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  The Lieutenant Takes the Sky

  L. Ron Hubbard, Richard Rocco

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  American pilot Mike Malloy has learned his lesson: when you join the  French Foreign Legion, it’s best not to wipe the floor with two French  officers . . . no matter how richly they deserve it. And it appears he  has all the time in the world to think about it. He’s been sentenced to  five years in a Moroccan penal battalion-which is French for death  sentence.But Malloy, who could easily pass for actor Douglas  Fairbanks, Jr., is about to get a reprieve . . . if he’s willing to fly  into the heart of the Sahara and into the teeth of a Berber rebellion. It’s  an offer Malloy can’t refuse. All he has to do is fly two passengers  into the desert and return with a book that disappeared 800 years ago.  But as he’s a man who doesn’t go by the book, this expedition could turn  out to have unexpected benefits. One of his passengers is a young  American woman whose eyes are as beautiful and blue as the wild blue  yonder. . . .Hubbard once said that writers too often  “forget a great deal of the languorous quality which made the Arabian  Nights so pleasing. Jewels, beautiful women, towering cities filled with  mysterious shadows, sultans equally handy with robes of honor and the  beheading sword . . . these things still exist, undimmed, losing no  luster to the permeating Occidental flavor which reaches even the far  corners of the earth today.” Hubbard brings this unique insight to his  stories of North Africa and the Legionnaires, investing them with an  authenticity of time, place and character that kept his readers asking  for more.

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  A Gentleman in Charleston and...

  William Baldwin

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  “Baldwin again proves himself to be a writer uniquely adept at bridging high art with the wild ride of a page-turning southern yarn.” —Bret Lott, national bestselling author of Jewel 
   
  Once deemed “the most powerful man in the South,” Charleston newspaper editor Frank Dawson met his violent death on March 12, 1889, at the hands of his neighbor, a disreputable doctor who was attempting to seduce the Dawson family governess. 
   
  With a southern storyteller’s passion for intricate emotional and physical details, Baldwin, through the fictional guise of Capt. David Lawton, chronicles editor Dawson’s fated end. Having survived three years of bloody Civil War combat and the decade of violent Reconstruction that followed, the liberal-minded Lawton is now an embattled newspaperman whose national importance is on the wane. Still, he remains a celebrated member of Charleston’s elite, while in private life moving amid a pantheon of proud and beautiful women—Sarah, his brilliant wife; Abbie, his sensual sister-in-law; Mary, the all-knowing prostitute; and Hélène, the discontented Swiss governess—each contributing to an unfolding drama of history-haunted turmoil. 
   
  War, earthquake, political guile, adultery, illegitimacy, lust, and murder—all the devices of gothic romance—play a role in this tale closely based on the lives of Charlestonians who lived these events over a century ago. 
   
  “William Baldwin is that rare southern writer who writes for all people of all time. As I read his beautiful words in A Gentleman in Charleston and the Manner of His Death I walked the Holy City’s streets with my ancestors and, believe me, I never wanted the trip to end. This is an important book and a wonderful rich story.” —Dorothea Benton Frank, New York Times–bestselling author

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  Dead Bath and Beyond

  Lorraine Bartlett, Laurie Cass

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  Katie Bonner feels like nothing can spoil her perfect day off, sailing Lake Ontario with her good friend, lawyer Seth Lander. Then she runs into her ex-boss Jake on the dock. It was never smooth sailing with Jake, and Katie is only too happy to get away from him as he makes a scene.Unfortunately, the next day her unpleasant former employer is found drowned in a bathtub at a bed and breakfast in Victoria Square. Who would pull the plug on Jake? When an autopsy reveals lake water-not bath water-in his lungs, Katie quickly finds herself in over her head. She'll need to race to find the killer before her business and her freedom both go down the drain . . .

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  Killer Secrets

  Marilyn Pappano

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  Her past draws danger—and a tough-as-nails police chief—to her side in this thrill-a-minute novel from the bestselling author of Killer Smile. 
   
  Mila Ramirez has never stopped trying to outrun the sins of her serial killer parents. But her hard-fought new life starts to unravel when she finds an employee dead. Trusting strong, sexy police chief Sam Douglas forces her out of isolation, even as it brings a murderer closer. Mila narrowly escaped evil before. This time it wants to destroy everything she loves—including Sam.

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  The Bloody Texans

  Kent Conwell

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  Booklist praises Kent Conwell for action-packed Westerns that fans of prairie adventures devour voraciously. Nathan Cooper is an expert scout and tracker. Arriving home one afternoon, he is shocked to find his wife, niece and her betrothed violently murdered. Swearing revenge, Cooper sets off on a quest to track down the killers-and heaven help them when his righteous anger delivers them to their maker.

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  Acts of Malice

  Perri O'Shaughnessy

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  Set amid the darker side of Lake Tahoe's glamorous ski resorts, Acts of Malice has Nina taking on the case of Jim Strong, a member of South Lake Tahoe's most prominent families and the owners of the posh Paradise Ski Resort. With his brother Alex recently killed in a headline-making accident that occurred while they were skiing together, Jim fears he may be indicted in the death. When the coroner announces that Alex died from injuries unrelated to the accident, Jim is charged with murder.As Nina prepares to defend her client, she has no idea that this case will lead her into a terrifying confrontation with a psychopath or threaten all that she holds most dear. She never expects to witness the perplexing and tangled set of loyalties and alliances among the Strong family.Further complicating matters is Assistant District Attorney Collier Hallowell, back from sabbatical. Determined to put Jim Strong behind bars, he's equally resolved to pick up romantically where he and Nina left off - and to take their relationship in a completely new direction.

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