murder weekend


Comment:
The precious blue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs with bigger things in mind


Comment:
Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, investigates a case combining everything from murder to crocodiles


Comment:
Someone is killing off members of the Sons of Erin group and the governments of two nations are threatened


Comment:
Another collection of eleven Highsmith short stories


Comment:
A brilliant analysis of psychosis in American suburbia


Comment:
Ed Reynolds was willing to pay the $1,000 ransom for his dog but a New York City cop wants the madman behind the kidnapping


Comment:
Edith's diary is a collection of deliberate lies


Comment:
Carter was wrongly imprisoned for six years and it prepared him to kill


Comment:
Combined with The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's Game in one volume


Comment:
Combined with The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley Under Ground in one volume


Comment:
Combined with Ripley Under Ground and Ripley's Game in one volume


Comment:
David felt he had the right girl in Annabelle. He just had to convince her to see it that way


Comment:
An American couple on vacation in Greece acidentally kill a cop


Comment:
A gruesome ride through a psychopath's view of society as a kingdom of ants


Comment:
Sergeant Pascoe is called on duty at Coultram College when the bewigged skull of the ex-principal was unearthed


Comment:
Pascoe and Dalziel investigate a murder that Dalziel witnessed across the street from his own garden


Comment:
Pascoe and Dalziel investigate a series of child abductions resembling three unsolved cases from the past


Comment:
Originally published under the psuedonym Patrick Ruell, Hill has DI Dog Cicero investigating a child's abduction


Comment:
Pascoe and Dalziel search for a missing policeman in Enscombe as villagers and developers battle over the village green


Comment:
Joe Sixsmith uncover crimes which have been buried for years


Comment:
Pascoe and Dalziel investigate human bones found on a drug company's grounds


Comment:
Navajo Tribal Police, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, investigate a murder that leads to a historical find worth a fortune


Comment:
Navajo Tribal Policeman Joe Leaphorn investigates the death of a young boy


Comment:
Navajo Tribal Police, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, are together for the first time


Comment:
Navajo Tribal Police, Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn, investigate when two bodies are found at an ancient burial site


Comment:
An easy-to-follow explanation of how data is processed that makes the operations of a computer seems as straight forward as those of a bicycle


Comment:
Xerox PARC and the dawn of the computer age


Comment:
Deke O'Hara runs a Back-to-Africa scam only to be held up by white gunmen


Comment:
The mob and murder add complications to Saul Handy's task of finding a perfect diamond for a client


Comment:
Death of a Internal Affairs cop was named case closed, but  Sam Kovac wants to know the truth behind the death


Comment:
Lucy Rosen and Officer Julian Cash chase after Lucy's son when he takes off with the baby of a murdered woman


Comment:
Charley LeBlanc is a family disgrace but he knows he isn't guilty of blowing up the family


Comment:
Computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought


Title:
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Brand

Comment:
A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll


Comment:
Hofstadter presents a dazzling array of observations and ideas about how we perceive and think


Comment:
A searching, probing book, a cosmic journey of the mind that goes as deeply in the the problem of self and self consciousness


Title:
Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball, The

Comment:
Coverage of the 1985 NBA basketball season


Comment:
Ex-FBI agent Jay Fletcher is in the Witness Security Program after catching serial killer "Billy Bones," at least until he escapes


Comment:
A look at a basketball star and coach, Red Holzman


Comment:
Accident victim Faith Parker wakes from her coma only to find death stalking her


Comment:
A serial killer stalks a picture-perfect Tennesse town


Comment:
Psychic Cassie Neill flees from a mistake that killed a child, only to sense a murderer stalking Ryan's Bluff


Comment:
New skills and attitudes to unlock the intellectual capital in your organization


Comment:
A J Raffles is a gentleman and famed cricketer by day, robber by night


Comment:
44 absorbing whodunit puzzlers for you to solve


Comment:
A collection of interesting chess problems


Comment:
CIA Agent John Medina asks for Niemi Burdock's help to discover the source of a deadly explosive being used by terrorists


Comment:
Young artisit Paris Sweeney sees ghosts and realizes she is painting the picture of a murder victim


Comment:
Cain was the CIA's deadliest killer before he died. Now his body has become the perfect weapon


Comment:
innovation, teamwork, and the software process


Comment:
Person-to-person skills, guidelines, and techniques every manager needs to guide, direct, and motivate the team


Comment:
Huxley satirizes the idea of progress put forward by the scientists and philosophers, and his world of test tube babies


Comment:
Harper Cole is the system operator for a sexually explicit on-line service whose clients are being murdered


Comment:
After his wife's death, Penn Cage packs up his 4-year old daughter and returns to his hometown in search of healing, but peace is not what he find


Comment:
Shakesperean threats and a murderous scheme have Scotland Yard's detective John Appleby on the case


Comment:
FBI Agent Charlie Blair and journalist Lauren Miller investigate an unforgivable anti-Semitic hate crime


Comment:
Chicago in the midst of racial conflict with an unbelievable plot and too much preaching in Izzi's last book


