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"Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations...
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Alfred Coppel (Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel, 1921- 2004) was an American author. Born in Oakland, California, he served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later "slick"...
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Night of fire, night of passion
US Army Upland Ranger Tom Knox always knew going home wouldn't be easy. Three years ago, he skipped town, leaving behind the only woman who ever mattered; now that he's seen the front lines of war, he's ready to do what he must to win her back.
Rosa Campos is long past wasting tears on Tom Knox, and now that she's sheriff of Thornville, she has more than enough to do. Especially when a five-story rock-eating mining...
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An absolutely addictive slow-burn fantasy romance.
A city of magic. A passion born in dreams. A secret that will set their world aflame.
Packed with heart-pounding action and devastating twists, the Nightfire Quartet is an epic-fantasy romance that begins with a slow burn and builds to a steamy enemies-to-lovers adventure. Perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Carissa Broadbent.
For years, Zarya has been trapped in a gilded...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The Doors were a young band on their way up in 1966. One night, Jim Morrison, the lead singer, jumped out of a window drunk. I didn't have much confidence in his grip.
#2 I was the youngest member of the band, and I didn't have any authority over the others. I was constantly being placed at the crossroads between rock 'n' roll stardom and scooping Jim's brains off...
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Herald Press
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[2019]
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What do we do with the Old Testament? How do we read words written in a world so different from ours, stories so ruthless and so filled with grace? In Fire by Night, pastor Melissa Florer-Bixler invites readers to marvel at the Old Testament. Page after page, in stories and poems and prophecies, the Hebrew Scripture introduces us to a God who is unwieldy and uncontrollable, common and extraordinary, and who brings both life and death. Using stories...
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Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 7
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Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
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[2021]
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IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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"Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously, so Morrowseer's devastating news changes everything--now she must forge a new identity, and find a way to stop the futile and destructive war between the dragon clans."
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Minotaur Books
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2020.
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"Swedish police inspector Ann Lindell finally returns in internationally bestselling and award-winning Kjell Eriksson's newest novel. Police inspector Ann Lindell has left the Uppsala police and is living a quiet life, producing local cheese in a small town in Uppland. But life in the country is not as idyllic as it seems. On New Year's Eve someone sets fire to the former village school which is now a home for asylum seekers, and three people are...
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Saga of seven suns volume 5
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Warner Books
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2006
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"In the fifth book of The Saga of Seven Suns, a climactic battle begins between the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes--a fury that will destroy many and change the landscape of the Spiral Arm forever"--Provided by publisher.
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From USA Today bestselling author A.W. Hartoin comes a series perfect for the fans of Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris: A Novel, Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, and Kit Sergeant's The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII.
November, 1938
It began in Vienna, after a night of fire and fear. Stella Bled Lawrence made a promise and she kept it. But the job isn't done. Abel Hershmann's cousins, unaware of the danger, are heading
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"IN A CITY KNOWN FOR DARKNESS, THE UNDERWORLD TREMBLES AT THE RISE OF THE SUN... In book #5 of the Shadowdance series... He is known as Muzien the Darkhand, and a night of fire and blood heralds his arrival to the beleaguered city of Veldaren. With him comes the might of the Sun Guild, its thieves and smugglers eager to spread their criminal empire to the east. Left blind and vulnerable after being attacked by the Widow, Alyssa Gemcroft struggles...
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The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America's future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that...
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As America's economic and cultural influence grew in the 20th Century, the history of the literary arts in Europe cast a long shadow onto this burgeoning nation. And thus, the myth of the Great American Novel was born of a loaded question-would the United States ever produce a work to rival the accepted great works of Western Culture? Many tried. And, in the trying, many looked to model themselves after already extant writers and works which had gained...
19) Gunz
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On dragons' wings, war begins. Magic has returned to Earth. A year ago, the dark elves breached the interstellar veil between our world and theirs. They slaughtered scores of innocents in the first battle of a war between magic and technology. Then they vanished. In the year since, Elizabeth Chambers has trained alongside Cassie "Starlight" Rogan in the Special Forces unit known as Task Force Devil. Their mission: to monitor the interstellar portal...
20) Breaker of Fate
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A thrilling fantasy romance featuring reincarnation, fated mates, LGBTQ+ and plus size representation. The Weaver-blessed and the Warrior.A love so intense, it spans lifetimes.A demon, a dagger, and a deadly betrayal. Derica drifts through a satisfactory, if stagnant, existence in the small farming town of Arlan after her mother's passing-until a night of fire and revelation prompts her to venture into the larger world. Danger, intrigue, and temptation...