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21) Ask for Andrea
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James Carson has gotten away with murder three times. What James doesn't know is that his three victims have found each other. And that they're coming for him. Brecia, Meghan, and Skye might be dead, but they're not gone. And they won't rest until they find a way to keep him from killing again.
22) Simple
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Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel for The Odds, Kathleen George has received raves from all corners for her Pittsburgh-set police procedural series. Now, in Simple, series detective Colleen Greer is back in this stunning.
Cassie Price is thrilled when she's hired to work at one of Pittsburgh's most prestigious law firms. Young, pretty, and from a sheltered background, Cassie's new life as an adult now includes meeting rich and powerful...
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Simon Maldon is a physician's son. Elizabeth Tudor is Henry VIII's daughter. Thrown together by circumstances, the two form an odd friendship. When it's learned that murdered women are being left in public dressed as nuns, no one can say what it means. Is the killer mocking the king, who ordered two of his former wives beheaded? Is it a message concerning England's religious controversy between Protestants and Catholics? Is it a madman, whose motives...
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"In 2082, a catastrophic explosion rocks the dedication ceremony of the new United Nations [building] in New York City. Security Director Julia Moro is on the job, chasing after the misogynistic leader of Patria, a long-disbanded international terrorist organization now being whispered about again on the streets. This dangerous, shadowy figure has been linked to several bombing attempts and vicious attacks on women, including the Women of Peace, an...
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"In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world "among animals," where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions. A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a dark secret...
28) Love
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"An incendiary and stylish debut from a young literary provocateur Love is a fever dream of a novella about a young sex worker whose life blurs the boundaries between violence and intimacy, objectification and real love. Startlingly intimate and lyrically deft, Maayan Eitan's debut follows Libby as she goes about her work in a nameless Israeli city, riding in cars, seeing clients, meeting and befriending other sex workers and pimps. In prose as crystalline...
29) Medical judgment
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"Someone is after Dr. Sarah Gordon. They've stalked her and set a fire at her home. Trying to heal from the traumatic deaths of her husband and infant daughter is tough enough; now Sarah has no idea what will come next. Her late husband's best friend and a recovering alcoholic detective are trying to solve the mystery before it's too late, but they appear to be vying for her affection as well. Sarah finds herself in constant fear. As the threats on...
30) Heaven sent
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My soul to keep volume 3
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"During the most horrific time of her life, all Leah Davison wanted to do was get away, but in the midst of a new job and the turmoil caused by the return of an abusive ex, and with help from a praying family and God's warriors, Leah finds her way back to love"--
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Bailey Carpenter-- detektyw w renomowanej firmie prawniczej z Miami-- jest inteligentna, pomysłowa i nieustraszona. Gdy w środku nocy śledzi mężczyznę unikającego płacenia alimentów, nie myśli o własnym bezpieczeństwie, skupiona na zbieraniu dowodów. Wtedy właśnie pada ofiarą gwałtu. Od tej chwili zaczynają ją nawiedzać koszmary i przywidzenia, których nie potrafi oddzielić od rzeczywistości. Strach nie pozwala jej opuścić...
34) Too late
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"Asa prowadzi nielegalny biznes i jest obsesyjnie zakochany w Sloan. Nie cof nie się przed niczym, by zniszczyć każdego, kto choć spróbuje stanąć między nimi. Sam natomiast pogrąża się w uzależnieniu od imprez, narkotyków, seksu. Sloan jest gotowa znieść wiele, nawet jeśli ceną jest jej godność. Tkwi w toksycznym związku, by... zapewnić opiekę niepełnosprawnemu bratu. Jest stale obserwowa na i musi być Asie posłuszna. Straciła...
35) Pozorność
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Juz nic nie mialo znaczenia, bo wlasnie w tej chwili jej zycie sie skonczylo. Zycie i malzenstwo, które okazalo sie tak bardzo koszmarne, tak zaklamane, ze juz sama nie wiedziala, czy chociaz przez chwile rzeczywiscie bylo prawdziwe. Historia dwojga mlodych ludzi, którzy po krótkiej znajomosci postanawiaja sie pobrac, rozstajac sie jednoczesnie z wczesniejszymi partnerami. Wkrótce po slubie Piotr zaczyna byc agresywny. Kiedy dochodzi do pierwszego...
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It's the Midwest in the 1970-80s, and Mary is growing up in Detroit, where the recession hits hard, and jobs are scarce. In a set of linked stories, Mary tries to conjure the spirits of protection to confront economic struggle, violence, addiction, and death. Mary moves to cities across the Midwest looking for work, all the while learning the healing power of dignity from the true patrons: her community of friends and family who teach her to love...
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When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims--women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly...
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Bailey Carpenter trabaja en un prestigioso bufete de abogados. Su trabajo le apasiona y se dedica a él a tiempo completo. Un día recibe el encargo de vigilar a un padre que no paga la manutención de su hijo y en plena noche, mientras vigila sin pensar en los peligros, es atacada brutalmente. La agresión, casi mortal, cambiará su vida para siempre. Bailey no puede salir de casa sin sufrir ataques de pánico ... En la seguridad de su apartamento...
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Valerie Hart novels volume 3
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On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. His wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant, was a well-known San Francisco prosecutor-a man whose connection to Homicide detective Valerie Hart brings her face-to-face with a life she's long since left behind. Adam's...