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Polish
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In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?
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In the tranquil setting of the South Downs a killer is at large as a young girl suffers a cruel death, the second such death in the area. Law enforcement officers are under extreme pressure to apprehend the culprit and suspicion falls on a mild-mannered music teacher who is wholly innocent of the crime. Lies are told in open court that ensures his conviction and he is sentenced to life imprisonment. Young Detective Sergeant Josie Prentiss is deeply...
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Conjoined twins Dorothy and Vivian Hamilton (Daisy and Violet Hilton) have a successful
vaudeville singing act. Their manager Hinkley (Allen Jenkins) thinks a publicity stunt will
reinvigorate their career. He pays stunt shooter Andre Pariseau (Mario Laval) to fake a romance
with one of the twins. Vivian dislikes Andre and wants nothing to do with the scheme, but
Dorothy agrees and falls in love.
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With T. S. Eliot's words as his guide, Joey Tallon embarks on a journey toward enlightenment in the troubling psychedelic-gone-wrong atmosphere of the late 1970s. A man deranged by desire, and longing for belonging, Tallon searches for his"place of peace" -- a spiritual landscape located somewhere between his small town in Northern Ireland and Iowa ... and maybe between heaven and hell.
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"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers . . . "
Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide. Or is he?
Pat spent endless hours chain-smoking and propping up the counter of Sullivan's Select Bar (not that Mrs. McNab knew anything about it-she and Timmy the barman didn't get along at all) or sitting on his mother's knee singing away together like some...
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Ana Avdonin had always been a little difficult. Particular, hard to please, and she didn't deny any of it. As a Bratva princess and the daughter of Anton Avdonin, she was taught that if-not when-she chose to have a man stand by her side, he should be worthy of the position.When Koldan Vasin swept into her life like a hurricane, he quickly turned everything that Ana thought she knew upside down. He'd always called her beautiful even at her ugliest;...
7) The Life
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The mafia life is a dangerous one revolving around honor, duty, and greed-a troublesome thing like love isn't meant to play a part, but no one follows the rules.Surrounded by men waiting for the Russian mob boss to show weakness, Anton Avdonin should have known showering affection so openly on his new bride wasn't a good idea. Of course, that didn't stop him. When Anton's wife begins attracting unwanted attention from an unknown source, he's determined...
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Wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest: the search for companionship, love, and understanding. These captivating stories feature American men, love-starved and striving, who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives. Some of the women are fiancées, some are new girlfriends, some are strangers who cross the men's paths for only a few hours or moments.
In "Beaching It," an artist traveling on the summer...
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From Eric Powell (Eisner award-winning creator) and Tim Wiesch (former bricklayer) comes Big Man Plans: An Expanded Edition. First published in 2015, this brutal crime drama and in-triguing mystery shocked readers with its visceral violence and heart wrenching tragedy.
Big Man is a little person who has been brutalized and abused his entire existence. A person born to be life's punching bag...or so it appears. He just might also be one of the deadliest...
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What happens if, after being given up for adoption in childhood, you reestablish contact with your biological family -- only to discover that your newfound brother is a killer?
Anne Bird, the sister of Scott Peterson, knows firsthand.
Soon after her birth in 1965, Anne was given up for adoption by her mother, Jackie Latham. Welcomed into the well-adjusted Grady family, she lived a happy life. Then, in the late 1990s, she came back into contact with...
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Power grid collapses. The economy nosedives. Ruthlessness rules.Will Major, Aimee Louise, his granddaughter, and Deputy Stuart succeed in their struggle to protect the families who have banded together? The cost of failure is death. Danger in the Clouds, Book 1When the power grid collapses after a cyberattack, only Major can stop the conspiracy to overthrow the US government. The price of failure is death. Danger in the Wind, Book 2Major sets a trap...
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Strange things are happening in Jessie's life and neighborhood. Will her hopes or fears be met as she and Theo dive into a missing person's case?Jessie and Theo have made it clear that they don't want to dig into the darker cases, but when Paul Higgins asks for their help, how can they say no? Will they grow closer together as they follow the clews to the big city, or will the fear of their own faults pull them apart?Find out if the duo can bring...
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia de Mendoza is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She is dimunutive in stature, has a disarming nickname, and an unusually calm demeanor. Most of the time.She is also among the best operatives in TJ Blackwell's network of assassins. And in the story that precedes this one, she thought she was settled.But things don't always work out the way you think they will. Nothing is permanent, and as it turns out,...
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Solana "Soleada" Garcia de Mendoza is a vivacious but unassuming young woman of Mayan ancestry.She is dimunutive in stature, has a disarming nickname, and an unusually calm demeanor. Most of the time.She is also among the best operatives in TJ Blackwell's network of assassins. And in the story that precedes this one, she experienced some trying times.Things seldom work out the way you think they will. Nothing is permanent except the past. And sometimes...
16) The Toy Taker
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Sean Corrigan novels volume 3
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English
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Outside the house, it's cold and dark.
Inside, where it's warm, children are sleeping.
D.I. Sean Corrigan might have a tiny new office at Scotland Yard and a huge new beat-all of London-but the job is the same. His team has a knack for catching the sickest criminals on either side of the Thames, thanks in large part to Corrigan's uncanny ability to place himself inside the mind of a predator.
But he just can't get a read on this new case. Four-year-old...
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Lucky Santangelo series volume 4
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Lucky Santangelo is back-with a vengance!
Dangerously sensual, breathtakingly beautiful, and utterly unforgettable, she is Lucky Santangelo, the sizzling star of Chances, Lucky, and Lady Boss. With Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge, Jackie Collins continues the saga of Lucky Santangelo in a nonstop, action-packed tale of sex, betrayal, drugs, intrigue, and murder.
A scorching new installment of the wildly popular Lucky series, Vendetta finds Lucky in the...
18) Breathing Water
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Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers volume 3
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English
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Timothy Hallinan brings Bangkok, Thailand, to life in all its exotic, seedy, dangerous glory in Breathing Water, his third novel of unrelenting suspense to feature expatriate American travel writer Poke Rafferty. A breathtaking thriller in which innocence and evil, power and poverty collide on neon streets and in palatial Asian mansions, Breathing Water is Hallinan's finest work yet, capturing the raw excitement and perilous uncertainty of the Thailand...
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The author of the Looking for Trouble travel book series, Poke Rafferty is ready to settle down in Bangkok with his fiancée, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let him go; it's back in Poke's life with a vengeance, in the guise of his long-estranged father, Frank, the last person he ever wanted to see again. And Frank hasn't come empty-handed, arriving with a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers,...
20) The Score
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In the mess of love and life, nothing and no one is left untouched.After everything the Russian mob boss Anton Avdonin has done to keep his family safe from the dangers of the world surrounding them, he never thought it would come down to this. The officials are knocking, the charges are piling, his wife is hurting, and they're facing a fate he never thought to consider. He didn't just make one mistake … no, he made many. It's time to answer for...
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