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"Some places earn their bad reputation through tall tales or chance. Grizzly Falls is different. Here, killers aren't just the stuff of legends and campfire lore. Someone is in the nighttime shadows, watching the local teens play around in the moonlit woods. Waiting for the right moment, the right victim. Waiting to take away a life. Detective Regan Pescoli is counting the days until her maternity leave. Exhausted and emotional, the last thing she...
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At the end of World War I, after four years of unimaginable man-made destruction, a swiftly killing virus travelled the planet. Up to one hundred million people perished in the most lethal pandemic in recorded history, the so-called "Spanish" influenza. More than half those who died were young adults aged between twenty and forty.
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Tessa Jamison couldn't have imagined anything worse than losing her beloved twin girls and husband--until she was convicted of their murder. For ten years, she has counted off the days in Florida's Correctional Center for Women, fully expecting to die behind bars. Fighting to prove her innocence holds little appeal now that her family's gone. But on one extraordinary day, her lawyers announce that Tessa's conviction has been overturned due to a technicality,...
4) Lost voices
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Lost voices trilogy volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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Assaulted and left on the cliffs outside of her grim Alaskan fishing village by her abusive, alcoholic uncle, fourteen-year-old Luce expects to die when she tumbles into the icy waters below, but when she instead transforms into a mermaid she is faced with struggles and choices she could never have imagined.
5) Forever
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For Lydia Susi, there is no sweet sorrow in saying goodbye to the man she loves ... As an operative for a clandestine arm of the United States government, Daniel Joseph always expected to die an early death. He just assumed it would be out in the field--not in a laboratory hospital bed. With his time running out, he refuses a potentially lifesaving treatment to focus on making sure that Lydia finds her wolven clan ... Marshaling his strength, he must...
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"As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could anticipate practically any ending. The ending she'd never imagined was her own. To be fair, no one expects to die at thirty-seven. So when the unthinkable happens to Julia, rather than following the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel,...
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From the RITA Award finalist: He bought her freedom to serve his vengeance-but now he wants to claim her for his bed . . .
Battle-scarred Viking Alarr is a broken warrior who expects to die carrying out his oath of blood vengeance. He saves maiden Breanne O'Callahan from slavery only with the intention of getting close enough to kill her foster father. Until their spark of passion ignites a desire to keep her close . . . and presents Alarr with...
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Encased in the 700 pound spacesuit, Barlow was rolled into the first rocket to the moon-and he expected to die.
He was on a mission to promote peace and his life would be the sacrifice. In bravado he claimed, "To me, the only important thing is that I'm the first man into space. That's enough for anyone to know."
But standing on the vast, lonely expanse of the moon would life-his life-mean more?
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Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he's not dead, and now he has to explain.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Sten fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead, he is a slave laborer in a POW camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Sten's style. And now that the war is building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needs him more than ever. Not even the toughest prison in the known universe can keep Sten from his mission...
11) Beating Cancer
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The book deals with the author contracting level four prostate cancer, and the various feelings that are involved when one gets told to expect to die within six months.The objective is to assist the reader to cope with a similar situation, knowing that the reader is not alone, others also have gone through a situation like this.The cancer got healed with the assistance of a person who knew how to do this, using alternative medical methods.
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A mother's love knows no end. Meagan Holt is a mom risking it all to save her daughter, Madeline. Through poetry, and intimate journal entries, you will get a look at what it is like being a parent, saving your child's life with cannabis. This book is a collection of the real, raw emotions a parent goes through when their child is expected to die. When there are no more medical options. When the doctors give up hope. This book tells the story of little...
14) The Unwanteds
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The Unwanteds volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
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Having grown up knowing nothing about her artist mother's estranged family, thirteen-year-old Kiara spends the summer getting acquainted with her cousins and trying to understand her complex and cranky grandmother.
16) Abridged
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Many Christians have political differences. Nobody expects to die over them.
Kennedy's pastor has always been outspoken. Maybe too outspoken. With his church under fire for its stance on women in leadership, Kennedy jumps at the chance to defend her friend and mentor.
What she doesn't realize is that by stating her opinion, she's inviting attacks from extremists on both sides of the aisle ...
Extremists willing to do anything to silence her voice.
No...
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Meet Sprague Deacon, one of the toughest old-time hockey players who ever skated upon a rink of hand-poured ice. Sprague was born and raised and he expects to die here on the Northern Labrador coast. What he did not expect was a tour bus full of vampires, none of whom glitter in the least bit, to pull into his town and begin lowering the population level, one corpse at a time. Sprague and his three best friends, an over-the-hill never-say quit bush...
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Most of us have packed a suitcase or a small bag to go on a journey somewhere... But to pack a suitcase for the last journey of all? The hand luggage, crammed full or almost empty, with which to arrive in heaven? Angela Pritchard's childhood is in post-war London and later she trains as a nurse in one of the big teaching hospitals there. After immigrating to Australia in 1963, her parents are told she is expected to die on an operating table, and...
19) A Thousand Rooms
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'Part philosophy, part speculative fiction, part romance, this is intelligent commercial women's fiction at its best.' ★★★★★ Amazon reviewer
'You don't wake up expecting to die.'
Katie, thirty-two, is living a pretty good life.
She has a good job, her own flat, and a fabulous pair of new red shoes. Sure, she hasn't had a boyfriend for a while, but she figures she still has time.
Until time is taken away.
Hit by a car while crossing the...