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"Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny...
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An uncontrollable plague has left the city in ruins and trapped in perpetual quarantine. A thief hires a guide to lead him safely through the city's many dangers to the one person who can give him the travel papers he needs to escape.
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A dying city.A cursed infant and his hatchling companion.And two lovers fighting opposing battles.The future of Azimar has never been more uncertain. Etritia is a city in ruin, and Mothlenor is a king of only death and famine. Trissa's Gift is proving difficult for the princess to control, and even Mothlenor himself must face his own mortality. No one within Etritia's walls is safe from the diseases of decay and fear.The Elori infant, Rushavi, was...
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To thwart a curse, a fake king enters a fake marriage-but his sacrificial death will be all too real.
As the king of Sippar, Ahsan is surrounded by unparalleled luxury, fawning attendants, and a gorgeous wife. It's the life he's always dreamed of, except for three small problems.
One, the palace oracle foretells of a threat that could leave the king dead and the city in ruins.
Two, his marriage to the sharp-tongued priestess Nirah is already in trouble–and...
5) Force
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Cy isn't the mating kind. Cy Pataki doesn't get attached. He's a damn good agent who enjoys his job protecting Crescent City, but to keep it, he must mate the witch his pack lined up for him twenty years ago.
David never got a choice . . . After years of training to be a perfect mate, David Reeds is in a world he doesn't understand. Worse, his future mate doesn't seem to want anything to do with someone so much younger and so very naïve.
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Explore a gripping urban fantasy trilogy where suspense, magic, and formidable characters converge.
Book 1: Cryptic Magic Zaid, a mystical bounty hunter, faces a daunting task: capturing rogue Anunnaki, supernatural beings. His world turns upside down when he encounters Kinza, an ordinary girl with a mysterious past and a deadly tattoo. Her powers, capable of destroying or saving the world, thrust them into a perilous journey. Zaid, torn between...
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★★★★★ "It had me turning the pages almost without self-control and I am definitely looking forward to the next book in the trilogy." - Customer Review
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Somebody wants her dead – even if that means turning their city to ruins.
Kinza is destined to destroy the Anunnaki or save them – and when she arrives to find a city in ruins, her worst fears are seemingly confirmed. Caught in a bloody battle against a rebel group who claim...
8) Katastrophe
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The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final stages of the Second World War. Confidant of Goebbels. Instrument of Stalin. What's the worst that could happen? January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year Reich is shrinking. Even Goebbels has run out of lies to sweeten the reckoning to come. An Allied victory is inevitable, but who will reap the spoils of war? Two years ago, Werner Nehmann's war came to an abrupt...
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"Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming with monsters and unimaginable dangers, each city is now ruled by a guardian--a royal who feed on mortal pleasure. Born with an intuition that never fails, Calista knows her talents are of great value to the power-hungry of the world, so she lives hidden as a courtesan of the Baron of Archwood. In exchange for his protection, she grants him...
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Witch walker volume 2
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The night the Prince of the East razed her village, Raina Bloodgood's life changed forever. Forced into someone else's war--and into the arms of the Witch Collector, Alexus Thibault--Raina discovered that everything she believed was wrong, and that she was capable of far more than anyone imagined. Now, the Prince of the East has taken the Frost King as a pawn in his war against the Summerlands, causing Alexus's life to hang in the balance. To thwart...
13) The lightstruck
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Darkening volume 2
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"Vesper Vale sacrificed everything to save her city from the cursed storm. After becoming a vessel of The Great Queen, Vesper awakes from a slumber three years after her life altering choice. What she finds isn't a home freed from the terror of the storm, but one where its citizens are besieged by the even more sinister force of The Great King and his growing army of the lightstruck--once regular citizens who are now controlled by the ominous light...
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Tale of Ruin (1978) analyzes the issues involved in the acquisition and usage of raw materials in our market oriented society. The film features photography of seldom seen U.S. strip mining operations and open pit mines. Such large scale mining, here and abroad, has led to poverty for the workers and environmental destruction for many areas around the world. The film shows how reliance on foreign oil and mineral resouces underlies much of US foreign...
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"A new, twisted suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto. Jane is unhappy. A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house--a life--she's never really wanted. There's only ever been one person she cared about, one person who truly understood her: Thalia. Jane's best and only friend nearly a decade...
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During his reign, Herod also built Greco-Roman style cities in his non-Jewish territories. Here, Professor Magness guides you through the most famous of these: the port city of Caesarea Maritima (where Paul was imprisoned, according to Acts 23-24). Comb through the ruins of the city's harbor, hippodrome, aqueducts, and more.
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The Great Courses
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See the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan through the eyes of a visitor during the height of Aztec power, when the city's quality of life was unrivaled virtually anywhere in the world. Modern Mexico City, which is built atop Tenochtitlan, preserves isolated ruins of this grandeur.
18) Godkiller
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"Gods are forbidden in the kingdom of Middren. Formed by human desires and fed by their worship, there are countless gods in the world--but after a great war, the new king outlawed them and now pays "godkillers" to destroy any who try to rise from the shadows. As a child, Kissen saw her family murdered by a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing them and enjoys it. But all this changes when Kissen is tasked with helping a young noble girl with...
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When rebels infect his father with a fatal virus, sixteen-year-old Rumi ventures beyond his city's protected walls and meets Paz, who offers to guide him on his search for a cure, but may have an agenda of her own.
Rumi Sabzwari has spent his entire life behind the armored walls of St. Iago, which protect citizens of the Union of Upper Cities from the outside world's environmental devastation. When rebels infect his father with a fatal virus Rumi...
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On the frontier between Mesoamerica and the American Southwest stands a mysterious ruin: Paquime, also called Casas Grandes. Was it connected with the Pueblo culture to the north, or with the Aztecs and Tarascans to the south? Dr. Barnhart offers a fascinating hypothesis.
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