Comment:
It's 1916 and the War To end All Wars is about to encounter Bartholomew Bandy, neither will ever be quite the same again


Comment:
A collection of short stories by some of the best crime story writers


Comment:
A collection of short stories by British and American historical crime writers wishing to pay tribute to Ellis Peters


Comment:
Inspector Constantin Vadim battles against the tide of evil that threatens to overwhelm Murmansk


Comment:
High-tech CEOs reveal the new rules for corporate success in today's swift-moving markets


Comment:
Adam Dalgliesh knows that unless he could find the hidden pattern in this seemingly senseless series of slayings, the nightmare of death would go


Comment:
The Regina VS Ashe case sets in motion a chain of events as terrifying as they are unpredictable


Comment:
Adam Dalgliesh travels to St. Anselm's College to investigate what appears to be an acidental death, to be greeted by a sacrilegious murder upon h


Comment:
A serial killer of women is on the loose in a remote area of the Norfolk coast


Comment:
There is a killer at work at the distinguished publishing house, Peverell Press - a killer whose passions reach deep into the past


Comment:
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates the poisonous death of two nurses


Comment:
Cordelia Gray is back in a country-house murder with the elements of a horror story


Comment:
Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh investigates when two bodies, throats cut, lie in blood in St. Matthew's Church, Paddington


Comment:
Cordelia Gray investigates the death of Sir Ronald Callender's son Mark.  His death revealed long-buried secrets of the Callender family


Comment:
J.P. Beamont, Seattle homicide detective, and new partner Sue Danielson investigate the torching murder of an elderly woman


Comment:
A serial killer is dead but his malevolence lives on in another


Comment:
Joanna Brady, Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, is digging deep in search of an elderly widow's murderer


Comment:
Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Surete and Gestapo Oberdetektiv Hermann Kohler travel to Avignon from Paris to investigate the violent death of a young w


Title:
Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun, The

Comment:
Blond, beautiful, disturbed Danielle speeds through France in a purloined Thunderbird in this psychological fooler


Comment:
First Edgar Best Novel, has a young Australian women travelling to New Guinea to investigate her husband's suicide


Comment:
Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Baliff Simon Puttock doubt that the outlaw Dyne could have killed the trained warrior Sir Gilbert


Comment:
Eve Duncan, top forensic sculptor, must match wits with a dangerous psychopath


Comment:
K-9 search and rescue team member, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, are coerced into tracking a ruthless killer


Title:
Mathematical Methods in Engineering and Physics

Comment:
special functions and boundary-value problems in math for engineering and physics


Comment:
A raw, brutal story that reflects the personal experience of the author who wrote it while in prison


Comment:
Subversive investigator Quintilian Dalrymple is called in to deal with murder in the crime-free oasis of Edinburgh in the year 2025


Comment:
Lucy Fly, a young English woman working in Tokyo as a translator, becomes a murder suspect


Comment:
Rubi Rothman, the rabbi's widow, in her first adventure in Eternal, Texas


Comment:
Meat and Morse trying to cancel each other out as the stakes gets to $ 3million


Comment:
Toby Peters, in his 20th appearance, is hired by W.C. Field's to recover the money stolen from his many bank accounts


Comment:
Toby Peters has been assigned to track down a murderer stalking the back lots of the Hollywood's most powerful movie companies


Comment:
Toby Peters is hired by Bela Lugosi to deal with a stalker


Comment:
Cowart digs deep to free a wrongfully accused black man, now Cowart has set in motion a scenario of horror and death


Comment:
Meant for people who wants to learn more about Macintosh and Apple


Comment:
There is something rotten at Simsbury College, the New England private school, when a freshman Sigma pledge dies


Comment:
D.S.P. Howard works with Schoolmaster Ghote to solve the Maharaj's murder


Comment:
Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD, and his wife, Rina Lazarus, investigate the possible murder of cult leader, Father Jupiter


Comment:
A dead Las Vegas showgirl leads to a strange mystery with an even stranger ending


Comment:
Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD, and his wife, Rina Lazarus, investigate the murder of heart surgeon Azor Sparks


Other Awards:
1987 Macavity Best First Novel, IMBA 100

Comment:
The first of the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novels, Decker meets Rina as she guides him through a brutal rape in a remote yeshiva community


Comment:
The second of the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus novels, Decker is camping with Rina's two sons when they discover two charred skeltons


Comment:
"Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD, and his wife, Rina Lazarus, investigate the death and disappearance of two diamond dealers


Comment:
Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD, and his wife, Rina Lazarus, investigate a mass murder that may not be as simple as it appears


Comment:
Lieutenant Peter Decker, LAPD, and his wife, Rina Lazarus, struggle with daughter Cynthia's decision to become a cop


Comment:
Dr. Alex Delaware plays a minor role as twelve-year-old Billy Straight fits to survive in L.A.


