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  Area 51: Book 1

  Area 51

  by Robert Doherty

  In 1940s, the U.S. government had establishes Area 51 to study nine unidentified craft discovered in the Antarctic, but Dr. Hans Von Seeckt, the only member of the original secret research committee, begins to fear that the technology of the mothership poses a threat to our planet.
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  Franklin and Winston

  An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

  by Jon Meacham

  The most complete portrait ever drawn of the complex emotional connection between two of history’s towering leaders Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of “the Greatest Generation.” In Franklin and Winston, Jon Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. It was a crucial friendship, and a unique one—a... (more)
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  Harry Potter: Book 6

  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  by J. K. Rowling

  It's Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts, and he has many things coming his way. After revealing himself at the Ministry, Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters are free to commit crimes in both the magical world and the Muggle world.Harry is becoming a young man, and thoughts of Ginny are on his mind.
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  The Art of War

  by Sun Tzu

  This is the complete text of The Art of War, one of the oldest and most successful books on military strategy in the world. It has also been applied to business and managerial strategies. The tranaslaton, by Lionel Giles is considered one of the best available. This unabridged editon of The Art of War includes only the most essential translator's notes so that the words and thoughts of Sun Tzu may be easily... (more)
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  Harry Potter: Book 4

  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  by J. K. Rowling

  The fourth book in the Harry Potter series finds Harry Potter midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup. He wants to find out about the mysterious event that Hogwarts is hosting this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years,... (more)
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  Princess Irene: Book 1

  The Princess and the Goblin

  by George MacDonald

  A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle.
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 3

  Three to Get Deadly

  by Janet Evanovich

  A "saintly" old candy-store owner is on the lam- and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And with the help of eccentric friends and family, Steph must see to it that this case doesn't end up being her last...
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 1

  One for the Money

  by Janet Evanovich

  Read the Dynamite Blockbuster that Started It All! Welcome to Trenton, New Jersey, home to wiseguys, average Joes, and Stephanie Plum, who sports a big attitude and even bigger money problems (since losing her job as a lingerie buyer for a department store). Stephanie needs cash--fast--but times are tough, and soon she's forced to turn to the last resort of the truly desperate: family. Stephanie lands a gig at... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 10

  Ten Big Ones

  by Janet Evanovich

  Stephanie Plum, girl bounty hunter, the terror of Trenton, the bane of her boyfriend Joe Morelli's existence, and the delight of her crazy grandma's heart, is in the wrong place at the wrong time--as usual. Just happening to be indulging her nachos jones at a local deli when it's robbed by the notorious Red Devils, Plum is the eye witness who could put the gang leader, known as the Junkman, behind bars... if he... (more)
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  How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

  Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

  by Dale Carnegie

  With Dale Carnegie's timeless advice in hand, more than six million people have learned how to eliminate debilitating fear and worry from their lives and to embrace a worry-free future. In this classic work, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas that you can put to work today. It is a book packed with lessons that will last a lifetime and make that lifetime happier!
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  Catch-22

  by Joseph Heller

  Catch-22 is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.)His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men... (more)
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  Earth's Children: Book 1

  The Clan of the Cave Bear

  by Jean M. Auel

  Ayla is a courageous and indomitable young woman whose story begins when she is a five-year-old orphan adopted by the Clan, a group of Neanderthal. Ayla is cared for by the Clan’s medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Iza teaches her how to find food and the healing skills known only to her line, but Ayla must also learn the ways of the Clan. Full of curiosity, interest and rebelliousness, she does not... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 11

  Eleven on Top

  by Janet Evanovich

  Stephanie Plum, Trenton's favorite bondswoman, is having a career crisis, which gives Janet Evanovich plenty of opportunities to showcase her series heroine in a variety of alternative vocations, from dry cleaner to factory worker. Most of them don't last a full working day, which is good for the reader, since it plunges Stephanie back into the always seedy, often dangerous, and always colorful world of fugitives... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 8

  Hard Eight

  by Janet Evanovich

  In Hard Eight , Stephanie Plum picks up a case a little nastier than anything the wisecracking bounty hunter's seen before. Evelyn Soder and her young daughter have gone on the run, leaving an angry ex-husband who's planning to collect on a child custody bond that will leave Evelyn's grandmother homeless. Stephanie's first clue that there's more to it than that comes in the form of Eddie Abruzzi, a... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 5

  High Five

  by Janet Evanovich

  "Uncle Fred was someone I saw at weddings and funerals and once in a while at Giovichinni's Meat Market, ordering a quarter pound of olive loaf. Eddie Such, the butcher, would have the olive loaf on the scale and Uncle Fred would say, 'You've got the olive loaf on a piece of waxed paper. How much does that piece of waxed paper weigh? You're not gonna charge me for that waxed paper, are you? I want some money... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 4

  Four to Score

  by Janet Evanovich

  Stephanie Plum, the trash-talking New Jersey bail bondswoman of this popular series, is tracking Maxine Nowicki, who's wanted for skipping out on a car-theft charge lodged by her ex-boyfriend. Now the ex-boyfriend's very interested in getting back the love letters he supposedly wrote to Maxine. But what he's really looking for is the secret on which Evanovich hangs her screwball cast of colorful minor... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 2

  Two for the Dough

  by Janet Evanovich

  Stephanie Plum is trying to ease into her new job with a level head. It appears Joe Morelli is around for good--and bad--and she's resigned to it. Her loose professional relationship with Ranger ends in a platonic night together with no strings attached, and her new set of wheels, a secondhand Jeep Wrangler, suits her needs. Until it's stolen out from under her. How is she supposed to nab Kenny Mancuso, her new... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 7

  Seven Up

  by Janet Evanovich

  Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's got a lot on her mind. How does cigarette smuggler Eddie DeChooch, a fugitive so geriatric that even the hot-to-trot Grandma Mazur won't go out with him a third time, keep giving her the slip? How did a woman who died of a heart attack end up in DeChooch's garden shed with five bullet holes in her chest? Who stole a rump roast from Dougie and Mooner, the two lovable potheads who... (more)
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  Stephanie Plum by the Numbers: Book 6

  Hot Six

  by Janet Evanovich

  Never mind who did the deed with New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum at the end of High Five . Five months later, that night's only a dim, cherished memory, and Stephanie's freezing her butt off on a Trenton bridge trying to keep her friend Carol--caught shoplifting some crotchless panties she was too embarrassed to buy--from committing suicide. Truth is, I didn't for a minute think she'd jump. For... (more)
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  Alex Barnaby: Book 2

  Motor Mouth

  by Janet Evanovich

  Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she's... (more)