Tag: December_25
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Nash Falls
by David Baldacci Walter Nash is a mild-mannered, happy and successful businessman with a loving family. He has never lifted a weight or fired a gun in anger, and he has no special physical or investigatory skills. The dark world is not a place he knows – until the FBI comes calling on the very…
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Gone Before Goodbye
by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon Maggie McCabe is on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge. But now, after a devastating series of personal tragedies, Maggie is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best…
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The Last Reich
by Brian Klein A heinous, co-ordinated plot to attack a series of prominent synagogues, located across five different continents, is scheduled to take place on Yom Kippur – the Jewish Day of Atonement. For that one day of the year, celebrated prayer houses will be packed to the rafters with Jewish worshippers and the results…
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The Land Of Sweet Forever
by Harper Lee Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015…
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Watermelon
Marian Keyes Meet Claire Walsh. On the day she gives birth to her first child, Claire’s husband James tells her he’s been having an affair, and that now’s the right time to leave her. Right for who exactly? Exhausted, tearful and a tiny bit furious, Claire doesn’t know what to do. So she decides to go back…
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Kiss Her Goodbye
Lisa Gardner Frankie Elkin usually prefers her cases cold. Until she finds herself in the broiling streets of Tucson, Arizona, where an Afghan refugee has been missing for three weeks. The woman she is looking for, Sabera Ahmadi, is a wife and young mother, haunted by war, scarred by her past. The police and Sabera’s…
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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every…
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The Predicament
By William Boyd Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to a life of secrets and subterfuge. Dax is sent to Guatemala under the guise of covering a tinderbox presidential election, where the ruthless decisions of…
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The Rest of Our Lives
by Ben Markovits When Tom’s wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her once their children had grown up. Twelve years later, after driving his daughter to university, he remembers his pact and keeps driving West to visit friends, family and an old girlfriend. But he also has secrets of his own – trouble…
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The Fuhrer’s Prophecy
by Brain Klein January, 1939Adolf Hitler makes an infamous speech at the Reichstag threatening ‘the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe’. This vile public proclamation is seized upon by his fanatical supporters who christen it ‘The Führer’s Prophecy’. November, 1943A sinister plot hatched inside Block 10 of the notorious Auschwitz deathcamp is known only…