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"When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the danger, and then attempt to retrace the well-hidden steps of a woman who had been investigating how one million euros' worth of AIDS vaccine disappeared, all while eluding angry poachers on a parallel trail. Corruption...
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"Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne--a woman who abandoned her...
4) Bone White
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A landscape of frozen darkness. The scrape of bone on bone . . .
Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims' graves in remote Dread's Hand, Alaska. It's the same bit of wilderness where his twin brother went missing a year ago. As the bodies are exhumed, Paul travels to Alaska to get closure and put his grief to rest.
But the mystery is only beginning. What Paul finds are superstitious locals who talk...
5) Bone White
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Teenage girls are disappearing from a small Ohio town.
Luke and Garrett, two seniors from the same high school, escape the growing panic the same way they escape all their problems: by spending a day on the lake. But, it seems fate has other plans. Their boat breaks down. The storm of the century rolls in. Soon, their search for refuge leads them into the woods and, ultimately, to the source of the town's plight. Will their discovery bring joyful...
6) Bone White
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The town of Mundy's Landing was founded on a horrifying secret, but stark white bones of the dead never lie . . . We shall never tell. Spurred by the cryptic phrase in a centuries-old letter, Emerson Mundy travels to her ancestral hometown to trace her past. In Mundy's Landing, she connects with long lost relatives-and a closet full of skeletons going back centuries. In the year since former NYPD Detective Sullivan Leary solved the historic Sleeping...
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New York Times Bestselling Author Wendy Corsi Staub revisits Mundy's Landing-a small town with a blood-soaked past.
The town of Mundy's Landing was founded on a horrifying secret, but stark white bones of the dead never lie..."We shall never tell." Spurred by the cryptic phrase in a centuries-old letter, Emerson Mundy travels to her ancestral hometown to trace her past. In Mundy's Landing, she connects with long lost relatives-and a closet full...
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Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy tales, who upon discovering a ragged woman outside the castle during a storm, takes her in--certain she's a princess in disguise.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Three heart-pounding novels by the New York Times—bestselling author: "The best thriller writer on the planet" (Booklist).
This volume include three novels filled with twists and turns from the author of such acclaimed suspense novels as White Bone and The Red Room:
Probable Cause: Carmel, California is a peaceful tourist haven where James Dewitt is the police force's only detective. His usual caseload is stolen bicycles and the occasional burglary-but...
13) The Abnormal
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There is an alkaline land full of weeds and grotesque willows. Its surface covered with large and small dead blisters, it looks very desolate. Those blisters are dark green because they do not flow all the year round, and there are no fish in them, which may breed strange creatures that human beings do not understand. I heard that someone once saw a man's body there and could not see his face, because his body was hidden in dark green blisters, only...
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In her previous life, Chor Long's husband died in the beast tide to save her When she was reborn back in the past, Chou Long resolutely set out on the dangerous journey to find him Every time she went to a place she heard him talk about in her previous life, she would ask the people there again: "Have you seen my husband?" At that time, Luo Ye was only in his early twenties, ferocious, indifferent and irritable, known as the King of...
15) The romantic
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From the author of The White Bone, a piercing novel of passionate attachment and of the fear and freedom of letting go.
Louise Kirk learns about love and loss at an early age. When she is nine years old, her former beauty queen mother disappears, leaving a note that reads only, and incorrectly, Louise knows how to work the washing machine. Soon after, the Richters and their adopted son, Abel, move in across the street. Louise's immediate devotion...
16) Helpless
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From the internationally acclaimed author of The White Bone and The Romantic, a haunting and suspenseful novel of abduction and obsessive love
Nine-year-old Rachel Fox has the face of an angel, a heart-stopping luminosity that strikes all who meet her. Her single mother, Celia, working at a video store by day and a piano bar by night, is not always around to shield her daughter from the attention-both benign and sinister-that her beauty draws. Attention...
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Laundry files novels volume 6
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"Mo's latest assignment is to assist the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of performing super-heroics"--
18) American epic
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[2017]
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Presented by T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford and Jack White, this is the story of early American recorded music when the musical strands of a nation first combined to spark a cultural renaissance that forever transformed the future of music and the world. Also includes a feature-length film of in-studio sessions, with leading contemporary artists recording early American music on a restored 1920s recording machine.
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Crocodile Books, USA, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
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2015
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A collection of fairy tales that includes peasants, ghosts, merchants, demons, villagers, and kings. At the end of each tale, is a recipe for a classic Chinese dish that is relevant to the story.
20) Bone deep
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"The stunning new thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author. When a Crow Indian acquaintance of Tomlinson's asks him to help recover a relic stolen from his tribe, Doc Ford is happy to tag along-but neither Doc nor Tomlinson realize what they've let themselves in for. Their search takes them to the part of Central Florida known as Bone Valley, famous primarily for two things: a ruthless subculture of black-marketers who trade in illegal...