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"A modern-day Gaslight"
The Blue Prussian is a spellbinding story told by Blake O'Brien, a beautiful, young executive with a globetrotting career. Blake returns to her native Manhattan from San Francisco after escaping-or so she thinks-her marriage to a dashing man who turned out to be a prince of darkness. She had been hoping for a fresh start but learns that she has been poisoned with thallium-a deadly neurotoxin referred to as the poisoner's...
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"The Surgeon's Blade" is chilling and tense. It has been described in certain reviews as a 'real corker of a read'.Nursing sister, Libby Hunter wakes up in hospital with amnesia after a traumatic sailing accident. The stranger she finds sitting by her bedside claims to be her fiancé. As she cannot remember ever being engaged, she finds excuses to put him off until she is completely sure of her true feelings.Returning home, Libby finds herself in...
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It's the final showdown now. Angela prepares for her fake trial to sue David and get the world to know that they are rivals now. Ricardo seems to buy that their story, and David is back in their inner circle. All they need to do now is get Alveris' accomplices off their back, without whom he is nothing but another criminal. May and Joshua come to their rescue when they are able to find significant cases of corruption, harassment, fraud, and more against...
4) Redemption
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Samuel Elijah Johnson is a man with a Juris doctorate he earned while incarcerated. But as the prison doors swing open, he's faced with a choice he can't refuse – a chance to help an innocent man. Arthur Creed is a church-goer grappling with forbidden desires. The scriptures guide him, yet his heart leads him astray.Randy is an accountant entangled in a dangerous game of altered books and entwined with a crooked boss. When he digs deeper, he and...
5) Packaged
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For Tory, working and living in Los Angeles is the okay of times and the not-so-great of times. Manageable. Tolerable. Acceptable. Barely.That is until an unexpected package appears on her doorstep. Its arrival jolts her out of that comfort zone. Strangers, unpleasant and violent, come hunting for the Package. They make clear to Tory that not giving it to them will have consequences. As one of the interested parties remarks, "I would not undervalue...
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In a darkened warehouse in Colombia, a father of two and the second highest-ranking executive in one of the largest oil companies in the world is murdered in what the company claims is a botched kidnapping attempt. Three thousand miles away, on a rock wall in New Mexico, a renowned environmental scientist and experienced climber falls to his death. The two deaths are linked by a deadly conspiracy to conceal a discovery that could end global warming,...
7) Schizotopia
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Flora is missing, and I have to find her. She won't answer my calls, and I'm terrified that she doesn't love me anymore. Maybe she's ignoring me because I'm a creep. It's probably not because she's been abducted by lizards in suits; they only exist in my paranoid delusions. Probably.I have to warn you, I might not be the most reliable of narrators. If you come with me to look for Flora, you might help keep me sane. Or you might end up in my world...
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In No Good Deed: Book One in the Mark Taylor Series, Mark Taylor discovers first hand that no good deed goes unpunished when the old camera he found during a freelance job in an Afghanistan bazaar gives him more than great photos. It triggers dreams of disasters. Tragedies that happen exactly as he envisions them. He learns that not only can he see the future, he can change it.In Deeds of Mercy: Book Three, an unexpected visitor from Mark's past brings...
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When workers get legal authority to stop industrial hazards, and successfully sue a factory owner, panicked millionaires sabotage community meetings, hire armed spies, harass their kids, and raise their real estate taxes four times over. Teenaged Friends Paul, son of a truck mechanic, and Karen, daughter of a railroad engineer, have just begun to organize their blue-collar community in Shingle Creek. Despite a blizzard of death threats, the Creekers...
10) Claudio, regarde
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Alors qu'il veille sur son frère, Claudio, tout juste opéré de la cataracte, le narrateur s'attache à faire revivre son enfance et les silences d'une famille sous le franquisme. Avec Claudio, regarde, Alfons Cervera revisite notre coin du monde le plus familier : la maison, un lieu intime traversé par les histoires et les mémoires – parfois enfouies –, par nos héritages, ou par les grands et petits événements de la vie quotidienne ; le...
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En febrero de 2021, la escritora Lucy Sante envió un mensaje a sus más allegados para comunicarles su transición de género: «Tenía pavor a verme delante de lo que ahora enfrento. Por lo que sea, ahora el dique ha reventado, se me ha caído la venda de los ojos, ha levantado la niebla». A sus 66 años, Lucy Sante llevaba toda la vida buscando la verdad artística a través de sus libros, pero fue entonces cuando se sintió impulsada a afrontar...
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"The Assassins' Village" by author, Faith Mortimer introduces, Diana Rivers, writer, sometime actor and amateur sleuth. NB. Although the Diana Rivers mystery suspense murder novels are a 'series', they can be read in any order.When an expatriate theatrical group gather to discuss their next play there will be murder. A blackmailer stalks their picturesque Cypriot village. The group is riven with jealousies, rivalry, sexual tension and illicit affairs.Unbeknown...
13) Spéciales
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Des êtres Humains évolués.
Une romAnce à plusieurs cœurs.
Un Zoom sur la mythologie enchantée.
La force d'une famillE atypique et soudée.
La quête spiritueLle d'une âme en peine.
Des Emotions de toutes natures.
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14) Pouvoirs
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Des êtres Humains évolués.
Une romAnce à plusieurs cœurs.
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La quête spiritueLle d'une âme en peine.
Des Emotions de toutes natures.
Des mYstères...
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Vega Gopalan is adrift. Still reeling from the death of her sister years earlier, she leaves South India to attend graduate school at Columbia University. In New York, Vega straddles many different worlds, eventually moving in and out of a series of relationships that take her through the striving world of academia, the intellectual isolation of the immigrant suburbs, and, ultimately, the loneliness of single motherhood. But it is the birth of Vega's...
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