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In Tracy Clark's electrifying new mystery featuring Cassandra Raines, the former Chicago cop turned private investigator looks into a suspicious death as a favor to a friend-and makes some powerful enemies . . .
Sitting in cold cars for hours, serving lowlifes with summonses . . . being a P.I. means riding out a lot of slow patches. But sometimes the most familiar paths can lead straight to danger-like at Cass's go-to diner, where new delivery guy...
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Richard Kilmer is an ordinary man forced unwittingly to play a terrible game. After proposing to his love, Jennifer Ryan, they take a drive up to Kendrick Falls. Rumor has is that no man has ever gone to the falls with Jen and come back the same. Richard is no exception. Halfway up the mountain, Richard loses control of his car, and it rolls. Richard is shaken, but Jen is gone. Completely missing. He can’t find her, and neither can the police...
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The tragic true story of a love cut short by AIDS, written by National Book Award winner Paul Monette. In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. Borrowed Time traces this love story from start to tragic finish. At a time when the medical community was just beginning to understand this mysterious and virulent disease, Monette and others like...
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"Joshua Mason has been alive for thousands of years. He doesn't know how or why it happened, only that he can die like any man, but will always return. When you live forever, everything you love will die, so he decided long ago to not become attached. That all changed when he met Doreen. With her, he found something more than the woman he loves, after thousands of years of wandering, he found his place in the world. Now she's dying of old age. Distraught,...
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A collection of seven time-bending sci-fi stories by the author of the New York Times-bestselling Lost Fleet series-with new author's notes for each story.
In "Betty Knox and Dictionary Jones in The Mystery of the Missing Teenage Anachronisms," a pair of time travelers get stuck in 1964-and in the bodies of their fifteen-year-old selves. It's a terrible time to have other time travelers looking to kill you. SFRevu called this story "one of the...
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Each morning, the first train of the day leaves Oakham station and thunders through a tunnel under the village of Manton. But today the driver sees something that changes his life: A dead body hangs in the tunnel's exit.
DI Caroline Hills knows this isn't a suicide. It's murder. And when a second apparent suicide appears in Rutland, Caroline uncovers a shocking link: the victims knew each other.
As Rutland Police fight to catch the killer, a group...
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Sometimes a weekend trip is stressful, especially if you're on borrowed time.
Fall is beautiful in the small mountain village of Whitby, North Carolina. The leaves are changing color on the mountainsides, the sky is a bright blue, and the air is crisp. Librarian Ann Beckett's friend and coworker, Luna, has persuaded her to take a break from the library and attend a house party on the lake with her.
The modest house Ann was expecting is more of...
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Adam Nunn's search for his true identity has horrifying consequences in this compelling psychological thriller.
A badly mutilated body has been discovered in a remote woodland pond on the Essex borders — a location known to be the haunt of the ruthless crime gang that ruled London in the 70s. When one of the victim's hands is found nearby, forensic tests reveal a number scrawled on the palm. It is quickly identified as the National Insurance number...
10) Borrowed Time
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When a tip-off is received that militant religious extremists are taking over the peaceful Vale of Kashmir, dealing in drugs and guns to fund their war, two top agents are sent in to investigate. When the mission looks impossible, who do you call? UNACO. The Vale of Kashmir in India, precariously caught between Afghanistan, Pakistan and China, is one of the most serenely beautiful places on earth... and one of the most deadly. When Malcolm Philpott,...
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After the tragic loss of his wife, Jacob Parnell becomes obsessed with being punctual and efficient. In doing so, he falls into a dreary and mundane routine as every day is the same while he grieves, his only light-a wristwatch and family heirloom given to him by his father. But when Jacob takes the watch for repair, his life quickly plummets into chaos upon discovery of the device's newfound ability, the gift of sight. Can Jacob handle the burden...
12) Borrowed Time
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She'd Just Sold a Day in Her Life For a Million Dollars - . When a stranger made an unusual request - to buy a past day of Kathleen Welles's life - she immediately took the offer. She sold that wicked Wednesday, a year ago, when she'd behaved like a spoiled, petulant princess and thrown tantrums over trifles. It was the day she'd lost the one man she could ever love. Now She Was Living on Borrowed Time - . The last thing Kathleen expected was to be...
13) Borrowed Time
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You can't run away from your past. But in some cases, it's worth a try.
Sarah Landers' parents were killed in a plane crash when she was seventeen; her only sister committed suicide days after. Now, nearly a decade later, Sarah assures everyone that she is perfectly fine. Never mind her quiet aloofness, her intensity at work, her seeming neglect of any social life. Only Sarah knows the whole story. Only she is aware of the dark memories that plague...
14) Borrowed Time
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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In this time-travel dinosaur adventure, Max Pierson-Takahashi and his friend Petra return to the days of the dinosaurs, where they must survive attacks from mosasaurs, tyrannosaurs, and other deadly creatures, including a vengeful, pistol-toting girl from the 1920s. The fast pace, mind-bending time twists, and Greg Leitich Smith's light, humorous touch make this an exciting, fun choice for readers looking for adventure and nonstop action.
15) Borrowing Time
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She's a pilot who prefers the air. He's a dog trainer who prefers the open road. Ruby Freedman is not a workaholic-no matter what anyone else says. As the only charter plane pilot in her small town, it isn't like she has a choice but to fly at all hours of the day. So when her best friend's vagabond brother, Clark, visits town for a dog competition, she doesn't give him a second's thought. One- Ruby doesn't have time for men, let alone ones with Peter...
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Pittsburgh Police Officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only problem, he's already killed her once... Trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner saved Kate's life, only to have her awaken suffering from an unexpected side effect: visions of other people's deaths. As a doctor, he refuses to believe in "psychic mumbo-jumbo" but as a man, he can't deny his feelings for Kate. When the killer targets them both, are they living on BORROWED...
18) On Borrowed Time
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The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it.
Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But, while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world's biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more...
19) On Borrowed Time
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Daniella Reyes is back!She's a badass warrior ready to take back what is already hers. Once a wounded soul, she's now a fearless warrior rising up in the ranks among the secret society of The Willow Wood Women with a new 'Guardian' status.A new and dangerous mission will take her undercover to expose a most secretive and dangerous cult.She must rescue another soul before she and her new charges become victims themselves.The stakes rise when Daniella...
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Trauma. Addiction. A man given 48 hours to live.
Meet Anthony Williams III, who rose above it all.
In his self-help memoir, discover how you can start achieving incredible things, no matter where you are in life.
Opening up to deep and important discussions about overcoming sexual abuse, addiction, life-changing surgery, and personal growth through trauma, On Borrowed Time guides and gives you essential tools for overcoming your personal prisons and...