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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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O'Shea's Big Adventure volume 6
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For Mark O'Shea, the Timber Rattlesnake is Nemesis. After a bite from a captive snake, the reptile hunter and scientist spent nine days in a hospital, close to death.
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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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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...
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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...
8) 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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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...
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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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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...
12) 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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The greatest upsets occur when complete victory is at hand.
As a Green Beret on an alien world, the victorious Warlord of Mihdradahl is used to being close to death. The prospect of peace and how to live in it is an entirely different story.
When a new enemy brings the end of Benjamin Colt's peace, his purpose for living, and his entire future, the Warlord must wage a battle as no other. But how to fight an enemy that undermines the faith of his...
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Part One
Aaronica Badensous is a criminal who runs guns and drugs. He needs to be in control.
He hates women.
Nikator (Nicci) Osiris is a successful Banking Executive.
He is looking for a man who will give him the rough love he craves.
When they meet in a gay club in Athens at midnight, their attraction is instant.
Will Nicci give up everything to be with a man who he's only just met? A man he knows nothing about, but a man who can provide him...
15) Borne Back
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Expat architect Danny Holzman leaves his American wife and son and travels to his native Israel to see his beloved grandmother who is close to death, only to arrive in time for her funeral. While grieving and comforting his aging divorced mother, happy and painful memories resurface. He feels increasingly disoriented as he navigates his past and present in a homeland far different from the one, he left in his early twenties, two decades ago.
Although...
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A visceral account from contemporaneous diaries of a soldier who frequently came close to death but somehow survived. Following his Abitur (A-levels) in 1940, Rehfeldt volunteered for the Panzer Arm but was trained on the heavy mortar and heavy MG with Grossdeutschland Division. He was on the Front from 1941 fighting for the city of Tula, south of Moscow. Battling in freezing conditions, at its lowest -52?, the descriptions of the privations are vivid...
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Sue grew up in Northern Ireland during the "Troubles", From an early stage in life, she went through many traumas, as she grew up there was a lot of abuse and lived through the years of terrorism in Northern Ireland brought its struggles. As a child she came close to death on two separate occasions having been caught up in bomb attacks. As an adult, after training to be a fitness instructor and managing a gym, Sue joined the Ambulance Service and...
18) Draw Straight
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This collection of six exciting Western stories from early in Louis L'Amour's career begins with "Fork Your Own Broncs," in which Mac Marcy, who had saved for seven years to run his own small cattle ranch, sees his dream come true, only to have it threatened by Jingle Bob Kenyon.
In "Keep Travelin', Rider," Tack Gentry returns to Sunbonnet and his uncle's G Bar Ranch only to find that his uncle, a Quaker, has been killed in a gunfight. A faction...
19) After Dark
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"The night caretaker in a local cemetery became witness to a horrifying
event. The body of a mutilated woman fell from the sky. The caretaker
investigates only to be terrified by childish laughter from the woods that
bordered the cemetery. In his terror, ran for his life ending up in the
custody of the local police station.The case fell upon the lap of Senior
Inspector Manny Panganiban who was puzzled by the case and suspected
that the man in...
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The captivating sequel to "perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Tahereh Mafi" (Booklist) The Kingdom Over the Sea follows Yara and her friends as they change the fate of the kingdom and their magic forever.
Yara may have stopped the magical plague spreading its way through her new home, but to do so, she had to leave her mother in the hands of the sinister alchemists.
Now Yara longs to return to Zehaira and free...
Yara may have stopped the magical plague spreading its way through her new home, but to do so, she had to leave her mother in the hands of the sinister alchemists.
Now Yara longs to return to Zehaira and free...
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