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  Asian Saga: Book 1

  Shōgun

  A Novel of Japan

  by James Clavell

  An explorer in seventeenth-century Japan, ambitious Englishman John Blackthorne encounters the powerful and power-hungry Lord Toranaga and the Catholic convert Lady Mariko when his ship is wrecked off the coast, leaving only him and a small number of the crew alive. A Pilot for his ship Erasmus, he becomes invaluable to Lord Toranaga's cause with his knowledge of the outside world, but only after he begins to... (more)
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  AVP: Alien vs. Predator: The Movie Novelization

  by Marc Cerasini

  The two most terrifying forces in the universe are about to fight to the death ... and earth is their battleground! A mysterious structure has been detected via satellite far below the ice at the bottom of the world. Assembled by a billionaire industrialist, a crack team of scientists, drillers, archaeologists and adventurers has traveled to the Antarctic wastes to make history by exploring what is believed to... (more)
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  From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video (Inside Technology)

  by Joshua M. Greenberg

  The first video cassette recorders were promoted in the 1970s as an extension of broadcast television technology—a time-shifting device, a way to tape TV shows. Early advertising for Sony's Betamax told potential purchasers "You don't have to miss Kojak because you're watching Columbo. " But within a few years, the VCR had been transformed from a machine that recorded television into an extension of the movie... (more)
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  Gone With the Wind

  by Margaret Mitchell

  Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so... (more)
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  Beautiful People

  by Wendy Holden

  Wendy Holden's ninth novel blissfully returns to the witty, unputdownable style of her best-loved early bestsellers, featuring the trademark Holden wit that prompted the Daily Mail to say: "Thank God for Wendy Holden." A fabulous romantic romp revolving around the adventures of a struggling actress, a fame-crazed former film star, and a down-to-earth nanny, Beautiful People jets to London, Hollywood, and Italy... (more)
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  Private Lives

  by Tasmina Perry

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  Orphan Trilogy: Book 1

  The Ninth Orphan

  by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

  How do you catch a man who is never the same man twice? That is the question posed in The Ninth Orphan, a new release conspiracy thriller novel... An orphan grows up to become an assassin for a highly secretive organization. When he tries to break free and live a normal life, he is hunted by his mentor and father figure, and by a female orphan he spent his childhood with. On the run, the mysterious man's life... (more)
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  Fiji

  by James Morcan, Lance Morcan

  Fiji is a spellbinding novel of adventure, cultural misunderstandings, religious conflict and sexual tension set in one of the most exotic and isolated places on earth. Fiji: A Novel As the pharaohs of ancient Egypt build their mighty pyramids, and Chinese civilization evolves under the Shang Dynasty, adventurous seafarers from South East Asia begin to settle the far-flung islands of the South Pacific. The... (more)
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  Plantanimus: ''awakening''

  by Joseph M Armillas

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  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively... (more)
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  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Book 1

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  by Douglas Adams

  The first of six books in this "trilogy" which is adapted from Adams' radio series with the same name.
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  Pillars of the Earth: Book 1

  The Pillars of the Earth

  by Ken Follett

  A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett's historical masterpiece.