Comment:
A vivid look at the tortured complexities of a psychopath's mind, a rich evocation of a city steeped in history


Comment:
Edited by Jonathan Kellerman, this is a collection of fourteen tales by American mystery writers


Comment:
Dr. Alex Delaware is asked by his friend, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis, to assist in the murder of a euthanasia champion


Comment:
Dr. Alex Delaware failed with teenager Lauren Teague and is feels the shame when investigating her murder years later


Comment:
Dr. Alex Delaware returns in a gripping new tale with characterization, and Southern California ambience


Comment:
Dr. Alex Delaware sees his former love Sharon Ransom, could it be their second chance?


Comment:
Dr. Alex Delaware is asked to help the children when the cheerful chaos of a California schoolyard is shattered by a sniper's gunfire


Comment:
The first Alex Delaware novel has the psychologist attempting to unlock the secret buried in seven-year-old Melody's memory


Comment:
The story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, a chronicle of one of the most enduring and endearing pro sports teams in Canada


Comment:
The surprise inheritance of an Irish castle starts this comic satire on the spy thriller


Comment:
An essential understanding of the meaning of rapidly growing networks on the World Wide Web and how they affect our lives


Comment:
An epic and unforgettable human adventure - an enthralling celebration of the eternal spirit of American invention


Comment:
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes return to Dartmoor, scene of the Great Detective's classic cases, that of the giant hound


Comment:
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes investigate a series of murders in Palestine


Comment:
A story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible cro


Comment:
It shows, finally, how fierce love can be, and how dreadful its consequences.  And how the soul, harrowed the hardest life, can achieve a kind of


Comment:
Four men plunged into the struggle with a creature from another world, the only chance to survive is locked in their past


Comment:
Women alone in the dark are like open doors... and if they cry out for help, who knows what dread things may answer?


Comment:
Derry: a small city in Maine, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own home town.  Only in Derry the haunting is real


Comment:
As the storm of the century approaches, it brings something even the islanders have never seen, something no one wants to see


Comment:
Kill-or-be-killed suspense as Lonnie Blake learns Carol Dodson has an incredible secret to protect


Title:
Pro Basketball, A Thinking Person's Guide

Comment:
Dave Klein shares his love for the pro game


Comment:
Former priest and current police detective Ray Koepp and partner Margaret Loftus investigate the death of a founder of a research project in commu


Comment:
Delves into the foundational concepts and basic mechanics of computers and computer programming


Title:
Better Basketball Basics Before the X's and O's

Comment:
Dr. Krause offers basketball tips to improve your game


Comment:
Find out what the series creators of Star Trek got right and wrong about science in this fascinating guide by a renowned theoretical physicist


Comment:
Talk-show therapist needs help after being threatened by a caller's crazed husband


Comment:
LAPD Homicide Detective Jessie Drake deals with incest and family conflict and her growing interest in religion


Comment:
Gruesome murder of two Los Angeles women attorneys are found dead with their tongues cut out


Comment:
Very expensive and slow process followed using Amazon.com to buy this hard to find book


Comment:
Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the hu


Comment:
Tanker hauling deadly explosives was lost in a storm, but the explosives landed in the wrong hand


Comment:
Landauer explains and illustrates why computers are in trouble and why massive outlays for computing since 1973 have not resulted in comparable pr


Comment:
Exquisitely written or overwritten reviews on this one


Comment:
Jo Beth and her bloodhound is back again, this time is to solve a 30 year old murder and kidnapping crime


Comment:
Jacob Crane, Harry's father and the town constable, struggles valiantly to see that proper justice gets done


Comment:
Philadelphia lawyer Victor Carl journeys to the jungles of Belize to seek his fortune


Comment:
A framework for the effective use of educational technology


Comment:
A Russian family trading illict goods with an English familt laundering the profits


Comment:
The tale of a soulful Irish-American gangster who dares to betray the IRA


Comment:
Eve Elliot seeks to solve the murder of fellow real-estate agent Rose Macklin


Comment:
The original design and the ultimate destiny of the world wide web by its inventors


Comment:
Discuss the collection of technologies that could well define the computing and communications environment that lies ahead


Comment:
Second in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, Angela and Patrick deal with a serial killer


Comment:
First in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, Angela and Patrick open an agency from the belfry of a Boston church


Comment:
Fourth in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, Angela and Patrick visit a drug dealer for help to solve a kidnapping


Other Awards:
2002 Hammett Nominee, 2002 Macavity Best Novel Nominee


Comment:
Fifth in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, Angela and Patrick reunite when a former client commits suicide


Comment:
Third in the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series, Angela and Patrick deal with the disappearance of a woman


Comment:
High adventure on the eve of the Spanish-American War


Comment:
Carmen and her ironworker husband Wayne are on the run from a pair of killers


Comment:
Ex-secret service agent Joseph LaBrava has it under control in South Miami Beach until he meets former actress Jean Shaw


Comment:
The true story of William Clarke Quantrill and his confederate raiders


Comment:
Lionel Essrog works for small-time mobster Frank Minna until Minna is fatally stabbed


Comment:
A unique, tantalizing thriller and a cautionary tale for the coming century


Comment:
Examples of computer play give an excellent insight into the problems facing the chess programmer


