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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,
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A group of white terrorists attacks Jewish Centers all over New York. Alyssa, a teen runaway in and out of Miki Radicci's life and formally part of the skinhead culture, leads her to the latest violent act. Miki almost dies but it doesn't scare her off the terrorists' trail.
The elusive Alyssa led Miki to the attack for a reason. To stop American Strong from taking lives for their Neo-Nazi cause and continuing the plans set by Ethan Weisz?
Or she...
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
4) 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...
5) Afterlove
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"In this powerful, all-encompassing YA love story, a girl who becomes a grim reaper must figure out what the future holds--especially when it comes to the girlfriend she left behind. When Ashana Persaud meets Poppy Morgan on a school trip, she's sure it's too good to be true. Ash has never had much luck with girls, but Poppy proves different. Coffee dates turn to museum trips until, soon, the two girls can see a future together--one that's seemingly...
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The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
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A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."
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Earth's children volume 6
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Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni -- one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.
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Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's -- Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that, by...
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The secretive religious sect known as the Magi returns as a heavenly apocalypse looms in this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of Relics.
When a brutal attack leaves a priest close to death and screaming of dark prophecies, Professor Alex Harker once again finds himself pulled into the shadowy world of the Magi.
On dubious pretenses, Harker must join a desperate search for the missing child he has sworn to protect.
But as...
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"On a clear July day in 1899, the salty ocean breeze along Bellevue Avenue carries new smells of gasoline and exhaust as Emma, now editor-in-chief of the Newport Messenger, covers Newport's first-ever automobile parade. But the festive atmosphere soon turns to shock as young Philip King drunkenly swerves his motorcar into a wooden figure of a nanny pushing a pram on the obstacle course. That evening, at a dinner party hosted by Ella King at her magnificent...
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Last Mountain Man series volume 4
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Johnstone Country. Frontier spirit lives here.
THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Smoke Jensen-A One Man Judge and Jury
They struck in a pack, in the dead of night. They had crept in like thieves, like the cowards they were... But it wasn't robbery they had in mind.
It Was Something Much Darker...
Smoke Jensen was buying cattle a hundred miles away from his Colorado ranch when he got the news. Drawing two horses from the remuda,...
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Yola's leg is blown off by a landmine and her life in Africa is changed forever. When Yola travels to Ireland to be fitted with an artificial leg and meets seventeen-year-old Fintan, she little realises that they will soon be involved in an international arms intrigue, and an adventure that will bring them both close to death.
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Johnny is acting very strangely: he has terrible dreams, he wakes up having sleepwalked, and he is acting mean to his friends. The spirit of the evil Zebulon Windrow has taken over Johnny's body and soon he is lying in a coma close to death. It's up to his friends to save him.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 It is difficult to talk about death, as it is a subject that is taboo for most people. We often compare death to pleasant things in our experience, things with which we are familiar.
#2 The sleeping and forgetting analogy is inadequate to explain death. If death is like sleeping and forgetting, then death is a positive experience in life. But if waking follows sleeping,...
16) Heaven Sent
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With her half-brother serving time in an American prison for a crime he didn't commit, Serena Morris-Vega returned to her childhood home of Costa Rica to help her influential stepfather obtain his son's freedom. But when a mysterious stranger shows up on the Vega estate, close to death, Serena discovers that the secrets surrounding his true identity not only strike very close to home but also prove to be dangerously seductive. Corporate CEO David...
17) The Law of Moses
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If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it's coming, and it will hurt. But you'll be able to prepare.Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o'clock news – the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict...
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An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer a nation. The trail through the land of burning waters tests Bony's endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been. Welcome to Central Australia!
19) Angel's Touch
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Mayra is almost out of hope. Although she's turned her life around after a near-death experience, her dearest uncle is close to death.
With the pressure building, Mayra unknowingly calls upon a mysterious man from her past. One that might be able to save a life, but at a price?
Is Mayra willing to give up her second chance? Or, is the past giving her hope to a better future?
20) Rebound of Power
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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?
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