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1) Descent
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Peak volume 4
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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In this thrilling novel from the bestselling author of Peak, mountain-climbing prodigy Peak Marcello faces his toughest challenge yet as he descends into Tibet and goes head-to-head with an old enemy.
Peak and his team need to descend into Tibet after surviving an avalanche on the remote and isolated mountain of Hkakabo Razi. The only catch is that Peak's famous mountaineering father, Josh, and climbing guide, Zopa, are both
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'What did you leave behind, Captain?''Bad memories and a f**king mess...'
4991 TCE : 09 : 21Life is full of choices.
Eric Hillar's choices have led to the United Trade Confederate branding him their first terrorist in over 2000 revolutions. On the run, he finds himself in the sector of space known as The Rim. It is not just the slaver press gangs that notice his arrival.
Pirate Captain Hawke has a target she needs crew for, and she doesn't take...
3) Descent
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The most compelling Star Frontier yet.
For almost sixty years, Imraec Tarc has occupied the world of Katara. For almost sixty years, no one has cared. But no longer. Prominent figures in the United Frontier have their eyes set on Imraec Tarc and are planning to send an intervention force into the region. In preparation for the massive undertaking, Selina Erama and Asten Korr journey to Imraec Tarc to find a missing Phalamkian diplomat, while Maia...
4) Descent
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Persephone Abbot is in my debt. Exactly the way I want it. The sins of the father should not be inherited by the daughter. It's unfair, I know, but since when has life been fair? The events that brought us here began on Halloween night more than five years ago in that chapel ruin. I saved her that night. Carried her home through the storm that was the omen warning of what would come.
I didn't know it then, but I do now. Her father destroyed something...
5) Descent
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From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a poignant, searching memoir about one man's fall into depression in the wake of a national tragedy, and his brave struggle to return to normalcy. Like most of the country and the world, David Guterson woke up on Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, not thinking history was about to change. He was in Washington, D.C., with a group of fellow writers, evaluating grant applications for the National...
6) Descent
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The cause of Esther Richardson's undiagnosed health condition has been a mystery for as long as she can remember. When a series of chilling events bring with them confusion and darkness, clues also emerge. Will she be able to piece everything together before it's too late?
7) Descent
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Six hundred years after The Outbreak, the human population stand side by side with the Fae & the Vampyrs to stop the Demon King from starting a second Dark War.
Seventeen year old Adelaide Tate is in her last year of the Academy, with her eyes set on becoming part of the Red Guard. Who cares that no female has ever joined?
When a dark force develops an unhealthy liking for her, Adelaide needs to fight for her life and figure out what makes her so...
8) Descent
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Written by Jay Bonansinga, based on the original series created by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead: Descent follows the events of The Fall of the Governor, and Lilly Caul's struggles to rebuild Woodbury after the Governor's shocking demise. Out of the ashes of its dark past, Woodbury, Georgia, becomes an oasis of safety amidst the plague of the walking dead – a town reborn in the wake of its former tyrannical leader, Philip Blake, aka The Governor....
9) Descent
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After almost a year since Regan came to the world Murgin, danger has followed him like a loyal dog. Threats are the main theme of his life as a dungeon core and every time he deals with one, another appears to take its place. Now with the struggles of the Beneath Races as well as the mysterious peril coming from space, he might not have time to solve all his current problems before one of them blows up in his face. He is not without any recourse though,...
10) Descent
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Maya (Rosario Dawson) is like many other college coeds, book smart yet shy, curious about sex, yet scared to let herself go. One night she meets Jared. When their courtship turns from romantic to horrific in a single violent act, Maya's world is ripped inside-out. Shutting out everyone in her life, Maya loses herself to a dark throbbing underworld of drugs and sexual experimentation. Lured by club DJ Adrian, she awakens to a cold and vicious new strength,...
11) Descent
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Will Vee bring the apocalypse the Four Horsemen were sent to stop or is she here to prevent a world destroyed by chaos?
The Four Horsemen are left reeling from their discovery that the world is threatened by something greater than anybody imagined. Now the group are forced into an uneasy alliance with old enemies. But can they be trusted?
The group discover the shocking answer to who Vee is, why she's here, and her connection to Chaos is revealed....
14) Descent: A Novel
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A girl vanishes "on a sunny, late-summer vacation morning" and thus begins a "family's harrowing journey down increasingly divergent and solitary paths, until all that continues to bind them to each other are the questions they can never bring themselves to ask: At what point does a family stop searching? At what point does a girl stop fighting for her life?"--
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The Descent of Man and Other Stories offers the author's well-known depictions of upper class life in New York, but also exhibits her remarkable talent in tales of humorous irony, history and the supernatural.
Originally published in 1904 The Descent of Man and Other Stories features the author's nuanced prose and sharply observed characters in a chain of unforgettable tales. In several Wharton examines marriage, which was frequently arranged in...
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In The Descent of Man Darwin addresses many of the issues raised by his notorious Origin of Species: finding in the traits and instincts of animals the origins of the mental abilities of humans, of language, of our social structures and our moral capacities, he attempts to show that there is no clear dividing line between animals and humans. Most importantly, he accounts for what Victorians called the 'races' of mankind by means of what he calls sexual...
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Waterhouse Press
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2020
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The end to his story has already been written...
Brad Steel made a promise to his wife and children—to create a legacy born from his love for them and his desire to protect them from harm. It was a worthy ambition...
But along the way, something went terribly wrong.
Daphne Steel loves her husband beyond measure and will stand by him no matter what, even when it's more than she can deal with. She escapes
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"Descent Into Hell" is a novel by Charles Williams, first published in 1937. On Battle Hill, just outside London, a group of townspeople is performing a new play by Peter Stanhope. This hill, however, appears to be positioned at a pivotal place in space and time, as people from the past begin to appear and the townsfolk are transported either to heaven, or to hell.
19) Descent: #10.5
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It's New Year in the West Country town of Abbeyford and Detective Sergeant Kate Redman is trying to cope with her workload, her relationship with her former DCI, and with the discovery of a frozen body at the bottom of a local ravine. A tragic accident? Suicide? Or murder? Kate has enough to contend with when it comes to the recent recruitment of DCI Nicola Weaver who seems determined to prove Kate wrong. But is this a crime and if it is, what does...
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In a fantasy world filled with Men, Elves, and Dwarves, these disparate kingdoms must unite to overcome a greater enemy who would see the world drown in darkness. Princes, guards, and average citizens all have a part to play when it comes to saving the world… and maybe finding a companion to ease the heart. See excerpt for individual blurbs.
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