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Misunderstood and unappreciated in its time, Melville's monumental work has become the classic epic of American literature. He tells the dual story of the initiation of young Ishmael, a schoolteacher, into the life of a seaman, and the tragedy of Captain Ahab's obsession with the white whale. The novel begins with a lengthy dissection of the word WHALE and its origins, and includes numerous citations about whales and the hunting of them, all taken from the extensive notes Melville accumulated during his research at the New York Public Library, and which he could not bear to leave out. After this rather pedantic beginning, the story proper begins. Another exploration of Melville's perennial themes of good vs. evil and the fundamental isolation of the human condition, MOBY-DICK is a layered, complex, allusive book that is part rip-roaring adventure tale, part quest, part travel chronicle, part picaresque coming-of-age novel. At the end of the wrenching narrative, Ishmael sets himself the task of telling the tale that would make Melville's reputation as one of the greatest American writers.
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Mary Higgins Clark weaves a medical mystery in which a biomedical researcher, purported to have cured cancer, dies in an airplane
accident,
while fleeing from the authorities after it`s uncovered that the cure was phony, and that many lost millions of dollars.
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Too bad Travis McGee didn't remember that old truism when he agreed to hold a stash of money for an ex-girlfriend. She promised him $10,000 in cash, but Travis is stuck with even more than that after she's murdered and he is left on his houseboat, The Busted Flush, with the dirty dough, wondering if he'll be the next casualty, in his 16th mystery.
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This standalone historical thriller by the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series pits a mobster against the Third Reich. The government sets a trap for Paul Schumann, a German-American hitman for the mob, and once Paul springs it, offers him a choice: prison or the chance to do what he does best, but for Uncle Sam this time. Posing as a journalist covering the 1936 Olympics, Paul must kill Colonel Reinhard Ernst, the man responsible for rearming Hitler's Germany. But with both the Nazis and the Berlin police on his trail, will Paul be able to successfully carry out his mission?
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