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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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The mysterious creature appears in Tokyo Bay and takes a chunk out of a self-defense forces vessel. Asa is called into action, but she has trouble reaching the airfield due to the Olympic crowds. Meanwhile, Shota arrives at the same beach as the creature. Asa and Kasuga finally get up in the air and do a flyby, but the creature damages their plane, causing them to lose altitude. Will Asa be able to regain control?
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"Mike Gannon always wanted to go to Alaska. That's why when a bucket-list grizzly bear trip to the Klondike comes up, he's on it with both feet. But as he arrives up in the northern wilds, he discovers other hunters are there. And they're not looking for grizzly. Soon Mike finds himself alone and captured on a corporate plane heading southbound for an incredibly lethal encounter that is about to blow his mind before it tries to blow him away"--
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Asker volume 1
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"After a high-profile kidnapping case goes wrong, criminal inspector Leonore Asker is relegated to the so-called Department of Lost Souls where she, drawn into a peculiar case, one possibly linked to the kidnapping, is led to the darkest recesses of the city where an unusual kind of evil lurks in the shadows"--
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Sleepy princess in the demon castle volume 22
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The Monster Bird Egg Association's efforts to poach Cursed Musician prove short-lived as Odile's true motivations are revealed. Meanwhile, Silmoth brings some much-needed experience and dignity back to the Ten Guardians--right up until the princess enters the scene. Then, the residents of the Demon Castle discover the power of partying and Twilight is forced to decide whether a personal invitation to the Wild Avian Hotel is a deadly trap or a fun-filled...
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Sleepy princess in the demon castle volume 23
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Alraune's showdown with the hero's party is brought to an explosive end. Poseidon throws a fit when the construction of the gate between the castles is interrupted--again. Demon Cleric is definitely not at all jealous about the princess hanging out with Hypnos. Twilight and Hades both shrink shamefully after duking it out. And the princess dies again--but this time Demon Cleric can't bring her back, demanding an impromptu trip to the Underworld and...
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Winston Greene, a has-been film star, wakes one morning to find his six-year-old granddaughter at his bedside--traumatized, unattended, and gripping onto a thumb drive. She comes bearing video proof that her mother, Win's troubled adult daughter, has been kidnapped by a murderous gang demanding all his "movie money" for her safe return. But what they don't know is ... his movie money is long gone. Unable to go to the police for fear the kidnappers...
8) Wild houses
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"The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from "one of the best story writers in the English language today" (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry. With his acclaimed and award-winning collections Young Skins and Homesickness Colin Barrett cemented his reputation as one of contemporary Irish literature's most daring stylists. Praised by Oprah Daily as...
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Harlequin presents volume 4173
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"Determined to save her cousin from an unwanted marriage, Miranda daringly kidnaps the groom-to-be, Sheikh Zamir. She didn't expect him to turn the tables and demand she become his queen instead-and now, he has all the power ... Zamir has a hard deadline: find a bride today or forfeit his throne and country. Marrying Miranda is the sole option, despite their mutual distrust and her disdain for palace protocol. But he never imagined their convenient...
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Reward seeker Colter Shaw faces a ticking clock with murderous consequences in this riveting short story. A serial kidnapper is on the loose in a small town in Maine, targeting wealthy women and demanding a huge ransom in bitcoin for their safe return. When his latest victims husband claims that he cant come up with the money, the word deadline takes on a disturbingly literal meaning. The local police are out of their depth, but Colter Shaw takes...
11) The hollow beast
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Biblioasis international translation volume no. 46
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In 1911, in a hockey game in Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, local tough guy Billy Joe Pictou fires the puck into Monti Bouge's mouth. When Monti collapses with his head across the goal line, Victor Bradley, referee and local mailman, rules that the goal counts. Monti's ensuing revenge for this injustice sprawls over three generations. It is up to Monti's grandson, Francois, to make sense of the vendetta between Monti and Bradley and, by doing so, change...
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Lulu Sinagtala volume 1
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"Discovering that the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real when her mom is kidnapped, Lulu Sinagtala is drawn into a centuries-long war that threatens to throw the whole universe into chaos while trying to save her mom with her newfound powers"--
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"A teenager explores the darkness hidden within his hometown in this spellbinding supernatural thriller from bestselling author Scott Carson. For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police...
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Cyrus Haven volume 3
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Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven's family was murdered. Only he and his brother survived. Cyrus because he hid. Elias because he was the killer. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital and Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, must decide if he can forgive the man who destroyed his childhood. As he prepares for the homecoming, Cyrus is called to a crime scene in Nottingham. A man is dead and his daughter, Maya, is missing. Then a second...
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Criterion collection volume 722
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A rambunctious dark comedy. An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a B-movie porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him. A highly unconventional romance that came on the spike heels of Almodovar's international sensation Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this is a splashy, sexy central work in the career of one of the world's most beloved and provocative auteurs.
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