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2012
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Brian Haberman is a 61-year-old PTA dad and failed architect in Belleville, New Jersey. Since his college years during the Sixties, Brian has regretted his lack of involvement in liberal politics. Then he meets Mario, who was politically active and slightly famous many years ago. Together, they plan and carry out a political caper against the backdrop of Barack Obamas election in 2008 and his inauguration. And both experience surprising romances along the way.
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2018
EN
A man's frantic search for his missing family draws him into a terrifying plot in this novel from "one of the best thriller writers in the business" ( Library Journal, starred review).Though Jeff and Sarah Griffin are teetering on divorce, they try to keep the heart-wrenching turmoil from their young son, Cole. In fact, they all travel from Montana to Manhattan to give Cole a dream vacation. While sightseeing near Times Square, Jeff steps into a store to bu...
The Street Lawyer
A Novel
2010
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Compelling . . . another timely tale from John Grisham. [The Street Lawyer] shows not only that Grisham has his finger on the public pulse but that he’s also out to prick its conscience.”—Chicago TribuneMichael was in a hurry. He was scrambling up the ladder at Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm with eight hundred lawyers. The money was good and getting better; a partnership was no more than three years...
The Firm
A Novel
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- The Firm Series
2010
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#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • The iconic legal thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller, hailed as “an absolute master” (The Washington Post)“[An] ingenious man-in-the-middle thriller.”—Entertainment WeeklyMitch McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprises everyone by j...
1998
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‘‘If there’s a better horror novelist than Bentley Little working today, I don’t know who it is. The Store is...frightening. The perfect summer read.’’—Los Angeles TimesJuniper, Arizona, is an off-the-map desert town the retail giant called The Store has chosen for its new location. Now everything you could possibly want is under one roof, at unbelievable prices. But you’d better be careful what you wish for. This place demands something of its cu...
2017
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Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetra...
Other Side of Suffering
The Father of JonBenet Ramsey Tells the Story of His Journey from Grief to Grace
2012
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The untold story of how John Ramsey survived unspeakable tragedy and learned to hope again.Like the biblical Job, John Ramsey had it all-wealthy, social position, a loving family. And like Job, Ramsey was destined for great affliction, as many of the most precious things in his life were cruelly taken from him.First came the death of his eldest daughter in a car accident in 1992. Then, four years later, his beloved six-year-old, JonBenét, was murdered; Ramsey...
2016
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Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of cocaine – and whose lives changed irrevocably when planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Now, in 2008, Russell runs his own publishing house and Corrine manages a food redistribution programme. He clings to their loft and the illusion of downtown bohemia, while she longs to have more space for their twelve-year-old twins.Altho...
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
The Way to the White House
2011
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A masterpiece of political reportage that exposes the emotional reality of the modern American campaign systemPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer cracks open the heart of the American political system in this classic exploration of the 1988 presidential campaign. Cramer delves into the personal, intimate lives of the key candidates, including George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, and Michael Dukakis, as he seeks to understand the drives, passions...
Thanks, Obama
My Hopey, Changey White House Years (A Speechwriter's Memoir)
2017
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn Esquire Best Book of 2017Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young...
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- Conard County: The Next Generation
2014
EN
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Return to New York Times bestselling author Rachel Lee's Conard County, where a killer lies in waitThe note wasn't a threat, exactly. But for Corey Donahue, who'd witnessed her mother's murder as a child, it felt very menacing. Surprisingly, the one person she trusted to show the note to was a man merely renting a room from her–Austin Mendez. Traumatized since childhood, Corey had never trusted men…until Austin moved in.Six years undercover had caused Austi...
2012
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In 1985 Kim Abernethy, along with her husband, Jeff, followed a call from God to minister in the small West African country of Liberia.She writes of the fall of one of her daughters from a two-story building, shares candid emotions from when her husband had a close call with Lassa Fever, and delightfully chronicles many of her husband's adventures of being a bush pilot in the jungle of Liberia.Whether you are intrigued by the stories of foreign missionaries and how they ada...











