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If Tomorrow Comes
by Sidney Sheldon
A woman's quest for justice, taking revenge against the criminals who wronged her.
Tracy is a successful bank-worker in Philadelphia, engaged to a wealthy heir, whose child she is carrying. Then her mother commits suicide, after being scammed by the New Orleans Mafia and left in ... (Wikipedia)
Rage of Angels
by Sidney Sheldon
A successful lawyer gets caught up in a deadly political conspiracy and must use her wits to survive.
Jennifer Parker, a beautiful, inexperienced, newly sworn in Assistant District Attorney for the State of New York , inadvertently participates in a plot by Michael Moretti, the rising star of one of ... (Wikipedia)
Windmills of the Gods
by Sidney Sheldon
A professor is appointed as the US ambassador to Romania, but soon discovers a dangerous conspiracy. She must navigate political intrigue to save her life and her country.
Mary Ashley, a professor at Kansas State University , is offered an ambassadorship by Paul Ellison, the US president. She rejects the offer because her husband, Dr. Edward Ashley, does not want to ... (Wikipedia)
Love Story
by Erich Segal
A tale of love, loss and hope, as two young lovers navigate life's challenges.
Oliver Barrett IV, a wealthy jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law . . . Jenny Cavilleri, a sharp-tongued, working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe ... (Goodreads)
Slow Heat in Heaven
by Sandra Brown
A steamy romance novel set in the sultry heat of Louisiana, where passion and danger collide.
Grappling with hidden family secrets, forbidden passions, and a business in peril, the adopted daughter of a Louisiana mogul must confront the past to bring peace back to her hometown. The adopted ... (Goodreads)
Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
Magical tale of forbidden love, crossed by cultural and family traditions.
The book is divided into 12 sections named after the months of the year, starting in January and ending in December. Each section begins with a Mexican recipe . The chapters connect each dish to an ... (Wikipedia)
The Calculus Affair
by Hergé
A thrilling detective story as two detectives and a professor try to retrieve a stolen calculus formula.
Tintin, the Captain, and Snowy attempt to rescue Dr. Calculus who has been kidnapped by the Bordurians. ... (Goodreads)
Life is What You Make It: A Story of Love, Hope and How Determination Can Overcome Even Destiny
by Preeti Shenoy
A young woman battles with mental illness and learns to take control of her life, finding love and hope along the way.
The book is set in Kerala in the 1980s. The story opens with a series of letters between the protagonist, Ankita and her childhood friend, Vaibhav, who is in IIT Delhi. Ankita has just entered St ... (Wikipedia)
Veronika Decides to Die
by Paulo Coelho
A young woman's journey of self-discovery, learning to confront mortality and the power of love.
Veronika is a young woman from Ljubljana , Slovenia, who appears to have a perfect life, but nevertheless decides to commit suicide by overdosing with sleeping pills. While she waits to die, she ... (Wikipedia)
The Shooting Star
by Hergé
Tintin and his friends race to find a meteorite that has fallen to Earth, but they are not the only ones searching for it.
Hergé’s classic comic book creation Tintin is one of the most iconic characters in children’s books. These highly collectible editions of the original 24 adventures will delight Tintin fans old and ... (Goodreads)
Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game
by Tilly Bagshawe
The story of a powerful woman who built an empire, but her past comes back to haunt her.
Following the death of Kate Blackwell, her granddaughters, Eve Blackwell-Webster and Alexandra Blackwell-Templeton, give birth at roughly the same time. Eve, vowing revenge at her whole family, gives ... (Wikipedia)
Kill and Tell
by Linda Howard
Romance and suspense collide as a woman falls for a man with a dangerous past, leading to a thrilling game of cat and mouse.
Still reeling from her mother's recent death, Karen Whitlaw is stunned when she receives a package containing a mysterious notebook from the father she has barely seen since his return from the Viet ... (Goodreads)
The Street Lawyer
by John Grisham
A successful lawyer's life changes when he is held hostage by a homeless man. He becomes a street lawyer, fighting for justice for the underprivileged.
A homeless man, identifying himself only as "Mister," enters the offices of the powerful Washington D.C. law firm Drake & Sweeney and takes many of the lawyers hostage while angrily demanding ... (Wikipedia)
The Wedding
by Nicholas Sparks
A couple navigates the ups and downs of planning their wedding while dealing with family drama and personal struggles.
In this stunning, New York Times, bestselling follow-up to, The Notebook, a hardworking but distant husband vows to win back the love of his life by looking to Noah and Allie's legendary romance. ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Seven Crystal Balls
by Hergé
An archaeological expedition, searching for a lost Inca city, encounters a mysterious curse.
