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Today would normally be a wonderful day. After all, it is the Elliot Twin's twelfth birthday, but neither Judah nor Jennifer are in a celebrating kind of mood. You see, it is also the second anniversary of their parents' mysterious death. They died in an unexplained accident, or so it might seem! However, the soul of the twin's mamma was stolen before it could reach Heaven. Yes, those wicked Trows interfered as usual and dragged mamma's soul to the...
37442) Ghostly Thief of Time
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My name is Stuart Tennemeier, and I'm the President of the EMU Club (Exploration-Mystery-Unbelievable Club). This is my report of our second mission. Once you've solved one great mystery involving alien cats and a robotic dog, how do you find a second one that is just as awesome to solve? Not huge crimes or weird stuff, but everyday mysteries that happen to everyone, like why does time seem to pass more slowly right before school ends? And at other...
37443) Creeper Invasion
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The three friends trapped in their Minecraft game have never been closer to escaping the Overworld, and they can't wait to return home after being trapped on the server for so long. But then a vicious horde of creepers attacks, delaying their escape. Soon the gang learns that there's a new villain behind the attack: a griefer so twisted that he'd rather stay trapped in the Overworld than live a mundane life in the real world-and he has no qualms about...
37444) In Absentia
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Four seasons after her husband Tom's disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether he is dead or alive, but clinging to hope. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake--a sign? She emerges to give him her husband's parka--strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. What is the stranger's connection to her geologist husband, kidnapped more than...
37445) Holy Ceremony
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The third in the Ariel Kafka series. There are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a Finn, and lastly a Jew. Kafka is a stubborn, dedicated policeman with wry sense of humor, always willing to risk his career to get an answer. A woman's body scrawled with religious texts is found in a Helsinki apartment. It turns out she wasn't murdered:...
37446) A Diamond Dream
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In a near future Tokyo where every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees...
Risen from the ashes of bankdeath, Amon Kenzaki, fallen Liquidator and Xenocyst survivor, arrives at the forest from his dreams. He has fulfilled his promise to the PhisherKing to seek truth without relent and can look upon the wonders of those green slopes with clear eyes at last.
Yet now, just...
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Suivez Lynn Bellange depuis les bas-fonds de Trinity jusqu'aux portes de l'Enfer et au-delà.
Lynn Bellange perd sa coéquipière au cours d'une patrouille dans une église désaffectée. Camille s'écroule sans vie sous ses yeux, tuée d'un simple geste par un individu diabolique.
Contre l'avis de sa hiérarchie, Lynn se lance dans une enquête dangereuse. Sur sa route, elle croise l'étrange Père Scudéry que les autorités croient pourtant mort...
37448) Wives to Burn
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Desire and deceit bring an American detective to colonial India, where the sweltering heat gives way to cold-hearted murder in this Golden Age mystery.
William Shakespeare Gabriel once thought he would try and fulfill his middle name's potential, but he was whisked from journalism to the pursuit of crime. Now, the private detective is in India on the eve of World War II. He's been hired to find Fred Oaks, the black sheep son of an American sugar...
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While COVID-19 rages, the killings don't stop-a new Inspector Mislan thriller for fans of Michael Connelly, James Ellroy, and John Burdett.
Eight months after the assassination attempt that nearly ended his life, Inspector Mislan Latif is back on twenty-four-hour duty with his assistant, Detective Sergeant Johan Kamaruddin, when the call comes in: double murder in a house in the police district of Sentul. The two dark-skinned men were killed identically,...
37450) Girl With a Black Soul
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When teenager Chad Montgomery is targeted by a bully after his father's death, he takes the wrong fork in the road-a trap set by the evil one-to destroy the very talents that define him.
He leaves his home to get his head on straight after his beautiful new girlfriend offers to let him crash in her uncle's run-down, abandoned gas station. But he soon learns that deprivation, encounters with murderous bikers, and scrapes with the law is a slippery...
