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List created by E.L. F. (elf2060) - on Jul 8, 2011
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Born To Be Wild by Catherine Coulter
Sunday Cavendish is the woman everyone loves to hate. Independent, outspoken and brazenly sexy, she's clearly the star of the popular soap opera, Born To Be Wild, despite her character's machinations. But Mary Lisa Beverly isn't Sunday - except in front of the cameras. So when a car...  more

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Deadly Illusions (Francesca Cahill, Bk 7) by Brenda Joyce
Manhattan, 1902. Irrepressible heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her own elegant world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly of society, a place of pride, passions. . .and sometimes deadly perversions. Despite the misgivings of her fiancee, Calder Hart,...  more

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8 Sandpiper Way (Cedar Cove, Bk 8) by Debbie Macomber
Dear Reader, I have something to confide in you. I think my husband, Dave, might be having an affair. I found an earring in his pocket, and it's not mine. I'm also worried because some jewelry was recently stolen from an old woman -- and Dave used to visit her a lot. You see, he's a pastor....  more

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Honor and Duty by Gus Lee
Kai Ting knows what it means to become an American and lose all that is Chinese. It happened to his father, a former officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army, who never came to terms with his new life in the United States. Now, as a West Point cadet in the 1960s, Kai has a golden chance both to retain...  more

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Cry Vengeance by Ron Handberg
When Justice Fails, Vengeance Steps In It is a gruesome murder, the kind that makes the best story. A man found floating in the river - a rapist freed on a technicality - was not just killed but castrated. Rookie reporter Jessica Mitchell covers the grisly event for her Twin Cities...  more

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Live to Tell (Live to Tell, Bk 1) by Wendy Corsi Staub
Secrets can scandalize . . . In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter-train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they're talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned...  more

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Guilty as Sin (Deer Lake, Bk 2) by Tami Hoag
A cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community sits in jail, accused of a chilling act of evil. But then another boy disappears, triggering panic in tiny Deer Lake. Have the police caught the wrong man? Or is...  more

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Night Sins (Deer Lake, Bk 1) by Tami Hoag
A peaceful Minnesota town, where crime is something that just doesn't happen, is about to face its worst nightmare. A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues--only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this the reawakening of a...  more

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Killer Heat (Hired Guns, Bk 3) by Brenda Novak
Too hot to handle…. The bodies of seven women have been discovered in Skull Valley, Arizona. Jonah Young, a private security operative from Department 6, has been hired by the Yavapai County Sheriff to assist in solving these murders.  But Jonah’s not prepared for the...  more

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Senseless by Mary Burton
The vicious burns scarring the victims' flesh reveal the agony of their last moments. Each woman was branded with a star, then stabbed through the heart. With every death, a vengeful killer finds a brief, blissful moment of calm. But soon it's time for the bloodshed to start again. Ten...  more

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All Good Things... (Star Trek: The Next Generation) by Michael Jan Friedman
Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The...  more

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The Killing Game (Eve Duncan, Bk 2) by Iris Johansen
A merciless killer on the hunt...an innocent child in his sights...a woman driven to the edge to stop him... The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top...  more

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Barely a Lady (Drake's Rakes, Bk 1) by Eileen Dreyer
Olivia Grace has secrets that could destroy her. One of the greatest of these is the Earl of Gracechurch, who married and divorced her five years earlier. Abandoned and disgraced, Grace has survived those years at the edge of respectability. Then she stumbles over Jack on the battlefield of...  more

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Never a Gentleman (Drake's Rakes, Bk 2) by Eileen Dreyer
HE HIDES HIS TRUE COLORS . . . Miss Grace Fairchild is under no illusions about her charms. Painfully plain, she is a soldier's daughter who has spent her life being useful, not learning the treacherous ways of the ton. She may have been caught in a scandal with society's favorite rogue,...  more

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The Golden Key by Melanie Rawn & Jennifer Roberson & Kate Elliott
In Tira Virte, art is prized for its beauty and as a binding legal record of everything from marriages to treaties. Yet not even the Grand Duke knows how extraordinary the Grijalva family's art is, for certain Grijalva males are born with the ability to alter events and influence people in the...  more

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Wicked Intentions (Maiden Lane, Bk 1) by Elizabeth Hoyt
A MAN CONTROLLED BY HIS DESIRES . . . Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its...  more

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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
A revised edition of the best-selling guide to interpersonal relationships provides suggestions for successfully dealing with people both in social and business situations. Learn: .The six ways to make people like you .The twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking .The nine...  more

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A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
Recently selected as the Best Author by readers of Entertainment Weekly, Nicholas Sparks is one of America's preeminent storytellers. Now Sparks spins a tale about a man, a woman, and the devastating secret that threatens to keep them apart... Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife...  more

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Season of the Machete by James Patterson
Cool and glamorous, they could be a successful couple on a holiday. But Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. Their new venue is a picture-perfect vacation island. Their adversary will be Peter Macdonald, the dashing young American who will forsake a life of leisure for a...  more

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Beach Road by James Patterson & Peter de Jonge
Welcome to Beach Road Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in legendary East Hampton. But his job barely keeps him in paper clips. His principal clients make a living serving the rich. The billionaires and megacelebrities swarming the beaches already have lawyers on their...  more

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Lifeguard by James Patterson & Andrew Gross
The danger isn't in the water. As a lifeguard in Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect except that she prefers caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip flops. So when Ned's cousin offers him a rich deal, Ned can't turn...  more

