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Wearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own one-hundredth birthday celebration every year with other versions of himself and encounters in his thirty-ninth year his murdered forty-year-old body, a situation that compels him to prevent his own death.
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2018.
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Never underestimate a librarian. Comfortably padded and in her middle years, Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, that scurrilous novel that spread scandalous untruths about the finest educational institution in Edinburgh....
3) The shimmer
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A police pursuit kicks Sergeant Jack Redding of the Florida Highway Patrol and his trainee, Julie Karras, into a shoot-out that ends with one girl dead and another in cuffs, and the driver of the SUV fleeing into the Intracoastal Waterway. Redding stays on the hunt, driven by the trace memory that he knows that running woman--and he does, because his grandfather, a cop in Jacksonville, was hunting the same woman in 1957. Redding and his partner, Pandora...
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W.A.R.P volume 3
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2015.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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970L
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"Riley, an orphan boy living in Victorian London, who has achieved his dream of becoming a renowned magician, and Chevie, the seventeen-year-old FBI agent who traveled from the future and helped him defeat his murderous master, Albert Garrick, face the return of Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and must destroy him once and for all"--
5) Overkill
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It started with a case so horrific that it sent Chicago cop Marty Hogan straight over the edge. Unable to put her disturbing memories behind her, Marty lost her job and was forced to flee to small-town Texas and the only police force that would hire her.
Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes. A single dad and former military cop, he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered,...
Police Chief Clay Settlemeyer knows something about making mistakes. A single dad and former military cop, he was willing to give Marty a second chance. But when her ex-partner is brutally murdered,...
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Janelle's grandfather is a broken man. Smart and caring, he still contains a sadness that never goes away-just like the permanent limp he won't discuss. The limp he got in the South in the 1960s, when being a Black man falsely accused of a crime meant terrible things. Then Janelle gets a wild, impossible chance to help her grandfather and right the injustice...."Bringing Light to Darkness" originally appeared in Obsessions: An Anthology of Original...
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Reaching a reunion of the surviving Travelers first requires staying alive.Deciding a little judicious fast-forwarding and backtracking through time is just the way to fulfill her obligations to the FBI and help out her colleagues from the future while continuing to conduct her own research, Nye soon ties her personal timeline into a knot so complicated even she may be unable to unravel it-meanwhile making herself the target of a couple of highly...
8) Deja vu
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[2007]
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A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families is blown up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the recovery of evidence from the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit. The unit uses technology to directly look back in time a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: would it be possible...
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The world's great powers of China, Russia and the Unted States see their civilizations circling the drain. Their nations are ungovernable and.the earth's natural resources are near depletion. For the power brokers to stay on earth is their deaths. Astrophysicist Dr. Meghan Mcbeth discovers an ingenious solution to their dilemma. Clandestine agents scramble in a deadly competition to steal her secrets. Detective Frank McCord is her security advisor....
10) Tarea-Garcia
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Charles Claymore "Charlie" Task used to work for TJ Blackwell and Blackwell Ops.But after a sticky time-travel assignment to Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s, he skipped the country-and the 21st century. Now he's Charlie Tarea.Solana "Soleada" Garcia is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She also was a Blackwell Ops agent, and TJ sent her to Terminate With Prejudice one Charlie Task. That was all well and good-until they met. What...
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia in a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She lives in Mazatlán where she works out of her small apartment-as a professional assassin for TJ Blackwell and Blackwell Ops.Despite her diminutive size, her disarming nickname-which translates as "Sunny"-and her unusually calm demeanor, she is also among TJ's best.And now he has hand-picked her to go after fellow operative Charles Claymore "Charlie" Task, who has...
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Charles Claymore "Charlie" Task is a self-described professional psychopath.He is also an accomplished operative for the worldwide network of specialized assassins: Blackwell Ops.This is Charlie's third account in the series, and one with a twist.Is time travel even possible?Charlie doesn't think so. And he would love nothing better than to prove his boss, TJ Blackwell, wrong.But is TJ wrong? Or is he horribly (or maybe pleasantly) right? Come along...
13) Project Onion
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Kathryn "Kat" Jensen's new audit consulting job quickly becomes extremely dangerous. Investigating a notorious drug trafficker's bank accounts can lead to life-threatening complications!When Kat Jensen, an out-of-work internal auditor in New York City, joins Melville Consulting, a friend's secretive investigative firm, she unravels the elaborate money-laundering scheme used by a drug lord nicknamed El Rey, or The King. Based on her analysis, the...
14) The Day Before
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The last thing Agent Sam Rose-probationary Agent Sam Rose-wants? More work on the weekend. Especially a dead-clone case that warrants an exaggerated littering fine at most. She needs a murder case to solve so she can finally get promoted away from the out-dated, disorganized, sexist backwater of District 3.Sam's boss wants the case closed fast. Sam's integrity demands she pursues every lead. But in doing so, Sam discovers a terrifying puzzle leading...
15) Scream Wolf
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"Now and then Mrs. Groener used to scream," the big man explained, "when she'd been drinking heavily I'd leave the bedroom. It may have been a rebuke or summons to me, or a fighting challenge to the whiskey bottle, or simply an expression of her rather dark evaluation of life. But it had never meant anything more real than that-until tonight."
16) RECKLESS
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2021
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RECKLESS is the final chapter in the trilogy that started with REWIND and UNLEASHED. The books tell the story of Alexandra Manning, a teenage spinner with the ability to freeze and rewind time. RECKLESS finds Alex and her friends safely tucked away in a refuge for runaway spinners, but their security doesn't last long. Alex soon discover that their presence has put the refuge in danger, not from the Center she so recently escaped, but from Kronos,
...17) Holmes coming
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Dr. Amy Winslow discovers a secret laboratory containing a sarcophagus, out of which springs a man who claims to be a real-life detective named Holmes, who, becoming uninspired by 1890s crime, devised this method to hibernate for a century to investigate future mysteries. Amy assumes he's a lunatic; it takes her a while to realize his amazing story is true. Holmes and Amy work together to solve a string of murders being committed by an exquisitely...
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