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Ace
Pub. Date:
[2025]
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English
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"A heart-pounding romantasy following a rebellious princess who must compete to the death against her siblings for the crown to ensure justice, while fighting her feelings for her country's most powerful enemy by debut author Alexandra Kennington. Revna is no stranger to struggle. As the only member of the royal family without a magical ability, she is seen as an embarrassing mistake to her kingdom and a blight on her family tree. Luckily, Revna has...
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1120L
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English
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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival...
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Publisher:
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date:
©2023
Language:
English
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"For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic...
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2014
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
Description:
Examines the life of abolitionist John Brown and the raid he led on the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859, exploring his religious fanaticism and belief in "righteous violence,"--and committment to domestic terrorism.
5. Arctic chill
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Inspector Erlendur volume 7
Language:
English
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On an icy January day, the Reykjavik police are called to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach extinguishes any hope that this was a tragic accident. Erlendur and his team embark on their investigation with little to go on but the news that the boy's Thai half-brother is missing. Is he implicated, or simply...
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Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
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"A chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean War."--Provided by publisher.
On October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur convinced President Harry Truman that the Communist forces of Kim Il-sung would be utterly defeated by Thanksgiving. The Chinese, he said with near certainty, would not intervene in the war. As he was speaking, 300,000 Red Chinese soldiers...
7. Forty-Four
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Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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When she was seventeen, Abby Craig died. But after falling through the ice on a frozen mountain lake and having no vital signs for forty-four minutes, she somehow came back to life.It's taken two years to recover from her accident. And while most of what she lost at the bottom of that dark lake has returned, some things haven't.Although she is no longer haunted by visions of a serial killer, Abby still sees what others can't. But she is blind to the...
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Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Love is right around the corner in two classic Diana Palmer Christmas stories. Snow Kisses: When former model Abby Shane returns home to the Big Sky country she's always loved, she is a pale shadow of her former self. After what happened to her in New York, she can't let any man touch her again. But Cade McLaren isn't just any man, and in his powerful arms, Abby slowly begins to heal. If only his attentions stemmed from love, not pity. Instead Abby...
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Violent Days of Lou Prophet volume 2
Language:
English
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In Lou Prophet's lawless West, justice comes from the barrel of a gun-his gun. Peter Brandvold's acclaimed two-fisted Westerns tell of the bloody days (and thrilling nights) of the bounty hunter called Prophet, and the dangerous woman he dared to love. . . . BLOOD AT SUNDOWN Lou Prophet and the deadly Louisa Bonaventure have torn a bloody swath across Dakota territory in search of the Griff Hatchley gang. When they finally catch up to them, an epic...
10. The Juniper-tree
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Series:
Story Time volume 40
Publisher:
Lauscher Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
A wealthy and pious couple pray every day for God to grant them a child. One winter, under the juniper tree in the courtyard, the wife peels an apple. She cuts her finger and drops of blood fall onto the snow. This leads her to wish for a child to be as white as snow and as red as blood. Six months later, the wife becomes gravely ill from eating juniper berries and asks her husband to bury her beneath the juniper tree if she dies. A month later, she...
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Publisher:
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientist John All fell into a crevasse near Everest and took a series of videos as he struggled to climb out 70 feet of ice and snow with fifteen broken bones - including 6 cracked vertebrae, internal bleeding, a severely dislocated shoulder, and his face covered in blood. The videos of him went viral and appeared in newscasts all over the world: CNN, BBC, Australia, Brazil, Israel, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc....
12. Royal Fire
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Publisher:
Megan Derr
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Prince Tevra by his own family, Najlah and Barkus are assigned to his protection. While playing bodyguard to a measly human is far beneath Najlah's lethal skills, he can't deny he's intrigued by the man whose blood is now sunk into his very bones, a man who proves to have magic literally carved into his skin.Rather than back down in the face of failure, Prince Tevra's family only turns more ruthless,...
13. Man of Honor
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Spectrum Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
If you knew love could kill you, would you still fall? The moment Brando Piero Fausti appeared in the snow-filled night, he made the blood hum in my veins. With a body worthy of a statue in Italy, he tethered my life to his with an irrevocable bond. He was the most dangerous man I had ever felt. A savage beast lurked just beneath his surface, ready to battle for what he loved the most-me. Little did I know that he would lure me into a gilded cage...
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Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
When the platypus was first discovered by Europeans in the 1800s, it was well-known by Australian Aborigines-but no one knew how to classify it. It lived in the water and laid eggs like a reptile, had a bill like a bird, and was furry and warm-blooded like a mammal. Scientists had to come up with a way to solve this and many other mysteries of nature. Alaskan Polar bears sleeping in hidden underground dens caused problems for researchers wanting to...
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Publisher:
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
From adapter and illustrator Gou Tanabe, comes H.P Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. This manga adaptation of some of Lovecraft's best stories is perfect for manga fans and Lovecraft fans alike. With art resembling more of a western comic book, this book lends itself well as a 'gateway' for those who are looking to get into manga! January 25, 1931: an expedition team arrives at a campsite in A find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead....
Publisher:
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Simon Bestwick, Annie Neugebauer, Josh Malerman, Dale Bailey, Steve Duffy, Margo Lanagan, Bracken MacLeod, Tim Nickels, Stewart O'Nan, Priya Sharma, John Patrick Higgins, Livia Llewellyn, Laird Barron, Theresa DeLucci, Sharon Gosling, Joyce Carol Oates, Ray Cluley, Carole Johnstone, Hailey Piper, Charles Birkin, Stephen Graham Jones Bestselling horror editor Ellen Datlow (Body Shocks) returns with twenty-one stories of extreme psychological dread...
Series:
Library of America volume 382
Publisher:
Library of America
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Language:
English
Description:
This landmark Latinx poetry collection offers "a wondrous journey through the passions, the ideas, and the diversity of a people redefining what it means to be American" (Héctor Tobar, Pulitzer Prize winner) Includes more than 180 poets, spanning from the 17th century to today, and presents those poems written in Spanish in the original and in English translation.--
20. Blood Mist
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Series:
DCI Eve Clay volume 1
Publisher:
W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Two massacred families, with signs of ritual killings. A nine-year-old-child, abandoned in the snow. As Liverpool holds its breath, DCI Eve Clay hunts a sadistic killer who knows more about her past than she does. Her search will take her deep into the tunnels beneath Liverpool, boarded up and forgotten since World War II. There, deep underground, she will come face to face with true evil for the first time.