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The People of the Mist, an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Lesser-known among Rider's works, this novel is perhaps more famous for being the origin of the phrase "Per Ardua ad Astra"-through hardship to the stars-than it is as a story that endures over a century after its publication.
Shaken by the loss of his fortune, abandoned by the woman he was to marry, Leonard Outram...
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"Montezuma's Daughter" is a novel written by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1893. The story is set in Mexico during the 16th century and follows the adventures of a Spanish nobleman named Thomas Wingfield. Wingfield is sent on a mission to Mexico by the Spanish king, and he soon finds himself caught up in a web of political intrigue and betrayal. He is captured by the Aztecs and sentenced to death, but he is saved by the intervention of a beautiful...
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She and Allan is one of H. Rider Haggard's most exciting novels of adventure and romance. In bringing together two of his most compelling characters, Allan Quatermain, the quirky English Big-Game hunter and explorer, and the seductive and iconic supernatural African Queen Ayesha, or popularly known as "she-who-must-be-obeyed," Haggard has created one of the most exciting stories in his body of work.
When Allan Quatermain seeks out the Zulu witch-doctor...
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"Eric Brighteyes" is a novel written by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1891. The story is set in Iceland during the Viking age and follows the adventures of the titular character, Eric Brighteyes. Eric is a brave and handsome young man who is in love with a beautiful woman named Gudruda the Fair. However, Gudruda is engaged to another man, a wealthy and powerful chieftain named Ospakar.
Despite this, Eric and Gudruda continue to secretly...
5) Switchback
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Patrick Flint volume 01
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A doctor with a taste for adventure. A doomed mountain vacation with his family. In the midst of a million acres of wilderness, Patrick Flint is about to discover that not everybody loves the new town doc.All Patrick Flint wants is a peaceful getaway in the Wyoming mountains for his rare days off. He's grown weary of the bicentennial celebrations, the angry families of patients, the rash of campers coming down from the mountains high on speed, and...
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Ethan Gage adventures volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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Expatriate Ethan Gage, in the Holy Land to save his former lover Astiza and to search for the revered legendary Book of Thoth, is in danger again as Napoleon's army marches towards Jerusalem.
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Ernst Grip novels volume 2
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In the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip can count on only his own shrewdness to survive when he must investigate the suspicious death of a Swedish army lieutenant.
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John Corey novels volume 2
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Detective John Corey of Plum Island fame returns to take on one of the most incredible serial killers of all time--a young Arab, known as "The Lion" who will stop at nothing in his quest for revenge against the Americans who bombed Libya and killed his family.
9) Nightshade
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2020.
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British spy Livy Nash questions her loyalties when she responds to a lost colleague's call sign years after World War II, before encountering a Russian spy who invites her to become a double agent.
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Confronted with the mystery of thousands of simultaneous car crashes worldwide, ICE Special Agent Dominic Verrazzano must race against time to identify the cybercriminal responsible when Verrazzano determines that a much larger terrorist attack is imminent.
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After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Vandeweghe wakes up to find that he's one of the first human patients to undergo a radical new procedure: a full-body transplant. Years later, at his Long Island home, he meets Delta Devlin, a detective looking for a missing hiker. Through her, he learns that his lovely wife, his mother, and his best friend have fed him an elaborate lie about the night of the accident. A neighbor goes missing, then another. Desperate...
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"Rumored to reside in the mysterious Tomb of the Five Ladies, the Serpent's Crown will only be found by solving a seemingly impossible riddle that will open the tomb -- and the organization believes that one of the Ford daughters holds the key to deciphering the code. What was supposed to be an elegant debutante ball for elder sister Lila quickly turns sinister when Tess is kidnapped and put on a ship across the Atlantic. When Lila and her father...
14) Paradise Cove
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"On the laid-back island of Bonaire, every day is paradise until a seaweed-entangled human leg washes ashore. Combing the beach, retired cop Roscoe Conklin examines the scene and quickly determines that the leg belongs to the nephew of a close friend...Sifting through the scant clues, eager to bring the killer to justice, Conklin struggles to maintain forward momentum. He has all the pieces. He can feel it. But he'd better get them snapped together...
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Two young Americans, foreign service officer Allison Taylor and medical missionary Wade Waters, become embroiled in an international conspiracy to smuggle bomb-making materials into Islamic countries when their work brings them to the Red Sea port of Aqaba.
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Bill Hefflin novels volume 1
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At the start of the 1989 uprising in Romania, CIA analyst Bill Hefflin--a disillusioned Romanian expat--arrives in Bucharest at the insistence of his KGB asset, code-named Boris. As Hefflin becomes embroiled in an uprising that turns into a brutal revolution, nothing is as it seems, including the seach for his childhood love, which has taken on mythical proportions. With the bloody events unfolding at blinding speed, Hefflin realizes the revolution...
17) Next in line
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"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess." Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team....
18) High heat
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Nikki Heat mysteries volume 8
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An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years.
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Lily Wong series volume 3
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"Things get personal for Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja Lily Wong in Hong Kong when she dives into the dangerous world of triads, romance, and corporate disaster during the height of the pro-democracy protests. Lily's mother has been summoned by her grandfather, Gung-Gung to attend an emergency board meeting. Lily is happy to take her father's place for exotic travel, family reunions, and romantic dates with her new boyfriend, Daniel Kwok, who's...
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Ben Hope thrillers volume 25
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2022.
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"To fight extraordinary odds, you need an extraordinary man. Under the fierce heat of the Australian outback, the laws of nature serve a rough justice. When a man vanishes deep in the Northern Territory, local police write it off. But his family suspect otherwise - and when the call for help goes out, Ben Hope and Jeff Decker are there to hear it. Ben's instincts, honed by years of Special Forces missions, soon see the story told by a trail of bullet...
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