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1) Torpedoed
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This detailed and historically accurate story should please history buffs despite the fanciful twist.Recently qualified doctor Lesley Meredith has just got over the traumatic experiences of tending the wounded after Dunkirk. Now the Nazis are bombing Britain and the Blitz has begun in London and other major cities.She is tired and terrified after a night shift surrounded by explosions. She gets home to find that a bomb has destroyed her house and...
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The King of Round Valley begins where Sunset Hill ended, at the Pacific Point winery on the scenic California North Coast.Reeling from the tragedy in Sunset Hill, Detective Grant Starr buys a $2 million winery, thinking he's through with police work. After a year, his life has become routine, and the past finally begins to fade away.Then a body shows up on a picnic table behind his winery. When the badly beaten corpse doesn't garner much attention...
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Attorney Garrett Goodlove has a strong bond with his twin sister, Carly. They're soul mates. Doesn't mean they always get along. Over the years, Garrett has found that the only way to tolerate his reckless and headstrong sibling is to take breaks from her. Do some social distancing.But when the COVID-19 pandemic forces them to quarantine together, there's no way for the soul mates to keep out of one another's hair. Garrett, wife Jen, daughter Nicole,...
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It all comes down to who you can trust: the woman who got you sacked – or a killer from the British Government…• Powerful men kept secret what was really planned for April 1912• Headlines of the disaster went contrary to expectations• A mistake so huge it demanded concealment at the highest levelBut the details survived through generations, causing panic for today's politicians.Peter Gris, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, also sees...
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J.D. CROWELL is fired as PRESIDENT ADDISON HUNTINGTON'S campaign manager over a public indiscretion with LIBBY CATTON, a beautiful mixed-race White Houser staffer.Soon, however, J.D. discovers the real reason for his axing was not his affair with Libby, but rather the fact that her mother was BRIDGET DONOVAN, a Sixties' radical still wanted for bombing federal buildings. Libby's radical past threatens both the President and MAYNARD KEYNES, the sports-and-entertainment...
7) Page 21
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Everyone is searching for something.For Angela Clark it is relevance. She wants her place in the world and her voice heard. Her little project is titled Page 21 because that's where internet searches find her. It is insignificant.Wayne Huntsman is a lover of nature but no environmentalist, a crusader but a loner. He is not a maionstream player but he's no terrorist either.Is the fact that they both like to buck the system, point out the flaws and...
8) Growing Pain
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What do we ever really know about the direction our lives will take?Matt Massey"s marriage and business have failed and now he is trying to work the small banana plantation that his father left to him. Matt will make some decisions, decisions just like we all have to make at some point but will those decisions be right or wrong? Will his choices lead him along the path that he hopes or will they end in an entirely different result. As his father always...
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Otto Schulhof, the third generation owner of Schulhof Brothers Brewery loses his wife of 34 years to colon cancer. He only has two years to recover before Heinz, his son returns from graduate school to take over the family business. As this time nears, Heinz is diagnosed with the most fatal form of cancer. Otto is now willing to risk everything... his fame, fortune and even his heritage to save his son.Otto consults with Wayne Olkowski, scientific...
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In the second novel of JL Rehman's Florida crime fiction series, Joe Salas' career goes from small town failure, to big city winner at Art Basel Miami. His art projects are unique,one-of-a kind and bring in big money. His problem? Convincing the police that his snoopy home-nudist neighbor, Dee Dee Turner-complaining about dead people in his shed-Is crazy.Detective Croy thinks she's telling the truth. He just can't prove it. Yet.When Joe's long-lost...
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London 1888: The most horrific murders are being committed in London one after the other. The police are clueless. The murderer eludes them every time. Nobody notices the death of an old Psychic in a grand manor house away from the slums of the inner-city. But one clever Junior Detective sees a bizarre similarity. If he can solve the riddle he may be the one that can apprehend Jack the Ripper.
12) The Milk Boys
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Tommy Loy moved to the West of Scotland new town of East Kilbride as a troubled teenager, and by 1970 he has robbed, fought, and terrorised his way to the top of a very small tree. His attempts to move further up the ladder leave him dead at the side of the road, murdered for his mistakes, but his legend lives on in the town.
By 1979, the legend is fading, but his young family are still living with the consequences. His son, Billy, delivers milk...
13) Sweet Sixteen
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Trisha Stevens is an ambitious detective. Her dream is to partner with Miles Crawford on one of the high profile cases he's famous for solving. But when Trisha's dreams come true, her life turns into a nightmare she may not be able to escape from.Sweet Sixteen is a suspense novel you will not be able to put down. And the ending will leave you stunned.
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Como un ser mortal, el presidente de un país podría amanecer muerto en día cualquiera.Pero lo grave sería que esto sucediera en México, justo en el día que sirve de frontera entre las dos opciones que define su Constitución para elegir a su remplazo.Si esto llegara a ocurrir: ¿quién debería escoger al sucesor?; ¿sería por el voto mayoritario de los ciudadanos o bastará lo que decida la mayoría de los legisladores? Y si éste fuere el...
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Aiden is just back from the middle east, he receives notice that Dr. Qruips has been kidnapped and they want one thing---the Walker. He shadow walks to Qruips apartment and in the attempt to track his boss down, he is taken by a US Senator and his relative, an Italian drug dealer. Their plan---to use Aiden to access the Swiss bank vaults that hold the Nazi war loot. Book Three in The Shadow Walker Series.
17) Public Service
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Not many jobs are for life.Jeff Parsons was angry, angry enough to kill. A reliable, dependable, and mostly honest public servant, Jeff expected to ride the government gravy train undisturbed until his retirement in 2025.On Friday March 2, 2012, Jeff's train derailed; a confidential email revealed that Jeff's boss, under the guise of government-wide cut backs, planned to 'let Jeff go' so they could use the savings to reward and promote their sycophant...
18) Fallout: A Novel
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Wil Mara returns with a top-notch thriller that will keep you flipping pages.
Silver Lake, Pennsylvania, is hit by a monster storm. When a massive lightning strike hits one of the nuclear reactors that provides power to Silver Lake and much of the state, essential components fail. Explosions and containment breaches follow. Radiation pours into the storm-wracked air.
Preparing for a storm was one thing, but all the duct tape, plastic tarps, and...
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All I wanted was to be left alone that weekend. My entire existence depended on that. The plot was in my mind and I just needed some time to pen my thoughts. Ahlin should've left after the party was over. He should've left next day. He was standing between me and my destiny. What could I do? He had to go away for me to work. Who knew things would take such a dark turn?
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