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"Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn't? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their...
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"Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department...
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Cat in the stacks mysteries volume 11
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"When Charlie Harris decides to go back to school, he and his Maine Coon cat, Diesel, find themselves entangled in a deadly lovers quarrel on campus in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. In addition to his library duties and his role as doting grandad, Charlie has enrolled in an early medieval history course offered by young, charismatic professor Carey Warriner. Charlie feels a bit out of place- his fellow classmates...
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Quarry novels volume 17
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"After nearly 50 years in the killing business, the hitman known as Quarry was enjoying a comfortable retirement, until the grown daughter he only recently met mysteriously went missing. Now it's up to the old man to show he hasn't lost a step and, with the help of a femme fatale from his past, prove he's as ruthless, deadly and unstoppable as any man half his age." --back cover
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It was in Paris she first saw him. He was tall, handsome—utterly dangerous. Inexplicably drawn to him, Brianne Martin pulled a grief-stricken Pierce Hutton back from the depths of despair. He was forever grateful, but he drew the line at seducing a woman half his age.
It was in Paris she fell in love. Although Pierce was strictly off-limits, Brianne couldn't imagine surrendering her innocence to anyone but him. Certainly not to her stepfather's...
It was in Paris she fell in love. Although Pierce was strictly off-limits, Brianne couldn't imagine surrendering her innocence to anyone but him. Certainly not to her stepfather's...
7) Deadly Vows
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Tom Weston is dating a woman half his age and plans on marrying her. The problem is, he's already married. To keep the life he has always wanted, Tom is driven to kill. Based on a true story.
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"President Eisenhower's National Security Advisor Robert "Bobby" Cutler shaped US Cold War strategy in far more consequential ways than previously understood. A lifelong Republican, Cutler also served three Denocratic presidents. The life of any party, he was a tight-lipped loyalist who worked behind the scenes to get things done. While Cutler's contributions to the public sphere may not have received, until now, the consideration they deserve, the...
9) White teeth
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From the Publisher: On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt-is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window,...
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He's always enjoyed the darker things in life, finding that the thrill of the hunt and the kill are the only aspects of life he truly loves…Bill Wright has spent years building a successful career that allows him ample time to work on his favorite hobby, all while blending in with the rest of society. After a tragedy hits home, Bill's marriage to a woman nearly half his age teeters on the edge, threatening his way of life.He begins to see another...
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"Valerie Wyatt is at the top of her game--she has parlayed her talent for entertaining and home decorating into a multimedia empire, and her name is synonymous with class and exquisite taste. And yet, though she has achieved enviable professional success, her ambition and hard work have given her little room for a personal life. She is divorced, and though she has a strong relationship with her daughter, she finds herself alone as her 60th birthday...
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Lemuel Falk, a Russian theoretical chaoticist on the lam from terrestrial chaos, has been applying for permission to leave Russia every year for the past twenty-three years. Because he knows state secrets, he has not been allowed to cross the state s frontiers. Now, suddenly, his request for an exit visa is approved a sure sign that the situation is even more chaotic than he had imagined. Falk accepts a chair as a visiting professor at the Institute...
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Promise Lodge volume 3
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When Christine Bender meets widowed Bishop Monroe Burkholder, it's love at first sight. The colony needs a new bishop, and everyone is excited to have a younger leader. As for Christine, Monroe returns her affection, but her bubble is burst with the arrival of Leola Duff. Leola claims Monroe "ruined" her and she now intends to make an honest man of him. But Christine never doubts that Monroe is the fine man she believes him to be. And when Monroe...
14) Young At Heart
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Devon Alexander is a wealthy successful businessman. The world is his oyster. In his work life he is decisive and in control. His private life is another matter. There, he doesn't know if he's coming or going in his on-off relationship with Jesse Young, an unemployed aspiring model half his age. Can Devon and Jesse overcome the obstacles and outside influences standing in their way? Can they leave behind their own fear and mistrust? Or will they be...
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The New York Times, bestselling true crime author, reveals the full story of murder and deception behind the Lifetime movie Secrets of a Gold Digger Killer.
Texas millionaire Steven Beard, Jr. fell hard for Celeste Martinez, a waitress less than half his age. She served the seventy-year-old widow his nightly cocktail-along with sexual favors-at a country club in Austin. After they married, Steven gave her cars, homes, jewelry, and designer clothes....
16) Missing Persons
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This is the story of Harry Bailey and his attempts to repair a life that has come undone. He has been living with his father since his mother walked out on them both six years before, and together they have sunk into a lonely routine. But their humdrum habits are suddenly disrupted when the elder Bailey begins dating a woman half his age. As Harry gets drawn back into the surprises of a rediscovered life, he grows increasingly preoccupied both with...
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Donald, a freelance photographer, has lost his artistic eye, his knack for observation, his ability to find beauty and truth in the captured moment. Maybe it's because his editors are all half his age and insist that beauty can be categorized by brand name, and that truth is defined by their advertisers. His son Travis is so eager for the transcendental experience that he repeatedly tries to kill himself. This wry and curiously uplifting story of...
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A no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis. Jimmy Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public's adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open,...
19) Shockwave
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A body washes up on a beach. The dead man's skull has been bashed open, and his upper body is covered in neo-Nazi tattoos. The cops pick up Homer, a schizophrenic, and even though Homer could never have inflicted such damage on a man twice his weight and half his age, he is arrested. Dolly is outraged, but with connections like Dell, she is anything but helpless. The search for the real killer pulls them into the world of hate groups; then they make...
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A Man's World is a collection of twenty profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Oney realized early in his career that he was interested in how men face challenges and cope with success and failure, seeing in their struggles something of his own. Written over a forty-year period for publications including Esquire, Premiere, GQ, TIME, Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine, the stories, many prizewinning,...






