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Sylvia Day
Pub. Date
2012
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A Shadow Stalkers novella from the #1 New York Times When insurance investigator Anastasia Miller sets out to retrieve the rose-hued pink diamonds stolen in a recent heist, she finds herself working alongside former flame, Deputy US Marshal Jake Monroe—the man she loved enough to leave behind. Blood and RosesGuns and Roses
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The facts of how Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes and the details of some of their most fascinating cases unfold dramatically in these stories that are full of suspense, excitement, and mystery. This famous sleuth follows the trails that lead to dangerous criminals bent on causing harm to innocent citizens.
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
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With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaid's Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwood's place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed "one of the most intelligent and talented writers to set herself the task of deciphering life in the late twentieth century."*
With Bluebeard's Egg, her second short story collection, Atwood covers a dramatic range of storytelling, her scope encompassing the...
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Suteki Creative
Pub. Date
2018
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Unabridged.
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Today is the perfect day to die. Bernard is the type of man that accomplishes all that he sets out to-and easily. He's intelligent, hardworking, and completely unfamiliar with failure. His only complaint-the singular source of the inner anger bubbling within him-is that no one else in the world recognizes that. It's time to force them to. Bernard's had enough. Enough of the complete absence of respect in his life, of being looked down upon, of being...
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Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged.
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Mark Sullivan, the co-author of James Patterson's Private Games, has, in Robin Monarch, created a compelling new hero. Monarch is a world-class thief and a highly skilled operative, a man with skills, a rigid code of honor, powerful friends and implacable enemies. In 'The Art of Rendition,' Monarch is an agent for the CIA, called upon to use his unique skills to kidnap and interrogate a Russian nuclear scientist suspected of selling technology to...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
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"Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful."-Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite
In this mind-expanding work of speculative fiction, available in English for the first time, one of South...
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A Public Space
Pub. Date
2022
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In this stunning debut from one of Nigeria's most exciting young writers, the stakes of love meet a society in flux.
These nine stories of queer male intimacy brim with simmering secrecy, ecstasy, loneliness, and love in their depictions of what it means to be gay in contemporary Nigeria. A man revisits the university campus where he lost his first love, aware now of what he couldn't understand then. A daughter returns home to Lagos after the death...
10) Father Goose
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2022
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From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes a heartwarming Texas-set tale of romance and adventure in which the Civil War is over, Christmas is coming-and it's time for a rugged fighter to become a lover.
Dispirited by war, Trapper Hawkins accepts a job hauling five little rich girls to Dallas. All he cares about is the money. He doesn't expect the girls will awaken his spirit-much less that their intriguing nursemaid,...
11) Eleven
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2011
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Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a TrainThe Sunday Times Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels of ever-increasing suspense, but she is equally adept at the short story, where “she is after the quick kill rather than the slow encirclement of the reader.” Eleven In these pages, naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies; simple cases of murder turn out to be...
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Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2015
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Unabridged.
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Starring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West Virginia. The basis of the story comes from a court case in the nineteenth century in which the testimony of a ghost was entered into evidence, leading to the conviction of a murderer. Jonathan Maberry has thrown Holmes and Watson into the mix for added punch. This story was originally published in the collection Tales from the Fire Zone.
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2024.
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This is a collection of "six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention...
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