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“Remarkable. . . . Iweala never wavers from a gripping, pulsing narrative voice. . . . He captures the horror of ethnic violence in all its brutality and the vulnerability of youth in all its innocence.” —Entertainment Weekly (A)
The harrowing, utterly original debut novel by Uzodinma Iweala about the life of a child soldier in a war-torn African country
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...3) Morbo
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Una mujer es arrojada de noche al río Llobregat, cerca de su desembocadura con el mar. Está desnuda, ha sido golpeada y asesinada. Es joven y mucho más que guapa: es inquietantemente bella. Incluso muerta, su morbo es evidente. Los dos inspectores encargados del caso pronto comprenderán que, precisamente esa belleza, es la causa de su muerte.
Mientras la investigación comienza, tratando de descubrir la identidad de la muerta, cinco personas se...
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He was the most wanted man in the world for decades. Carlos the Jackal, the Venezuelan-born terrorist, carried out a wave of attacks across Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. A ruthless self-proclaimed revolutionary and notorious womanizer, he claimed to fight for the Palestinian cause and communist ideology, but also worked as a mercenary for rogue regimes and organizations. After bursting onto the world stage with the 1975 OPEC siege in Vienna, where...
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Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's...
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TRIPLE THREAT
Countdown to the Fourth of July…
Just weeks before Independence Day, the President is targeted for assassination by a powerful financial cartel that is making plans to rip off the American dream.
Only two people stand between a national disaster and a glorious celebration…and time is running out...
A treasured Betsy Ross flag is missing, and FBI Special Agent Nate Murtaugh has just ten days to find it. His search takes him to...
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Book Three in the Future Past series: The Future Tense Tensions are rising as a series of explosions in US cities have killed thousands and have the nation on the brink of disaster. With no clues to go on and with time running out until the next detonation is expected, Malcolm, Mary, and John have to find out who is behind the terror campaign and try to stop it. John Davis' new abilities are used to assist the efforts of APPUS, while powerful forces...
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Profile of a Drone Assassin Operator Ames had been recruited into the Righteous Wrath Unit 000 right out of the academy for many different reasons, one of which was the many championships he won in competitive online game tournaments. Of course, his ability to concentrate — a rare commodity in a world filled with attention deficit disorder Millenniums — and his unusually fast reflexes made him a prime candidate for the unit. But it was his total...
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'A diplomatic genius' Gordon Brown
'Tom Fletcher was the ultimate Downing Street operator' David Cameron From behind the trigger, there are only targets
Having been made High Commissioner in Nairobi, Ed Barnes is keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. But when his daughter, Sophie, is kidnapped following a security crisis for which he is blamed, his attempts at normality fall apart once again. He finds himself at the heart of a complex...
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It was just another day for mob boss Giovanni Luciana until he went for a drive.
On a calm summer evening, Giovanni takes his young son Luca for drive. A car pulls alongside, and when the window comes down, the driver is holding a gun. He aims, showering Daniela's car with gunfire. Who is this man? Why has he taken Giovanni? And will Luca survive?
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In El Paso, Texas, tension grows between a doctor serving the undocumented and her ex-husband, a border patrol agent...
Dr. Ana Maria Ross Gutierrez runs a clinic near the Texas-Mexico border, taking care of those, who've crossed into the United States illegally. Ana was once married to Peter Ross, but his decision to join the border patrol drove her to divorce him-despite Peter's continuing feelings for her and his conviction that he's protecting...
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