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House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III
"Elegant and powerful...an unusual and volatile...literary thriller." --Washington Post Book WorldIn this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in...  more

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The Chicken Doesn't Skate by Gordon Korman
She's one popular chick! Milo the science geek has a problem. Everybody in school is obsessed with his science fair specimen: a baby chick. They treat his specimen like royalty. They name her Henrietta and insist she's a good luck char, a mascot for the hockey team -- even a...  more

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and for its astonishing power to lay claim to...  more

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Cradle and All by James Patterson
In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant--even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman discovers she is in the same impossible condition. And in cities all around the world, medical authorities are overwhelmed by epidemics, droughts, famines, floods, and worse. It...  more

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The Moon Pool by Max McCoy
Time is running out for Jolene. She's trapped by a madman, held captive, naked, waiting only for her worst nightmares to become reality. Her captor will keep her alive for twenty-eight days, hidden in an underwater city 400 feet below the surface. Then she will die horribly -- like the others......  more

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Black Friday by James Patterson
The breathtaking suspense of Kiss the Girls and the authenticity of N.Y.P.D. Blue: Welcome to James Patterson's classic superthriller, BLACK FRIDAY. A courageous federal agent, a powerful and resourceful woman lawyer - only they can possibly stop the unspeakable from happening. New York City is...  more

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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, Bk 2) by James Patterson
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are...  more

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The Ties That Bind by Jayne Ann Krentz
She watched him with a curiosity that led to attraction. Finally Shannon Raine decides to stop speculating about her dark, brooding neighbor on California's rugged Mendocino coastline -- and just introduce herself. But the last thing she expects to find in this enclave of artists and...  more

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Babylon Rising (Babylon Rising, Bk 1) by Tim LaHaye
Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time. Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy. Now Tim LaHaye has...  more

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Contact by Carl Sagan
A young scientist scorned by her colleagues for her work on the SETI project receives a radio signal from a distant star, which she interprets to be schematics for a space transport. Through her research into intelligent life in the galaxy, she learns that the answers to all of life's most...  more

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Mirror, Mirror: Taken in Death / If Wishes Were Horses / Beauty, Sleeping / The Chris...
Once upon a time…   …in a world far removed from the days when fairy tales were new, five bestselling authors spin versions that take the classic stories into a new dimension. You’ll recognize Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and other enduring...  more

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Robert Asprin's Dragons Run (Dragons, Bk 4) by Jody Lynn Nye
In New York Times bestselling author Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye's newest Big Easy dragon tale, Griffen McCandles is about to give the forces of evil a run for their money... Griffen already has his hands full running his gambling operation in New Orleans and dealing with his dragon...  more

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Wicked Surrender by Jade Lee
The daughter of an actress, Scher Martin feels she'll never fulfill her dreams of acquiring a good home and having a respectable family, so she agrees to be the mistress of Brandon Cates, Viscount Blackthorn. But when Brandon's cousin proposes marriage, Scher finds herself torn...  more

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How a Cowboy Stole Her Heart (Harlequin Romance, No 4270) by Donna Alward
From best friends...to bride and groom? Clay Gregory's known Megan Briggs her whole life, and he's been plenty worried about her while she's been getting medical treatment. Now she's back home and hiding away on the family ranch. Knowing the stubborn cowgirl won't...  more

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One Day in Apple Grove (Apple Grove, Bk 2) by C. H. Admirand
Welcome to Apple Grove, Ohio (pop. 597), a small town with a big heart. Caitlin Mulcahy loves her family. She really does. But sometimes they can drive her to her last shred of sanity -- from her dad ("I'm not meddling, I just want what's best for you") to her...  more

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Crunch Time (Goldy Schulz, Bk 16) by Diane Mott Davidson
When the rental house shared by chef Yolanda Garcia and her irrepressible aunt Ferdinanda is destroyed by arson, the pair moves in with cop-turned-PI Ernest McLeod. But then Ernest is shot dead and his house is set on fire, nearly killing Yolanda, Ferdinanda, and their good friend, Colorado...  more

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The King of Torts by John Grisham
The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he...  more

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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original...  more

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Dead Heat by Dick Francis & Felix Francis
Max Moreton is a rising culinary star and his Newmarket restaurant, The Hay Net, has brought him great acclaim and a widening circle of admirers. But when nearly all the guests who enjoyed one of his meals at a private catered affair fall victim to severe food poisoning, his kitchen is shuttered...  more

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Taste of Temptation (Sensual Destiny, Bk 2) by Cheryl Holt
Helen Hamilton is a twenty-five-year old spinster, with no income and no prospects, who struggles to care for her two orphaned sisters. Destitute and only a heartbeat away from the streets, Helen applies for a position as a governess to the younger siblings of Captain Tristan Odell, the oldest...  more

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New England White (Elm Harbor, Bk 2) by Stephen L. Carter
Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a swirling blizzard late one night, the couple skids off the...  more

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Perilous Shield (Lost Stars, Bk 2) by Jack Campbell
Following a successful coup, the leaders of the rebel Midway Star System struggle to forge a government free enough to please its citizens yet strong enough to secure power. But in a world where former rulers have become new foes, an alien threat to humanity may turn old adversaries into...  more

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W Is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 23) by Sue Grafton
"Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue." The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone...  more

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#31 plus going to Books for Troops

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