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In this new thriller from Russell James a 21st century quest for sunken treasure is interlaced with love and tragedy from the time of the Spanish Armada. King Philip's quest to defeat and subdue upstart Britain under Queen Elizabeth 1st is in stark contrast to the very different quest of a film crew in a hired boat off the wild coast of northern Scotland.While at least one of the team is convinced he knows the location of a previously undiscovered...
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Norman finds the secret to making Stradivari violins. MI6, Russian hackers and others want it. What if the greatest violin maker in history actually did have a secret formula? And, what if it were stumbled upon, more than 300 years later, by innocent guitar makers, who then became the target of someone who could not let that secret be revealed. Add to this volatile situation a second party who wants the secret made public.
The cascade of events...
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A few years after his wife is killed, private investigator Steve Blake is forced from his guarded life to track down a murderer. But he soon finds himself embroiled in an international plot that could cause an apocalyptic catastrophe if he can't crack the case. Determined to find the killer, Steve must face his own demons while fending off shadowy black-ops agents and deadly rogue spies. People are not who they first appear to be, unlikely alliances...
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Have you ever felt disconnected, unsure of your place in the world? Have you ever felt that society glorified the imbecilic and that most civilized problems could be cured with common sense? Have you ever wanted to make your own justice for it and punish the corrupt and perverted that destroy our trust? What if you found a way to do it?Follow an unnamed narrator, through his daily life of work drugs and violence, finding ways he can exploit the loop...
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Steven Statton - a very working-class spy', is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue and betrayal at the heart of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency.
Although set mainly in London, the story sees Steven Statton travel the world in an effort to counter an Iranian plot to use the Mafia to destabilise Britain by flooding its streets with heroin. However, Statton's task is made harder when he is betrayed by somebody working in the British Secret...
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When Lionel and Goldie's baby is stolen, it leads them to a farm in the middle of nowhere where true evil awaits.They have 24 hrs to get him back before they lose him forever.The day is night, the children are ghouls, and the home belongs to a nightmare creature known as the Death Digger. The clock is ticking.From the mind of a four year old and brought to life by his father.
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"A modern-day Gaslight"
The Blue Prussian is a spellbinding story told by Blake O'Brien, a beautiful, young executive with a globetrotting career. Blake returns to her native Manhattan from San Francisco after escaping-or so she thinks-her marriage to a dashing man who turned out to be a prince of darkness. She had been hoping for a fresh start but learns that she has been poisoned with thallium-a deadly neurotoxin referred to as the poisoner's...
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First published in 1926. Mrs Bentley has been arrested for murder. The evidence is overwhelming: arsenic she extracted from fly papers was in her husband's medicine, his food and his lemonade, and her crimes are being plastered across the newspapers. Even her lawyers believe she is guilty. But Roger Sheringham, the brilliant but outspoken young novelist, is convinced that there is 'too much evidence' against Mrs Bentley and sets out to prove her innocence....
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The author of the highly acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago, with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs.
Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa Al Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style...
10) Shadow Hunting
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On the hunt. On the run.Mason Nash thought he'd retired from the spy game until a new and deadly private spy agency, Tartarus, came to hunt him down.When Nash discovers Tartarus have double agents in every legitimate spy agency on the planet, there's only one place he can go-into the shadows.On the run, Nash has few he can trust. Is his new ally Eva Destruction everything she appears to be? And then there's the new arrival, Charles Bishop, a man with...
11) Lethal Reunion
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"Lethal Reunion" is a gripping thriller that follows five friends-Ava, Jake, Maya, Ethan, and Ben-as they gather for a weekend getaway at a secluded cabin in the woods. What begins as a nostalgic reunion quickly turns sinister when they find themselves trapped in a deadly game orchestrated by an unseen adversary.As night falls, a mysterious box appears, initiating a series of chilling challenges that force the friends to confront their darkest fears...
12) Legally Comatose
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Tanya Kawoski, an elementary school teacher, and her fiance, Michel are all set to go on their first vacation together. That vacation gets side-tracked, though, when Michel is attacked. Tanya's brother James has to help his sister figure out who attacked Michel and keep all three of them out of danger. This book is a novella, or about 18,000 words, and is filled with love, passion, intrigue and mystery. Be sure to check out the other books by Rory...
13) Identity Crisis
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Just as Kristen and Steel think the past is behind them, their wedding reception is attended by an unwelcome guest who puts them face to face with the demons they have tried so hard to forget. Julie, Kristen's long time best friend, must fight for her life as she's kidnapped and held for ransom. Her only hope to be saved is James Kawoski, Steel's ex-boss and Best Man. To find out more about their budding romance, you'll have to read the book. This...
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In this new international thriller from the author of The Geneva Option, UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay is drawn into a web of betrayal and intrigue that leads from deep within America's military-industrial complex to the Middle East and beyond. Yael Azoulay went rogue in Geneva and nearly lost her life; although her physical wounds are healed, she will never be able to forget what happened. Now back in New York, when the secretary-general asks...
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With T. S. Eliot's words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape located somewhere between his small town in Northern Ireland and Iowa ... and maybe between heaven and hell.
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"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "
Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?
Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it-she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some...
17) Las preciosas
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En un desesperado pedido de ayuda, Natalia, una chica muy joven, recurre a Malena, mujer madura y empleada de tribunales. Busca información que supone encontrará en un expediente judicial.
El cruce de sus historias devela un pasado obturado de secretos en la vida de ambas y conduce hacia el intento de reconstruirlo, entenderlo o remediarlo. Son las suyas existencias determinadas por los prejuicios y la violencia. El abuso y la violación. Sobre...
18) Ember
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Blayke 'Ember' MathisonGrowing up, I was repressed. I couldn't do much of anything because my parents believe their religious beliefs outweigh everything else. I have reasons to stay; reasons to take the punishments and be controlled. My breaking point is when I'm expected to marry the last person I ever would. Can I get out and find my happy?Logan JohnsKings Vengeance MC is my family. My dad is the President of the club. I tried to get away for a...
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION
Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.
Shadows in the Night by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she's suspected murder all along. Now the unveiling of the Amenmose exhibit is triggering a series of unexplained attacks, and there's only one man she can trust. FBI...
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Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the men's paths for only a few hours or moments.
In "Beaching It," an artist traveling on the summer...
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