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Sherlock Holmes has taken on unusual and dangerous cases.
Cases that involve shapeshifters, vampires and werewolves…
Dark, power-hungry wizards….
But this time, it is different.
It is personal.
When Holmes returns home to 221B,
he finds a mystery growing around his own friends.
One by one they are mysteriously vanishing.
Taken by an invisible force, which can strike unexpectedly.
Holmes's loved ones are vanishing without a trace.
Can...
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Enter the world of Crescent City, an alternate history 1930s "Chinese Los Angeles" and home turf of private investigator, Lola Starke...
A simple job. A den of thieves. A woman committed to the truth.
It's a straightforward case: find a missing husband who spends his days examining stamps. Still reeling from recent tragedy, however, PI Lola Starke wants to pass altogether, more so since her ghost, Aubrey,...
1223) Queen Wallis: A Novel
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Widowland volume 2
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"A tense, gripping read, sure to enthrall readers everywhere." -Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author
The thrilling sequel to Widowland, a feminist dystopian novel set in an alternative history that terrifyingly imagines what a British alliance with Germany would look like if the Nazis had won WWII.
London, 1955. The Leader has been dead for two years. His assassination, on British soil, provoked violent retribution and intensified repression...
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Histories of King Kelson volume 3
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[2016]
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A medieval kingdom is thrown into chaos by rumors of the death of its liege in the final volume of the Histories of King Kelson King Kelson Haldane of Gwnyedd knows he owes much to the legendary Camber of Culdi, the most revered of the magical Deryni race. Having suppressed the rebellion that threatened to tear his realm to pieces, Kelson, himself a possessor of Deryni magic, is now dedicated to exploring the history and legacy of the man who returned...
1225) The Space Between
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What would YOU sacrifice for family?Cam is content with his new life on Lewis, happily married and working as an active member of the community. As life settles into a kind of mundanity, Cam learns a shocking truth: someone he loves may still be alive. Compelled to embark on a monumental journey, he discovers the true value of family and loyalty in a bleak and challenging world. "The Space Between" is the second novel in the Antipodes series. This...
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Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette
Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards
The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.
In the early years of the 20th century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time, an...
1227) Crescendo of Fire
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If a rocketship dies, who wins? The world's most advanced rocket company suffers a catastrophic explosion that becomes a publicity disaster. Within hours, the new CEO Matt Toscano learns he faces much deeper trouble than a public relations problem- The California Governor plans to destroy him. Suddenly mankind's best hope of better space travel lies on the water, with the BrainTrust. Fortunately Dash Ambarawati, the BrainTrust's most brilliant researcher,...
1228) Rhapsody for the Tempest
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She's Invading the Cradle of Civilization Thousands of years ago, the northern plateau of China gave rise to the first great civilization. Now Jam, an ex-commando from the BrainTrust, is searching the plateau for the untapped geniuses needed to power the BrainTrust's expansion. She leads a two-woman invasion that could roil the power structure in China to its core. As Jam rides roughshod over tyranny, bureaucracy and ignorance, as she accumulates...
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Talk about a cold case, try solving a thirty-thousand-year-old murder. The Well-Dressed Neanderthal is a cosmic retelling of the Cain and Abel story, blending Genesis, Norse mythology, quantum mechanics, a kidnapped ex-naval aviator, a pitcher with a ninety-four mile per hour fastball, country music, a slacker chick, and a mischievous Yorkshire Terrier into a complex stew, spiced with a forbidden attraction between a troubled FBI Agent and a blonde,...
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An odyssey wrapped in a love story, set in a near-future of artificial people
The Sisters Sputnik are a time-traveling trio of storytellers-for-hire, who are much in demand throughout the multiverse of 2,052 alternate worlds. Each world was created by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in Earth Standard Time, home of the Sisters' leader, aging comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi, her 20-something apprentice Unicorn Girl, and their pop culture—loving...
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Des secrets d'État dévoilés par un ancien mercenaire. Gabriel Flamet découvre une part bien sombre des dirigeants du pays...
