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"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"-- Provided by publisher.
3) Locked on
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Jack Ryan, Sr. has made a momentous choice. He's running for President of the United States again and thus giving up a peaceful retirement to help his country in its darkest hour. But he doesn't anticipate the treachery of his opponent, who uses trumped up charges to attack one of Ryan's closest comrades, John Clark. Now, Clark is in a race against time and must travel the world, staying one step ahead of his adversaries, including a shadowy organization...
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A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated...
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Ever since his mother was killed in a hurricane, Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of the people of Hikueru, an island in the southern Pacific ocean, has feared that Moana, the Sea God, would kill him, too. Tired of being called a coward and saddened by the shame he has brought his father, 12-year-old Mafatu decides to face and conquer Moana on his own. Phillips gives this Newbery Medal classic adventure tale an outstanding performance. He so effectively...
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From the imagination of actor Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, Prodigal Son) comes a science fiction epic that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Everson didn't want to be a soldier. His parents forced him to serve, as all good Indiran men should. The only problem? His first battle against their mortal enemies goes horribly wrong and he winds up stranded on the enemy planet. Now, Everson has to survive in this strange new land where everyone is...
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Cool and glamorous, they appear to be a successful couple on a holiday. Yet Damian and Carrie Rose are psychopathic murderers for hire. On this picture-perfect vacation island, their target is Peter Macdonald, a dashing young American who forsakes a life of leisure to confront cold-blooded terror. But when they clash in a shocking endgame, a hideous truth will emerge - one that can destroy them all.--Publisher description.
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"Twelve Longmire short stories available for the first time in a single volume-featuring an introduction by Lou Diamond Phillips of A & E's Longmire. Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short story, the Hillerman Award-winning 'Old Indian Trick.' This was one of the earliest appearances of the sheriff who would go on to star in Johnson's bestselling, award-winning novels and the A & E hit series Longmire. Each Christmas Eve thereafter, fans...
10) Double homicide
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For the first time ever, bestselling novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellermen team up to deliver the launch book in a thrilling new series of short crime novels. This book—printed as a reversible volume with two different covers—contains two stories featuring different detectives solving crimes in different cities.
It’s a reader’s dream come true: a new series co-written by the royal couple of crime fiction—Jonathan...
It’s a reader’s dream come true: a new series co-written by the royal couple of crime fiction—Jonathan...
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Walt Longmire is the dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit. These final suspense-filled, action-packed episodes build to a dramatic finish under the wide skies of the west.
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The season premier picks up where the Season 4 finale ended. Walt is lying in his bedroom dazed from being shot by unknown assailants. After regaining consciousness in the hospital he sets out to find what happened to Dr. Donna Monahan, the psychiatrist that he started seeing in Season 4. Meanwhile Mathias blackmails Henry into continuing his charade as Hector - only aiding Mathias instead of innocent people.
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OBD Book to Screen Adaptations - ADULT
Page Vs Screen: Which Did It Better?
OBD Book to Screen Adaptations - ADULT
Page Vs Screen: Which Did It Better?
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Walt Longmire is just the man to close murder cases under the open skies of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Striding out of Craig Johnson's Western mystery novels, the charismatic and unflappable sheriff (Robert Taylor) headlines this series with world-weary dedication. Struggling since his wife's death a year ago, and at the urging of his attorney daughter (Cassidy Freeman), Walt knows he must turn his life around. Aided by a new female deputy (Katee Sackhoff)...
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The unflappable Sheriff Walt Longmire and his deputies are trying to put the troubling events of the past behind them. The mysterious White Warrior who tormented Branch is dead. Walt's best friend Henry Standing Bear is a free man. Longmire's right-hand deputy Victoria "Vic" Moretti is newly divorced. And the mystery of Walt's wife's murder is seemingly resolved. But, the opening of the new casino on the Reservation brings dark new problems to Walt's...
15) Werewolves
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"One year ago, a supermoon event triggered a global outbreak, transforming anyone exposed to moonlight into bloodthirsty werewolves for just one night. Now, as the next supermoon rises, former Marine and Global Rapid Response Team Leader Wesley Marshall teams up with scientists Dr. Aranda and Dr. Amy Chen to find a cure before humanity is lost, but as chaos and carnage unfold, Marshall must fight off killer beasts and risk everything to protect his...
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Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire is back in the saddle for a third thrilling season. After winning his heated re-election as Absaroka County sheriff vs. his ambitious deputy Branch Connally, Walt now faces a stampede of problems both personal and professional. Last season, Walt and his deputies each braved a storm and did it nobly. But for every storm, there is an aftermath.
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Malcolm Bright is a criminal profiler who gets inside the minds of killers because his father, Dr. Martin Whitly, was a notorious serial killer. Now he's using his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve murders. Season 2 picks up with Bright "taking care" of his sister after her shocking actions and protecting his mother from a secret that could tear the family apart.
20) Shoot the moon
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Beverly Hills veterinarian Dr. Mark Albright, having just discovered he is adopted, travels to the small town of DeClare, Oklahoma, in search of his parents, and becomes involved in investigating the murder of his mother in 1972, and his own subsequent disappearance at the age of ten months.