Comment:
A chess tournament in which twelve computer programs competed against each other


Comment:
David Levy plays against all the computer programs and wagered over $5000 that he can beat any chess-playing computer program now in existence


Comment:
The definitive account of the machine that changed the world-now with a new after word about Steve Jobs' latest adventure: the reinvention of Appl


Comment:
Michael Lewis visits Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur and all roads lead to Jim Clark


Comment:
Nell Bray would do almost anything to get the vote, but planting a bomb in a house belonging to the chancellor of the Exchequer is where she draws


Comment:
Tess Monaghan no sooner hangs out her p.i.-for-hire shingle in Butchers Hill than she is hired to find witnesses to a vigilante murder


Comment:
FBI agent Margaret Chisholm partners with CIA agent Nicholas Denton to learn why a nun is being targeted by an international assassin


Comment:
A story of a girl and her dog and the tough, middle-aged private eye she hires to find her pit-bull Groucho


Comment:
Memory training on how to remember a person by just meeting them once


Comment:
Inspired by Inspector Dew's capture of Dr. Crippen, the dentist with murder in mind books passage under Dew's name


Comment:
The daughter of an American World War II soldier and British girl seeks information about her father


Comment:
A new learning model that details the relative strength of six sources of influence on what and how much students learn in a college course


Comment:
A team-building guide for chairs in colleges and universities


Comment:
Harry Latham has penetrated the neo-Nazi movement, the Brotherhood of the Watch


Comment:
Two men who knows the closely guarded secret of Jason Bourne's true identity were summoned by telegram to witness a bizarre killing


Comment:
Eternal struggle between good and evil, freedom and manipulation, played out in a tight electrifying story that ranges from the Arabian desert to


Comment:
The Matarese dynasty is back and CIA case officer Cameron Pryce may not have time to stop the countdown


Comment:
Good story if you are into serial killers who burn their victims alive


Comment:
Dazed and confused, Liz awakes one morning to find herself in a house full of furniture she doesn't recognize, attended by a handsome young man sh


Comment:
Travis McGee, rugged, sexy Florida boat bum, follows the depraved wreckage of Junior Allen's trail


Comment:
Travis McGee, rugged, sexy Florida boat bum, follows the trail of a young girl through the world of expatriate American kids in Mexico


Comment:
A distraught young man hires Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride


Comment:
A man's murdered, wife vanished and the only clue the police have are a collection of Tarot cards sent to the victim's home and a nuisance call fr


Comment:
A study of time-wasting and a no-nonsense guide to managing your way out of the trap


Comment:
A corporate fool's guide to surviving with grace


Comment:
Art detective Max Bittersohn and his wife Sarah Kelling deal with a nephew's wedding, a hot air balloon and rubies


Comment:
Examines what actually works and what doesn't in restructuring state systems of higher education and offers guidelines for producing successful ch


Comment:
Detectives Brock and Kolla search for the kidnapper of Chinese ex-villain Sammy Starling's wife


Comment:
How Microsoft's mogul reinvented an industry and made himself the richest man in America


Comment:
Former police officer, Crease is a public figure who stands accused of conspiring to murder her husband, a wealthy tycoon who got his start in the


Comment:
Mesmerizing account of WWII  as fought on the home front in Great Britain


Other Awards:
1993 Agatha Best Novel, 1993 Macavity Best Novel, IMBA 100


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A riveting tale of lust, betrayal, and family secrets


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Her father was a bootlegger, she's mixed up in a murder and top it off, she's a judge


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The new plagues are man-made and the worst is yet to come


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A collection of Ngaio Marsh stories to celebrate the centenuary of her birth in 1895


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Queen: Miss Marsh's work has the hallmark of the master


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Strange tale resembling a Stephen King story with kidnappings and serial killers, FBI, CIA and connections that appear late in the story


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Description of current developments in computer chess, a rapidly advancing area of artificial intelligence research


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David Growler returns from jail to kill everyone who wrongly sent him there


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Paul Madriani, the brilliant defense attorney readers came to find himself in a complex web of murder and deceit - this time within his own family


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A gripping mystery that explores Japanese youth culture through eyes of a heroine


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Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in Tokyo who investigates a murder in an ancient castle town


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Japanese-American Rei Shimura overpays for a tansu set of drawers and is suspected when the antique dealer is killed


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Lia Matera asked authors to write original mystery stories using the phrase "irreconcilable differences" as the starting point


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In the third story of rookie detective Merry Folger, she tries to identify the woman whose bones are found in the dunes


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Elizabeth and Martin work hand in hand to rescue a kidnapped girl


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An entirely believable story of international espionage


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Michael Fallon has it all, but in a single violent instant, everything changes


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Nineteen outstanding tales by American masters


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Detectives Carella and Brown investigate the murder of a young girl


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The fiftieth novel in the 87th Precinct series has detectives Carella and Meyer in the theater district


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Three classic novels of the 87th Precinct


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Detectives Carella and Hawes investigate the murder of an old woman named Svetlana Dyalovich


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The triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computer


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The dead girl is found in a snow bank, killed by heat strike


