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Gil Renard is a knife salesman whose life is rapidly spiralling downward. He's just lost his job and his wife and child. But he still has one thing left-- a fanatic, all-consuming passion for baseball. Bobby Rayburn is a baseball superstar who falls into a demoralizing slump after signing with the team Gil lives and breathes for. Blinded by his manic fixation on Rayburn and the team, Gil Renard is the obsessed fan who is about to cross the line...
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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A spoof on our culture featuring a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation house near Boston. The center becomes a hotbed of revolutionary activity by Quebec separatists in revolt against the Organization of North American Nations which now rules the continent.
Dr. James Incandenza, scientist turned filmmaker, creates a movie so entertaining viewers cannot quit watching and literally die laughing. After he commits suicide, his sons hustle to keep the film...
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"A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Louise Wilson is an expert at just barely making it. She's mastered the tricks and shortcuts that a penniless small-town girl needs to survive in New York City. When she meets the beautiful, wealthy, eccentric,...
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English
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In this deliciously sassy novel, three very different women bond when they find themselves in more than one kind of trouble. It's the story of how sometimes you have a secret that can get you in---and out---of dire straits. It's about romance, friendship, kids, revenge, affairs, and, most of all, a love of the well-heeled things in life.
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Pine River novels volume 3
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English
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"Emma Tyler’s cool exterior and penchant for sarcasm keep most people from getting too close…and an unusual compulsion drives her to steal from the few men who do. When her trophy-collecting habit goes too far, she quits her ritzy event-planning job in Los Angeles and runs away to Pine River, hiding with her estranged half-sisters at Homecoming Ranch and caring for Leo Kendrick, her ailing friend. Thrillseekers Anonymous founder Cooper Jessup...
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Rayo
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[2005]
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Español
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When Esther, a war correspondent, disappears with her friend Mikhail, her husband, a well-known author, becomes the target of an investigation that leaves him questioning his own existence until Mikhail reappears to lead him on a journey.
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