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The Case of the Ace of Spades
Volume One in the Vincent Gideon Detective Series
Book 7
In the stack of envelopes on top of Gideon's desk, one was curiously unlabeled, the same as any random piece of junk. He slid it open nonetheless. All the envelope contained was a simple leaf... dark green with serrated edges, finely divided and lacy. It was almost triangular, broad at the base with the tip tapering to an almost point. No sooner did he lay the...
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A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are.
When David Matthews's mother abandoned him as an infant, she left him with white skin and the rumor that he might be half Jewish. For the next twenty years, he would be torn between his actual life as a black boy in the ghetto of 1980s Baltimore and a largely imagined world of white privilege.
While his father, a black activist who counted Malcolm X among his friends, worked long...
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It all started with a murder 20 years earlier. A ragpicker was found in a closet, stabbed in the back with a jewelled dagger-through an ace of spades! There's a reward for the solution to this old murder and Bill Chattuck, driver for MacWhorter's Motorized Circus, must get that reward-and prove the legitimacy of his girl, Melody-or they'll never get married! But first, there's the matter of that rare copy of Beowulf with a secret coded message in...
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Gideon – The Final Chapter
Case of the Ace of Spades – Volume 2
Book 8 in the Gideon Detective Series
By the time the world's greatest detective figures out whodunnit… his own son could die in the electric chair in this murder and mystery suspense novel.
There was only one case out of hundreds of cold cases that Vincent James Gideon never wholly solved, Rosenthall. (Read about it in Book 1 of the Gideon Detective Series.) If that should...
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When her beloved fiancé is found dead after the Great Blizzard of 1888 in New York City, heiress Prudence MacKenzie, suspecting foul play, turns to her fiancé's best friend, a former Pinkerton agent, to discover the truth and find protection from sinister forces.
11) Delta Force
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Learn about the special operations forces unit Delta Force.
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Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime. During a lull in business, Tommy and Tuppence amuse themselves by perusing the paper's personal columns. One cryptic ad reads, "Three hearts … 12 tricks … Ace of Spades … finesse the King." Tommy is certain it is a secret message indicating a crime about to be committed.
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U.S. Marine Corps aviation unit insignia from 1941-1946. (From Prologue) During WWI Marine Corps Aviation personnel used a shoulder sleeve insignia. Marine Corps aviation unit insignia first came into use during the mid 1920's with the Ace Of Spades insignia of the 1st Air Squadron and the Running Red Devil insignia of VF-3M.
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A1 Odyssey volume 3
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With EXCLUSIVE DIGITAL CONTENT including original art and sketches! September 12th, 2003. Blazing Glory is in Al Basrah, Iraq to capture a very important player in the region. No one has been told who their target is... but they're betting on it being the Ace of Spades!
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Eighteen-year-old Adina Walker, a scholarship student at a prestigious academy, faces the consequences of a single mistake and competes in a high-stakes contest hosted by the wealthy Remington family, where she uncovers unsettling truths about the sponsors and the contest's high stakes.
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Ponder probability, starting with the chances of getting an ace of spades when you turn over the top cards on two well-shuffled decks. In probability, it's a safe bet that your first instinct is wrong! Investigate other phenomena, including the chances that your suitcase is lost when 98 percent of the luggage has arrived at baggage claim, but yours has not.
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Wonderland volume 31
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With her mother ruling as the White Queen of Wonderland, Violet finally has the opportunity for a normal life. But first Violet must battle the beasts that stalked her all the way back to Earth. Is this a part of the Ace of Spades' scheme to destroy the Liddles, or is the Mad Hatter making a final play for Violet?
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"Motörhead, remember me now, Motörhead, alright!" Lemmy, Phil, Fast Eddie and the Rise of Motörhead is the first book to celebrate the classic-era Motörhead lineup of Lemmy Kilmister, "Fast" Eddie Clarke, and Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor. Through interviews with all of the principal troublemakers, Martin Popoff celebrates the formation of the band and the records that made them legends: Motörhead, Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, No Sleep 'til...
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Wonderland volume 42
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A new chapter in the world of Wonderland begins... Calie Liddle has lost everything. Wonderland has fallen to madness, her daughter is possessed by the Mad Hatter, and the Ace of Spades has crushed all of the hope her reign has fostered in the Realm of Dreams. However, when the evils of Wonderland begin to spill over into Earth, Calie finds new purpose in defending her world from the coming madness.
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Wonderland volume 37
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With the Terror unleashed on Wonderland, everything that Calie has built will come tumbling down...After a stretch of peace, war returns to Wonderland... along with the tyrannical Ace of Spades, the trickster known as the Red Rabbit, and Calie's own daughter, Violet, who has been corrupted by the spirit of the Mad Hatter. As Calie rallies her troops, madness threatens to invade the Realm of Dreams once again!
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