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  Hidden Words

  Dannielle Taylor

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  ‘Perspective of danger changes when reality floods through the dark.  
   
  It takes wild events of immense forbidden love for Christopher to realise he’s been living life all wrong. 
   
  Christopher has to make serious changes in order to become the person he’s always wanted to be.  
   
  Unfortunately, his biggest enemy is always close in his mind.’

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  Crome Yellow Version 2

  Aldous Huxley

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  Fascinating and brilliant at many levels, Huxley's spoof of Lady Ottoline Morrell's famous bohemian gatherings is difficult to categorize. The ironic tone and caricaturish rendering of some characters makes it partly entertaining satire, but intertwined with the irony are a very human love story and much poignant social commentary. Denis Stone (Huxley himself) is a young poet hopelessly enamored of the languid Anne Wimbush, who comes to Priscilla Wimbush's Crome estate for several weeks of intellectual and artistic escape. Along the way of his love affair, he engages in or eavesdrops upon conversations with other guests about the War, about eschatology, about future society, about Sex, about Art, about Love. Several of these dialogues directly foreshadow themes of Huxley's later dystopian masterpiece, Brave New World. Others show a tragic prescience of another great European war on its way, an awareness that future tragedy might attempt to complete the unfinished business of the recent Great War. Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow is well worth reading in its own right, while containing embryonic forms of so much of Huxley's later intellectual themes. - Summary by Expatriate

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  Totally Killer - A Novel

  Greg Olear

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  A young woman’s temp job leads her into a winding and deadly conspiracy in this acclaimed satirical thriller set in 1990s NYC. 
   
  It was 1991, the era of grunge music, slackers, and Prozac. Taylor Schmidt had just arrived in the Big Apple—twenty-three, single, and jobless. Through the Quid Pro Quo Employment Agency she found the perfect job and the perfect boyfriend. But perfection has its price . . . and within a matter of months, Taylor Schmidt will be gone. 
   
  In Totally Killer, debut novelist Greg Olear offers a fiendishly clever blend of satire and suspense, pop culture and conspiracy. As Taylor makes her way in the big city, she is quickly ensnared in a plot involving assassination, politics, paranoia, Dick Cheney, the CIA, and Duran Duran. 
   
  “The title doesn’t lie—Totally Killer truly is.” —Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight

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  To the Nines

  Janet Evanovich

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  Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure.But hey, she's from Jersey.Stephanie Plum may not be the best bounty hunter in beautiful downtown Trenton, but she's pretty darn good at turning bad situations her way...and she always gets her man. In To the Nines, her cousin Vinnie (who's also her boss) has posted bail on Samuel Singh, an illegal immigrant. When the elusive Mr. Singh goes missing, Stephanie is on the case. But what she uncovers is far more sinister than anyone imagines and leads to a group of killers who give new meaning to the word hunter.In a race against time that takes her from the Jersey Turnpike to the Vegas Strip, Stephanie Plum is on the chase of her life. The unforgettable characters, nonstop action, high-stakes suspense, and sheer entertainment of To the Nines define Janet Evanovich as unique among today's writers.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  The Next Best Thing

  Deidre Berry

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  No drama, no problems—that’s Tori Carter’s idea of the good life. Her tendency to plan everything to the max has made her the most successful event coordinator in the business—and the number one problem solver for her family and friends. But Tori’s organized world is turned upside down when her seemingly perfect fiancé runs off with another woman and leaves her without a Plan B-through-Z... or any idea what to do next.  
  Now, while struggling to adjust to a new normal, Tori has to improvise, let loose—and consider opening her heart again—if she’s going to receive the level of happiness she truly deserves…

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  The Book of Guys

  Garrison Keillor

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  In this collection of stories you'll meet a bunch of memorable guys including Lonesome Shorty, a cowpoke torn between the proud life in the saddle and the comforts of warm apartments and women; Buddy, the teen-age leper in Sioux Falls; Earl Grey, the great tea inventor and former Republican child; Casey, at the bat in Mudville again; Dionysus, the god of wine; and Roy Bradley, boy broadcaster. Brilliantly funny, touching, and acute, The Book of Guys reveals the perilous situation of guys today.Includes: The Mid-life Crisis of Dionysus Herb Johnson, the God of Canton Casey at the Bat (Road Game Version) Lonesome Shorty Marooned Don Giovanni Buddy the Leper The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

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