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The MIDNIGHT SIDE is Natasha Mostert's critically acclaimed debut novel, which tells the story of an incredibly seductive woman, who even from the grave is able to direct events to her satisfaction. Isa is not surprised by a late night telephone call from her cousin Alette, until she discovers the next morning that Alette has been dead for two days... Then Isa receives three sealed envelopes and a final request from Alette. The envelopes contain instructions...
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Miss Honoria Cutworth is down to the last name on her father's list of eligible bachelors. Somehow, despite doing everything right, she hasn't managed to wrangle a husband. Sir Lawrence Fishbane isn't wealthy. He also isn't looking for a wife, but his mother keeps harping and Colonel Cutworth keeps appearing at his side, so it's inevitable he meets Miss Cutworth. Unwilling to gauge her charms merely on her public comportment, he sends forth The Midnight...
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In her newest short fiction collection, beloved fantasy author Jane Yolen's dark side has fully emerged. Her vivid, startling, and thrilling tales of the supernatural-from icy-hearted witches to occasionally-innocent shapeshifters-reveal a classic storyteller at the height of her powers.
"Jane Yolen is the Hans Christian Andersen of America" -The New York Times
Welcome to the Midnight Circus-and watch your step. The dark imaginings of fantasy icon...
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Pete Sawyer is a private eye of a different kind. The son of a World War II American pilot and a brave French resistance fighter, he grew up on both sides of the Atlantic - though he prefers his sun-dappled villa on the Riviera to most other places. He takes pleasure in a fine wine...and a good gun. His French name is Pierre-Ange, and it suits him. In English, it means Stone Angel.
When gutsy Arlette Alfani, a brilliant and beautiful Monaco lawyer,...
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Part One:
You know what brings people's secrets to the surface? The end of the world.
A blister opened in the sky, and now death rains down onto the Earth. No one expected the oldsters living at Paradise Homes to respond in any way-not me, and certainly not any of the other staff. But it turned out we're a home for retired super-beings, and now the only thing standing between me and a demon is a not-so-little old man and an old lady who speaks to...
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Love First Lessons or The Bear and the Nightingale? Try both books of this award-winning epic fantasy adventure in one omnibus edition! Women rule in Zem'. Krasnoslava Tsarinovna is the second-most powerful woman in Zem'. Unfortunately, she doesn't have a lot of power. Krasnoslava (Slava to her friends, if she had any) is the younger sister to the Empress of Zem'. She lives in luxury in her sister's kremlin, eats at her sister's rich feasts, and sits...
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2012
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On Christmas Eve, a lawyer helps a battered wife search for her kidnapped son
As ex-husbands go, they don’t get much worse than Carl. He’s violent, drunken, and possessive—and worst of all, he’s an ex-cop. Bonnie has remarried, and done everything she can to keep their son away from his father, but when Carl comes to terrorize them—stinking drunk on Christmas Eve—she cannot call the cops for help. After...
As ex-husbands go, they don’t get much worse than Carl. He’s violent, drunken, and possessive—and worst of all, he’s an ex-cop. Bonnie has remarried, and done everything she can to keep their son away from his father, but when Carl comes to terrorize them—stinking drunk on Christmas Eve—she cannot call the cops for help. After...
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She's a witty self-monologue-er, a brilliant thief, and capable of calculating all the situations she finds herself in. The only thing she can't con her way out of is magic, and, well... she's been dropped right into the middle of it.
Mysteriously transported to a forbidden kingdom on the other side of the world, a chance meeting with a beggar leads her to believe that nothing about her arrival here seems accidental.
Finding an unlikely, ally in...
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A young woman is murdered after a night out with friends. When another woman is killed, Detective Chief Inspector MacLanahan realizes that a serial killer is on the loose in Peartree. MacLanahan and Detective Sergeant Nicholson decide to use a decoy to catch the killer before the body count rises.
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It's 1960 in an Australian country town - a time well before smartphones and social media. Fourteen-year-old Sandra, a shy but ambitious piano student, is on a journey of discovery. She's secretly in love with Nick Morgan, but he's already left school and hardly knows she exists. Everything changes when she finally gets to know Nick at a polocrosse carnival. Even her best friend and Sandra's beautiful piano become less important. But she is swept...
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What is Wyn to do when he can't find his five-year-old daughter Celyn because she and her mother Marianne have disappeared with Marianne's new boyfriend? He hires a detective.
The detective is Christoph Andreu, owner of Andreu Detection Agency. What few people know is that Christoph is a vampire, thus his definitely strange working hours. Wyn knows, however, but his need to find Celyn overrides the few concerns he might have that Christoph is more...
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Don't miss the third adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series! Don't miss the third adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series! When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only to find the recipient dead – brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic's secrets. But he's not the only one with an interest. The Guild...
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There have been seals on Merrow Rock for as long as anyone could remember. What few people seem to know is that there are a whole more to those seals than meets the eye.
Rawly had a fear of the water after an accident seven years ago, but he was determined to face it. While doing so, he meets an eccentric lighthouse keeper named Admiral Nye Porter. He also comes upon six selkies in a marine biology lab, without their sealskins and unable to swim....
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A radio talk show host receives a series of chilling calls from a masked individual who claims to be a murderer. Each night, the caller provides cryptic clues about his next victim. As the host and the police race against time to decipher the clues, they find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The identity of the caller remains a mystery until the final, heart-pounding confrontation.
76) The Midnight Man
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Stanley is almost fifty. He hates his job, has an overbearing mother, and is in a failed relationship. Then he meets Asher, the man of his dreams, literally in his dreams. Asher is young, captivating, and confident about his future-everything Stanley is not. So, Asher gives Stan a gift. The chance to be an extra five years younger each time they meet. Some of their adventures are whimsical. A few are challenging. Others are totally surreal. All are...
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Clara, the most popular girl in school, and Damien, an antisocial prankster, have nothing in common except their friendship. They've been friends since they were born. But each of them withholds a secret from the other: they're both secret teenage assassins from the same organization-and sworn enemies in their alter egos. Hiding under a mask your whole life can flip the world upside down, and that's what happens to Clara when she finds out Damien's...
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Cul-de-sac kids volume 24
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Dunkum Mifflin's end-of-school party turns into a huge mystery when his cousin's guide-dog, Honey, suddenly disappears after the celebration. At midnight! Feeling responsible, Dunkum starts looking for the pup and gets some help from the Cul-de-sac Kids. Abby Hunter and the rest of the others gladly join in playing detective. But it's not all fun and games. Who'd want to steal Ellen's beloved dog in the first place? And what will happen if Dunkum...
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She'd cycled this way hundreds of times before, every twist and turn familiar. She didn't know this would be the last.
When the body of local architect James McCallum is found hanging in the grounds of his former school one cold, dark night, DI Danny Stowe and forensic psychologist Rose Lainey suspect foul play behind his apparent suicide.
To their astonishment, the trail leads to a 20-year-old cold case of a missing girl, and a teenage party....
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A gentleman by day...
Phineas Betcham, Viscount Fenhurst is one of the country's most eligible bachelors...which - to the heartbreak of each season's new debutantes - is the way he intends to keep it. Because the broodingly handsome Viscount has vowed to keep emotions out of the bedchamber. And he is a man who always stays true to his word.
So when Penelope Rosebery arrives at his home, impoverished and in need of help, Phin is every inch the gentleman....
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