Title:
Introduction to the Theory of Switching Circuits


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Intended for everyone interested in the impacts of converging information and communications technologies in higher education


Other Awards:
1995 Nero, 1995 Agatha Best Novel, 1995 Macavity Best Novel

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The ghost of Katie Wyler and the escaped convict Harm Sorley follow the same trail to their unhappy ends


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A collection of the best of American and British mystery short stories from the past century


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Profiler Tony Hill deals with serial murder in Bradfield as well as his own problems


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For the young newly promoted inspector, George Bennet, it is the beginning of his most difficult and harrowing case that will haunt him for years


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A game of cat and mouse where the roles of hunter and hunted are all too easily reversed


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Fletch is a crack undercover reporter hot on the trail of the most sensational story of his career


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Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, takes time to explore 6400 acres of land left to him along with the homicide


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Dtective Chief Inspector Lloyd and DI Judy Hill tackle the mystery of the death of an ex-policewoman and her husband


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This Father Dowling mystery involves the stolen corpse of a recently buried local mobster


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A brilliant biography which will surely become a classic life of Napoleon


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Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud team up in this tantalizing mystery


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Deadly virus, Reaper, through TVs and PCs


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The most famous crime specialist in the world meet in an exclusive club to discuss two tantalizing, unsolved cases of ghostly terror


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One of the best Holmses since the originals, the story has Sherlock and Watson visiting Minnesota in 1894


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A woman's legacy of violence threatens her own life and that of her son


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Secrets to landing a job as a programmer


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A tale of Fred Moody and his one year with Microsoft on the multimedia frontier


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The seductive, ever shifting balance between good and evil is brought to life


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Trouble comes looking for Jake Spanner in the shape of Sal Piccolo whom Jake put away forty years ago


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To discover who the murderer really is, Felix Morsom has no choice but to enter the underworld and live among the down-and-outs of London


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Conspiracy, manipulation and a stab in the back: all the ingredients for a good political plan.  All titmuss needs now is a puppet


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The acclaimed life of the "mad monk" who wielded immeasurable influence over Nicholas and Alexandra


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Anthology of cracking-good stories about crime and detection that offers an all-star cast of female sleuths


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20th century mystery & espionage library


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Hy Ripinsky, Sharon McCone's lover suddenly vanished and she is determined to find him


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Likely the most perceptive guide to strategy ever written


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The Trask family feuds over their father's will while staying at the Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse


Other Awards:
1993 Agatha Best First Novel, 1993 Macavity Best First Novel


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Official guide to the adventures of the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-D


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Important background information to computer educators and advanced students and will serve as a reference work for digital engineers and computer


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An enthralling account of the match between Kasparov and Deep Blue and of the story that lies behind it


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Jack and Stephen stakes all on a desperate solo night raid against the might of the Spanish viceroy in Peru


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A collection of short historical stories by Patrick O'Brian


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Jack and Stephen return to England to very different circumstances


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Jack and Stephen sail the Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts, but the ship's infested with a deadly disease


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Jack is on a mission after his own heart: intercepting a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade


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Bloody actions precipitate Jack and Stephen into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a


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Jack is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority


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11th hour rescue of a lifetime's service in the Royal Navy, that for all its brilliance and excitement, seemed to be ending in inconspicuous for J


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A sudden turn of events takes Jack and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek Islands


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Jack has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit


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First in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels


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Jack takes a frigate to Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant, there to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius a


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A straightforward exploration of what daily life in Nelson's navy was really like for everyone from the captain to the rawest recruit


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Aubry and his crew shipwrecked on a remote island and only to have their makeshift vessel burned in an attack by Malay pirates


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Jack escapes from France, from debtors' prison, from a possible mutiny


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Jack's decision to make certain investments in the City has ensnared him in the London criminal underground an in government espionage


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Jack is ordered home by dispatch vessel to bring the news of their latest victory to the government


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Jack sets sail for the South China Sea, shepherding a diplomatic mission to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay princes


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The dockyards and salons of Malta are alive with Napoleon's agents, and the admiralty's intelligence network is compromised


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Only Stephen can fathom Clarissa's secrets: her crime, her personality, and a clue identifying a highly placed French spy in London


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Jack and Stephen are pursuing a prize through the Great South Sea, where the strange color of the ocean waters is like a portent of violence


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Jack feels a lack of confidence as he nears the top of the Captain's list as the Lordships of the Admiralty decide who shall take over his positio


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Mallory has returned to find out who killed her mother and what happened to the body, vanished as well, its only trace a winged angel in the local


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Quick guide to the standard that's reshaping the Internet and Client/Server


Title:
Robert Bentley's Repair Manual for British Cars


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The animals on a farm drive out their master and take over and administer the farm for themselves


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What the organization of the future actually looks like and how it delivers value to customers


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The most incisive and powerful vision to date of the technology revolution


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P.I. V.I. Warshawski deals with her ex-husband after her neighbour's old friend is found floating facedown in a canal


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Dan Galindo was once one of the best lawyers in the US attorney's office, before he refused to put a lying witness on the stand and lost the case


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Determined to separate the truth from the lies, Gail embarks on a desperate search for answers into the heart of Miami's Cuban exile community


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As Macklin plans his crime, Paradise police chief Jesse Stone has his hands full.


