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Detroit Breakdown

by D. E. Johnson

Published: 2012-09-04

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume are called to the vast Eloise Insane Asylum outside of Detroit, where Elizabeth's cousin Robbie is a patient and now a murder suspect. The victim, like three others before him at the asylum in recent months, was killed with the infamous ?Punjab lasso,? the...

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The Detroit Electric Scheme: A Mystery

by D. E. Johnson

Published: 2010-09-14

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Will Anderson is a drunk, heartbroken over the breakup with his fiancée, Elizabeth. He’s barely kept his job at his father’s company---Detroit Electric, 1910’s leading electric automobile manufacturer. Late one night, Elizabeth’s new fiancé and Will’s one-time friend, John Coo...

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Developed Minds, Developing Minds and The Stupid Terrorists

by Harish Maiya

Published: 2009-12-10

Paperback: 176 pages

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All human beings, whether developed or developing or underdeveloped, show various levels of the seven deadly sins. The complex issues that arise due to these sins sometimes have simple answers. Developed countries balance their greed for money with selfless caring and giving that goes way beyond developing...

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The Devil All the Time

by Donald Ray Pollock

Published: 2011-07-12

Hardcover: 272 pages

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From the acclaimed author of Knockemstiff?called ?powerful, remarkable, exceptional? by the Los Angeles Times?comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries ...

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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel (Ballad Novels)

by Sharyn McCrumb

Published: 2011-06-07

Paperback: 336 pages

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"Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight."--The New York Times Book ReviewIn...

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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation

by Paulo Coelho

Published: 2006-07-01

Hardcover: 224 pages

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A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? In the rem...

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The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation (P.S.)

by Paulo Coelho

Published: 2007-04-10

Paperback: 240 pages

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From bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a novel set in a small village about a young, poor barmaid whose wager with the devil leads to a spiritual transformation.A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook...

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Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

by Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Published: 2004-02-03

Paperback: 320 pages

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The "inspirational" and "extraordinary" memoir of one of the most courageous of the greatest generation, Louis Zamperini: Olympian, WWII Japanese POW and survivor. A juvenile delinquent, a world class NCAA miler, a 1936 Olympian, a WWII bombardier: Louis Zamperini had a fuller than most, ...

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Devil Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan)

by Kathy Reichs

Published: 2008-08-22

Kindle Edition: 416 pages

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Following her most successful book to date, Kathy Reichs -- international number one bestselling author, forensic anthropologist, and producer of the Fox television hit Bones -- returns to Charlotte, North Carolina, where Temperance Brennan encounters a deadly mix of voodoo, Santería, and...

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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins Mysteries (Paperback))

by Walter Mosley

Published: 2002-09-17

Paperback: 272 pages

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Devil in a Blue Dress, a defining novel in Walter Mosley’s bestselling Easy Rawlins mystery series, was adapted into a TriStar Pictures film starring Denzel Washington as Easy Rawlins and Don Cheadle as Mouse.Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles,...