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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)
Master of the Game
by Sidney Sheldon
The story of a powerful and ruthless businesswoman, spanning generations and continents, as she builds her empire and seeks revenge.
Kate Blackwell, matriarch of the Blackwell family and head of multinational business empire Kruger-Brent Int., celebrates her 90th birthday. She sees the ghosts of her past but refuses to join them ... (Wikipedia)
The Other Side of Midnight
by Sidney Sheldon
A gripping tale of love, betrayal, and revenge. The story follows the lives of two women and the man they both love.
Set in between the two World Wars, Noelle Page is born to a poor family in Marseille , France, though she is led to believe she is better than everyone else. She is initially devoted to her father, ... (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)
Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
Two rival men, from different backgrounds, fight for success and power in a cutthroat world.
The book tells the stories of two men born worlds apart. They have nothing in common except the same date of birth (18 April 1906 in the book, and 1901 in the miniseries based on it) and a zeal to ... (Wikipedia)
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)
The Immortals of Meluha
by Amish Tripathi
Epic adventure of an ancient warrior, seeking to protect a kingdom from evil forces.
Meluha is a near perfect empire, created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram , one of the greatest Hindu kings that ever lived. However, the once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe ... (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)
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT
by Chetan Bhagat
Three friends at IIT navigate their way through college, learning life lessons along the way.
The book is narrated by Hari, with some small passages by his friends Ryan and Alok, as well as a letter by Hari's girlfriend Neha Cherian. It deals with the lives of the 3 friends, whose elation on ... (Wikipedia)
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
by Mary Higgins Clark
A thrilling murder mystery, with a female protagonist and a trail of clues leading to the killer.
A serial killer leaves one dancing shoe on a foot of the victims who answer his personal ads. When Erin dies, her best friend places ads to entice the villain already targeting her next. New York ... (Goodreads)
Message in a Bottle
by Nicholas Sparks
An unlikely romance develops between two strangers after a heartfelt message in a bottle is discovered.
Divorced and disillusioned about romantic relationships, Theresa Osborne is jogging when she finds a bottle on the beach. Inside is a letter of love and belonging to "Catherine," signed simply ... (Wikipedia)
Murder in Mesopotamia
by Agatha Christie
A group of archaeologists in Iraq unravel a mystery of murder and intrigue.
Nurse Amy Leatheran arrives at an archaeological dig near Hassanieh, Iraq , to assist the Swedish-American archaeologist, Dr Eric Leidner, in caring for his wife, Louise. During her initial days, Amy ... (Wikipedia)
Cigars of the Pharaoh
by Hergé
Tintin and Snowy travel to Egypt and uncover a drug trafficking ring.
Tientalle Egiptoloe het al probeer om die grafkelder van Farao Kih-Oskh te vind en elkeen het in die proses verdwyn. Kuifie en Spokie ontmoet die misterieuse en eksentrieke Egiptoloog, Doktor ... (Goodreads)
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)
Lucky
by Jackie Collins
A young woman rises to fame and fortune in Hollywood, but must navigate the dark side of the industry to protect herself and those she loves.
SHE’S A HOT-BLOODED BEAUTY IN LOVE WITH POWER, HUNGRY FOR PLEASURE… WILD, NOTORIOUS, TROUBLE… SHE’S… LUCKY. THE FABULOUS HEROINE OF CHANCES RETURNS. With the sensual grace of a panther, Lucky ... (Goodreads)
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)
The Big Four
by Agatha Christie
Detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders linked to an international crime syndicate.
Captain Arthur Hastings returns to England after an 18-month-long stay in Argentina . , He intends to visit his old friend Hercule Poirot and is shocked to find Poirot about to leave for South ... (Wikipedia)
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)
Chanakya's Chant
by Ashwin Sanghi
A political thriller that weaves together the stories of Chanakya, an ancient Indian strategist, and a modern-day politician.
The year is 340 B.C . A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father by the Emperor of Magadh, Dhana Nanda. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with ... (Wikipedia)
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
A powerful tale of forbidden love, set in rural Australia in the early 20th century.
The story begins in New Zealand on 8 December 1915, the fourth birthday of Meghann "Meggie" Cleary who is the only daughter of Padriac ("Paddy"), an Irish farm labourer, and Fiona ("Fee"), his wife. ... (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)
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 Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
Amateur detective investigates the mysterious murder of a wealthy landowner.
In King's Abbot, wealthy widow Mrs Ferrars unexpectedly commits suicide, which distresses her fiancé, widower Roger Ackroyd. At dinner that evening in Ackroyd's home of Fernly Park, his guests ... (Wikipedia)
Tell No One
by Harlan Coben
A man's quest to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of his wife, uncovering a deeper mystery.
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night ... (Goodreads)
The Pelican Brief
by John Grisham
A law student's investigation into a political assassination, uncovering a deadly conspiracy.
The story begins with the assassinations of two ideologically divergent Supreme Court Justices. Both murders are committed by Khamel, the most wanted hitman in the world. Justice Rosenberg, a ... (Wikipedia)
And the Mountains Echoed
by Khaled Hosseini
Interconnected stories of family and love, tracing the consequences of decisions made throughout life.
The novel opens in the year 1952. Saboor, an impoverished farmer from the fictional village of Shadbagh, decides to sell his three-year-old daughter Pari to a wealthy, childless couple in Kabul. ... (Wikipedia)
Mightier Than the Sword
by Jeffrey Archer
Political intrigue, involving a secret society, threatens to disrupt the stability of the world.
A bomb goes off, but how many passengers on the MV Buckingham have lost their lives? You will find out only if you read the opening chapter of, Mightier than the Sword,., When Harry arrives in New ... (Goodreads)
Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
A young girl's rise to power as the last empress of China.
To rescue her family from poverty and avoid marrying her slope-shouldered cousin, seventeen-year-old Orchid competes to be one of the Emperor's wives. When she is chosen as a lower-ranking concubine ... (Goodreads)
The Client
by John Grisham
A young boy is thrust into a legal battle, as he tries to protect himself and his family.
Boyd Boyette, a United States Senator from Louisiana, goes missing. Because of his vocal opposition to a proposed major toxic landfill project by a company known to be Mafia-backed, murder is ... (Wikipedia)
Gone for Good
by Harlan Coben
A man's search for the truth about his brother's disappearance, uncovering a dark conspiracy.
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman–a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally ... (Goodreads)