À Vannes, Gabriel Flamet découvre un milieu inconnu, entend des secrets d'État inimaginables en lien avec la fameuse «Françafrique». Jusqu'à l'ultime confidence de son surprenant client, la plus inattendue. La plus terrible aussi. Un mercenaire chevronné, qui a appartenu au «1er choc» du fameux «colonel» Bob...
1232) Queen of the North
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1399: England's crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne.
For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King - her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can guarantee her fortunes, and protect her family's rule over the precious Northern lands bordering Scotland.
But many, including Elizabeth's husband, do not want another...
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"Full of memorable images and singing lines of prose." Sarah Waters on Donald S. Murray's previous work From the author of the multi award-winning Scottish bestseller As the Women Lay Dreaming comes the remarkable "unreliable biography" of serial swindler Karl Einarsson.As a child of the late nineteenth century in the North Atlantic's windswept, fog-bound Faroe Islands, Karl Einarsson grows up believing he is superior to his peers, destined for a...
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Christian Alvarez nous plonge dans les dernières années de la vie de la célèbre chanteuse d'opéra.
Maria évoque librement les dernières années de la vie romanesque et tragique de la cantatrice Maria Malibran. Pourtant, l'opéra et la musique ne sont que le contexte particulier du destin d'une femme exceptionnelle.
Ce que l'histoire de Maria met en évidence, c'est la relation, obsessionnelle et destructrice, d'une artiste avec sa vie et son...
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The series that brings dragons and witches together in the underground beneath a war-torn beach town in Texas continues.
Dragon Arisen
Between a rock and a hard place… and two dragon shifters.
Lily's betrothed to one dragon shifter, and in love with another…
Cade's chosen to dedicate his life to fighting heinous monstrous enemies in the Aboveground, but his heart has never been able to leave Lily behind.
When news of the battles and causes...
1236) Mask Pretty
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Ever since the UFO crash landing at Roswell brought the alien Trevi to Hollywood and made him a movie star, it's been hell for fixer Rik Vale. Bribes, threats, you name it. Anything to keep Trevi out of trouble. But Trevi is forced to live behind a mask, forced to live in loneliness, nowhere he can go. Grieving for the loss of his wife, Rick understands the loneliness. Tries to help. A startling revelation will change both their lives forever. A heart-warming...
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May, 1970. After a one-month launch delay, Apollo 13 lands in the Fra Mauro Highlands of the moon-and then the trouble starts.
The first in a series of what-if stories from the golden age of space exploration, Zero Phase was written based on meticulous research, and with assistance from two Apollo astronauts: Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who visited the Fra Mauro Highlands-and Captain Jim Lovell, who was supposed to. Dramatic, detailed, and finely written,...
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A quick-witted Irish safecracker juggles alchemy and automatons in the action-packed follow-up to the nineteenth-century United States steampunk adventure, King of the Cracksmen.
Liam McCool, the premier safecracker in 1877 New York, isn't the type to hang around fairy circles on the Celtic day of the dead. But an invitation from his Gram leaves the "King of the Cracksmen" possessed by the spirit of Finn McCool, the great hunter-warrior of ancient...
1239) Stealing the Scream
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In 2004, masked thieves stole Edvard Munch's The Scream from an Oslo museum. Norwegian police recovered the painting two years later but never explained how or where they'd found it. This 70,000-word literary-leaning, humor-laced, crime novel Stealing The Scream tells what may have happened.
Retired CEO-turned-painter Percival Davenport's criminality starts when, fueled by insecurity, he hires a whiskey-drinking thief to break into museums and hang...
1240) Orthogonal Procedures
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Everything you are about to read is true. Mostly. After US Postmaster Franklin D. Roosevelt showed the Nazis who was boss in 1942, the Postal Bureau-part of the Department of Transportation-ushered in an era of scientific marvels: simulcast via satellite, sub-orbital transnational flights, dazzle pistols, and electromagnetic driverless cars. However, long-simmering feuds between the Shamans of Commerce and the Wizards of Technology were not forgotten,...
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