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Tim Hess and Merci Rayborn must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful young women from malls of Orange County


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Joe Trona, scarred by acid as a baby, seeks revenge for the man who adopted him


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There were two men in Rebecca Harris's life, both knew of the other's existence and each hope that she will choose him


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The story of killer for hire Thomas Berryman


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In Cairo 1909, the murder capital of the world where death is common, but the death of an effendi is something different because effendis are impo


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There is a homicidal arsonist loose in Seattle


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Dart knows in his deepest heart that Zeller is on some twisted vigilante crusade when the body of a wife beater was found


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A masterwork of forensic detection and a chilling high-tech game of cat and mouse


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A heart pounding story of deceit and betrayal featuring Seattle detective Lou Boldt who must break the conceived network of abductions


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As Justin pursues a cunning murderer and jousts with secret traitors in Eleanor's court of intrigue and mystery


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A radical new formula for the revitalization of America's educational system


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Excellent mystery based on interpretation of chess game in an old painting


Title:
Century of British Mystery and Suspense, A

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Collection of British mystery and suspense stories


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Slowly darkness begins to lighten as each new revelation leads Monk to the answers he seeks but dreads to find


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Two remarkable women await the chill exposure of naked truth, the inexorable unfolding of their destinies


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Perry's first novel has a hit man on the run with the FBI and Mafia hit-men on the chase


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Jane is faced with a vicious predator who becomes more terrifying and powerful with each kill


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Minibus edition of classic Georget Felse detective mysteries: Fallen Into The Pit, Death and the Joyful Woman, A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs


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Eight basic principles of management with examples from the experiences of the best run companies to make them accessible and practical for you to


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Director Jenny Cain arrived at the hospital room of the Foundation's mysterious, gravely ill benefactor, murdered


Other Awards:
1992 Agatha Best Novel, 1992 Macavity Best Novel


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No one knows where Raintree took Natalie after he abducted her


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Examines the manifold ways in which visualization transforms how we both perceive and understand the world around us


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Puzzles inspired by those dating back several centuries, from various civilizations, some of which are deceptively easy and others fiendishly diff


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A look back at the history of U of S from 1959 to 1970


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A look at Jaguar, the history of a classic marquee presents a comprehensive analysis of a company, and product


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A kaleidoscopic thriller is marvelously complex, charged with emotional impact and resounding ethical questions


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An old mystery has become a murderous secret and devious Dr Audley and Colonel Butler enlist a young expert on the WWI in an investigation both ex


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A withering take on today's academic mores and a scathing tale that vividly shows what can happen when academic politics collides with political c


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An attempt to re-create the structures of life lies on the border between science and fiction


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Teach how you would write algorithms for programming


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The story of a man who said he would stop the engine of the world


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A great and challenging novel based on a supreme belief in the rights of the individual


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First appearances of classic private eyes


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First appearances of classic amateur detectives


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Rules of chess by the United States Chess Federation


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How the collective intelligence of the worldwide programming community is revolutionizing software development and business models in ways never b


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A dictionary of terms and tricks for hackers


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A dark psychological thriller that will hold the reader in its grip from beginning to end


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A book that captures the explosion of creativity and business evolution at the center of the Internet phenomenon


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An intimate look inside Harvard Business School


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Preparing for academic careers in science and engineering


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We see the life of the common soldier in all its phases, in the trenches, behind the lines, in hospital, at home on leave among civilians


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Sean Holford will find out the secrets of Shrove House


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Her white face, beautiful, unmarked by any flaw of skin or feature, stared blankly back at him


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Leonora and Guy belong together, if he can't have her, he'll die, or someone else will


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Chief Inspector Wexford is charged with solving the mysterious disappearances, protecting a pedophile, and catching a killer


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Because someone has crossed from political belief to fanaticism, and as the first body is found, good intentions may become Wexford's personal pat


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From the world-renowned master of suspense comes a mesmerizing tale of murder and redemption


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Wexford is on the prowl again for a missing girl


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Chief Inspector Wexford visits China, only to wind up investigating the murder of one of his fellow travellers on his return to England


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To John Creevey the messages were a lifeline, a means of getting back his wife and a way to harm the man who had seduced her away from him


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Before Wexford can delve deeper into the death of the car-park victim, he too confronts death


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Chief Inspector Wexford deals with the disappearance of Anita Margolis


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First published under the name Andrew Arncliffe, this book is impossible to find on the Net. Cory and Bob spotted this large print edition for Chr


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He is ghost, demon, angel - in love with the good, in thrall to the evil.  He tells us his story when he finds himself a dazed witness to the murd


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Another installment of The Vampire Chronicles


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Playwright Augustus Maltravers came to Vercaster for the Arts Festival until someone steals the Latimer Mercy, a rare bible


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Food writer, Chas, goes on the sleuthy trail to find the missing chef


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Pat Riley describes how it's like to be the coach of a champion ship team


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The Times: My laugh-aloud read of the year


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A loosely knit cabal of Silicon Valley's wealthiest and most successful leaders and their quest to defeat the richest man in the world


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The commercialization of Canada's schools where computers are taking replacing teachers, CD's are replacing books


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Mars is nearly done its transformation from desert like to Earth like.  Earth however is in Peril.  What will be the fate of the new Mars?


