Campbell Scott
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"On October 1, God is in his heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse. The delivery method is a cell phone-- everyone's cell phone....
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowhere to become a legend.
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...
Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success...
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Michael Osbourne novels volume 2
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An embittered ex-CIA agent, Michael Osbourne is drawn into the troubled peace of Northern Ireland when his father-in-law, ex-Senator Douglas Cannon, is appointed ambassador to Britain and becomes the target of ruthless assassin Jean-Paul Delaroche.
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Prizewinning author Jonathan Harr embarks on an spellbinding journey to discover the long-lost painting known as The Taking of Christ-its mysterious fate and the circumstances of its disappearance have captivated Caravaggio devotees for years. After Francesca Cappelletti stumbles across a clue in that dusty archive, she tracks the painting across a continent and hundreds of years of history. But it is not until she meets Sergio Benedetti, an art restorer...
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Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, Ford, Edison: the men who built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States from a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
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In season three, Patty Hewes is in a serious accident when another car broadsides her vehicle in an intersection, Ellen visits the woman in her dreams to learn if she is her birth mother, Patty is surprised when she runs into her son Michael's pregnant girlfriend, and more.
10) Hug machine
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"Watch out, here comes The Hug Machine! Whether you are big, or small, or square, or long, or spikey, or soft, no one can resist his unbelievable hugs!"--Back cover.
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In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver his country's most valuable military secret, a revolutionary radar component, not to the U.S. government, but to a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that would...
13) Zombie in love
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When all his efforts to find a sweetheart fail, Mortimer the zombie decides to place an ad in the newspaper.