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[2025]
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English
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"After ten years on the force, LAPD cop Sonny Rush relocates with her elderly mother to peaceful Haven, California, to join her godfather's burgeoning PI business. What crimes could possibly happen in a town nicknamed 'Mayberry by the Sea'? Sonny's first case: find Figgy, a missing goldendoodle last seen sporting a Versace collar. At least scouting out a dognapper gives Sonny a chance to get to know her new neighbors. Forty-eight hours in town and...
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Alberto Catellani
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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The eagerly awaited sequel to the The Investigator and the Case of the Missing Brain, The Investigator and the Fury of the Fog, has finally arrived.A Breach, an event whispered fearfully by the reckless few. An act by which the Investigator may break free of Cloatos, to rampage upon the world. The prisoner of Cloatos and at the same time its Investigator, having finally broken free from the confines of the Gates. Such an event is impossible, unacceptable,...
3. Shadow spell
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English
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3.8 stars
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"With the legends and lore of Ireland running through his blood, falconer Connor O'Dwyer is proud to call County Mayo home. It's where his sister, Branna, lives and works, where his cousin, Iona, has found true love, and where his childhood friends form a circle that can't be broken... A circle that is about to be stretched out of shape--by a long-awaited kiss. Meara Quinn is Branna's best friend, a sister in all but blood. Her and Connor's paths...
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Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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5 stars
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"From a bestselling author, the heartbreaking, redemptive story of two World War II soldiers whose fateful encounter in the Forgotten War of Alaska has fascinated Americans for decades. In researching his bestselling book The Big Year, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Obmascik rediscovered a long-lost document from World War II: the diary of a Japanese surgeon, recovered from his body by the soldier who killed him. In the Cradle of Storms reveals...
5. Lancelot
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English
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Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world's ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife-an actress who he suspects has been cheating on him for years. Though he initially plans only to gather proof of her infidelity, Lancelot quickly descends into a fog of obsession. And as he crosses the line from sanity into madness,...
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Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere of a life self-centered, self-reliant, and self-controlled. Calmness is singleness of purpose, absolute confidence, and conscious power,--ready to be focused in an instant to meet any crisis. The Sphinx is not a true type of calmness,--petrifaction is not calmness; it is death, the silencing of all the...
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DavidNiallWilson
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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Evil stirs in the heart of paradise.To plantatino caretaker Peter Sheldon, St. Alban is a lush Caribbean suddenly, all is not what it seems.A crime wave is sweeping the a mysterious green fog is terrifying natives on the mountain paths. A group of children has vanished while hiking near Black Rock Peak. The twin of one missing boy lies seeting with fever in the village below-dreaming of a cold, wet hell filled with terrible green light.Ma Jarrett,...
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Federal Bureau of Magic volume 3
Publisher:
Red Palm Press LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight. I'm less than thrilled when the Federal Bureau of Magic sends a training instructor to make sure my skills are up to snuff. Agent Quinn Redmond is an uptight fae with a rigid approach to rules and regulations that even a do-gooder like me finds stifling. When an eerie fog settles over the town, residents begin acting out in response, resulting in overtime hours for Chief Fox...
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Edward Bassingthwaighte
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Kerryann Gannon is just 16-years-old when she meets thrice-married Malcolm George Baker. Uneducated, troubled and 21-years her senior, his charm and smiles cover the dark shadow inflicted by a cruel and sadistic father. Kerryann falls for the façade and in a short space of time he dominates and controls her life. Alarm bells start ringing for her friends and family as the controlling behaviour quickly escalates into a pattern of psychological and...
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Leenie B Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Dashed hopes, broken hearts, fumbling in its first bloom or presenting itself a second time, securing love can be a challenge. Hope at Dawn Nicholas Sidemore's heart was torn from him a year ago when his offer was refused and the lady he loved sailed away. Today, at dawn, she returns. But has he waited and hoped in vain? Dispelling the FogEver since a scoundrel broke her heart three years ago, Madeline Adcock has been searching in vain for a gentleman...