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People are planning to transform Mars to be Earthlike.  There are of course people opposed to it and will do whatever they can to stop the plan.


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Colonists is about to fulfill the destiny of conquer Mars hostile climate and make it Earth like


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A teenager is found in an alleyway, smashed over the head with a beer bottle and booted to death, who was the killer and why?


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This haunting novel explores the themes of guilt and innocence, family secrets and love, loss of faith and redemption


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An American quest for artificial intelligence


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To Rudy, Harvey is a friend and confessor, but Rudy never confided why anyone would wish to murder him


Title:
Care and Feeding of Books Old and New, The


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The age of information from telegraph to Internet


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A story of Donal Fraser and his involvement in the army in WWI


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Rozan's second book has PIs Bill Smith and Lydia Chin investigating murder at a home for the elderly


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Through real-life stories that involve some of the world's top technology companies, Bulldog reveals that no matter what business or industry you


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Provocative bestseller by basketball's most outspoken, witty, and controversial star


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Provocative story of a super-criminal's most spectacular crime


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The past presents a harrowing case and an unsettling personal dilemma for Lucas Davenport


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It started as an experiment, in life after death, and it ended in death


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Lord Peter takes a job at Pym's Publicity to learn the truth of a fatal accident


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Lord Peter realizes there is something odd about Agatha Dawson's death


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Lord Peter takes over upon General Fentiman's death at the Club


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A collection of classic science fiction and fantasy short stories from the Annals of UNKNOWN WORLDS MAGAZINE


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A guide to inspiring your people and managing the daily workflow


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This biography by Alan Schom will shake the Napoleonic clientele - and for good reasons, too


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A vivid story of past sins, love, and justice


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A look at how John Scully turned from selling Pepsi to selling Apple.  A journey of adventure, ideas and the future


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Captivating ride with a uniquely street-smart, hands-on, hold-her-own heroine behind the wheel


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When General Griffin North was killed in a suspicious plane crash, it was deemed as an accident, but Mollie Smith vows to keep the investigation a


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Creating life from dead human body parts


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Anne Hardaway happens upon the corpse of young, would-be witch Abby Podowski, Anne is forced to take the case when prime suspect disappeared


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Two St. Louis hoods pursue a fleeing crime lord to Montmarte


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The remarkable autobiography of the Nobel Prize winning social scientist and father of artificial intelligence


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Moses Wine left his political past behind, but on his new case, he must take it on once again


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Moses Wine is back again to help an idealistic, progressive California senator to find who is sabotaging his bid for the presidency


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Moses' son Simon is accused of murder and it's up to Moses to clear Simon's name


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James knows the last secret of a lost culture, and it is a secret someone will kill for


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Lessons in this book will teach you what makes a good executive into a great executive


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A guide to the importance of mental attitude and how to use this tool to foster confidence in individual players and in the team as a whole


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In a world ruled by fate, there are moments that are beyond any one person's control


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Ex robber, Tyler Pierce is on the prowl for the murderer of his daughter


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Hammer awakes from a near death coma to find that he is at the center of a search for 89 billion dollars in missing mob money


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Up in Alaska, the breakup becomes increasingly fraught with danger and destruction


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Sally is pregnant with her first child.  The graves of Sally's ancestors' graves is being robbed and there's a link between those events, Sally, a


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Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code


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Reflects upon science fiction's most famous computer and explores the relationship between science fantasy and technological fact


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Collection of 3 novels: Julia, If You Could See Me Now, and Under Venus


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The introduction to Bubbles Yablonksy, hairdresser and amateur sleuth, has her trying to solve an old murder


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The real story of how Microsoft outsmarts its competition


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For hunter Diana Jackman, this is the first time she will know what it is to be prey


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When Roger disappears without a trace, the entanglement increase, and it becomes clear that very clever schemer is at work, but who is plotting ag


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The karate killings, Scotland Yard couldn't solve them, could Sherlock Holmes?


