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1) IN TOO DEEP
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has suffered some major damage. His few possessions...
2) KILLING TIME
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton’s cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit television series—is back on the case again.Agatha Raisin’s private detective agency is working flat out on a series of shop burglaries. The break-ins seem to have taken a violent turn when a friend of Agatha’s is murdered during a raid on his shop. Although determined to nail the villains, Agatha still makes time to help Sir Charles Fraith...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Rachel Morgan must go on a deadly journey—into the past—in the next thrilling Hollows novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. What’s a witch to do when the coven of moral and ethical standards demands she untwist a curse—but an essential spell component no longer exists? There’s only one choice: go back in time. Caught between self-exile and an Alcatraz cell, Rachel must find an Atlantean mirror to reverse the curse and prove...
6) Lord Jim
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Courage and cowardice are seen through the eyes of Jim, a young British seaman left to take the blame for the abandonment at sea of a group of pilgrims bound for Mecca to make their hajj. When the ship PatnaHeart of Darkness, Jim’s tortured life is pieced together—exploring the consequences and difficulties of a life spent at sea.HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards...
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Tales from The Black Chamber volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
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English
Description
The third novel in a World War I alternate history series where America's greatest weapon against Germany is Black Chamber secret agent Luz O'Malley and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America's best hope of winning the war.The Great War is at a stalemate, and the only thing stopping Germany from striking America is the threat of the United States using their own Annihilation Gas against them. But America's supply is quickly decaying...
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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They thought they found heaven on earth. But their paradise becomes a nightmare when Professor Brandt Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight stumble on a terrifying conspiracy¿. When professor turned crime-fighter Brandt "'Doc'"Savage and his girlfriend Kira Sunlight land on a desert island in the middle of the Atlantic, they think they've found a perfect utopia. An escape from their tumultuous pasts. But they don't have long to enjoy their...
9) Waking Gods
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Themis files volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
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English
Description
-- if -- Praise for Sylvain Neuvel's -- - -- -- Sleeping Giants --
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Themis files volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
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English
Description
An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre...
11) Winter World
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Long winter novels (A. G. Riddle) volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
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English
Description
This novel is described as “The Martian meets Interstellar”.Earth is cooling when climate scientists expect it to get warmer. When probes are launched into space to discover why, “they find something no one expected: a mysterious object floating in space” that might provide the answer.
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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What began as a quest for truth has become a struggle for survival for Luke Skywalker and his son, Ben. They have used the secrets of the Mindwalkers to transcend their own bodies and speak with the spirits of the fallen, risking their very lives in the process. They have faced a team of Sith assassins and beaten the odds to destroy them. And now the death squad's sole survivor, Sith apprentice Vestara Khai, has summoned an entire fleet of Sith frigates...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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THE NEXT CHAPTER IN THE EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY OF THE STAR WARS GALAXY BEGINS HERE. . . . After a violent civil war and the devastation wrought by the now-fallen Darth Caedus, the Galactic Alliance is in crisis-and in need. From all corners, politicians, power brokers, and military leaders converge on Coruscant for a crucial summit to restore order, negotiate differences, and determine the future of their unified worlds. But even more critical, and...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything about the first night that he moved into his new and spare condominium on the outskirts of Baltimore. All he knows when he wakes up the next day in the hospital is that his head is sore and bandaged. His effort...
16) Burn
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Pure trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
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English
Description
The fate of the world is more fragile than ever as Pures battle Wretches and former allies become potential enemies. Inside the Dome, Patridge has taken his father’s place as leader of the Pures. His intent had been to bring down the Dome from the inside with the help of the secret resistance force led by Partridge’s former teacher, Glassings. But from his new position of power, things don’t seem quite as clear. Perhaps his father had been right....
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
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English
Description
A New York Times A Washington PostA A GoodReads Reader's ChoiceOryx and CrakeMaddAddam MaddAddam is vintage Margaret Atwood-a moving and dramatic conclusion to her internationally celebrated dystopian trilogy.
19) Paper and Fire
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Great library volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
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English
Description
In Ink and Bone, New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine introduced a world where knowledge is power, and power corrupts absolutely. Now, she continues the story of those who dare to defy the Great Library--and rewrite history. With an iron fist, The Great Library controls the knowledge of the world, ruthlessly stamping out all rebellion, forbidding the personal ownership of books in the name of the greater good. Jess Brightwell has survived...
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