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Mourning Glory [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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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>> (Published: 2001)
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American Quartet [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Never underestimate the power of failure. In this first book of the Fiona series, four seemingly unconnected D.C. murders stimulate Fiona FitzGerald's sense of history as she delves into our country's dark past. In her search to solve the crimes, she uncovers the disturbing sexual and homicidal obsessions of a socially prominent but failed Washington politician. (Published: 1981)
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Banquet Before Dawn [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The last hurrah of an aging Irish politician pursuing his final campaign. After serving his Brooklyn district for many years, Congressman Sullivan discovers that his once comfortable Irish American majority has given way to a diverse district of blacks and Hispanics. Challenged by a more liberal opponent, he tries everything possible to maintain his seat only to painfully learn that he and his views are outdated and irrelevant to today's world. But "Sully" doesn't bow out of the race gracefully,... more info>> (Published: 1976)
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Blood Ties [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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An arms-dealing family confronts a moral dilemma in the nuclear age. During a family reunion at their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family--arms dealers for over a hundred years--suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium capable of creating the most destructive weapon on earth. Previously aloof from the moral implications of their business, the family is torn apart by the deadly potential of their recent acquisition. Family conflicts are ignited that had long been avoid... more info>> (Published: 1979)
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Cult [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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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>> (Published: 2002)
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Immaculate Deception [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The clock is ticking for Fiona FitzGerald. The clock is ticking both figuratively and biologically. During Fiona FitzGerald's pursuit to conceive a child, a powerful female pro-life Senator is found dead. It appears to be suicide, but Fiona is puzzled and continues to investigate. The case gets even more baffling when one shocking clue contradicts the entire investigation. (Published: 1991)
Words: 77127 - Reading Time: 220-308 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>> (Published: 1997)
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Madeline's Miracles [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A cautionary tale about a powerful psychic who takes control of a family. When a commercial artist, her stockbroker husband and their twin daughters move to Los Angeles, they unwittingly fall prey to a woman who convinces them that she is a psychic and can foresee their future. By persuading them that she holds the key to their success and can protect them from the dangers that threaten them, she gradually takes full control over their careers, their parenting, even their sex lives, until they b... more info>> (Published: 1989)
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Natural Enemies [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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An unforgiving nature reorders an urban couple's priorities. A young New York couple, unable to have children and whose marriage seems to be sputtering, is advised to leave their tense urban lives and take a vacation in a more bucolic environment. Out West, they are suddenly confronted by violent rednecks and chased deep into the surrounding wilderness. Braving floods, avalanches, wild animals and human predators, they come face-to-face with death. This test of endurance and their passion to sur... more info>> (Published: 1980)
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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>> (Published: 1996)
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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>> (Published: 1991)
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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>> (Published: 1984)
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Senator Love [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Dare to resist him. The stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. The bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered. Both share the same starling clues that point to a powerful, seductive and womanizing Senator. Besides solving the mystery, will Fiona FitzGerald submit to the powerful sexual forces of "Senator Love?" (Published: 1991)
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The Children of the Roses [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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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. (Published: 2004)
Words: 70466 - Reading Time: 201-281 min.
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The Housewife Blues [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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How the frenetic pace of big city life impacts on a small town girl. A small town girl from the Midwest is carried away by her "Prince Charming" to the super-charged canyons of modern New York City. Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers, the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence. She eventually befriends many of the offbeat and quirky tenants in her apartment building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic... more info>> (Published: 1992)
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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>> (Published: 1977)
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American Sextet [MultiFormat]
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A political sex scandal of massive proportions! A beautiful young woman dressed in white is found at the bottom of the Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge. Was it a suicide or murder? Fiona FitzGerald, possessed by a painful personal dilemma, is determined to find out, even if her demons might drive her from the police force. As Fiona goes deeper into the fire, a sexual conspiracy is uncovered involving six men from the highest offices in the country--a great American Sextet! (Published: 1983)
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Death of a Washington Madame [MultiFormat]
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Washington D.C.'s struggling underclass and the U.S. Capitol's politically aggressive upper strata collide in a horrifying crime. Homicide detective Fiona FitzGerald, the daughter of a Senator, once again battles prejudice and privilege, matching wits with the violet-eyed wife of a powerful politician determined to erase the sinful secrets of the past. (Published: 2005)
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God Made Me That Way [MP3 Audio]
by Warren Adler
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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. (Published: 2005)
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Henderson Equation [MultiFormat]
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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>> (Published: 1976)
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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. (Published: 2001)
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Playing the Game [MultiFormat]
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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. (Published: 2001)
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Prep [Secure Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Curtis Sittenfeld
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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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The Angel of Mercy [MP3 Audio]
by Warren Adler
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Max Shinsky meets the mysterious Yetta Klugerman and his life is changed forever. "It's as if...she decides who will live, and who will die!" (Published: 2005)
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The Casanova Embrace [MultiFormat]
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Three women become sex slaves to a diplomat's murderous impulses. A seductive South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in international terrorism. Unaware of the consequences and greedy for the man's erotic favor, the women allow themselves to be manipulated and unwittingly enter into the diplomat's bizarre, devious, and destructive plot. When the women discover each other and learn how they have been duped by their need for erotic fulfillment, they become enraged. Overc... more info>> (Published: 1978)
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