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7781) Strange magic
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Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money and run.
Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There's the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. And there's curator Sam Stone,...
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Detective Harry Doyle investigates a series of murders that also leaves his adoptive father seriously wounded. Attempting to expose a private religious institution's long-kept secrets, the investigation takes Harry and his partner, Vicky Stanopolis, to the far reaches of the country to find their answers. Harry's ability to hear the postmortem whispers of murder victims-- a remnant from when he was murdered at age ten and then brought back to life--...
7785) Hot flash
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"Muriel Mabley will do whatever it takes to put Philadelphia's most vicious killer in lockdown for good ... until her troubled younger sister in witness protection receives a terrifying warning--and Muriel's long-time partner, Laughton, reveals he knows more than he should about her and Muriel's shattered past. And when Laughton's ex-wife and her new husband turn up dead, his own secrets will send Muriel down a twisted trail of lethal leads, disappeared...
7786) Contract to kill
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Special Agent John Harmon is called back into action when the CIA stumbles upon evidence that a dangerous group of extremists is planning to join forces with a drug cartel. He assembles a high-tech team of operatives and devises a daring operation to turn the two groups against each other in an explosive confrontation.
7787) Saving Shiloh
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The third film in the trilogy. The little beagle is a bundle of canine devotion- and a little bit of a detective, too- when he and Marty become involved in a murder mystery.
7788) Batman and friends
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Haunting the shadows of Gotham City's crime-ridden streets, a lone crusader wages a ceaseless struggle for justice in an urban jungle besieged by evil.
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Detective Frank Yakabuski is called to investigate a gruesome crime scene in the Northern Divide. The body of a crime lord has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence, a large diamond in the victim's mouth. Two criminal gangs - the Shiners and the Travellers - are seemingly at war, and Yakabuski turns to his father, a now-retired detective who has a long history with the gangs, for advice. Is the confict over the murder of two men? The kidnapping...
7790) Dark spaces: Wildfire
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Six weeks into the slow burn of the historic Arroyo Fire, a crew of women from an inmate firefighting program are risking everything on the frontlines when their newest recruit--a white-collar convict with a deep network of shady dealers--discovers they're mere miles from her crooked former associate's abandoned mansion. When she proposes a plan to abandon their duties and hunt for riches under cover of smoke and ash, the team must decide if they're...
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This program is read by the author.
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of the global offshore economy and at the service of the worst people in the world.
The Suez Crisis of 1956 was the nadir of Britain's twentieth century, the moment when the once-superpower was bullied into retreat. "Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found
7792) The Courbet connection
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"Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international assassin is rudely interrupted by an autistic teenager who claims that forged masterpieces are being sold on the dark net--a secret internet few know exists. The resulting probe uncovers an underground marketplace offering much more sinister products and services. Including murder. An official investigation into one of her team members and the discovery of dozens...
7794) Las homicidas
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"Este provocador e inquietante libro es el resultado de años de investigación sobre los crímenes cometidos por cuatro mujeres chilenas (Corina Rojas, Rosa Faúndez, María Carolina Geel y María Teresa Alfaro), y sobre cómo la sociedad, los medios de comunicación y el poder reaccionaron frente a quienes transgredieron violentamente el espacio doméstico y pasivo que se les había asignado."--
"Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and one of the...
7795) Ace Wonder
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A typical day in Willow, pouring rain. It always rains in time like this. A man told me that heaven was crying that day. Maybe so. But heaven's tears were cold. So many stories begin with a dead man, it's become a cliche. A dark alley, a smoking gun and a thousand lingering memories remain to haunt us. But this time, there was no smoking gun, no dark alley, only those unanswered questions. It might have frightened the average kid but not me. I live...
7796) The Uccello connection
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Genevieve Lenard novel volume 10
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"After a foiled attempt on the lives of world leaders, criminal mastermind Ivan Fradkov successfully eludes world-renowned nonverbal expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team for months. But things heat up quickly when a stranger is assassinated in the chair next to Genevieve while she's having lunch with her friend. Barely controlling her autistic mind's need to shut down and escape the influx of intel and emotional upheaval, she tries to make...
7797) The Vecellio connection
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Genevieve Lenard novel volume 9
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"Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team have spent the last year tracking Marcus Gallo, a disgraced Brazilian business tycoon and ruthless killer. Then a hacked car transporting artwork brings a teammate's past back to distract and haunt them all. When Gallo appears on Genevieve's doorstep, carrying knowledge of a threat to a top-secret and strategic international event, she faces the challenge of finding the connection...
7799) Black and white
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In a secluded New York City park, a double homicide draws two detectives named McKenna. One is a legend; the other is a brilliant young investigator. Together, they are entering a case that will grow more bizarre and more horrifying with each new piece of shocking evidence...
One of the victims was tied to a tree and slowly tortured to death. Veteran detective Tommy McKenna realizes that he has seen this killer's work before- eighteen years earlier...
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The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. In 2006, an oddball group of bankers, traders and brokers from some of the world's largest financial institutions made a startling realization: Libor--the London interbank offered rate,...