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Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers....
2) Enchanted
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The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical, animated land and finds herself in reality--the gritty streets of modern-day Manhattan. Giselle, adrift in our chaotic world, is shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis. This place is badly in need of enchantment! But when she begins to fall in love with the charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her...
3) Man of war
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Eric Steele is the best of the best - an Alpha - an operative in a unit known simply as "the Program". A highly trained U.S. Special Forces soldier who spent his career fighting radical Islamic militants in Afghanistan, Steele uses a deadly combination of espionage and brute strength to root out his targets. Steele is in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon stolen. When he and his colleagues investigate, it becomes clear that...
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When Niall Lindsey is forced to flee after killing a man in a duel, he expects his secret love, Brilliana Trevor, to go with him, or at the very least wait for him. To his shock, she does neither and sends him off with no promise for the future. Seven years and one pardon later, Niall returns to England disillusioned and cynical. Being blackmailed by the government into working with his former love to help catch a counterfeiter connected to her father...
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Nick Flynn novels volume 1
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After a CIA mission goes awry, U.S. Air Force intellignece officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier, a dead-end assignment. Russian aircraft begin penetrating friendly airspace along the border, and when an American F-22 collides with one of the interlopers, things go south fast. Flynn and his security team are ordered to parachute into the crash site. Soon they're facing off with Spetsnaz commandos...
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Trials of Apollo volume 2
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The second title in Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series - set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson. The god Apollo, cast down to earth and trapped in the form of a gawky teenage boy as punishment, must set off on the second of his harrowing (and hilarious) trials. He and his companions seek the ancient oracles - restoring them is the only way for Apollo to reclaim his place on Mount Olympus - but this is easier said than done. Somewhere...