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1) The Taker
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Taker volume 1
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English
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From the author of The Hunger-hailed by Stephen King as "deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down"-comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale replete with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.
True love can last an eternity...but immortality comes at a price...
On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae-Lanny-walks into...
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Taker volume 2
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English
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In the second installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, author of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, takes you on a breathtaking 200-year journey through the landscape of the heart.
Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone.
She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote...
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An adventure story involving two teenage students, who visit a mansion of a mysterious owner, whose ancestors were big game hunters in Africa. The mansion had many glass cases filled with stuffed animals. One night, they were asked to accompany two strange minders and the son of the owners butler, to help carry the spirits of the animals back to Africa, where a ceremony was to be held. On their way, their craft was attacked by some evil aliens called...
4) The Descent
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Alma Katsu's acclaimed trilogy-a supernatural epic that began with The Taker and sparked a chase around the world in The Reckoning-comes to a stunning conclusion, and brings Lanore McIlvrae to a final encounter with Adair, her powerful nemesis. Dismayed by Adair's otherworldly powers and afraid of his passionate temper, Lanore has run from him across time, even imprisoning him behind a wall for two centuries to save Jonathan, her eternal love....
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The Thief-takers volume 1
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English
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The Lady is a Thief Years ago, Owen Renderwell earned acclaim-and a title-for the dashing rescue of a kidnapped duchess. But only a select few knew that Scotland Yard's most famous detective was working alongside London's most infamous thief...and his criminally brilliant daughter, Charlotte Walker. Lottie was like no other woman in Victorian England. She challenged him. She dazzled him. She questioned everything he believed and everything he was,...
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The Thief-takers volume 2
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English
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She's a liar. She's a con. She's a thief. And God help him, but he'll do anything to keep her safe. Beautiful and conniving, maddening and brilliant, Esther is everything private detective Samuel Brass shouldn't want. Esther knows she's put herself in terrible danger, but nothing will stop her from making amends-not her family's enemies, not old fears, and certainly not the domineering, interfering, and undeniably handsome former officer of the Scotland...
7) Taker
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**He stole me away, and now he's my only hope
On the run with the bad boy and his son –
And our story gets crazier
I'm pregnant with his baby!
Her:**
In the wrong place at the wrong time, I saw something I never should have seen
The people responsible aren't happy to have a witness running around
Enter Tate Dale, the man sent to deliver me to my fate
Only he doesn't kill me; instead, he takes me with him, along with his kid
He tells me he's the...
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**He stole me away, and now he's my only hope
On the run with the bad boy and his son –
And our story gets crazier
I'm pregnant with his baby!
Her:**
In the wrong place at the wrong time, I saw something I never should have seen
The people responsible aren't happy to have a witness running around
Enter Tate Dale, the man sent to deliver me to my fate
Only he doesn't kill me; instead, he takes me with him, along with his kid
He tells me he's the...
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Series
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English
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Life had always felt like a never-ending loop of expectations and rules. That's why when I spotted the "Help Wanted" sign at The Good Char, the hotdog on a stick food place in the mall. It was perfect! Like the condiments were calling my name. Little did I know, stepping into that vibrant hotdog stand would lead me straight into hell. Dzik, my grumpy manager with an air of mystery about him, brooded and grumbled even after he hired me. His standoffish...
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