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27061) Under Threat
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Orca Book Publishers
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2021
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Franny is close to her parents, adores her horse and is head over heels in love with her girlfriend, Leah. But Franny’s parents are abortion providers at the local hospital, and an anonymous stranger is prepared to do whatever it takes to stop them. A stranger who phones at all hours. Who knows where they live. Who knows Franny’s name. When Leah’s older brother, Jake, refers to her parents as baby killers, Franny starts to wonder if perhaps...
27062) The china governess
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"Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance." -Agatha Christie
Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew.
In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light...
27063) Abandon
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Rediscover New York Times best seling author, Carla Neggers, sixth book of her thrilling Cold Ridge Series.
On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a deranged drifter-until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives.
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"A bizarre murder in the suburbs of Dublin leads a Garda S och na detective into a perplexing investigation in this gritty crime novel. When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner answer an emergency call from St. Monica's church, they discover a dead body suspended from the beams in front of the altar. The victim is identified as Ian Moore, a man recently released from prison after serving time for rape. Revenge seems like the obvious...
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"With its countless revelations about the dusty realms of rare books, a likable librarian sleuth who has just the right balance of compassion and wit, and a library setting that is teeming with secrets, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is a rare treat for readers. I loved this book!" -- Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore Anxious People meets the delights of bookish fiction in a stunning debut following...
27067) Light of the diddicoy
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Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly...
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En général, trouver un message dans une bouteille jetée à la mer constitue le début d'une belle histoire.
Pas pour Laure Saint-Donge : cette découverte va l'entraîner dans une série d'aventures à haut risque !
Avec ses proches, de Perros-Guirec à Tréguier, en passant par Plougrescant, Port-Blanc et Plouguiel, elle va mener une course effrénée contre la montre, et contre la mort, car des tueurs sans le moindre scrupule la poursuivent....
27069) Hellhound On My Trail
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Jack Keller is back in the desert, trying to make a new life for himself and trying to heal from the wounds, both physical and emotional, he suffered from the events of Devils and Dust. But trouble has a way of finding Jack. When he rescues a stranger from being beaten and robbed in a parking lot, the man claims to be carrying a message from the father who abandoned him years ago - a man who claims to have the secret behind the trauma Keller suffered...
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La suite d'une affaire des plus complexes pour Mary Lester...
En reconnaissant la mystérieuse femme en noir qui squatte le luxueux appartement de madame Gougé, Mary comprend qu'elle tient peut-être le lien qui la mènera à la disparue.
Lien bien ténu, bien fragile. Une prudente filature mènera nos deux flics jusqu'à une étrange demeure de Batz-sur-Mer, propriété d'un riche armateur nantais. Que dissimulent les impénétrables tours de...
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Une intrigue bretonne détonante pour l'inspecteur gastronomique!
Une vieille légende du rock sauvagement assassinée et un cadavre retrouvé près des remparts secouent la tranquille cité de Guérande. Arsène Barbaluc, venu pour aider un ami qui vient d'ouvrir un restaurant, va devoir déployer tous ses talents pour découvrir l'assassin. Entre des héritiers envieux et dépressifs, des parties de cache-cache et quelques secrets de famille, le...
27072) L'Eclat d'obus
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Extrait : "Si je vous disais que je me suis trouvé en face de lui, jadis, sur le territoire même de la France ! Elisabeth regarda Paul Delroze avec l'expression de tendresse d'une jeune mariée pour qui le moindre mot de celui qu'elle aime est un sujet d'émerveillement. - Vous avez vu Guillaume II en France ? dit-elle. - De mes yeux vu, et sans qu'il me soit possible d'oublier une seule des circonstances qui ont marqué cette rencontre. Et cependant...
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The American Mafia is a criminal society that is highly organized. It can be otherwise known as the American-Italian Mafia, since so many of its members come from Italian immigrants, or American-Italian people. Most people, however, simply refer to it as the Mob for short. When one thinks of the 'Mob', they think of the forgiving Godfather, granting one wish on this, the day of his daughter's wedding. In 1985, the assassination of one American Mafia...
27074) Hyckz: Un polar passionnant
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Marie Hyckz est mère célibataire. Et commissaire de police.
De petits arrangements en gros compromis, elle s'efforce d'être à la fois une mère acceptable et un flic efficace, mais des fillettes disparues, un meurtrier insaisissable et des rumeurs au sujet d'un mystérieux proxénète font monter la pression qui pèse sur ses épaules.
Au cœur de ces trois affaires, elle essaie également de venir en aide à Jeanne, l'amie de toujours, camée...
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In this captivating collection of stories, you are taken on a journey through the shadowy corridors of history's most perplexing mysteries. "The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries" travels the earth and spans the decades, exploring cases that have puzzled experts and mystery enthusiasts alike. Delve into the curious case of the Circleville Letters, where an entire town was gripped by fear of an unseen menace, ponder over what really happened at Area...
27076) Dark Memories
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Three letters. Three murders. The clock is ticking...When the body of a homeless woman is found under Bradford's railway arches, DS Nikki Parekh and her trusty partner DC Sajid Malik are on the case. With little evidence, it's impossible to make a breakthrough, and when Nikki receives a newspaper clipping taunting her about her lack of progress in catching the killer, she wonders if she has a personal link to the case. When another seemingly unrelated...
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On a summer day in 1893, little Maggie Sheffield was murdered. Maggie's own father did the unthinkable against a backdrop of laughter and barrel organ music at Rocky Point Amusement Park. The tragedy aroused a strange reaction from the peaceable community of Warwick, Rhode Island. Many seemed to be more concerned for the murderer, Frank Sheffield, than for his young victim. Frank was rumored to be insane or addicted to drugs, and after a trial, he...
27078) Akarat de Ragoon
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Akarat, el mercenario más afamado y mejor pago de las Tierras Occidentales, acaba de asesinar en combate singular a Tara, su amiga y paladina del Baronato de Gromberg. Él no sabe siquiera por qué ella le obligó, pero esa deuda de honor con el Baronato le llevará a aceptar una misión que normalmente rechazaría.El poblado agrícola de Barum ha sido arrasado hasta su último habitante, y todas las flechas apuntan como culpable al vecino Ducado...
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An entertaining page turner that will literally, change how you see the world. This book presents controversial but irrefutable evidence of the earth that we live on. However, we may have fallen into a "Masonic Induced Hypnosis," and this subconsciously makes people angry when any one challenges the "spinning ball" earth model paradigm. After reading this book, you may become fully aware, and you may figure out that we've all been a beguiled and involuntary...
27080) Ghost Note
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Sometimes a mystery is just a beginning . . .Roland, a young drummer in a fledgling band, about to break big. His sister, Christine, brutally murdered. A canoeing accident half-a-world away. And the five million dollars that bind them together tighter than the Rolling Stones.Will Roland find the answers he seeks as his journey takes him from the English Lake District into an American wilderness? Or will he, too, never make it home?
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