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Trans-Siberian Express [MultiFormat]
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International intrigue and suspense on the world's longest and most exotic train ride. During the bad old days of the Soviet Union, famous American cancer specialist Dr. Alex Cousins is sent by the President of the United States to Russia to prolong the life of the Secretary General of the Politburo. While in Russia, Cousins learns that the Soviets plan to attack China. Suspecting that he knows their secret, the Soviets send him home via the Trans-Siberian Express, which, they hope, will keep hi... more info>> 1977
Words: 109961 - Reading Time: 314-439 min.
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Prep [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
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 Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off in front of her dorm at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts. She leaves her animated, affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, at least in part because of the boarding school's glossy brochure, in whi... more info>>
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Random Hearts [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Survivors of a tragic plane crash seek both meaning and closure to the discovery of their dead spouses' infidelity. In an ideal world, they would never have met. Vivien Simpson is a happy housewife with a young son who adores her successful lawyer husband. Edward Davis is an ambitious aide to an important Congressman who loves his wife. When an airplane crash brings about the discovery that their supposedly loving and now deceased spouses were involved in a deeply passionate love affair and poss... more info>> 1984
Words: 77706 - Reading Time: 222-310 min.
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The Witch of Watergate [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A poison pen gets it back. Fiona FitzGerald, a senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is back for her fifth gripping thriller, investigating a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. When Polly Dearborn, the infamous Washington Post investigative reporter whose poison pen had destroyed many a politician's career, is found hanging from her Watergate apartment, the elite of Washington rejoice. "The Witch of Watergate" is dead! But this is no time for detective ... more info>> 1992
Words: 64026 - Reading Time: 182-256 min.
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Henderson Equation [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The power of the press to manipulate and persuade comes under the microscope in this tense exploration of the media. The people who run the influential newspaper the Washington Chronicle have just exposed and brought down a President through their investigative reports. Flushed with power, they are now attempting to create their own choice for Chief Executive. Clashing relationships within the media and in the political arena reveal the motives, insecurities, and thirst for ascendancy between ri... more info>> 1976
Words: 123725 - Reading Time: 353-494 min.
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Jackson Hole, Uneasy Eden [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The author tells the truth about the impact of "new" people on a mountain resort. In this collection of fictional short stories, the reader will find insights and truths engendered by the modern invasion of "new folks" to glorious mountain enclaves now dubbed "resorts." These acclaimed stories capture the truth, warts and all, of how modern life can both corrupt and enhance a traditional environment. Based on the author's experience as a long-time resident of this pristine valley in Wyoming nest... more info>> 1997
Words: 59946 - Reading Time: 171-239 min.
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Undertow [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A cynical and clever cover-up of a potential fatal scandal that could cut short a senator's career. A womanizing married Senator, enjoying a tryst in his Delaware beach home with a beautiful black woman, discovers that his paramour has accidentally drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political career, the Senator mounts a campaign of cover-up and cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage. This suspenseful tale of adultery, media manipulation, and political ... more info>> 1974
Words: 75984 - Reading Time: 217-303 min.
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The Sunset Gang [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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With time running short, these intrepid residents of Sunset Village in Florida continue to thirst for life and love. The Sunset Gang is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you'll find anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you'll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida--where an ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise--does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot. Indee... more info>> 1977
Words: 60206 - Reading Time: 172-240 min.
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Never Too Late For Love [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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More stories from The Sunset Gang. A collection that combines additional stories written after The Sunset Gang was published dealing with the same intrepid crew who inhabit Sunset Village. Anyone who is aging, meaning all of us, will revel in these stories of joy, love, sex, and energy that give a deeper meaning to the aging process, especially in what the young might call "the twilight years." In these stories, there is no sense of oncoming doom and life goes on in a perpetual sunset. Anyone wh... more info>> 1996
Words: 96705 - Reading Time: 276-386 min.
