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1) Black water
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Merci Rayborn, T. Jefferson Parker's stubborn, principled Orange County detective, is almost alone in believing that deputy Archie Wildcraft didn't kill his beautiful young wife and then turn his service weapon on himself. The evidence against Wildcraft--now hospitalized with a bullet lodged in his head--seems overwhelming. But Merci, who's still unpopular for exposing an old police scandal that caused the death of one cop and the ruination of others...
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From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the first book of her long-anticipated and thrilling new Through The Canvas series: Black Water - a book that won't stop squeezing your book-loving heart before the final page. Bailey Donahue was supposed to stay dead... After witnessing her husband's murder, Bailey's been ripped from her life and secreted away in the Witness Protection Program.
Too bad the sleepy town of Shadow Rock...
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Lieutenant Sean Riley, a United States Coast Guardsmen was doing what his solemn oath asked of him, patrolling the seas, enforcing US regulations, and saving lives. While observing offshore oil platforms, Riley and his crew aboard the Point Long Beach, discovered they were being watched, not the other way around. On shore, the Meridian Oil Company receives a blackmail note. Meridian Oil soon uncovers information that Exxon oil was also blackmailed....
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Black Water weaves a tale of mysticism, eternal love, and maybe a sea monster or two, as a wealthy man searches the Great Maze for the beautiful woman who has haunted his dreams for decades.
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Jay Porter novels volume 1
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Attica Locke—a writer and producer of FOX's Empire—delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented
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"From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of what he's already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic history. They begin an affair, but can they offer...
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Imagine a country that was closed to the outside world for centuries? This is how life was in Japan 160 years ago. Whilst a claustrophobic population ripples with unrest, can the Tokugawa Shogunate's tight grip over a nation possibly be unraveled by small group of individuals? Fact and fiction are combined in this story of how passionate ambition sparked the end of an empire.
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"From the author of the "wonderfully ingenious" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review) novel After the Crash, a thrilling tale of a murder that takes place in Claude Monet's garden and the mystery that surrounds it. Giverny, France. During the day, the town is the home of the famous artist Claude Monet and the gardens where he painted his Water Lilies. But once the tourists have gone, there is a darker side to the peaceful French village....
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Having enemies were common for the Gachette witches but they have always been able to conquer during adversity. When the demon of Gehenna rises after being locked away for a hundred years, the great sage of Black Water Bayou falls, leaving the legacy of her ancestors in the hands of her granddaughters, Merigold and Majesty, still learning how to use their powers and juggling college, the Gachette sisters must go to war with a revengeful demon to save...
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Kelly, una madre jove, se ve envuelta en un misterio que no puede comprender cuando llega al pequeño pueblo de Black Water Creer. Una serie de eventos desafortunados la lleva a descubrir la terrible verdad que se esconde para todos, pero que poco a poco se abre hacia ella.
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When heavy November rains threaten to flood the small town of Black River, New Brunswick, the community calls on the hydroelectric company to open the gates of its dam and drop the water level. But local management has been overruled by their parent company and ordered to keep it closed. It's got some people hinting it's time they took things into their own hands. Seventeen-year-old Stanton Frame is caught in between: his father is manager at the...
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Black Water, the China Connection- The action-packed sequel to Danger Close…
It is five years since Delta Force stopped a deadly missile attack in the Middle East. Now team leader Jason Patrick is living a quieter life in North Carolina with his family, stationed at Fort Bragg.
But that is about to change when a new, even deadlier threat emerges from China. Its hostile president and top scientists have developed "Black Water" – a chemical agent...
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A son who grew up away from his Indigenous culture takes his Cree father on a trip to their family's trapline, and finds that revisiting the past not only heals old wounds but creates a new future.
The son of a Cree father and a non-Indigenous mother, David A. Robertson was raised with virtually no knowledge or understanding of his family's Indigenous roots. His father, Don, spent his early childhood on a trapline in the bush northeast of Norway...
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Within these pages rest the sordid thoughts of an old soul who finds peace in the darkest corners of the world. You will find few uplifting words in this book and little to inspire, soothe or even help you cope. What you will find within these pages are poems that express the darkness many fear yet others embrace. Some require you to take time to examine this bizarre existence we call life, to gain a glimpse into the mind of those who make these shadows...
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Imagine being thrust into a world where everything you knew as a child was now unfamiliar. The working crew on a Great Lakes iron core freighter is now your daily connection to earning enough money to go the college. As the events progress, the vessel, which is your home and job, becomes unstable and eventually not seaworthy. The crew is dysfunctional, and the dynamics of interactions of the captain's family throw all caution to the wind. The history...
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"When I was very young and on holiday in Scotland, my cousin told me about giant trout that lived in small numbers at the bottom of the Highlands' deepest lochs. They were called salmo ferox, and they were rumoured to be uncatchable.!In his twenties, wholly accidentally, Jon Berry caught one. This led to an obsession that would cost him every pound he had to his name, a few thousand that he did not, a couple of girlfriends and his home. It would take...
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Collected for the very first time – Ninjak's solo debut in the original Valiant Universe by Mark Moretti (Bloodshot) & comics icon Joe Quesada (Daredevil, Amazing Spider-Man)!
Colin King – sophisticated British playboy by day, elite super-spy by night! Codenamed Ninjak, King is gifted with a brilliant mind and lethal training in the world's most dangerous fighting techniques. Both will be put to the ultimate test as he is drawn into globe-spanning...
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The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. Sylvia Frey contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle--two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves. She reveals the dialectical relationships between slave resistance and Britain's Southern Strategy and between slave resistance...
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In these pages Dr. Belay D. Reddick draws on his experience as a prominent mentor coach to provide practical advice on how to inspire African American boys and affect positive change in their lives. Youll find tips on everything from creating youth summits and working with the community to employing effective topics in your mentorship work and taking self-assessments. For every adult black male who wants to save a generation of lost black boys, Theres...