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An astonishing, monumental work that tells the full story of the Irish Diaspora of losing half of its population


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A thought provoking work on seven campaigns where the military objective was to "get away"


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Promise and peril in the age of networked intelligence


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Collection of all-new mysteries by bestselling and award-winning authors of the Adams Round Table


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The story of how father and son built IBM


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Sarah is out to find the killer of her sister Gerda with the help of Sergeant Frank Malloy


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Andrew's adventures in the Rimworld, a chain of planets orbiting twin suns on the edge of the galaxy


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Documentary on the final proof that ground fire brought Von Richtohfen down


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After returning from War to End All Wars, Rutledge's first assignment is a case certain to spell disaster, personally and professionally


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Sauron is lacking the Ruling Ring which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins


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Years leading up to Napoleon's disastrous Russina invasion


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The story of an accidental revolutionary


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More gruesome deaths follow and the friction among the clerics could end in civil war


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Rudolf Arnheim quote: "A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking"


Title:
Visual Display of Quantitative Information, The

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Frederick Mosteller, Harvard University quote: "A landmark book, a wonderful book"


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A historical look at the Samurai, the warrior class of Japan


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Christie Opara is a policewoman in the Manhattan D.A.'s Special Investigation Squad who is searching for a strangler


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Lynne Jacobi knows that she will make DA if she can get a conviction for the death of TV celebrity Sanderalee Dawson


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A candid account of the life of a software engineer who runs her own computer consulting business in Multimedia Gulch


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Ira Lessing had everything to live for, but Lessing disappeared one hot July night, and Stoner knew in his gut that the man was dead


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Judge Dee's first independent official post. Proceeds there accompagnied by Sergeant Hoong


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His future fourth lieutenant Tao Gan here makes his first appearance


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The overthrow of a local tyrant and several mysterious murders in a remote district


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Judge Dee is appointed Lord Chief Justice after only a few months in this new posting


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Scene is laid in an old Taoist temple, in the mountains of Han-yuan


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Solved by Judge Dee, assisted by Chiao Tai, during a brief sojourn in the district Wei-ping


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Judge Dee has been sent on a special mission to Canton


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During a Mid-autumn Festival in Chin-hwa Judge Dee is the fellow-guest of a small group of distinguished literati


Title:
Mammoth Book of Great Detective Stories, The


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Presents a new paradigm that explores the qualities and practices necessary to really make breakthroughs in an exploding technology and expanding


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This book provides a concrete example of the programming of a 2-person game with complete information and how to demonstrate some methods of solut


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The Arthurian legend based on a fifteenth-century manuscript


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Lives of outcasts in London's dark an dangerous Underground system


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A biography of some of the musical greats in the past


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Her subject is murder, now it could be the death of her


Other Awards:
1992 Agatha Best First Novel, 1992 Macavity Best First Novel


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It was a joke when 18,000 tons of rubber were destroyed on a Sunday morning


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Bill Gates and the race to control cyberspace


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A woman's broken body is washed up on a deserted shore, her traumatized infant daughter is discovered in a town twenty miles away, alone and aband


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Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress'


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Seven years of investigation by the FBI and state police result in an unforgettable and unique murder trial


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A true story of lawmen and bandits, Wambaugh re-creates the myth of the Western hero


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The book that closes the executive versus technologist miscommunication gap


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The Flaxborough sex-fiend is described as running sideways, like a crab


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The agenda is ambitious: eliminating the mass murder in the name of ethnic cleansing now raging all over Africa


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Topics that are strikingly relevant to today's issues in programming, and highlights the the similarities and differences between now and then


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You know computers, so they want you to teach everyone else


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The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods


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Disabled by a bad knee, Washington, D.C. cop Leigh Ann Warren is kept busy searching for her partner


Title:
Curious Facts Preceding My Execution, The


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A man, a woman, and a desperate haunted land are joined together, as a staggering truth is uncovered on the world's last frontier


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Barbara Holloway have to face a worthy opponent: herself, as she tries to clear up the murder of Mitch Arno


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Someone has murdered one of Oregon's congressmen, and it's not a coincidence that this politician led the field trip when Teddy's accident occurre


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A textbook for basketball coaching classes in colleges and universities


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Cassandra chases people of all persuasions and motives, where appearances are always deceptive


Title:
Difference Between God and Larry Ellison, The

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Exclusive interviews with the elusive Ellison himself, gives full credit to Ellison's extraordinary entrepreneurial brilliance


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A consummate and passionate thriller, spanning Europe from the dark days of WWII to the collapse of the Berlin Wall


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Jack Frost's not beloved by his superiors and they want to bounce him to a different department, but Jack's the only one who knows how to get the


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Tweedmore & Slyde, hotest law firm in Silicon Valley, is headed for the big time until Leo Slyde is found stabbed to death in his office


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The inspiring biography of UCLA's great basketball coach


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African-American homicide detective Charlotte Justice must deal with the fires and riots that engulf Los Angeles


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Stone and Dino trace their tracks from years before looking for clues that might lead them to a brilliant killer


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Reveals the politics and culture of these virtual realists, and examines whether they are creating reality, or losing their grasp of it


Title:
Colossal Book of Questions & Answers, The

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A huge collection of questions and answers


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It appears that someone very close to Georgina Fletcher wants to killer her and has much to gain through her death


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Hideous triffids roaming the ruins of the earth?


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How Red Hat changed the software business, and took Microsoft


Title:
Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer

Comment:
This book discusses new technologies, industries, and software applications and much more


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A handbook of information technology in business


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An attempt to capture the essence of the current state of the art in intelligent agent technology and to identify the new challenges and opportuni


Title:
Web Intelligence: Research and Development


