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War with China is much more likely than anyone thinks When Athens went to war with Sparta some 2,500 years ago, the Greek historian Thucydides identified one simple cause: a rising power threatened to displace a ruling one. As the eminent Harvard scholar Graham Allison explains, in the past 500 years, great powers have found themselves in "Thucydides's Trap" sixteen times. In twelve of the sixteen-from war between the French and the Habsburgs in the...
82) Only You
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Recipient of the Romance Writers of America's Lifetime Achievement Award, best-selling author Elizabeth Lowell heats things up once again. The Only series, including Only Love, continues with this sensuous tale of fiery passions in the old-time wild West. Desired by many, cardsharp Evelyn Starr Johnson will go to any lengths to recover the treasure map stolen from her murdered foster parents. It's her deal, and she antes up the only thing she has...
83) Curry
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It might be said that both Jim Currys were the victims of fate. Jim Curry the elder had an unsavory reputation, but he only got into bad trouble when, demonstrating a slick piece of gun play to Dad Jackson, he accidentally killed him. Wanting to do the right thing, Jim Curry the elder rode into town to explain what happened to Sheriff Mason, and though the sheriff accepted his explanation, he insisted Jim be locked up to await trial. Then the real...
84) Scavenger Reef
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On best-seller lists all over the country with his witty cynicism and delightfully dark humor, Laurence Shames writes thrillers that his fans endearingly classify as great "Florida noir." In the tradition of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen, he gives character to the inhabitants of Florida's steamy underbelly. Artist Augie Silver's friends are ostensibly grief-stricken when he drowns in a shipwreck off Scavenger Reef, but most of them are nervous because...
85) The Hearing
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In the corridors of Washington, D.C., information is a powerful weapon. Let award-winning journalist and best-selling author James Mills take you into a world of political intrigue, where a splinter of rumor can cripple the strongest reputation. Judge Gus Parham has been nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court. His record is exemplary; his appointment seems certain. How, then, did someone discover a chapter from his past that he thought was dead? Suddenly,...
86) The King
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FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers has matched wits with some of the most violent serial killers in history- and one of them has never forgiven him.... Patrick Bowers has pursued the nation’s fiercest serial killers- and now one elusive foe is back for revenge. Settling into a new post at the FBI academy, Patrick and his fiancé, Lien-hua Jiang, are planning their future together with his stepdaughter, Tessa. But just when his life seems normal, a...
87) Dark Celebration
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Christine Feehan has sent shivers of pleasure up and down the spines of fans enthralled by her New York Times best-selling Carpathian tales. In Dark Celebration, Feehan delivers a unique gift to her readers by bringing together all the characters of Carpathian legend in a celebration of unbridled sensuality. Prince of the Carpathians Mikhail Dubrinsky has witnessed numerous mysterious events during his many centuries on Earth, but now he is faced...
88) Shot on Location
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Take three speedboats, a disgruntled ghostwriter, and a hit TV show starring a gorgeous but impossible diva and created by a driven genius who may be losing his marbles. Add a fearless and gleefully profane stuntwoman, an ancient Mafioso with a Chihuahua, and a revenge-crazed blonde in gladiator sandals. Stir in a thug with a heart of gold and an inveterate slacker who yearns for glory. Whisk a loopy but tender romance into the mix, turn the whole...
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The public knows him as the character Tony Darvo in the movie Midnight Run, but Richie Salerno was born into the world of the Brooklyn Mafia during the heyday of the New York mob, and for a time it looked like he would get caught up in a life of crime. After all, some of the most notorious figures in the gangster world he knew as uncles, aunts, cousins, and family friends.
During a stint in prison for theft, Richie turned his life around using the...
90) Mangrove Squeeze
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When Island Frigate advertising rep Suki Sperakis decides to write an expose on the Key West black market, she is strangled and left for dead in the trunk of a car sinking slowly into the Gulf of Mexico. Soon her only chance at survival rests on the senile Sam Katz and octogenarian ex-mobster Bert the Shirt who must infiltrate the Russian Mafia posing as a gay couple from New York. Will Bert and Sam succeed, or is Suki doomed to once again sleep with...
91) Come the Spring
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With more than 13 million books in print, Julie Garwood is an exceptionally popular author. Since her first novel was published in 1985, eleven of her works, including this title and The Wedding, have been New York Times best-sellers. Set in the Old West, Come the Spring is part of the Clayborne family saga. Cole Clayborne has reluctantly agreed to serve as a federal marshal only long enough to capture a gang of murderous bank robbers. As he searches...
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Suppose you're Bernie Rhodenbarr.
You've got a dream job, running your own cozy secondhand bookstore, complete with Raffles, your caudally challenged cat. It's in Greenwich Village, and your best friend's dog grooming salon is two doors away, and the two of you lunch together and meet for drinks after work.
And you've got another way to make a buck. Every once in a while you put your conscience on the shelf and let yourself into someone else's residence,...
93) L.A. Times
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Vinnie Callabrese, a runner for the mob, uses his ill-gotten gains to produce a full-length feature for the silver screen. His first effort a success, he goes to Hollywood. His mob connections make him one of the most powerful men in the film industry. But friends like his exact a high price for their friendship-a price that Vinnie may not be willing to pay.
94) Deepwater
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Reminiscent of best-selling authors James M. Cain and Jim Thompson, Matthew F. Jones' erotic psychological thriller begins on a desolate, mountain road. There a relationship begins that will ultimately change the lives of the players involved forever. Deepwater leads the reader down a steep cliff of terror with three masterfully written characters.
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A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind's losing battle with nature
At the start of another pitiless winter, the wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been taken from this isolated Alaskan village, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone.
Shaken with grief and seeking consolation, Medora contacts nature writer and wolf expert Russell Core. Sixty...
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From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture. Modern computer games, films, and television are rooted in the fiction popularized by...
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To National Book Award–winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, seduction, and enchantment. In these two works of fiction, the narrator responds viscerally and emotionally to their moods and changes, their secrets and silences, and their unique power. Desert Notes portrays the mystical power of an American desert, and the reflections it sparks in the characters who travel there. River Notes,...
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Hawai'i author Chris McKinney's first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is thirty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira...
99) Threshold
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Threshold is a compelling page-turner that combines elements of science, the paranormal, and Bible prophecy into an intricate maze. Brandon Martus is a troubled young man, haunted by apocalyptic visions he cannot control. His experiences draw the attention of a psychic research institute where self-serving scientists push him further and further. Before long, heaven and hell are battling for control of Brandon, and he is on his way to understanding...
100) On Every Side
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She delivers an inspiring and emotionally riveting drama about one man's struggle with his beliefs, a woman's enduring faith in God and the power of prayer. Jordan Riley hasn't believed in God since before the traumatic events that marred his childhood, but when he returns to his hometown years later, he finds himself struggling between his current doubts and the comfort of his former religion.