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In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life,
...2) Pay dirt
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"V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her love of good coffee. But even the strongest people sometimes need a break to recharge, so her friends send her to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball where Angela, one of her protégées, is playing. And that's where trouble finds V.I. Sabrina, one of Angela's roommates, disappears and V.I. agrees to try to find her. Finding a...
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Meet Iyva, a homeless teenager in Irola with a strong connection with the leya. Totally untrained, her power rebounds catastrophically, leaving her close to death. A Nameless hero saves her life, but hides. Anyone would be proud to teach her, but will she choose the safe, trustworthy A'mara or the shady ones who teach her what she wants to learn? Can she trust her hero… the Nameless One?
5) Road Angel
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It's A Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol-themed novella.Lee Thomas is trying to make it home to his family in time for Christmas. Ignoring the road conditions caused by the winter blizzard, the semi-truck jackknifes on a snowy Wisconsin highway, leaving Lee close to death.Cynamon Bradford has had feelings for Lee and his young daughter since the day she met them. Problem is, Cyn is their guardian angel and now she must convince Lee he has a life...
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Coming close to death, Jim Stanley has a vision of his deceased grandfather which leads Jim into the world of magic and the secret brotherhood of the Templar Knights.
Jim meets his garden gnome guide Togman and they soon find themselves running from an evil Waerloga. Hiding out in Gariwerd, Jim and Togman find help in the form of two Wirringan twins and the surrounding wildlife.
But with a Waerloga hunting them, Jim and Togman will need to work...
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It is the year 1589, and on a cold and wet January evening, Catherine de Medici, Queen Mother of France, lies close to death. For the people of this war torn country her demise will be welcome news. This is the end of the evil Jezebel, the mother of Kings and Queens whom she had dominated, manipulated and ultimately destroyed. We journey with Catherine from her early political emergence to her leading role in one of the worst atrocities in European...
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After finding out Mihko reinstated the Reckoner Initiative in Breakdown, Cole and Eva confronted Mihko head-on. But when Eva stumbles across a secret laboratory, she finds her worst nightmares come to life. After a vicious battle with Mihko's newest test subject leaves Cole close to death, Eva is forced to continue their investigation without him. With Brady missing and Cole in recovery, Eva is on her own.
What new terrors has Mihko created? Can they...
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The social worlds represented by Dog Merdo and the Crumpsall-Dandys are in direct contrast, the one to the other. Such is the great rift valley of contempt between the two, that they can only ever meet on equal terms in death. The Crumpsall-Dandys lead a rich and privileged life, while Dog Merdo belongs to the proletarian level of society of poverty and unemployment. Uncle Arthur had died and his body has been kept in deep freeze for some years. Dog...
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A lord in want of a wife
Ruined and on the run, Julia Prior is in desperate straits when she meets a gentleman with a shocking proposal. Certain he is close to death, William Hadfield, Lord Dereham, sees Julia as the perfect woman to care for his beloved estate when he is gone-;if she will first become his wife...;.
Marriage is Julia's salvation-;as Lady Hadfield, she can finally escape her sins. Until three years later, when the husband she...
11) Fallen Domain
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Can old adversaries become allies? Rodin knows Authority must be stopped, and that means returning to the Dome. But the only one who knows a way in is Cat, the one-time Authority agent who has been manipulating Rodin for years, playing with Rodin's life for his own suspicious ends. To the south of the Dome, Authority relentlessly push Genna back, forcing a retreat into the heart of her district. Soon, she will be surrounded and outgunned. But there's...
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Digger drives by the car accident scene of a friend. He knows in his heart that this was no accident. So, when he couldn't let the scene go, he asked FBI Agent Watson for help.Once they joined forces, Watson found a series of murdered scientists who died in a similar manner to Digger's friend. This spurred Digger to find the truth. While searching for the reason for the killings, Digger finds a file, and everything makes sense until a photo falls...
13) Broken
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Battered and broken, Dianna Linden lies close to death on her kitchen floor when she is discovered by Lucas Forrester, her husband's former employer.A widow now, Dianna fights for her life with Lucas at her side unaware that her husband has been taken from her.In a bid to care for Dianna, Lucas takes her into his home and employs a private nurse to see to her needs. But his feelings for Dianna move from guilt over her husband's death at his quarry...
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Everyone knows Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, but before Jericho, there was Arad...When Arisha flees Canaan, she finds herself in the Israelite camp. Under Miriam's care, the young woman begins to heal, but Israel's matriarch is close to death. She wants to be assured this abused and abandoned young woman will have a good life, and she entreats Zadok to marry her. Zadok is the grandson of Bezalel, architect of the Tabernacle, and great-grandson...
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Contained within the numerous items on display at the DDR Museum in Berlin is a brief though detailed account of a 1980 initiative on the part of the East German Politburo whereby the objective of this initiative was the seizure, by force, of West Berlin. Although the East German leader Erich Honecker and his colleagues in government were serious as regards to their incorporating West Berlin into East Germany, the Soviet Union, at that time, did not...
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"Passionate advocate for end-of-life care and TikTok star Nurse Hadley shares moving stories of joy, wisdom, and redemption from her patients' final moments, offering powerful lessons on facing death, recovering from loss, and how to live your life in this deeply personal memoir. Talking about death and dying is considered taboo in popular culture, even in the medical field. Our understanding of death is riddled with misconceptions: memories flashing...
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Laird Niall Carrick has no interest in marriage, though the elders of the clan push the young laird to take a wife and guarantee an heir for his bloodline. He has more important matters on his mind. Such as determining who the assassin that keeps making attempts on his life is.
After a particularly vicious and unexpected attack on Laird Niall Carrick and his men, Niall is left alone, wounded, and close to death. Seeking the village where he can secure...
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The bestselling author of Seven Seas, Nine Lives continues the remarkable experiences of Captain A.W.F. "Alfie" Sutton during the Second World War.
Written in three parts, this book follows the harrowing adventures of Captain A.W.F. "Alfie" Sutton, CBE, DSC and bar, RN. During events which come as close to fiction as is imaginable, the first part describes how Alfie, badly injured and close to death during the bombing of HMS Illustrious by the...
19) Maverick
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Clinging to life…An embassy terrorist attack in Africa left intelligence analyst Claire Day close to death, but she remembers nothing of the attack. She was left a husk of a woman. Only a shining figure in her dreams pulls her back from the brink-a mysterious man, strong, protective, powerful. He's the only one that can keep the looming horror that haunts her dreams at bay-but she has no idea who he is.Obsessed by a ghost…They told former Marine...
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Most people think I save dogs, but really, they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring for and rescuing the many street dogs he comes across. With every rescue there's a story. Like the sweet gentle McMuffin who was found with many tumours and hours from death, only to be nursed back to health. She now lives with Niall and is a popular member of the pack. Then there is King Whacker — who escaped...
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