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1) The husbands
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Chandler Baker, the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network comes The Husbands, a novel that asks: to what lengths will a woman go for a little more help from her husband? Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too ... but why...
2) There are no accidents: the deadly rise of injury and disaster--who profits and who pays the price
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they've come to define all that's wrong with America. We hear it all the time: "Sorry, it was just an accident." And we've been deeply conditioned to just accept that explanation and move on. But as Jessie Singer argues convincingly: There are no such things as accidents. The vast majority of mishaps are not random but predictable and preventable. Singer uncovers just how the...
3) Beyond reach
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
“Powerful and complex . . . [Karin] Slaughter gradually unspools her fascinating story, all the way up to its shocking conclusion.”—Chicago Sun-Times
In a small Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams is accused of a vicious murder. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver learns that his young detective has been arrested. And Jeffrey’s wife, pediatrician and medical examiner Sara Linton, fighting
4) Iceman
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
A Ming Dynasty palace guard is wrongly accused of murder and hunted by three vengeful brothers. All four are accidentally buried, frozen at the height of battle. 400 years later, they are defrosted and resume their mortal struggle, while also adjusting to modern-day life.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The effect of bad company on a boy's life. At 16, David Nachman, a doctor's son in Pennsylvania takes part in a drag race--racing in reverse--and loses control of his car. For years he is haunted by the death of the little girl he killed.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tire over him, douses him in gasoline and sets him alight. Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor's widow, the beautiful Nelly. As the two...
8) The price
Author
Series
Bitter Creek ; 4
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston has captivated millions of readers with her sprawling, sensuous novels about the two opposing dynasties of Bitter Creek, Texas -- the Blackthornes and the Creeds. Now in her highly anticipated hardcover debut, Johnston tells an impassioned story of love and danger, ambition and family, that features the popular character Luke Creed, a young man who has turned his back on his family's ranch to pursue...
Author
Publisher
Newmarket Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In August of 1988, heavy black smoke engulfed an Oregon highway, causing a massive 23-car pileup that claimed the lives of novelist William Wharton's 36-year-old daughter, her husband, and their two infant daughters. They'd been victims of field burning, a routine agricultural practice, and were burned alive in their van.
How could such a thing happen? And how could a father come to terms with such a loss? Ever After, Wharton's first memoir, is...
14) 9 scorpions
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Lisa Fremont is ordered by a blackmailer to seduce a Supreme Court justice and get him to vote favorably in an airline liability case. If not, the blackmailer will kill her. While Fremont has the right body for seduction, question is does she have the necessary power of persuasion.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Lawrence Horn hired a contract killer with plans to murder his family using instructions from a book named Hit Man by Paladin Press. After the murders were carried out and the killers sent to trial, Rod Smolla, First Amendment expert and advocate of free speech decided to become the lawyer for the families of the victimes in a civil suit against Paladin Press, holding the publisher accountable.
