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When the electricity fails one snowy night, Jay Baldwin, a power-company foreman, leaves his Red Lodge, Mont., home to investigate. He later phones his wife, Sabrina, to report that someone has cut trees so that they have fallen onto power lines. Back at the house, Sabrina is confronted by an armed intruder, Garland Webb, who takes her hostage for an unknown reason. Webb, who was just released from prison for sexual assault, is the quarry of PI Markus...
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Hachette Audio
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2016
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Rise the dark.
These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her is out of prison, and draws Markus to the place he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a town called Cassadaga....
These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her is out of prison, and draws Markus to the place he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a town called Cassadaga....
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Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate than middle-class workers? --Publisher.
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If you were responsible for destroying the world what lengths would you push yourself to in order to fix even the littlest part of it?
Caneon and his friends find themselves answering this exact question when the innocent pastime they saw as a hobby becomes so much more. A trip to Mexico with new friends traps them in a city with some of the world's oldest predators. Only they aren't from this world.
Unprepared for what they've awakened, they fight...
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Book six, in the Chronicles of the Supernatural. The end of the prophecy, as told in the book of Enoch, echoes through time and religion. The Watchers (fallen angels), and the Jinn (the race which preceded humankind), once banished from the earthly realm by God, are now free to return, as the day of great judgement is imminent. The end of days on Earth means an ascension for humans, the time to return to the heavens. God will annihilate all evil,...
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A secret spell that could unlock unlimited magic. An impossible choice between love and power.
When the young witch, Josie, is sent to retrieve a vial of fae blood for her father's spell, she's attacked by a rogue vampire. But before he can finish the job, she's saved by another creature.
One she loves.
Her father would kill her if he found out about James, the half-angel she'd do anything for. But things start to crumble when her father turns on...
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An, expansive, intriguing and meticulous account of the Sicilian Mafia.
The pre-dawn arrests of the last remaining Mafiosi in December 2008 signaled the end of the Sicilian Mafia as we know it. In Mafia: Inside the Dark Heart, A.G.D. Maran charts the complete history of the world's most infamous criminal organization, from its first incarnation as an alternative form of local government in the Sicilian countryside and arguable force for "good," to...
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Take a journey with Sibusiso, Paul, Refiloe, and Zechariah. They are four individuals living different lives. Yet they dont know that heaven has great plans for them. They also dont know that the dark kingdom does too. The multi-billionaire Sibusiso Khumalo grapples with his spirituality while his partner, Refiloe Chabedi a journalist with a passion for adventure, struggles to stay alive. Paul Damas is a free-lance writer with immense financial problems....
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Tasha Must Go On Her Longest Adventure Ever To Stop A New Foe The Dark Princess Warrior From Using Her Dark Sword To Unleash Her Creature Army And Her Fortress And Making People Her Slaves And From Eventually Destroying Tasha's Kingdom And The Whole World Tasha Will Encounter Many New Allies Some Including The Queen Of The Trolls And Her Trolls However Tasha Will Also Encounter Many New Foes Some Including Chris And Brittany Pablo The Bounty Hunters...
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Beth A. Griech-Polelle examines the factors that led to the ascendance of Adolf Hitler during the rebuilding of post-World War I Germany. Moving from the birth of modern Germany through the First World, War, Polelle then focuses on Hitler's early years and the creation of the National Social German Workers' Party. Polelle illustrates how Hitler consolidated power-resulting in a society divided against itself and at war with a major portion of the...
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Sue and Bob Windsor leave the USA to follow what they believe to be God's mission for them, during the last few years on planet Earth, as we know it. From Jerusalem, they send newsletters home to family and friends describing catastrophic events, prophesied for over three-thousand years. The horror of the catastrophic events happening worldwide and the intrigue of the rise to power of the sinister "Beast" draw the reader into the story.
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UDON Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
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CAPCOM's legendary action-horror video game series, DARKSTALKERS, in the inimitable UDON comics style! Morrigan, Felicia, Donovan and other favorite characters prepare to do battle with the maleficient Demitri, with nothing less than the fate of the world hanging in the balance! Combat, banter and seduction abound as the Darkstalkers clash in these six action-packed issues!
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Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support. The Dark Side of European Integration argues that this rising nationalism and the mobilization of the radical right are the consequences of European economic integration. The European economic project has produced a cultural backlash in the form of nationalist radical right ideologies. This assessment relies on a detailed analysis of the electoral rise of radical right...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Dark Money tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Jane Mayer's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Dark Money includes: Historical context; Chapter-by-chapter overviews; Profiles of the main characters; Detailed timeline of key events; Important...
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When people think of ancient Greece, images of philosophers such as Plato or Socrates often come to mind, as do great warriors like Pericles and Alexander the Great, but hundreds of years before Athens became a city, a Greek culture flourished and spread its tentacles throughout the western Mediterranean region via trade and warfare. Scholars have termed this pre-Classical Greek culture the Mycenaean culture, which existed from about 2000-1200 BCE,...
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Dark tomorrow volume 1
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Month 9 Books
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[2018]
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English
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"When a deadly virus decimates the majority of Earth's population, 16-year-old Sawyer Bradshaw finds he is both immune and alone in a world that has descended into violent chaos. Armed with only his estranged father's shotgun, and an unrelenting desire to stay alive, Sawyer discovers that he not only has an uncanny knack for cheating death, but also for taking lives. Still, it is not long before he meets his match in a fierce and cunning teenage girl...
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A&E Home Video
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[2007], c2006
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Between the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe plunged into a dark night of constant war, splintered sovereignties, marauding pagans, and more. As chaos replaced culture, Europe was beset by famine, plague, persecutions, and a state of war that was so persistent it was only rarely interrupted by peace. From warlords whose armies threatened to cause the demise of European society, such as Alaric, Charles the Hammer, and Clovis; to...