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Private Lies [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Two couples are caught in an emotional web of adultery and deception that turns deadly on an African safari. Ken Kramer, a Manhattan advertising copywriter, and his wife, Sheila, a computer expert, appear to have a comfortable life and loving marriage. But when Ken is taken along on a business dinner and introduced to the wife of his wife's major client, we discover she is Ken's old flame--in fact, the love of his life and the object of his sexual obsession as a young man. Baffled by her non-rec... more info>> 1991
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Twilight Child [MultiFormat]
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The rights of grandparents to visit their beloved grandson pit them against their remarried daughter-in-law. When Charlie and Molly's son dies, their daughter-in-law remarries and is vaulted into an upper class world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and keep her son free from the blue-collar influences of her ex in-laws. Forced to sue for their right to visit their beloved grandson, Charlie and Molly enter a world of courtroom conflict that deeply affects everyone... more info>> 1985
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Mourning Glory [MultiFormat]
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Mourning Glory is a provocative heart stopping bittersweet tale of desperation and desire in the vein of The War of the Roses and Random Hearts. Thirty-eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile in income. A cosmetician on Palm Beach's fashionable Worth Avenue, she barely makes enough to keep her 16-year old daughter Jackie in their tiny apartment. Still they're scraping by ... until Grace loses her job. Hanging on by a thread, ... more info>> 2001
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The Grace of Her Exit [MultiFormat]
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Nothing is more hurtful than social rejection in official Washington, a land of strict protocol and ever ascending and descending social status as power figures ebb and wane. In this treasure of a story by Warren Adler, an uninvited guest and a powerful hostess confront each other revealing the inherent cruelty of the system. 2001
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The Democratic Family [MultiFormat]
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The moral dilemma posed by the temptations of political bribery is offered up raw in this story of an elected official who consults his family as he wrestles with whether or not to accept badly needed money from an old friend seeking favors. Another in a series of Warren Adler short stories offering powerful insights into the Washington scene. 2001
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Her Moment [MultiFormat]
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Another in a series from Warren Adler who reports about the intimate looks into the sexual mores of official Washington and the erotic stimulation of power. In this delightful story, a woman proudly recalls her adulterous sexual experience with a womanizing ex-President and uses the story to enhance her allure to a potential lover. 2001
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Playing the Game [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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One of a priceless series of short stories from Warren Adler about the rarely revealed behind the scenes peccadilloes of official Washington. An arrogant bureaucrat thinks he can take sexual advantage of one of his ambitious underling's wives. Unfortunately, to his misfortune, he underestimates the woman's counterattack. 2001
Words: 6020 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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The Toast [MultiFormat]
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All formal dinner toasts are meant to flatter the host or hostess along strict protocol lines. In this wonderful Warren Adler Washington short story, one of a series of behind-the-scenes revelations of life in the nation's capital, the toast giver rejects such a carefully scripted offering and decides to tell the assemblage the "truth", flying in the face of traditional diplomacy. 2001
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The Sale [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Rejected wives of political figures in Washington often take up using their connections to sell real estate, mostly to politicians and their wives arriving in the nation's capital for the first time. In this insightful story, a divorced wife of a politician sells more than real estate to an innocent naïve first-timer. Here is another gem in the Warren Adler short story series about Washington. 2001
Words: 2651 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
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Yiddish [MultiFormat]
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"Yiddish" is the story of Bill and Jenny, both in their late sixties, who live at Sunset Village, a retirement community in Florida. Both join the "Yiddish Club", an organization in their community dedicated to keeping the ancient language of Yiddish alive. Bill and Jenny are married to other people who have little interest in the club, pursuing their own hobbies. In joining the club each is trying to recapture the warm moments and delicious nostalgia of their childhood when Yiddish was the lang... more info>> 2001
Words: 9302 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
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The Vase [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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In Washington D.C., where you are distinguished by the parties you throw and by the ones that you are invited to, it can be devastating to both your image and career to not have your guest of honor show up. The wife of a struggling politician learns the hard way how her husband ranks on the stepladder of power. Another in the series of story stories that captures this insider's view of how the rich and mighty live in Washington D.C. 2001
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Wise Counsel [MultiFormat]
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Quentin Hadley had come to Washington with the whiz kids, Franklin Roosevelt's bright boys. And if you are privy enough to enter Washington's socially elite circles, you can still see Quentin and his wife, this fossilized political couple, reminiscing on the good old days of Harry, Ike, and John. Another in the series of Washingtonian short stories that captures these fleeting and truly insider D.C. moments. 2001
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Cult [MultiFormat]
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People Can Be Brainwashed and Programmed to Kill. Recent events have taught us that. Barney Harrigan, a successful computer entrepreneur, discovers that his young and impressionable wife has been lured by her fanatical sister into the Glory Cult, a ruthless and powerful group in Oregon run by a charismatic "guru." Determined to free her from the cult's grasp and return her to him and their four year old son, he prevails upon an old lover in Washington D.C., Naomi Forman--a human rights activist-... more info>> 2002
Words: 74619 - Reading Time: 213-298 min.
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The Children of the Roses [MultiFormat]
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The long-awaited sequel to The War of the Roses is a darkly comic tale of the second and third generations coping with the messiest divorce in literary fiction. 2004
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Yiddish [MP3 Audio]
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Selections from The Sunset Gang, Warren Adler's acclaimed short story collection celebrating life, love and lust in a Florida retirement community. Read by the author. "Yiddish" was adapted for a mini-series on PBS's American Playhouse, starring Anne Meara, and Jerry Stiller. 2005
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God Made Me That Way [MP3 Audio]
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Max, a Gold Coast ladykiller, is running out of options despite the ever-growing pool of available rich widows. A selection from The Sunset Gang, Warren Adler's acclaimed short story collection celebrating life, love and lust in a Florida retirement community. 2005
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