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Author John Winston loves his wife and children. He never considered deceiving them...until he meets singer Alicia Ralph. She wants to escape a bad marriage. As they flee from Los Angeles to Montreal, they learn the extremes to which love or hate can drive both good and bad people.
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A young woman bursts into David Reynolds' life late one night at a highway gas station in Germany. In a moment of weakness, he decides to believe her weird tales about her husband and hidden money. This starts him on an adventure to Moscow, Budapest, and Zurich, without him ever being sure if he can believe her or of what will happen next. He simply convinces himself to let fate happen.
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Patrik Forsberg was forced to make two difficult decisions and, in doing so, discovered a paradox. Despite his insignificance in the randomness of life, the hired killer could affect order--both simple and complex. He could improve one life with love, but he could also change the course of history with a single bullet.
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Richard Boyd and Charles Coulson plan to kidnap the President of the German Federal Bank from his hotel in Basel, Switzerland. All they have to do is separate Dr. Franz Rudolph from his guards, evade police in several countries, convince the Germans to pay a ransom, cover their tracks, and disappear...
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In the turmoil of Southeast Asia, aviator John Hale discovers that facing an armed enemy is easier than making choices about morality, money, friendship, and love. In the air, he foolishly feels invincible. Life on the ground turns out to be less simple, because he must evade foes and deceive friends. Flying is easy, whereas lying is even easier...and that's what makes his life difficult.
6) Gilda
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No one understands the human brain, especially someone struggling with conflicting signals. Nature pulls in one direction, and morality pulls in another. Add the emotional pressure of love, and any decision becomes more complicated or…easier.
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Most people think that money is the crucial factor in life. Unfortunately, it--like religion--cannot guarantee happiness, prevent bad choices, or ensure good personal relationships. Each merely provides some comfort...useless in moments fraught with danger. In this fast-moving romantic thriller, Jack and Claire escape a dubious religious group, fall in love, and learn that cults do change lives.
8) A Citizen's Democracy in Authoritarian Times: An American View on the Catalan Drive for Independence
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Agents of sedition who are heedlessly destroying Spain's "consolidated democracy"? Xenophobes simply interested in protecting their own wealth who are, behind the rhetoric, not that different from the tribal authoritarians coming to the fore in Hungary and northern Italy? These are but two of the many narrative tropes the Spanish government and the establishment press in Europe and the US are rolling out to counter the rise of separatist sentiment...
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Thomas S. Harrington is a professor of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut where he teaches courses on 20th and 21st Century Spanish Cultural History, Literature and Film. His areas of research expertise include modern Iberian nationalist movements. Contemporary Catalonia, cultural theory, the epistemologies of Hispanic Studies and the history of migration between the peninsular «periphery» (Catalonia, Galicia, Portugal...