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Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...
6) Frankenstein
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From the Publisher: Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious, evil...
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The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
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Explores the lives of a dynamic trio of heroes: Andy brazil, an ambitious young reporter and volunteer cop; police chief Judy hammer, the strong but troubled guardian of the law; and her deputy chief Virginia west, a ravishing beauty who's married to her job.
10) Say you love me
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Her parents' deaths left Kelsey Langton penniless and responsible for the well-being of her younger sister, Jean. Now circumstances may leave them homeless as well, unless Kelsey can avert the disaster. She knows only one way to rescue Jean's home, future and honor -- and it means sacrificing her own.
12) Nightrose
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G.K. Hall
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[1997]
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A rugged frontiersman rides into a Montana ghost town determined to bring the little town back to life and to claim Katy as his woman.
14) Silken bonds
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G.K. Hall
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1997.
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Raised to be an intellectual by her adopted aristocratic mother, Frederica still finds herself yearning for romance. When Lord Harry Danger rescues her from a pack of drunken thugs, she is ripe for his innumerable charms.
15) The waterfall
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The waterfall : Four years after the sudden death of her husband, a powerful White House adviser, Lucy Blacker Swift finds her peaceful life with her teenage children in rural Vermont turned upside down by violence and calls in her late husband's former military buddy, Sebastian Redwing, to help her unravel the truth.
Old man out : Ever since J.D. Garrison had broken her adolescent heart when he'd skipped town years ago, the radio and the supermarket...
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz is at the peak of his acclaimed powers with this major new novel. The city changed my life and showed me that the world is deeply mysterious. I need to tell you about her and some terrible things and wonderful things and amazing things that happened. and how I am still haunted by them. Including one night when I died and woke and lived again. Here is the riveting, soul-stirring story of Jonah Kirk,...
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