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CROSS JUSTICE (Alex Cross) – Novel by James Patterson

Detective Alex Cross returns home, for the first time in 35 years, to help a cousin who has been accused of murder. As Cross steps into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back, and he learns that they’re not really over. A brutal killer, the truth about his own past, and justice for his cousin. Any one …

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TOM CLANCY: COMMANDER IN CHIEF – Novel by Mark Greaney

President Jack Ryan detects a pattern in outbreaks of violence around the world that point to the Russian president, but he must unite the Western allies before he can take action. A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. A chaotic world is …

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THE NIGHTINGALE – Novel by Kristin Hannah

Two sisters are separated in World War II France: one in the countryside, the other in Paris. In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France, but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and …

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STORM ROSE (Die Sturmrose) – Novel by Corina Bomann

He could change her future. This thought Annabel, the woman who never forgot a secret of her tragic childhood. After separating from her husband, she changes home, going to the island of Ruegen, to live the experience of its white chalk cliffs, making long walks on pristine beaches. Yes, it is certain to regain its serenity. One day, in the …

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GRAVITY’S RAINBOW – Novel by Thomas Pynchon

Many readers, consider it as the most encyclopedic and erotic of all the books ever written. Thomas Pynchon and his “Gravity’s Rainbow” a novel published 40 years ago – still is a masterpiece of American fiction. With your eyes (but also with all of yourself), you will discover the city of London, in 1944, bombed by the Nazis. You’ll find …

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THE BRIEFCASE – Novel by Hiromi Kawakami

The succession of the seasons, a special way to measure the time of writing, developing the characters that drive the story. Page after page – as well as in the seasons – you too will know the love affairs, stories that are tying in the season of ice and flowers, stories that feed the dissatisfaction and storms, but also the …

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THE WALL – Novel by Jean Paul Sartre

The wall, the front of which the condemned will find death. The wall, the walls of the rooms that close tragic mysteries and sexual offenses, the distortions and hypocrisy which poison social consciousness at its birth and preparing for a sort guilty. The wall, the one that hides the multiple aspects of a hallucinatory reality. This novel, published in France …

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FALL ON YOUR KNEES – Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald

It is a story of inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles. The start, beginning in Nova Scotia, through a battlefields. James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, knowing Materia Mahmoud, and he becomes increasingly frustrated by her resulting strange behavior. http://www.amazon.com/Fall-Your-Knees-Oprahs-Book/dp/0743237188

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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN – Novel by Paula Hawkins

Maybe, often you happened to observe people from a window, imagining their lives. Rachel – the protagonist of this novel – whose life (apparently perfect), has recently been shattered, she observes two people every morning, for a few minutes (from a train window), and that couple is become for her an obsession. Those two people, living to her old house. …

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THE LIBRARIAN – Novel, by Mikhail Elizarov

That geometrical way of the mind, could live with where joy, surprise, expectations and approval. Also reading this novel (THE LIBRARIAN – Novel, by Mikhail Elizarov), you need to temember that what you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. At the dawn of Perestroika, around particular books by countless names, …

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