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81) Eureka: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Otis Halstead, 59, married father of one, is in the clutches of a midlife crisis spending spree; he dismisses his nagging wife's pleas that he see a therapist and continues buying items he's always dreamed of owning: a miniature fire truck (now a collector's item that goes for $12,000), a BB gun, a football helmet and an antique red Cushman motor scooter. The suicide of disillusioned co-worker Pete Wetmore (who left behind a telling note) provides...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 7
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
Author
Series
Mystery bookshop volume 8
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
After the local library floods, Michigan bookstore owner Sam Washington agrees to host a local book club, whose unpleasant leader turns up bludgeoned to death with an Agatha Christie collection.
85) The green trap
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Investigating the murder of his microbiologist brother, Paul Cochrane follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to investigate his brother's work on a process that could produce a limitless supply of free energy to power the world.
86) Graveyard dust
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery's most exciting heroes. Now he returns in a powerful new novel, a sensual mosaic of old New Orleans, where cultures clash and murder can hover around every darkened corner.
It is St. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January-Creole physician and music teacher-is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Did she slip through the cracks, or was she pushed? When a severed hand is found in an abandoned flat, Detective Jake Porter and his partner Nick Styles are able to DNA match the limb to the owner, Natasha Barclay, who has not been seen in decades. But why has no one been looking for her? It seems that Natasha's family are the people who can least be trusted. Delving into the details behind her disappearance and discovering links to another investigation,...
89) Rumor has it
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Fire meets ice when a Yankee heartthrob falls for a resistant proper Southern belle determined to guard her heart in this contemporary romance"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far. It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens--but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them--a young woman the show's...
91) The searcher
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"For fans of Lee Child and Stephen King, the author of the acclaimed Sanctus trilogy conjures an eerie epic of good and evil, retribution and redemption-the first novel in the mesmerizing Solomon Creed series in which a man with no memory of his past must save a lost soul in a small Arizona town"--
92) Mrs: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women: Gwen Hogan, a childhood...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Cafe, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice to the once-sleepy village.
But when a young woman with a dark secret literally washes up on Clew Bay Beach, the sisters' world is once again turned...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan must turn to her enemies for help when she is denounced and shunned from the magical community for dealing with demons and black magic, but Rachel Morgan has a difficult time learning to trust the unscrupulous Trent Kalamack, the demon Algaliarept, who may hold her only chance of freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In the tradition of Good in Bed and The Assistants comes a funny and smart comedy about a young matchmaker balancing her messy personal life and the demands of her eccentric clients. Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up from his BlackBerry. But when her dream career falls...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
During one of the first heavy snows of the winter, on the Interstate outside the Twin Cities, Rushmore McKenzie is behind a truck behaving erratically when the man in the truck bed dumps a body out onto the road, right in front of McKenzie's car. McKenzie avoids hitting the body, a bound woman who is just barely alive, but his stopped car in the middle of the road starts a chain of accidents, resulting in a thirty-seven car pile-up. By the time the...
97) The outlaw breed
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A man could smell the violence in the valley when he rode down through it. War hung heavy in the air--between the rich ranchers and the wild, lawless tribe who squatted above them--and Jesse Craven was caught in the middle. Jesse Craven was ramrod of the valley's biggest spread. He was born to the hills' most savage mongrel clan--and now, Jesse had a terrible choice to make. But ultimately, it was a woman that made it for him.
98) Succubus on top
Author
Series
Georgina Kincaid novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
It seems completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can't get hot and heavy with the one mortal who knows and accepts her for what she is.
100) Thin air
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"On a Mars where ruthless commercial interests violently collide with a homegrown independence movement, as Earth-based overlords battle for profits and power, Hakan Veil is an ex-corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. But he's had enough of the turbulent red planet, and all he wants is a ticket back home--which is just what he's offered by the Earth Oversight organization, in exchange for...