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1) Whiteout
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As a Christmas Eve blizzard blows through Scotland, several people from a medical research firm converge on a remote family house, where they learn that a canister containing a deadly virus has disappeared from the lab, and that someone among them will risk anything to keep the crime a secret.
2) Tono-Bungay
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Presented as a miraculous cure-all, Tono-Bungay is in fact nothing other than a pleasant-tasting liquid with no positive effects. Nonetheless, when the young George Ponderevo is employed by his uncle Edward to help market this ineffective medicine, he finds his life overwhelmed by its sudden success. Soon the worthless substance is turned into a formidable fortune as society becomes convinced of the merits of Tono-Bungay through a combination of skilled...
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Daniel Ames, an associate with Portland's most prestigious law firm, finds himself fighting to save his reputation and his life when he decides to investigate claims that Gellar Pharmaceuticals, one of the firm's biggest clients, is producing a drug that allegedly causes birth defects.
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Clay Carter at the office of the public defender like most of his colleagues dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into his background, however, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe, a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies...
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Best-selling author Margaret Truman is beloved for her highly acclaimed Capital Crimes mystery series. In this adventure, former secret agent Max Pauling is offered a chance to do investigative work in Cuba. Although not anticipating danger, one of his sources is killed and he is assaulted. Max realizes that someone doesn't want him to uncover certain secrets of the isla bonita. Narrator Richard Poe brings out the suspense in this international thriller....
6) The price
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Texas lawyer Luke Creed takes on the defense of a pharmaceutical company and finds himself battling his high school sweetheart--whom he still loves--in the courtroom.
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Maxine Justice is an ambulance-chasing lawyer desperate for relevance and cash when aliens hire her to represent them before the United Nations. An off-planet consortium wants to heal humanity of every natural disease in exchange for 30 percent of Earth's gold reserves. The deal launches Max to legal stardom and makes her an international target for assassins. MediCorp, Star Cross, PharFuture--the big medical companies all have good reasons to want...
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When beautiful Tessa Quayle is murdered in Kenya, her husband John, an amateur gardener and British diplomat, receives another shock--she may have been having an affair with her traveling companion, a respected doctor who is now missing. Hardened, Justin sets out to find Tessa's killers and their motives, but what he learns makes him a suspect among his own colleagues--and a target for his wife's killers.
10) Double down
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"After years of standing by their women, the Sisterhood's significant others have also become loyal friends. And now Jack Emery, Nikki's husband, has enlisted Ted, Joe, Jay, Bert, Dennis, and Abner to form a top-secret organization known as BOLO Consultants. Jack has two missions in mind. The first: offering some behind-the-scenes help to Nikki's law firm as they take on the all-powerful Andover Pharmaceuticals. Andover's anti-leukemia drug causes...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2021]
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x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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To implement his most ambitious plan of all, a ruthless billionaire must get President Jack Ryan out of the way and assembles the most ruthless mercenaries alive to kidnap the First Lady.
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Español
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FonoLibro les trae el audiolibro en español del bestseller "El Rey de Los Pleitos" de John Grisham, uno de los mas famosos escritores internacionales de novelas en la actualidad y autor de los bestsellers "La Firma", "El Informe Pelicano", "Tiempo para Matar", "El Intermediario," "El Cliente" y otros éxitos llevados al cine. "El Rey de los Pleitos,"� llega a usted en una magnifica producción, con la calidad reconocida de Fonolibro, líder de...
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The drug crisis hits home for fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong when the son of her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters nearly dies from an opioid overdose. On top of that, she's dealing with the inexplicable tragedy of a small Texas town where all the residents died in a single night. When Caitlin realizes that these two pursuits are intrinsically connected, she finds herself following a trail that will take her to the truth behind the crisis...
14) Girl missing
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"The first body is a mystery. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets, except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. The next body is a warning. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets. The police are sceptical. The mayor won't listen. And Kat's chief suspect is one of...
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