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Cotton Malone novels volume 18
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"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in booby-trapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present...
2) The 9th man
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Luke Daniels volume 1
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"Luke Daniels is in London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke's help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium, Luke quickly finds that she was right. A shadow team of highly trained operatives is there on the hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides--one...
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One year ago, seven people sat down to dinner. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up. She was thought to have committed suicide due to a post-flu depression. When her husband, George, begins receiving anonymous letters saying that Rosemary was murdered, he decides to investigate. He reconstructs the fateful dinner precisely, invites the same people, and hires an actress that looks like his wife to play her role. The actress does not arrive...
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Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 13
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"It's summer in the Dordogne. The heirs of a Perigordian sheep farmer learn that they have been disinherited, and their father's estate sold to an insurance company in return for a policy that will place him in a five-star retirement home for the rest of his life. But the farmer never gets his life of luxury - he dies before moving in. Was it a natural death? Was there foul play? Bruno begins the investigation that leads him to several shadowy insurance...
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"An enchanting new novel from one of the most distinguished writers of our time, an altogether serious comedy that is the synthesis and culmination of his oeuvre"--
Four friends in contemporary Paris who encounter one another at parties and at the Luxembourg Gardens and talk about sex, history, art, politics, and the meaning of life.
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Twelve-year-old Imani, the only black girl in Hebrew school, is preparing for her bat mitzvah and hoping to find her birthparents when she discovers the history of adoption in her own family through her great-grandma Anna's Holocaust-era diary.
"Imani is adopted, and she's ready to search for her birth parents. But when she discovers the diary her Jewish great-grandmother wrote chronicling her escape from Holocaust-era Europe, Imani begins to see...
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"¿Qué es el amor? Le preguntó una niña de cinco años a su hermano mayor. Y él respondió: El amor, es cuando tú me robas cada día mi trozo de chocolate del almuerzo y yo, aún así, sigo dejándolo en el mismo sitio para ti todos las días. William y Lía son hermanos. Almas gemelas. Una infancia dfícil ha hecho que William y Lía dependan el uno del otro desde siempre. Todo cambia cuando William desaparece sin dejar rastro, el mismo día...
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Criterion collection volume 6
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A restoration of the original 1946 French film, telling the fable of the kindly beast and the self-sacrificing beauty whose love releases the prince in him.
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Meses después de su último gran operativo, el inspector Bermejo deberá enfrentarse a una doble misión en Valencia: descubrir al causante de los misteriosos asesinatos de mujeres ocurridos en la región y acabar con una trama de corrupción en la que se ven involucrados algunos miembros de la Policía. Por su parte, tras una excedencia, el sargento Roncero regresa a España junto a la periodista Miriam Monfort y recibe el encargo de colaborar en...
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Le robaron su vida y sus recuerdos; ahora quiere recuperarlos. Dos meses antes de su boda, el financiero James Donato viaja a México siguiendo a su hermano Phil, del que sospecha que blanquea capitales. Pero James desaparece en extrañas circunstancias en alta mar y finalmente es declarado muerto. Seis años y medio más tarde, sale del estado de fuga disociativa en el que ha estado viviendo en Oaxaca, bajo el nombre de Carlos Domínguez, artista,...
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