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Razumov is a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress.
3) The chamber
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In Mississippi, a young lawyer races against time to save his grandfather from the gas chamber. The grandfather was tried three times for a Ku Klux Klan bombing which killed two civil rights workers in 1967. He was found innocent twice, but guilty the third time.
5) Dead heat
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Max Moreton is a rising culinary star, until nearly all the guests who enjoyed one of his meals at a private catered affair fall victim to severe food poisoning. At his next obligation, an exclusive luncheon for forty in the glass-fronted private boxes at the 2,000 Guineas, a bomb blast rips through the private boxes, killing some of Max's trusted staff and many of the guests. Two close calls are too close for comfort, and Max vows to protect his...
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“Crais is at the top of his game, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It’s Silence of the Lambs meets Speed. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.’s finest...
Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.’s finest...
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In death novel volume 47
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English
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When Paul Rogan sets off a bomb at his office, killing eleven people, no one can understand why. He was a loving husband and father, with everything to live for. Then his wife and daughter are found chained up in the family home, and everything becomes clear. Rogan had been given a horrifying choice - set off the bomb, or see his loved ones suffer and die. Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows the violence won't end here. The men behind the attack are determined,...
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You're jilted at the altar. How could your day possibly get any worse? But being left at the altar saved Nina's life--the church was empty when the explosion took place. Then a stranger tries to run her off the road and Nina realizes that someone is determined to kill her. It's Detective Sam Navarro's job to find out who, and put a stop to the terrifying nightmare unfolding all around them.
11) Mposter
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WestBow Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Gabriel Allon volume 4
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English
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Hero Gabriel Allon is a restorer of paintings and frescoes and also a reluctant member of Israeli intelligence. Action and suspense abound in this serious fiction with a serious purpose.
13) Vida: a novel
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Summit Books
Pub. Date
c1979
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412 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy's classic bookend to the 60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people. At the center of the novel stands Vida Asch. She has lived underground for almost a decade. Back in the 60s, she was a political star of the exuberant antiwar movement, a red-haired beauty photographed for the pages of Life magazine-charismatic, passionate,...
14) The Chinaman
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©1992
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310 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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The Chinaman understood death. Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business. Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store....
16) Heaven
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (1.78:1)
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Philippa is a British schoolteacher living in Italy, whose husband fell victim to a drug overdose. Vendice is a powerful local drug dealer who sold the dope which killed Philippa's husband. Disgusted with the inability of the police to bring Vendice to justice, Philippa takes the law into her own hands, planting a bomb which is intended to kill the dealer. Instead the bomb kills four innocent bystanders. Now with the help of her multilingual translator,...
17) Eden Mine
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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259 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"From an act of political violence that tears apart a family's faith and community, S. M. Hulse crafts a compelling novel that mines the deep rifts that come when the reach of the government clashes with individual freedom"--
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Adam Gordon is a brilliant, unreliable, young American poet on a fellowship in Madrid, trying to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Adam's research becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond. As a witness to the 2004 Madrid train bombings and their aftermath, does he participate in historic events or merely watch them pass him by?
19) Blown Away
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998, c1994
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When an explosion jolts Boston, bomb squad expert Jimmy Dove (Jeff Bridges) is thrust into the most harrowing work of his career. Evidence points to a bomber more dangerous and skilled than any he's ever faced - except one. The possibility that the terrorist is his former mentor (Tommy Lee Jones) increases the stakes - and as his friends and family are unsuspectingly drawn into the action, Jimmy is forced to face not only his bitter enemy... but also...
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Mango Media Miami in collaboration with The Associated Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
200 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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In 2013, the Boston Marathon changed irrevocably when two bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. A manhunt ensued that paralyzed the city. At its end, Tamerlan Tsarnaev lay dead and his brother, Dzhokhar, critically wounded, was in law enforcement hands. Convicted and sentenced, Dzhokhar now faces the consequences of American justice. AP Editions takes a behind-the-scenes look at the case and the...
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