The Lost Symbol, the stunning follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes and unseen truths...all under the watchful eye of a terrifying villain. Set within the unseen tunnels and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale.
Added by: dovesnake | Karma: 1384.51 | Fiction literature | 30 November 2009
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Macbeth has all the ingredients of a modern day bestseller-greed, ambition, murder, mayhem, madness, politics, assassinations, hallucinations, prophecies, spells, and rebellion. Potions and emotions simmer. One betrayal leads to another. Now you can sit back and read Macbeth like the thriller it is! This modern, easy-to-understand translation makes reading it quick and painless.
Added by: innasharina | Karma: 291.99 | Fiction literature | 31 August 2009
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Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old money and older sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions seethe beneath its elegant facade. It is here that Penn Cage, a Houston prosecutor-turned-novelist, returns to his childhood home, hoping to find some solace in the aftermath of his wife's death. But peace is not what he finds...
Added by: innasharina | Karma: 291.99 | Fiction literature | 31 August 2009
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A perfect plan. A madman. 24 hours of mortal fear. And one family trying to escape from the nightmare created to separate the mother, the child, and the father. A powerful narrative about overcoming the circumstances. A way out where there is no escape.