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Jeffrey Blaine is a good man, a wealthy and powerful Wall Street broker with impeccable social standing. But his wife-who supports charitable foundations from their Park Avenue townhouse-seems to have lost interest in their marriage, and his daughter, a beautiful debutante ready for Yale University in the fall, has turned sullen and rebellious. Having achieved everything he'd ever dreamed of, Blaine now feels unsettled, stagnant, hungry for a new...
3) Dark dreams
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Prudent Jana and impetuous Sofia were best friends as schoolmates, including the day when Sofia was assaulted by someone high up in the Communist Party. There was little they could do at the time-but Jana managed to identify him and vowed to one day bring him to justice.
Now she's a commander in the Slovak police force when she discovers an enormous diamond, dangling from a string fixed to the ceiling of her home. Was it put there as a gift? Or,...
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Technology is changing the way wars are fought. Unmanned robots are used to drop bombs, launch missiles, and are even used in ground combat . . . but if things go wrong, who's really to blame?
In the ever-challenging deserts of Iraq, US army officer Nathan Dixon comes face to face with the future of warfare. Assigned to investigate a friendly fire incident involving a rogue unmanned ground combat vehicle, Dixon finds that behind every action...
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With calculated cunning, renegade Syrian intelligence operatives have discovered how to smuggle uranium-235-the key material required to manufacture an atomic weapon-into the United States undetected, exploiting a network of the most experienced and sophisticated smugglers the world has ever known.
As the CIA repeatedly misinterprets numerous intelligence warnings, only Marta Pradilla-Colombia's beautiful, hard-minded new president-can assist the...
6) Tainted
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Jack Dane sweeps Holly Barrett off her feet, and is soon touching the lives of everyone she deeply cares about. But is Jack the considerate, concerned gentleman he appears to be--or is there a very different creature lurking below the surface?
8) Pandemonium
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A ruthless Russian tycoon lures biologists Nell and Geoffrey to his underground metropolis, where they are confronted by a vicious menagerie of biological horrors that are rising up to consume the world.
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Fear Street. Original series volume 36
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Selna starts receiving dead flowers from a fan, and realizes that her fan wants her dead.
10) The terrorist
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Louis Morgon thrillers volume 3
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When a foreign-born friend journeys to the United States to pursue an education, former operative Louis Morgon learns that his connection to the young man has caught the attention of the CIA, a routine situation that turns alarming when the student disappears.
11) The playground
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"Looking to escape her old life, Nancy and her ten-year-old daughter Lara move to Ripton. A quiet, picturesque village in the rolling Derbyshire countryside, it seems like the perfect place to settle down. But when Nancy reaches the school gates, she learns that beneath the quaint village atmosphere is a minefield. And after her daughter clashes with her school friends, Nancy quickly finds herself outside the whispering circle of parents. As much...
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"Five years ago, she tried to kill the man who abducted her sister. Now she's living next door to a psychopath hiding in plain sight. Allison Smythe is barely clinging to sanity. After blaming and nearly killing an innocent man for her sister's unsolved kidnapping, she's ready to consider a fresh start. But just as she's settled in a new city, she's horrified to spot the villain who took her sibling residing peacefully on her street. Arguing...
13) Drought
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Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don't know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most. But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn't rained for months, and now, in the height of summer, the taps run dry. And not, as they first suspect, because of a burst water...
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Enjoying a prestigious first year in law school marked by a coveted job with a top professor and a relationship with a beautiful Rhodes scholar, Jeremy Davis is admitted into a mysterious club that promises him phenomenal successes and hides a deadly ancient secret.
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One man's race to recover a hidden treasure becomes a struggle for survival against a violent criminal underworld Hugh Marlowe spent five years in prison thinking only of the fortune he'd stashed away before being thrown behind bars. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't the only one. Now the worst of London's gangsters and criminals are after Marlowe and his hidden bounty. And in order to leave behind his life of lawless abandon, Marlowe must outwit...
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"In this stunning and propulsive debut, a town grieves the loss of a young girl-but some fight to keep the truth about her death a secret. For fans of Jane Harper, Ashley Flowers, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. The question For the last ten years, the small, claustrophobic town of West Wilmer has been struggling to understand one thing: Why did it take young Grant Dean twenty-seven minutes to call for help on the fateful night of the...
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"Laura está en peligro: algo siniestro la acosa desde su pasado. Y no puede saber si existe o no porque su mente difumina los contornos de la realidad, invadida por alucinaciones constantes que la envuelven como una telaraña. En compañía de Julián y Alejandro, dos pacientes de las sesiones de terapia a las que ella también asiste para tratar su patología, Laura luchará por escapar de ese peligro que cada vez va haciéndose más real. Con la...
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"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler has over him. The Doctor, Kabuto's handler, is a real physician. He hands over the names of Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" at their regular appointments, and he doesn't want to lose his profitable asset. But he agrees to let Kabuto pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. Except the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other...
19) Man and wife
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Cal and Marie Bradley are happily married, he is a psychologist and she a loving mother to their three children. Their trouble begins when Peter Blue, an engaging but disturbed young man accused of arson and of assaulting a police officer, comes to Cal for treatment. As Cal becomes involved in Peter's case, it is soon apparent that there are odd, almost supernatural connections between Peter and Marie. Finally, Cal realizes that his whole married...
20) Go-between
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"Emily runs a successful bistro in Humboldt County, California, where she lives with her handsome boyfriend, Jeff, a volunteer firefighter. A lot of her best customers are in the cannabis business, but so what? It's true that the bistro was funded by drug money, and sure, firefighting isn't really Jeff's main job--that would be flying Humboldt's finest weed to out-of-state customers. And sure, he isn't really Emily's boyfriend, more like the guy she's...
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