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20921) The Swill
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"I can't resist: The Swill is swell. It reads like the princely offspring of Chandler and Lehane. It's sharp, witty, violent. It's a sort of political/historical thriller, but what made it important to me is that it's really about family, all kinds of family."
– Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and This Isn't Going to End Well
Port Kydd, 1929. Joshua Rivers, his pregnant wife Lily, his criminal sister Olive, a geriatric dog Orla, and a...
20922) A Hope in Hell
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Hope's last stand: A hellish apocalypse reduces the human population to numbers so low, future generations will inbreed and degenerate. Survivors turn to Hell's Gate, an experimental sedation prison, to secure more females for world repopulation. They must depend on a damaged psychologist, Jason Adams, to select which female inmates to revive. While searching the prison, an accident revives a serial killer and inmates take over the asylum. Adams must...
20923) The Island Murders
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When property surveyor and treasure hunter Sam Peters visits the Isle of Wight, the locals are surprised when he literally strikes gold… only to be murdered soon afterwards. The case is given to keen-minded Hampshire-based Detective Inspector Bruno Peach, who - as always - seeks the assistance of his trusty sidekick, headmistress Janet Gibson to bring the killer to justice. Together they seem to be unravelling the mystery piece by piece, but little...
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Housed in one superb volume, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes' includes every Sherlock Holmes tale penned by the great Arthur Conan Doyle. With a linked table of contents, you can click on each-and-every chapter, making for easy navigation through this mammoth omnibus.
Sherlock Holmes, the greatest fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant...
20925) A Beast Within
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Have you experienced true terror? For three criminals, they're about to face it head-on! Fresh out of prison, Jeremy vows to steer clear of a life of crime and clean up his act. But he quickly realizes that to the world, he will always be an ex-con and plunges back into his old ways. The perfect opportunity presents itself in the form of his best friend, Stephen, and his spunky, Irish girlfriend, Natalie. After a failed bank robbery, Jeremy and his...
20926) The Swingin' Man
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A collection of twelve frighteningly provocative short stories from author Brian J. Jarrett.
The OthersProving they exist will have deadly consequences.
Pine LakeFour friends discover the horror of what lies beneath the lake's pristine surface.
QuarryA small-time criminal learns what it really means to have that killer instinct.
Into the MachineIn a world where virtual reality offers escape, one man will learn it can also be a prison.
Trash Bag...
20927) Encounter With ISIS
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When the 14-year-old daughter of a British government minister leaves the country to join ISIS, MI7 despatches a cohort of agents to Turkey to intercept her en route.
However, maybe not everything is as it seems. How to explain, for example, her long-standing prior antipathy to Islamofascism? Her sudden conversion to radicalism on the very day of her departure? The fact that there is neither sight nor sign of her in Istanbul - or elsewhere?
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Une course poursuite alarmante menée par le commissaire Maupas !
Émoi à la Crim' : l'ex-divisionnaire Buchot est assassiné à son domicile. L'arme du crime est le Beretta de Machefer, flic pourri abattu par le commissaire Maupas quinze ans plus tt. Sur les lieux, on trouve un mot signé de Machefer, annonçant que sa vengeance ne fait que commencer. Au même moment, la fille du professeur Banari est arrêtée au Laos avec son compagnon, en...
20929) The Point in the Market
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"Daniel's sharp, sardonic wit and insider's view of book industry foibles are sure to make this bibliomystery a hit."-Publishers Weekly STARRED review
At the annual convention of the American Booksellers Association Convention, everything goes wrong. Julia Child's cooking demonstration in the Random House aisle blows up and catches fire. A top New York editor catches a pie in the face. Invitations to the most exclusive publisher's party are stolen...
20930) Enchanted Guardian
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A LOVE OF LEGENDARY PROPORTION… In another time, in a place once known as Camelot, they had been lovers. Torn apart by betrayal and lies, Lancelot Du Lac and Nimueh, the Lady of the Lake, had each suffered greatly. But the magic of the fae had reawakened a man once trapped in stone, and Lancelot was determined to find his long lost love. Only, Nim was desperate to hide her fae soul, as she was marked for death by their mutual enemy. Though centuries...
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Early one morning, twelve year-old Lifa, a kid from the townships near Cape Town, is taken against his will, to live and work on the prestigious Glen Cleaver wine estate, in the rural heartlands. He meets Victor, the only other working boy, who has a hidden past and a unique outlook on life. Despite the hatred and prejudice that surrounds him, Victor shows Lifa that a person can be defined by the essential human virtues of compassion and kindness:...
20932) Heart of Evil
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Krewe of Hunters volume 2
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The specter of past crimes haunts a bayou property in the second case for the FBI's elite paranormal investigation team, only from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
Emerging from the bayou like an apparition, Donegal Plantation is known for its unsurpassed dining, captivating atmosphere, haunting legends…and now a corpse swinging from the marble angel that marks its cemetery's most majestic vault. A corpse discovered in nearly the...
20933) Au coeur de la nuit
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Lady Jannessa Guillory était la fille d'un Ambassadeur, et par conséquent il était de son devoir envers son père de recevoir et gérer le foyer, pour se marier dans sa position... et être très obéissante. Toutefois, la nuit l'appelait de telle manière qu'elle ne pouvait la nier. Et même une voix la trouvait dans les ténèbres, elle savait qu'elle ne pouvait aller contre ses propres passions.
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Elisabeth Thury, ursprünglich Milica von Vukobrankovics (1894-1973) war eine österreichische Journalistin. Vukobrankovics wuchs als Tochter eines höheren Beamten serbischer Herkunft in Wien und Niederösterreich auf und wollte zunächst Lehrerin werden. Die Familienverhältnisse waren allerdings problematisch: Der adelsstolze Vater litt an der Syphilis, hatte Tobsuchtsanfälle und starb früh, die strebsame Tochter wurde zur eigenwilligen Einzelgängerin....
20935) Pale Blood
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A trio of vampire slayers invade the home of Gilda, waiting for her husband to return from his "night job" so they could rid the town of his menace. The slayers find out, however, that Gilda has been prepared for this moment and will do anything to protect her husband even if he is a vampire.
20937) The Darkest Hour
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. In the summer of 1940, eyes are focused on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun. But Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but a dashing young pilot called Tony. Evie has a glittering career as an artist ahead of her but seems only to be fascinated in sketching portraits of him... Seventy years later, recently widowed art historian...
20938) Unitas
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There can only be one winner in the ruthless game to control The City. The players include: an intelligent female scientist with a life-saving discovery, a detective seeking justice from an uncaught serial killer, an irresponsible time traveler wishing he belonged, a powerful android leader pursuing retribution for her kind, and a governor unsure if he's the good guy or the bad guy. Who will succeed? Or will a mysterious, villainous presence stop...
20939) New Empires Rising
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JD Iselin, 'Flash' Gordon, and the men and women of private military company, Iselin Security Options, are back! In this thrilling sequel to Rogue Patriot, JD and his team are hired by an enigmatic ex-patriot American to protect an oil platform off the coast of West Africa. That platform can provide great benefit for the emerging nation of Senegal, but not everyone involved wants that to happen. JD in London and Flash in Senegal find things are not...
20940) Nibowin: The Island of Death
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A group of university graduates is flown to a private island, in the North Pacific Ocean, for a fun vacation, However, things quickly turn deadly when they encounter sinister forces. Bodies quickly pile up as terrifying creatures hunt them to the death. With help being too far away and there being no escape, will the group survive their vacation or succumb to the island of death?
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