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In a love story that goes to the very heart of male-female relations, Anne O. Faulk updates for the nineties the tale of Lysistrata -- who persuaded the women of Athens to withhold sex from their husbands to end a war. Like millions of American women, Laren Fontaine, thirty-six-year-old Atlanta financial wizard and single mother, was outraged when the wife of a top government leader committed suicide after enduring years of spousal abuse. Worse, the abuser stayed in office, no blame, no shame. But it was Lauren's brilliant idea to stage a protest that would hit men where they live: no sex. Nada, zip -- until justice was done. A majority of women across America agreed. Then all hell broke loose. The male power structure -- and Lauren's new boyfriend -- are miserable about women holding out. Now someone is using dirty tricks, underhanded tactics, and outright terror to stop Lauren and her movement. |
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robert langdon is a harvard professor of symbology who can't stay out of trouble. last seen in angels and demons (2000), this mild-mannered academic finds himself entangled in a deadly conspiracy that stretches back centuries. visiting paris on buisiness, he is awakened at 2 a.m. by a call from the police: an elderly curator has been murdered inside the louvre, and a baffling cipher has been found near the body. aided by the victim's cryptologist granddaughter, langdon begins a danger-filled quest for the culprit; but the deeper he searches, the more he becomes convinced that long-festering conspiracies hold the answer to the art lover's death. order |
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