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Nimbus
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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We are all drawn to the sea. Those who call the shores of Fundy home take the twice-daily flooding and ebbing of massive tides as a matter of daily routine. But to visiting mariners, the Bay of Fundy posed particular challenges for their sea-borne commerce. Shipwrecks became part of the lore of Fundy life. They were usually enormously dramatic events, too often sadly tragic, occasionally even touched with humour. The strong currents associated with...
12. Landslide
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Flanker Press
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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The residents of Harbour Breton, a small fishing village in Newfoundland, claimed that it rained for forty days and nights. For forty days and nights, a prevailing southwest wind off the Grand Banks brought persistent rain, drizzle, fog, and sometimes torrential downpours. Root crops rotted in the ground, paint peeled off houses and fences, brooks and rivers overflowed their banks, and ponds and lakes swelled to bursting. In the early morning of August...
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Red Palm Press LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Welcome to Chipping Cheddar, where supernaturals are hidden in plain sight. This box set contains the first 3 books in the Federal Bureau of Magic cozy mystery series, including: GREAT BALLS OF FURY Annoying but loving family? Check. Picturesque small town with a hot police chief? Check. A rescue hellhound, a black cat with attitude, and a pet python that thinks he's a puppy? Triple check. My story has all the hallmarks of a sweet and cozy supernatural...
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Matthew Edward Petchinsky
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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In the chilling depths of "Nightmare Mansion: Halls of Despair," shadows whisper secrets of terror, and every corner harbors a dark mystery. Nestled within the fog-laden moors, the mansion stands as a silent sentinel, its Gothic spires piercing the heavens like accusing fingers. Once opulent, now draped in decay, it exudes an aura of malevolence that few dare to approach. Legends whisper of its cursed past, of lost souls forever trapped within its...
15. Anchored
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Piper Malone
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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For years, Nick Harris and I walked the sharp edge of sharing sexual desires without entangling our hearts. We maintained clear limits, until one seductive evening erased the boundaries between us. In that moment, we were free, anchored in the bliss of loving one another.The next day, he dismissed our beautiful night as a mistake. I held the memories of Nick's deep passion close, while he seemed to forget everything we shared.When I received a devastating...
16. Winds of Fury
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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WINDS of FURY Brief narrative synopsis outline The WINDS of FURY Series is an 18th century sailor's tale of adventurous suspense and intrigue. It is a story of a young German lad, Heinrich Drope, born of aristocratic lineage. He becomes entangled in fateful circumstances while striving to establish his own merchant shipping business far from the lavish lifestyle he was born into. Voyages filled with unforeseen dangers await him and his crew over every...
17. Atlantic fury
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The island of Laerg towers over the North Atlantic, a forbidding black rock with cliffs impossible to climb, its farthest heights wreathed in fog. It's an inhospitable place, whose last residents were forcibly evacuated in the 1930s, but Donald Ross, the artist son of an islander, has spent his life imagining its rugged beauty. When he finally comes home, however, the isle of his dreams may become his tomb. Donald is searching for his brother, Iain,...
18. Dragon's Fury
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PublishDrive
Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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Nothing survives the least that's what they thought. Would the exception mean the destruction of the Kingdom? He saw her walk in and knew something was wrong. Marl hadn't seen his sister-in-law since his wife and daughter's funeral. She blamed herself, but Marl knew it was his fault. If he hadn't roped Elora into going after that young dragon, well, things would be different. The life he'd built at his little tavern hadn't healed his pain. Could he...
19. Aussie Fury
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Publisher:
Dennis Luke
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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This ancient, creaky, timber structure, straddling a creek on a narrow road in a remote area of inland Australia, becomes the proving ground where the lives of three unrelated families come together in a vortex of ultra-violence, fear and destruction. Their collision takes place not long after a violent storm has devastated the area surrounding the bridge. One of the families is carrying a wild card, something all powerful and relentlessly brutal....
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"For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American...