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"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
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"1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine: a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life. Camille: a beautiful, young second wife whom some suspect is a gold digger. Meredith: a stripper who was in a relationship with the firm's only female partner....
3) The Vain
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Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is taken-only blood. It's the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it's part of a wider plot to weaken the United States by depriving it of its blood supply. But the truth is much more sinister.
The four robbers are vampires: immortal, physically powerful, and after decades of honing their...
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In the insatiable quest for natural resources, humans are searching further and deeper into the earth, threatening to unleash monsters thought to be long gone... PUBLICATION IN 10 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. The megalodon, the prehistoric ancestor of the great white shark was the most ferocious predator of the seas, an 80 foot killing machine extinct for millions of years But when divers drilling in an underwater cave are attacked by this living fossil,...
6) Blockhead
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Tommy, left alone to be raised by an abusive father, finds solace in a mysterious stranger who only comes around every October. Having become reclusive, Tommy has lost any friends that he once had and looks forward to these annual visits. This year the visit will be different. Tommy and the visitor who exists just beyond the shadows have made plans. This October, Tommy will show them all that he is no blockhead
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"Mein Name ist Jenny und in 365 Tagen werde ich tot sein."
Als Jennifer in eine Nervenheilanstalt eingeliefert wird, will sie nur noch sterben. Der jungen Frau mit dem Spitznamen Dornröschen wurden schreckliche Dinge angetan - aber niemand im Dorf will ihr helfen. Selbst die Polizei rührt keinen Finger! Aber der Gedanke an Rache gibt ihr neue Kraft und sie beschließt, es ihren Peinigern heimzuzahlen. Denn in dem abgelegenen Ort hat jeder ein finsteres...
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Drei Geschichten, die Begegnungen mit dem Bösen erzählen. Exzellent geschrieben, atmosphärisch-dicht, spannend und düster, zeigen sie die Vielseitigkeit von Simon Beckett als Spannungsautor. Gänsehaut garantiert!
Ein Mann kehrt in das Dorf seiner Kindheit zurück und beschwört die Erinnerung an einen dunklen Sommer herauf. Damals machten er und seine Freunde auf der Mülldeponie eine schreckliche Entdeckung... Ein junger Mann glaubt, alles erreicht...
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Rico, 23 Jahre, 147 kg schwer, hochintelligent, soziophob, hat mit 15 Jahren die Schule abgebrochen und wohnt seitdem komplett zurückgezogen bei seiner Großmutter in tendenziell prekären Umständen. Parallel lebt er digital in einem aufregenden Computerspiel. Er verachtet die Menschen und was sie aus ihrer Welt gemacht haben.
Zaire, 23 Jahre, lebensbejahend, sehr sozial, die neue Pflegerin seiner Oma, reißt Rico ins reale Leben hinein. Sie liebt...
10) Paradise City
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Deutschland in der Zukunft. Die Küsten sind überschwemmt, weite Teile des Landes sind entvölkert, und die Natur erobert sich verlassene Ortschaften zurück. Berlin ist nur noch eine Kulisse für Touristen. Regierungssitz ist Frankfurt, das mit dem gesamten Rhein-Main-Gebiet zu einer einzigen Megacity verschmolzen ist. Dort, wo es eine Infrastruktur gibt, funktioniert sie einwandfrei. Nahezu das gesamte Leben wird von Algorithmen gesteuert. Allen...
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Ein Langboot stürzt im Wildwasser des Weißen Flusses den Großen Fall hinab. Fünf Menschen ertrinken. Der Schleusenwärter, als "Fallmeister" ein Herr über Leben und Tod, hätte dieses Unglück verhindern müssen. Sein Sohn glaubt nicht an einen Unfall: Ist sein jähzorniger, von der Vergangenheit besessener Vater zum Mörder geworden? Wie der Fallmeister ist auch sein Sohn mit der Macht des Wassers vertraut. Er arbeitet als Hydrotechniker an...
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With an irresistible blend of adventure, suspense, and superb storytelling, this page-turning novel from the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author will delight fans of Nora Roberts, James Patterson, and Rachel Caine.
For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career...
For Melanie Drake, school guidance counselor in a small Virginia town, the day's challenges typically involve a playground scuffle or a student skipping school. It's worlds away from her previous career...
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A Best Book of the Year by Financial Times and Bloomberg
Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin’s regime.
Known as the “Wizard of the Kremlin,” the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka “The Czar.” After his resignation from this position, legends...
Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin’s regime.
Known as the “Wizard of the Kremlin,” the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka “The Czar.” After his resignation from this position, legends...
14) Layer Cake
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The inspiration for the major motion picture starring Daniel Craig: a high-octane crime novel set in the dangerous London underworld of the 1990s.
Kingpins, dealers, rival gangs, false allegiances, bad faith, and good money. There are many levels to the world of drugs lurking beneath the polished surface of London—a “layer cake” of crime that can chew up and spit out even the most experienced of players....
Kingpins, dealers, rival gangs, false allegiances, bad faith, and good money. There are many levels to the world of drugs lurking beneath the polished surface of London—a “layer cake” of crime that can chew up and spit out even the most experienced of players....
15) Royal Scandal
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The second book in the Royal Blood series about an American girl who threatens the royal family by exposing their darkest scandals—even as they get more sinister.
American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse.
From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President's son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess...
American girl turned monarchy nightmare, Evan Bright, has gotten used to the press about her but the media attention has only seemed to get worse.
From desperate clickbait articles about her and the President's son to Royal Record headlines pitting her against Princess...
16) Silent Key
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A detective, supernatural mystery for fans of Kelley Armstrong and Rachel Caine, with elements of Nick Cutter's The Deep and Stephen King's Firestarter.
After the loss of her husband under mysterious circumstances, former Detective Cam Ambrose learns how little she truly knew him. Reeling with the grief of her loss and the realization that the man she loved was a stranger, she must learn how to keep her young daughter safe...
After the loss of her husband under mysterious circumstances, former Detective Cam Ambrose learns how little she truly knew him. Reeling with the grief of her loss and the realization that the man she loved was a stranger, she must learn how to keep her young daughter safe...