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From the acclaimed international bestseller Keigo Higashino (The Devotion of Suspect X) comes a sweeping novel in the tradition of Les Miserables and Crime and Punishment. This is the compelling story of a brutal crime and the two teenagers--Ryo, the son of the murdered man, and Yukiho, the daughter of the main suspect--whose lives remain inextricably linked over the twenty-year search for the truth behind the crime. In Osaka in 1973, the body of...
23) Midnight Sun
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They should've let him go. They should've let him retire in peace. They should've left his woman out of it.
Kharzai Ghiassi has served the US Government his entire adult life. The best infiltration agent they've ever had. Death is not just his business, death is his life. He's gone off the CIA's radar and all they know is that someone is in danger.
When a former soccer star turned Islamic terrorist shows up in Anchorage, Alaska, retired Marine Corps...
24) Midnight Sun
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They survived the Alaskan winter after the Virus devastated the North, but summer in the land of the midnight sun is fraught with a brutality of its own-long, grueling days, mosquito-ridden evenings, and woods with lurking shadows more dangerous than grizzlies. With the discovery of impossible superhuman Abilities, and the looming threat of General Herodson in the lower forty-eight, the Yukon is no longer the refuge it once was.After deciding to stay...
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A runaway teen accused of murdering her minister stepfather hitchhikes to Alaska only to learn that the past can have stronger bars than any jail. Eight years later at a time when women's voices were seldom heard, Belle seeks freedom by confronting her demented mother and the ghost of the stepfather who raped her. But who really killed the minister? Belle and Charlotte, from diverse backgrounds, form an unlikely friendship and explore whether life...
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Mail-Order Mates.
But neither is who they claim to be!
Cathryn McLean-With nowhere else to turn, she accepted the handsome stranger's startling marriage proposal. But once in the isolated Alaska cabin with him, she realized her mistake: her "husband" was too smart to fall for her deception...and too sexy to keep away!
Ben Adams-Long, cold Arctic nights roused a man's lust-and Cathryn matched his every desire. With his devastating charm, he'd get...
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Julie has looked after her twin brothers since their mother died during childbirth. Now, fifteen years later, as World War II breaks out, she finds she can no longer do that as her brothers have volunteered to fight for the British military and head off to Norway to fight the Nazis. When they are declared missing, Julie risks everything and flies over there in the dead of night to find them.
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Carefree, I stumbled and in big trouble,
As if a tsunami engulfed me
Only I cheated death,
In waking up from a nightmare.
-Midnight Sun
A blessing
A droplet of heavenly water
Broken the spell of infamy.
-Freed Clowning
Empty hallelujahs
A pageantry of illusion
Of a lost civilization.
-Corporate Jungle
30) Midnight sun
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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Eighteen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure even to the smallest amount of usnlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, she is limited to the company of her widowed father and her best (okay, only) friend. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going. Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads...
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Life is interesting in picturesque Midnight Sun, Minnesota. With its' Northern European old-world charm and architecture, the community provides plenty of ambience, thanks to the senior citizens preoccupied with maintaining cultural heritage and traditions.
During Thanksgiving week, a young girl, in pursuit of a strawberry ice-cream cone, sets off a series of events n one will likely forget. A former resident returns home seeking anonymity and keeping...
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Twelve-year-old Fredricka O'Reilly has a dark secret. It's 1967 in the last frontier-Alaska, and the truth keeps the normal happy life she longs for just beyond her reach. Her brother's four-year stint in the Air Force ends, and Fredricka believes his return will change her life for the better, until he reveals a secret of his own. As her life crumbles around her, the only one left to turn to is her mother. Can Fredricka risk telling her secret even...
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Lou Marincovich yearned for a life of adventure and strong emotions, and got far more than he anticipated. Here are true-life adventure stories you have never heard before, from places you have never been. Inspired to become a paleontologist, he plunged into realms of life where intellectuals rarely go, working hardhat jobs on offshore oil rigs in equatorial Africa and wintertime Alaska to afford grad school, and laboring beside cutthroat coworkers,...
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Everyone knows the song, Hotel California, right? "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave." Sure, it's a great song, but the Eagles had it wrong: The hotel referred to in the Eagles hit song isn't in California. It's in Nevada, and Earl Murray has a story about this hotel so chilling, you won't be able to hear this song again without breaking a sweat and looking back over your shoulder.
Hotel California and Other Stories is the...
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Alaska's fermented legacy retains the fiercely independent spirit that propelled the state's beer drinkers through the gold rush and sustained them through Prohibition. Today, craft brewers produce outstanding suds in some of the harshest and most remote locations on the planet. And while the beer scene in Alaska has roots that trace back to days when spirits had to have "medicinal, mechanical, and scientific purposes," the contemporary crop of breweries...
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In the tradition of great family migration stories, Midnight Sun to Southern Cross continues the saga of the Back brothers' flight from Russian occupied Finland to Australia as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth.
From frozen Finland to the lush rainforests of northern New South Wales, to the dry and dusty sheep country of western Queensland, you follow the highs and lows of their new life under the Southern Cross.
It is an extraordinary...
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Dakota needs help. Badly.
The last thing she expects is for the Bad Boy of Eternal Eros to step in, sweep her off her feet, and offer his protection.
Maybe she accepts because they were matched up at the last singles night. Maybe it was the scorching passion she experienced at his skilled hands. Maybe it's the way he dotes on her daughter.
All she knows is that the more the lines between reality and fantasy blur, the harder it will be to let him...
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A mystery romance set in Finland, following the quest of a young Scotsman called Ricky to uncover his origins and the dark family secret that led his mother, Satu, to conceal both their pasts. Most of the story takes place during a few days in May, just before the end of the Cold War, when Finland's unique society is poised between East and West, and everyone is in the throes of a joyful, collective madness as the last of the winter ice melts beneath...