37451) Mobs in the Mine
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Lily, Simon, and Michael are still trapped in their Minecraft game, but with new friends and a better understanding of their arch enemy Mr. Anarchy, they're getting closer to finding a way home. But before they can fight the evil griefer and escape the game, the friends need to replenish their resources-and that means trekking deeper into the Overworld.
When their mining party is attacked and hostile mobs reveal surprising new powers, it looks like...
37452) Femme Faux Fatale
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Mystery. Murder. Men in silk stockings. Hollywood nights are heating up. Hardboiled Los Angeles PI Cain Noble is hired by wealthy and gorgeous Camille Astor to find her husband and a priceless work of art, both of which have disappeared. At the nightclub owned by Mr. Astor, Cain encounters the mesmerizing Lily Lavender, who has the body of a goddess and the sultry voice of an angel-but is really a young man named Riley who attracts trouble like a...
37453) The Fallen
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'DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine' Elly Griffiths
A short story and prequel featuring DCI Matilda Darke, star of Michael Wood's darkly compelling crime series. Perfect for fans of Stuart MacBride, Mark Billingham and Val McDermid.
It's Christmas in Sheffield. But not everyone is enjoying the festive season...
A man has been found brutally murdered in his own home. The victim is Iain Kilbride, a once-famous TV star who has faded into obscurity....
37454) Slade's Glacier: A Novel
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Slade's Glacier is a tale of discovery and destruction, betrayal and revenge, set in the rugged "Great Land" of Alaska. Jack Slade and Sam Healey, flying partners during World War II, establish a bush pilot business in Alaska after the war. When their C-47 Dakota is forced down on a glacier by a wolverine in the cargo deck that breaks out of its cage, they discover a valley that offers the realization each man's dreams. To Jack Slade, it's the ideal...
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This page-turner will thrill readers from 10-years-old and up. A series of short stories with twists and turns that will keep them hooked. The characters in the stories have a common bond that they must discover together before it is too late. Along the way, they learn the importance of faith, family, and sacrifice. Don't miss this exciting first, installment that is sure to be a hit.
It is Ashley's first day of school in a new town. She, loves her...
37456) House of Beauty
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A thought-provoking Colombian crime novel set in and around a beauty salon in Bogota
House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogotá's exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give the perfect massage. Her clients confide in her, and she knows all about them. Their breast implants, their weekends in Miami, their divorces and affairs.
Karen has problems...
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Gameknight999 reenters Minecraft to find it completely changed. There are new monsters that he's never seen before: giants and skeleton druids and pinch beetles and king spiders and mistwolves. Villages are larger than ever, and more heavily fortified; Minecraft had become much more dangerous. Even the very trees had changed, with some of them reaching up taller than the User-that-is-not-a-user ever thought was imaginable. There's a diamond block...
37458) Sleeping in My Jeans
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Sixteen-year-old Mattie Rollins has it all figured out. She'll ace her advanced high school courses, earn a college scholarship, and create a new life for herself and her family. There's no time for distractions-no friends, no fun, and especially no boys. But Mattie's brilliant plan crumbles after first becoming homeless, forcing her family to live in the confines of their beat-up station wagon, Ruby, and then the mysterious disappearance of her mother....
37459) A Cut-Like Wound
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It's the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari, and expensive pearl earrings. Before the mirror he is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender seeking love in the bazaars of the city. What Bhuvana wants, she nearly gets: a passing man is attracted to this elusive young woman-but someone points out that Bhuvana is no woman. For that, the interloper's throat is cut. A case for Inspector...
37460) The Escape
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The Sunday Times bestseller returns with her most thrilling book yet, An unputdownable read for fans of Into the Water and The Girlfriend. "Look after your daughter's things. And your daughter…" When a stranger asks Jo Blackmore for a lift she says yes, then swiftly wishes she hadn't. The stranger knows Jo's name, she knows her husband Max and she's got a glove belonging to Jo's two year old daughter Elise. What begins with a subtle threat swiftly...
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