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Alex Delaware novels volume 37
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must uncover the connection between a brutally murdered psychologist and a victim they're unable to identify in this electrifying thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Two burly movers are heading back into Los Angeles from the dusty wasteland of Ojai when they hit a man-a naked man who appears out of nowhere. Master detective Milo Sturgis is called to the scene and senses immediately...
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City spies volume 4
Pub. Date:
2023
Lexile measure:
760L
Language:
English
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When hackers target locations all over London, Kat leads the City Spies in testing security for the British Museum where a secret message leads them to Egypt and the ancient City of the Dead.
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Series:
Star Wars galaxy of fear volume 2
Publisher:
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date:
1998
Language:
English
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With his sister Tash and his Uncle Hoole, Zak lands on the planet Necropolis, where he hears constant talk of graves, witches, and cemeteries and finds evidence that the dead are coming back to life.
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Publisher:
Raging Rapids Press
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Mack thought he was alone wandering a city he once called home. Corpses littered the streets. Everyone but him had succumbed to the deadliness of the virus. Scientists and Mankind's vanity caused it. Everyone was dead. His wife and son included. Months had passed since that fateful day.Now the dead are waking.And they're starving. Trapped in the building where the virus originated, Mack has one chance to discover the truth. What he discovers instead,...
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Publisher:
Christopher Cranford
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Grimm saved his friends in Grafton. But he also lost the Key to Azazel. Not just any key, but the Key. The one Solomon imprisoned demons in. Millions will die if Azazel opens the Key. But Grimm's friends suffer their own problems. Problems that could kill them. The choice is simple. Grimm can save his friends or the Key. In City of the Dead, the sequel to Ghost Town, Grimm wonders if he can do both.
10. City of the Dead
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Publisher:
Oliver-Heber Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Trauma Nurse Faces Life and Death Searching for her Lost Sister in City of the Dead, a Medical Thriller from Eileen DreyerForensic Nurse Chastity Byrnes courageously stood up to her father, exposed his secrets, shattered her family, and sent herself into exile. But after a decade of struggle, she's finally found peace, until a sister she hasn't seen or heard from in years disappears, and her sister's husband-a man she's never met-turns to her for...
11. City of the Dead
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Publisher:
XCPublishing.net
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Battle-scarred and cynical, Conyr survives as a guard in Eretria's foulest prison for one reason. He watches his back. When he's blackmailed into breaking Dru out of prison, staying safe becomes impossible.A young priest from an enemy city, Dru has come to Eretria on a mission. But he has a big problem. He can't remember what his mission is. And the ruling elite of both cities intend to discover it by any means necessary.Together, Conyr and Dru must...
12. City of the Dead
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Series:
Alchemist volume 1
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
There are whole anthologies of stories out there about what humankind does when a game enters their world. But what about when they're living in one where a game arrived thousands of years before? What if they're the survivors of a bloody struggle, having fought for and earned their place on the planet? Tailyn Vlashich was a young nobody far away from all those grander issues. All he cared about was one thing: making his way through a harsh world...
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English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
From an acclaimed author who "made her bones writing urban noir" a "charmer" of a female sleuth searches for a missing person in post-Katrina New Orleans (New York Times).
This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world's greatest PI—at least, that's what she calls herself. A follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire's...
This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world's greatest PI—at least, that's what she calls herself. A follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire's...
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Lexile measure:
990L
Language:
English
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In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...
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Publisher:
Jan-Andrew Henderson
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Edinburgh is a modern, lively capital in a civilized western country. Yet it has a reputation for being one of the most haunted places on earth. This book is an attempt to find out why. It's a history of Edinburgh's dark side, a guide to its supernatural locations and an investigation into the occult in general - including this city's astonishing connections to it. Jan-Andrew Henderson is a historian and award winning author who worked as a ghost...
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called "The Lost City of Z." --from publisher description.
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Humanx Commonwealth volume 4
Language:
English
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From a #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a research expedition to an alien planet takes a treacherous turn for married scientists in this sci-fi fantasy. As the first humans granted permission to explore Tslamaina, Etienne and Lyra Redowl should have been ecstatic. The planet's massive river valley is like no other in the known universe, with three intelligent species living along its waters-a dream expedition for the geologist-anthropologist...
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Publisher:
Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
It was once said that anyone who entered the Russian village of Dargavs would never leave...alive. This community, now called the City of Dead, contains about 100 crypts in the form of tiny white houses, some dating back more than 300 years. This noteworthy volume addresses the legends and myths of this mysterious place, including lore that people were sealed into their crypts while still alive. Thoughtful sidebars, carefully selected images, and...