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A husband thought dead returns to save his wife's life in this sizzling thriller from the USA Today–bestselling authors of Gunning for the Groom.
When someone tries to kill security expert Sophia Leone on a dark road, she's rescued by her husband-a US army general she thought died a year ago. Suddenly, Frank Leone is back, very much alive, and insisting that someone is trying to kill Sophia. Convicted of treason before his supposed death, Frank...
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Kampf um "Seltene Erden": In Köln stirbt ein Forscher, der einer geologischen Sensation auf der Spur war. Kommissarin Hannah Franckh übernimmt die Ermittlungen. Dabei deckt sie nach und nach Hintergründe von geopolitischer Bedeutung auf und erkennt, dass im weltweiten Kampf um Ressourcensicherung und Mobilität jedes Mittel recht ist - bis hin zum Mord. Sie gerät zwischen die Fronten skrupelloser internationaler Interessenvertreter aus Politik...
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To be the king - you need to kill the king.
When East-End gangster and 'frenemy' to the Last Chance Saloon, Johnny Lucas, is accused of murdering a London gangland rival in his boxing club, he claims his brother was the killer.
The only problem though is that his brother, Jackie, is actually Johnny's multiple personality.
Pulled in to prove the case, DI Declan Walsh and his team soon realise that Johnny might be as innocent as he claims, as a new...
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Surrounded by enemies, I've never been further from my crown... Or closer to death. Amidst a betrayal we couldn't have anticipated, I'll do whatever it takes to find my way back to Lorian—before his fury lays waste to this continent. Alliances are being forged and broken, our enemies are unifying, and Regner's spiders are closer than ever before. We have only one chance to prevent him from attaining god-like powers and enslaving every human,...
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Linden Kemp's grandmother tells her: Old age is a privilege our men never got to know.
Linden's grandfather drowned trying to save others when Hurricane Hazel lashed an unprepared Toronto. The hippie father she never knew died in the monsoons of India. Her husband slipped from life on the black ice of freezing rain. In her work as a climatologist, Linden knows the world faces more natural disasters. This knowledge and her legacy of death darken her...
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Vagina Bible offers empowering, period-positive, no-nonsense facts about the science, medicine and myths surrounding menstruation.
Most women, transgender, and non-binary people who menstruate can expect to have hundreds of periods in a lifetime. So why is real information so hard to find? Despite its significance, most education about menstruation focuses either on increasing the chances of pregnancy...
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Murderbot diaries volume 7
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2023.
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"Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans,...
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2024
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" Straddling the line between psychological thriller and domestic horror, Sierra's auspicious debut immediately plunges readers headlong into its unnamed protagonist's waking nightmare . . . tense, emotionally resonant . . . Well-timed flashbacks add context and poignancy. Fiercely feminist and viscerally terrifying. -- Kirkus Reviews, starred Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a mother tucks her son back into bed in the middle...
10) Her Last Lie
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A twisting tale of guilt, motherhood, and murder by the bestselling author of The Secret Couple . . .
When the body of Jen's teenage son, Eli, is found at the edge of a lake, her shock and grief are overwhelming-and so is the activity swirling around her as the police investigate.
The guilt she feels because she was not at home the night her child was killed weighs heavy on Jen's heart. But while she hides a secret, Jen yearns to know what...
11) Legionary
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Death by your comrades' hands . . .
17 BC. Julius Quintus Quirinius, like many citizens in the years after Rome's civil wars, must volunteer with the Roman army or be sold into slavery.
Keen to prove his worth, he becomes a member of the IXth Legion, but after only six months his cohort suffer a brutal defeat, the result of stupidity and cowardice.
Cowardice in a legionary carries a heavy punishment: the sentence of decimation-to live or die at...
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In the winter of 1846, the Donner Party was stranded by heavy snows in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The pioneers endured bitter hardships and many of them died. But some survived, including eight-year-old Patty Reed, a girl filled with dignity and determination in the face of mortal danger. This is her story, as told by Dolly, the wooden doll she kept hidden in her dress.
13) Lion Warrior
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The dragon war has breached the barrier. The forces of the Liberated Land are near to breaking. Without a heavy and rapid shift in the Assembly's strategy, a dragon invasion will be unstoppable. Connor and Kara have kept the full knowledge of the Red Dagger's location secret for almost a year. A chance to destroy Heleyor and end the war is within the Lightraider Order's grasp. They must now reveal what they know and call for action. With time running...
14) The Never Wars
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In The Never Wars-a mind-bending mix of Interstellar and The Expanse-a group of disgraced Special Forces are given one chance to redeem themselves. The question is whether they'll survive long enough for it to matter.
Special Forces are used for crazy ops, but orbiting a black hole to slow down time and fight Earth's dirty wars in the future? That's new, even for them. But that's the mission for Owen Quarry, Anaya Pretorius, and the rest of COG,...
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1878: When his family loses their home, to Jack Roberts, who has grown up hearing stories of the Crimean war and the magnificent charge of the Heavy Brigade, the choice between working in a dangerous factory or enlisting in the army and putting on the famed red uniform is an easy one. But when fighting for Queen and Country takes him far from home and defending a small mission station from overwhelming numbers, it is anything but easy and bravery...
16) Botanic Sunrise
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This story tells of a twenty year old girl who is house sitting for six months in a seemingly calm and pleasant neighbourhood where nothing peculiar seems to happen. That is until Mandy hears screaming in the night, hears wailing and moaning during a heavy thunderstorm, feels an earth tremor beneath her feet and feels a man breathing over her in the night. And she has no-one to confide in. She may be hypersensitive but does she catastrophise events...
17) The chosen
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Fredrika Bergman mysteries volume 5
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On a cold winter's day, a pre-school teacher is shot to death at the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm. Just hours later, two Jewish boys go missing on their way to tennis practice. Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht hunt for a killer that seems as merciless as he is effective.
18) Nebula Risen
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Jonny Nebula was the greatest heavy-grav fighter to ever compete in the Orbs. Galactic Champion for two decades running, no one could touch his skill. Until his final, brutal fight when his reign came to a bloody, deadly end.
But, as Roak is about to find out, there's always an encore.
An old friend from his past. A job that shouldn't exist. A web of lies and deceit that goes deeper than anyone knows. Roak has his work cut out for him.
It'll take...
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The McCaw Podcast Universe covers both Time Burton's Batman franchise and Christopher Nolan's the Dark Knight Trilogy! Throughout this series, the McCaws are joined by several guests, including comedians and comic book afficionados Will and Kevin Hines. With a heavy dose of nostalgia in each movie, Jordan and Micah deep dive into these iconic representations of the Caped Crusader. They also go through the film careers of both Tim Burton and Christopher...
20) Hacking Darkness
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The thing that makes me special is also the reason I've been kidnapped.
Somewhere in my head I have access to a code, given to me at the moment my world collapsed. It's that my kidnappers want, all four of them and their mysterious boss whose very name makes my heart beat faster. Hard men. Criminals, I'm sure. Willing to do anything to break me, and take what they want.
But locked in the dark, I soon realize it's not only what's in my head they're...