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Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
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"Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin's agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
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Series
City of nightmares duology volume 2
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Nineteen-year-old Ness used to have a vehement terror of Nightmares—people who’d been turned into their worst fears while they slept. Through two assassination attempts, an explosion, and a faustian bargain with a dream demon, she’s finally working through those fears. Unfortunately, Nightmares aren’t the only dangerous thing in Newham. Working at a speakeasy where gunfights are common and death is a regular occurrence,...
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HarperAvenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
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One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claire's life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall...
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"When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges. Will her brother support her ambition or send her back to finish her degree? What will her parents say when they learn of her decision? Does she even have what it takes to be a successful writer? What Theo never expects is to be drawn into a hidden literary world in...
5) Deadly game
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
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DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations--but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from...
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Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2023
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355 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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El mundo de Ellie no es exactamente como el nuestro. Están el colegio, los amigos y el centro comercial. Pero también existe Kirby, su perro fantasma, y un poder ancestral que corre por sus venas y le permite convocar a los espíritus de los que ya no están. Lo heredó de su abuela, junto con su nombre apache, Elatsoe, colibrí. Un pájaro muy pequeño, pero increíblemente fuerte, como ella. Cuando el espíritu de su primo Trevor la visita en...
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
540 pages ; 23 cm
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"Tenochtitlan, 1520. El buen trato que Motecuhzoma ha concedido a los castellanos desde su llegada provoca sospechas entre los mexicas. Como gesto de confianza, el huey tlahtoani entrega varias doncellas de noble cuna a los forasteros para que la armonia siga reinando en el imperio. Una de ellas es Citlalli, joven aguerrida que debera complacer y obedecer las ordenes de Gonzalo, capitan de rodeleros. Convencida de la importancia de su papel para mantener...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
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431 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
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Cotton Malone novels volume 18
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"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
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"The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned if he's going to let the hitters escape justice. He's got just one lead--a meeting the victim was going to. When Jack shows up instead, he's drawn into the seedy underbelly...
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Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A group of turkeys arrives in Milkweed Meadow planning to put on a dazzling stage performance, but Butternut the rabbit has learned that the play is not what the meadow animals are expecting--and she calls on her human friend, Thalia, to help her expose the turkeys' plan and try to save the meadow"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
508 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"En un mundo de fantasía repleto de secretos e intrigas políticas, las mujeres poseedoras de magia están perseguidas por la ley. Sin embargo, cuatro chicas con poderes singulares podrían cambiarlo todo...Las Aves Nocturnas son el secreto mejor guardado de toda Simta: unas jóvenes que poseen una magia inusual y poderosa que pueden entregar a otros con solo un beso. Hay quien mataría por ser su dueño; la Iglesia desearía aniquilarlas. Pero las...
13) Alas de sangre
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Publisher
Editorial Planeta M�exico
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
522 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
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�El libro de fantas�ia m�as adictivo que he le�ido en una d�ecada! .--Tracy Wolff, autora bestseller del New York Times Bestseller del New York Times Un drag�on sin su jinete es una tragedia. Un jinete sin su drag�on est�a muerto. --Art�iculo uno, secci�on uno del C�odigo de jinetes de dragones Violet Sorrengail cre�ia que a sus veinte a�nos se unir�ia al Cuadrante de los Escribas para vivir una vida tranquila, estudiando...
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Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
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When a sensational killing rocks 1938 London, local newspaper ads offer a hefty sum to the person who can say whodunnit. A man has been shot dead at the top of a Ferris wheel, and his wife--the only other person in their carriage--insists on her innocence. But who else could have fired the deadly bullet and escaped unseen? The sheer implausibility of the claim is enough to whip the press into a frenzy and, for young and idealistic Edmund Ibbs, the...
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