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Philadelphia, 1844.
As violent tensions escalate between nativists and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe’s fears for the safety of his wife, Virginia, and mother-in-law, Muddy, are compounded when he receives a parcel of mummified bird parts. Has his nemesis returned to settle an old score? Just as odd is the arrival of Helena Loddiges, a young heiress who demands Poe’s help to discover why her lover died at the city’s docks on his...
1042) Dolled up for murder
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Showing a recently acquired doll collection to an investor who is subsequently shot and killed, antiques dealer Josie Prescott is horrified when one of her employees is kidnapped by an abductor who demands the doll collection as ransom.
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Nancy's car is stolen! A rare copy of Edgar Allen Poe's first story has vanished! A girl has been kidnapped! All before this story even begins! To set things right and satisfy a crazed Poe fan, Nancy Drew must solve a sixty-year-old mystery that's daunted millions and discover the true identity of the person who visits Poe's grave every year, toasting the writer and leaving three roses. Fortunately, she has plenty of help as her two new pals,...
1045) At the river
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"The mystery of three missing teens and a traumatizing murder unearths decades of buried secrets in a shocking novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author. Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually turned up, bound and left for dead on the Columbia River’s rocky shore. Only Devin Bonner miraculously survived, but with no memories of what happened in the Oregon forest. After decades, the...
1046) Gotham City: Year one
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"There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That's about to change. Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored...
1047) Pecado original
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La agente Faith Mitchell llega tarde a todos sitios. Se suponía que tenía que recoger a su bebé a mediodía, pero no para de llamar a su madre a casa y no le responde. Evelyn Mitchell, capitana de la policía de Atlanta ya retirada nunca sale de casa sin decirle a alguien adónde va, especialmente si está cuidando de su nieto. La preocupación de Faith se intensifica después de horas de llamadas sin respuesta?
Cuando se presenta en casa
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"A captured princess just wants a good night's sleep! Shhh ... Kidnapped by the Demon King and imprisoned in his castle, Princess Syalis is ... bored ... The Demon King and his troops travel to a demilitarized zone bordering the demon world and the human world for some intense physical training alongside their human counterparts. When one group mocks the other, Syalis is hell-bent on putting them in their place! While the Demon Castle recovers from...
1049) 365 días
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"La novela que inspiró el fenómeno mundial emitido por Netflix. Una excitante historia de sexo de alto voltaje, lujo y poder que no olvidarás. Una pasión sin medida. Un mundo donde no existen los límites ni la clemencia. Tiene 365 días para enamorarse de él. Massimo Toricelli es el capo de una familia de la mafia siciliana. Oscuro, peligroso y tremendamente atractivo, busca obsesionado desde hace años a una mujer que se le apareció...
1050) In strict confidence
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Psychiatrist Allen Kline is forced to make the agonizing choice of life over death when a killer approaches him with the horrific news that he has abducted Allen's two sons. Who the killer is and why he has chosen Allen to victimize is a question the doctor struggles to answer. What he discovers just may haunt him forever. Things aren't always what they seem ... Detective Ben McCallum is on a mission. Someone is viciously murdering little boys and...
1051) Hard way
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"Jon Reznick has never played by the rules, a trait that has brought him into conflict with FBI Assistant Director Martha Meyerstein in the past. But now Meyerstein has been taken by a shadowy gang, and the renegade black-ops specialist may be her only hope for rescue.The FBI are reluctant to let Reznick anywhere near the case, but he's not in the habit of seeking their permission--especially once his covert investigation leads him straight to the...
1052) The Half-a-Moon Inn
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A mute boy is held captive by the strange proprietress of an inn.
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"Discover a gripping and harrowing tale of war and torture from the man who lived it in this powerful memoir by the celebrated war journalist who not only documented over a dozen conflict zones worldwide but was also captured and held hostage by Syrian rebels in 2013. Capturing history was Jonathan Alpeyrie's job but he never expected to become a news story himself. For a decade, the French American photojournalist had weaved in and out of over a...
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"Madi Preston, a veteran of Britain's elite special operations J-Squad unit, is burnt out and up to her eyeballs in debt. She and the rest of her team have retired from the military but are now trapped having to pay to service and maintain the technology put into them during their years of service. They're working for British conglomerate Liberty Inc as mercenaries, selling their unique ability to be remote controlled by specialists while in the field,...
1055) Beirut rules: the murder of a CIA station chief and Hezbollah's war against America and the West
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From the New York Times bestselling coauthors of Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi comes the riveting true story of the kidnapping and murder of CIA station chief William Buckley and the bloody beginning of the CIA's endless war against Islamic radicalism. On April 18, 1983, a van rigged with two thousand pounds of heavy explosives broke through the security perimeter of the American embassy in Lebanon and exploded, killing sixty-three...
1056) The killing storm
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In the wake of a four-year-old child's abduction under circumstances that place his mother under suspicion, Houston Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong investigates a series of prize cattle killings that are linked by a mysterious historical symbol branded onto each of the slaughtered animals.
1057) Break out
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"Mysterious and massive cube spaceships from another dimension materialize over our cities around the globe. They routinely abduct teenagers to be held inside their floating prison ships, and the world accepts it as inevitable. But not Liam Watts. His younger brother has been taken, and Liam is tired of 'thoughts and prayers.' Now, in a 'take back our future' anthem, Liam must assemble a skilled team of ordinary high school students and in just a...
1058) The sleeping giant
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To save the animal beings of Ministik, Eli joins forces with the leader of the Bird Warriors, and journeying across the North Country, Eli must fight for his life and the lives of his friends and family--and come to terms with only being part human.
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"Eggsy is back. Sent to rescue Prince Philip and unravel an international terror plot, our novice spy must prove he is a true Kingsman agent...and save the world. With his uncle no longer there to guide him, Eggsy must use his spy skills to track down a villianous mastermind who's planning to destroy the world's economy. Riots are breaking out worldwide, society as we know it is at stake, and there's a super-hot South African secret agent distracting...