Dick Hill
21) Turning angel
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Lawyer Penn Cage returns to defend his best friend since childhood for the murder of a young female student, with whom his friend was intimate, at their old alma mater, St. Stephen's Prep.
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On a rainy Southern night, Jade Sperry endured a young woman's worst nightmare at the hands of three local hell-raisers. Robbed of her youthful ideals and at the center of scandal and tragedy, Jade ran as far and as fast as she could. But she never forgot the sleepy "company town" where every man, woman, and child was dependent on one wealthy family. And she never forgot their spoiled son, who, with his two...
23) Dry ice: a novel
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Alan Gregory finds his family targeted by a brilliant murderer when the latter is released from the Colorado State Mental Hospital, a situation that is complicated by the murderer's detailed knowledge about Alan's innermost secrets.
25) The humbling
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What happens when all the ways that we convince ourselves of our solidity, all our life's performances--talent, love, sex, hope, energy, reputation--are stripped off? Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is about to find out. Now in his sixties, he has lost his magic, his talent, and his assurance. His wife has gone, his audience has left him, his agent can't persuade him to make a comeback. Consumed by an erotic...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.
28) The edge
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A tale of international skullduggery involving drug dealers. It begins with the disappearance of an Oregon woman after a car accident. The woman is the sister of FBI agent Ford MacDougal and his search for her takes him to the jungles of Costa Rica.
29) 24 hours
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The perfect family. On the perfect night. About to become trapped in the perfect crime. Will and Karen Jennings have it all. From modest beginnings they have built the life of their dreams and they share it with their beloved five-year-old daughter, Abby. But now, they have been targeted by John Hickey, the genius who has found the key to perfecting one of the oldest crimes in the world. Kidnapping. Five times he has executed his plan, and not once...
32) Wicked city
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"It was a stew of organized crime and corruption, run by a machine that dealt with complaints forcefully and with dispatch. No one dared cross them--no one even tried. And then the machine killed the wrong man. When crime-fighting attorney Albert Patterson is gunned down in a Phenix City alley in the spring of 1954, the entire town seems to pause just for a moment--and when it starts up again, there is something different about it. A small group of...
33) Hazardous duty
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"The Presidential Agent adventures return in the most harrowing novel yet in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. The President is fed up and has what he thinks is a pretty bright idea-to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that will be difficult. Everybody...
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Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth--and came back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove it. When his helicopter crashed and burned in Africa, he decided it was time to stop dancing with the devil. But neither danger--nor the devil--is done with him yet. An ocean away, Jack Wilson leaves prison burning for revenge. He, too, dreams of starting life over--only Jack's dream is the rest of the...
36) Dragonsdawn
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"A Del Rey book." Colonists from Earth set out to protect their new home, Pern, from the deadly spores that fall from the sky and devour everything in their path.
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"Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters. Linda's personal life? Well, between the married men, the cold New Jersey winters, her pinched wallet and her ex-husband who marries a beautiful, successful woman 10 years younger than she is - let's just say, Linda has seen enough to fill 1000 pages.
As the story opens, she is barreling down Interstate 95, bound for Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, the land of her ancestors. Welcomed by...
38) Dragonflight
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Dragonflight takes place in the far future on Pern, a planet colonized by humans. The colonists had originally intended to gradually adopt a low-technology agrarian lifestyle, but were forced to move more quickly after they encountered the deadly Thread raining down from the sky. By harnessing and riding the indigenous, flying, fire-breathing dragons (with genetic alterations to make them larger and telepathic), the colonists destroyed the Thread...
39) Call to arms
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W.E.B. Griffin's epic story of the Marine Corps continues with an elite fraternity known as the Raiders taking form after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
40) The sea wolf
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Life of a Norwegian sealing schooner and a grim picture of a sailor who is a combination of savage and superman.