Después de dos años de ausencia en los que ha viajado a Perú y Bolivia, la expedición etnográfica Sanders-Hardmuth regresa a Europa habiendo descubierto varias tumbas incas. Se han traído la momia ... (Goodreads)
Birthright
by Nora Roberts
A woman returns to her hometown to uncover the truth about her past and her family's secrets. Romance and danger ensue.
When five-thousand-year-old human bones are found at a construction site in the small town of Woodsboro, the news draws archaeologist Callie Dunbrook out of her sabbatical and into a whirlwind of ... (Goodreads)
Doctors
by Erich Segal
The lives of two doctors, Barney and Laura, intertwined by love, ambition, and tragedy. A story of medical practice and personal relationships.
Star basketball player Barney Livingston and the beautiful and brilliant Laura Castellano are neighbors in Brooklyn who are as close as siblings. After graduating from Midwood High School in 1954 ... (Wikipedia)
The Matarese Circle
by Robert Ludlum
Political thriller revolving around an international secret society.
The Matarese killers will take over the world within two years... The No.1 bestseller from 'the world's most read writer' [GQ] ... (Goodreads)
Paradise
by Judith McNaught
A passionate, whirlwind romance between two star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of a turbulent world.
Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills. A long way from the country club where, feeling like an outsider, he had dared to fall in ... (Goodreads)
Remember Me?
by Sophie Kinsella
A woman discovers her past life and the secrets her family has kept from her.
It is about Lexi Smart, a woman who has insecurities about herself until she experiences amnesia after a car accident. When she wakes up in the hospital she finds that she is a completely different ... (Wikipedia)
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
An orphan's journey of survival and resilience in the face of poverty and injustice.
Oliver Twist is born into a life of poverty and misfortune, raised in a workhouse in the fictional town of Mudfog , located 70 miles (110 km) north of London . , , , He is orphaned by his father's ... (Wikipedia)
The Prodigal Daughter
by Jeffrey Archer
A woman's journey to reclaim her family's honor and reclaim her rightful place in society.
The story begins by introducing Kane and Abel's past and the feud between them. It then tells the story of Kane and Abel from the perspective of their children, Florentyna Rosnovski and Richard Kane. ... (Wikipedia)
The Runaway Jury
by John Grisham
A jury trial where the jury's decision is up for sale as two sides battle for a multi-million dollar verdict.
Wendall Rohr and his team of tort lawyers have filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Celeste Wood, whose husband died of lung cancer , against the tobacco company Pynex. The trial is to be held in Biloxi ... (Wikipedia)
For One More Day
by Mitch Albom
A man's journey through time, exploring the bonds of family, life, and death.
The book's theme is mortality: , it analyzes how people might react to the chance to have a dead relative back for a day. , The book tells the story of Charles "Chick" Benetto, a former baseball ... (Wikipedia)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A thrilling detective story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they investigate a mysterious murder on the moor.
Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon . The death was attributed ... (Wikipedia)
Immortal in Death
by J.D. Robb
Detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder case involving immortality and resurrection.
When Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a top model, she is putting her career on the line, because the prime suspect is her best friend. Eve's investigations lead her into the ... (Goodreads)
Glory in Death
by J.D. Robb
A murder investigation of a powerful businesswoman, uncovering the secrets of a world of money, power and deceit.
Eve finds the body of famous Prosecuting Attorney Cicely Towers on the night of May 2. Eve returns to Cop Central to find that Commander Whitney was very good friends with Towers, having started out ... (Wikipedia)
Salvation of a Saint
by Keigo Higashino
A murder mystery featuring a seemingly perfect couple, uncovering dark secrets and unexpected truths.
Yoshitaka Mashiba, who was about to leave his marriage and his wife, is poisoned by arsenic-laced coffee and dies. His wife, Ayane, is the obvious suspect—but she was hundreds of miles away when he ... (Wikipedia)
Elephants Can Remember
by Agatha Christie
A mother and daughter investigate a double suicide that happened years ago, uncovering secrets and lies along the way.
At a literary luncheon Ariadne Oliver is approached by a woman named Mrs Burton-Cox, whose son Desmond is engaged to Oliver's goddaughter Celia Ravenscroft. Mrs Burton-Cox questions the truth ... (Wikipedia)
The Man from St. Petersburg
by Ken Follett
Thriller set in the early 1900s with a game of international espionage between Russia and England.
The book is set just before the outbreak of the First World War . It is an account of how the lives of the main characters were interwoven with the success or failure of secret naval talks between ... (Wikipedia)
