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"#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward delivers the second novel in her Bourbon Kings series--a sweeping saga of a Southern dynasty struggling to maintain a facade of privilege and prosperity while secrets and indiscretions threaten its very foundation...In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the cr©·me la cr©·me of high society--just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run...
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Cover-up? Kill? Where's Eilidh Duncan?
There's Money To Be Made. Eilidh Duncan investigates a corrupt clique of politicians, officials, bankers, business people and gangsters all lining their pockets at public expense. At the dark heart of The UK Establishment, she documents a business-like operation built on greed, police corruption, abuse of power and 'closed-ranks' disinterest. Not surprisingly, She disappears... and her dossier is missing too.
Eilidh...
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A man walks into an upmarket restaurant in the City. Within seconds, a senior banker lies dead. Shortly afterwards a senior Civil Servant is also shot. Someone is tidying up.
DICE picks up where The SLICE leaves off. In Europe and the USA, Sam Duncan squares up to a secret cabal motivated by greed and power. These players incite corruption, betrayal and murder. Eilidh suffers from PTSD and needs constant care.
Sam Duncan and the mysterious Tonka plunge...
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"When Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family, the last great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune, she doesn't expect the festive occasion to end in death. During the party, Prescott Avery, the 95-year old family patriarch, invites Lucie to his fabulous wine cellar where he offers to pay any price for a cache...
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Salt Lake City is hotter than hell. The Church of the Latter-day Saints is about to celebrate Pioneer Day, in honor of the Saints who crossed half a continent searching for a home. And in the sun-scorched streets, PI Moroni Traveler, fallen Saint and former football star, is searching for a vicious serial killer. The murderer's calling card is a videotape of his beautiful victims-beautiful before the self-styled "Jack the Ripper" vents his savage,...
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Everton Dorril, a rising star at a Jamaican beverage company, immediately fears the worst when his stepmother calls one morning to tell him his father is missing. Everton soon discovers that his father has run off to track down a woman he has been in love with for thirty-five years. An "outside" child born to his father's mistress, Everton deeply resents his father and hates the idea of jeopardizing the most important moment in his career to go find...
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While Phantom vacations at the most exclusive and expensive resort in the world, he wears the body of a young, healthy, handsome young man. Meanwhile, someone else is in his body, undergoing chemo for him.Phantom would prefer to stay young and healthy forever. Who wouldn't? If only it were legal. If only body-swap tech didn't deteriorate so fast.This is Phantom's last time at the resort-his real body can't take any more chemo. But going home is going...
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It's not just the future that comes at you quickly, for Pearl McCann the past is a tornado that's about to tear her life apart.
Pearl has long been at odds with the world, working in disaster zones, saving her conscience from a privileged upbringing. She is often charmless, sarcastic, frequently obnoxious but equally determined to do the right thing and to fight causes that others ignore.
Returning to the UK, she faces the legacy of an extraordinary...
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Salt Lake City is hotter than hell. The Church of the Latter-day Saints is about to celebrate Pioneer Day, in honor of the Saints who crossed half a continent searching for a home. And in the sun-scorched streets, PI Moroni Traveler, fallen Saint and former football star, is searching for a vicious serial killer. The murderer's calling card is a videotape of his beautiful victims-beautiful before the self-styled "Jack the Ripper" vents his savage,...
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Tensions are rising in the run up to the island event of the year - the Vik Show. Not only has the secret recipe for Mrs Hay's peppermint slices been stolen, but someone has had the bad manners to leave a dead body in the distillery. And what does any of this have to do with the disappearance of Elsie the librarian?
A perfect storm of past secrets and political conspiracy is brewing, and it's up to the local weight-loss group, Losers Club, to save...
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Out of the nineteenth century period of reconstruction comes former Sergeant Jack Grady of the Stonewall Brigade, his family, and a diverse cast of southern characters trying to rebuild their ravaged land. Join them in an epic 1865 journey across the war torn South. Meet this beleaguered farm family from the mountains and you will get a perspective of our nation that transcends and enhances textbook history.
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Escaping a prison sentence by the skin of his teeth, the wayward and disillusioned Robbie is given one last chance to turn his life around. Together the four friends he embarks on an adventure and discovers that turning to drink might just change their lives - not cheap fortified wine, but the best malt whiskies in the world.
15) Angel's Share
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Angel's Share is a prequel to The Astreya Trilogy, as told to Astreya and Lindey after they make their home in Matris. Angel recounts how when he was a young able seaman aboard a three-masted schooner, a charismatic leader needed his help to transport five men, more than a dozen women and their children to an abandoned fort. They hoped to escape the breakdown of society by living in a community guided by faith, hope and loyalty. Among the children...
16) Angel's Share
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Mattie Cameron thinks she's got it all figured out: she's got an impressive career in London, a gorgeous boyfriend and brilliant friends. But after a freak skiing accident leaves her with broken bones, an absent boyfriend and a job she can no longer do, moving back to Australia to recuperate at her brother's winery seems like her only option. As Mattie's injuries heal, she begins to wonder where her future might lie, and if it involves the winemaker,...