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1) Dark city
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John's life has become a nightmare. He is being hunted by the police for a series of murders he knows nothing about. A woman claiming to be his wife is after him, as is a mysterious 'doctor.' But his worst trouble comes in the form of The Strangers. They are vastly powerful beings who seem to manipulate just about everything in the city. They want John because of the extraordinary powers he manifests. John decides to find out what is happening in...
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"Intellectually stimulating and viscerally exciting, The Darwin Affair is breathtaking from start to stop." -The Wall Street Journal
A Barnes & Noble Discover Pick * A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery Book of the Year * A Reader's Digest Best Summer Book * A Forbes.com Best Historical Novel of the Summer
Get ready for one of the most inventive and entertaining novels of 2019-an edge-of-your-seat Victorian-era thriller, where the controversial...
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"Anna doesn’t fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He’s everything she’s not—rich, tailored to precision, impossible to read—and before long Anna is hooked, desperate to hold his attention, and determined to ignore the warning signs...
4) Heat wave
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Extraordinaries volume 3
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"Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in action bringing justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City. An unexpected hero returns to Nova City and crash lands into Nick's home, upturning his life, his family, and his understanding of what it means to be a hero." --publisher's website.
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Aiden Gabriel is an above-average young man finishing high school when he is killed in a car accident caused by his abusive older brother. Aiden awakens to an angel offering him a second chance at life that comes with new abilities.
Aiden immediately befriends his later girlfriend, Calla, and his best friend, Mason. The three live together in the city until Mason finds a way home. Then Calla and Aiden go back to his hometown, New York City.
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7) Starling
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Mason Starling is a champion fencer on the Gosforth Academy team, but she's never had to fight for her life. Not until the night a ferocious, otherworldly storm rips through Manhattan, trapping Mason and her teammates inside the school. Mason is besieged by nightmarish creatures more terrifying than the thunder and lightning as the raging tempest also brings a dangerous stranger into her life: a young man who remembers nothing but his name-the Fennrys...
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A city-sized prison with little oversight and a snitch economy is the worst place for an ex-cop. Especially one who is losing his mind. Once a respected police officer, Mason Shaw's father threw away his career by going rogue and landing himself in Revival's privately-run prison, HRO22. Now Mason is following in his father's footsteps - he's an inmate with no hope of parole and only two ways out: Chamber Therapy or a body bag. Chamber Therapy promises...
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The debut of Inspector Hanaud, France's most dazzling deductive mind Aix-les-Bains is a gorgeous place to spend a vacation, and Harry Wethermill is happy to be on its lake, enjoying his time away from it all. Just when it seems life could not get any better, he meets Celia Harland, the stunning companion to the wealthy Madame Dauvray, and falls for the girl immediately. Harry's courtship soon takes a dark turn, however, when Madame Dauvray turns up...
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Distorted volume 2
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As James deals with his post-adolescent issues, he suddenly discovers he is not alone. An encounter with Murphy, another Distorted, is about to change his life. Meanwhile, the mysterious Steve Collins, a blogger and expert in paranormal and super powers, is creating a map that connects all the latest appearances of people with strange abilities. In the darkness of the city, another Distorted starts to make his way-Mason. He's a serial-killer and cannibal,...
11) Realm Of Shadows
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Every Nightmare Has Its Beginning
Tara Mason wants more than tourist sights out of her trip to the city of dreams, something strange and off the beaten path. But is it her own curiosity that draws her to an ancient cemetery on the outskirts of Paris? Or is she lured by a dark, immortal force she is powerless to resist? When she realizes someone is chasing after her, a shadowy figure getting closer and closer, how quickly the dream becomes nightmare...
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12) Jude the obscure
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Jude the Obscure, the semi-autobiographical final novel from Thomas Hardy explores notions of surprising candor; within the eponymous protagonist lies the tragic truth of failed ambitions and relationships. In a fierce exploration of the darkness of love and the intellect, this is one of the great tragic novels of English literature.
Jude Fawley, an earnest boy from a rural English village, dreams of a life of academia despite his working-class background....
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"Full of all the small details and little-known historical facts that make it hard to put down. A perfect read on those dark, lonely nights when only a golden ghost tale will do!"
-Jackie Ganiy, president and lead paranormal investigator of S.P.I.R.I.T. in Sonoma County
This handbook of the hauntings of California's Gold Rush Highway, the historic stretch of land along State Route 49, provides a thrilling tour of the paranormal activity in some...
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War is coming to the Green Realm. The Black city is filling fast with the deadly hoards that have been sent from Scotland. Boats are arriving packed with forces sent from London by Mason Knox, and they have only one thing in mind, the total destruction of York on route to Loxley.
It is a time for the coming of Queens, as Runestone nears her moment of birth, yet the happy event brings great fear, as the Woodland Realm knows, the birth of a new queen...
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"Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history--a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker's Meridian and Ntozake Shange's Betsey Browne.At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political protests, and the birth of Black power, three coeds from New York...
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Set in the summer of 1968, a provocative and devastating novel of individual lives caught in the grips of violent history-a timely and poignant story that reverberates with the power of Alice Walker's Meridian and Ntozake Shange's Betsey Browne. At the end of a sweltering summer shaped by the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy, race riots, political protests, and the birth of Black power, three coeds from New York...
18) Bad words
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Guy Trilby is a 40-year-old who finds a loophole in the rules of The Golden Quill national spelling bee and decides to cause trouble by hijacking the competition. While reporter Jenny Widgeon attempts to discover his true motivation, Guy finds himself forging an unlikely alliance with a competitor: awkward ten-year-old Chaitanya Chopra, who is completely unfazed by Guy's take-no-prisoners approach to life.
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A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that opens old wounds and forces them to address the issues...
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"The remarkable and inspiring story of William Still, an unknown abolitionist who dedicated his life to managing a critical section of the Underground Railroad in Philadelphia--the free state directly north of the Mason-Dixon line--helping hundreds of people escape from slavery"--Provided by publisher.
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