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1. Ruin road
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High school football player Cade Webster buys a ring in a pawn shop, but when his wish that people stop acting scared of him seems to be coming true, he remembers the ring came with a warning--"When the strangeness begins, come back"-- and suddenly peopleseem to have lost their fear of everything.
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In this "furiously funny" new novel from Donald Westlake, career thief John Dortmunder is back to steal a fleet of vintage cars from a corrupt CEO (New York Times).
The con is on. The mark is Monroe Hall, a CEO who lavished more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined.
The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing.
The catch? Trying to outsmart...
The con is on. The mark is Monroe Hall, a CEO who lavished more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined.
The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing.
The catch? Trying to outsmart...
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Ill-mannered ladies volume 2
Publisher:
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"In Regency England, the eccentric Colebrook sisters are amateur detectives who use their wits and invisibility as "old maids" to fight injustice in this delightful and fiercely feminist novel of mystery and adventure from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman. To most of Regency high society, forty-two-year-old Lady Augusta Colebrook, or Gus, and her twin sister, Julia, are just unmarried ladies of a certain age-hardly worth a second glance....
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Ice cream shop mystery volume 1
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Riley Rhodes, travel food blogger and librarian at the CIA, makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut - land of dairy farms and covered bridges - for a funeral. Despite the circumstances, Riley's trip home is sprinkled with reunions with old friends, visits to her father's cozy bookshop on the town green, and joyful hours behind the counter at the beloved Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop. It feels like a time to help...
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Considered a spinster, Lady Drusilla Rudney has only one role in life: to chaperone her sister. So when her flighty sibling elopes, Dru knows she has to stop her! She employs the help of a traveling companion, who looks harmless ;. Former army captain John Hendricks is intrigued by this damsel in distress. Once embroiled with her in a mad dash across England, he discovers that Dru is no simpering woman. Her unconventional ways make him want to forget...
7. Road to ruin
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Publisher:
Saga Press
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-speed chase across a climate-ravaged wasteland, featuring motorcycles, monsters, and magic. Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She's a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by magic. Every day, she braves the wasteland's dangers-deadly storms, roving marauders, and territorial beasts-to...
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Publisher:
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"August 1945. As Stefano, an Italian POW, heads toward home across war-ravaged Germany, he encounters a young child beside his dead mother. Unable to leave him to an unknown fate, Stefano takes the boy with him, finding refuge in a seemingly abandoned house in a secluded woodland. But the house is far from vacant. Stefano wakes at the arrival of its owner, Erich, a former German soldier, who invites the travelers to stay until they can find safe passage...
9. Road to Ruin
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Trixie Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Daisy CarverWho knew a wardrobe malfunction would change the trajectory of my life? My father is the VP of the Dogs of Fire MC and I've grown up believing that I was destined to fall in love and marry a biker of my very own, but a pair of patent leather pants and a broken zipper changed all that. Huck WiltonI was a starting rookie for the Hurricanes, but my NHL career ended before it even had a chance to begin. Now I'm back home, licking my wounds,...
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Steven Garvey
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Steve's life from childhood to retirement is told in a series of short stories where he explains his early passion for lorries and how he manifested that to try and reach his goal in life: to have and run his own vehicle. Along the way he was sidetracked from his path and his life changed dramatically, resulting in him drifting for a while into a life he had not envisaged.The book tells of Steve and his wife Pat, ordinary working class people, and...
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Publisher:
Portfolio
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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"The bestselling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors. A drumbeat is sounding among the global elites. The signs of a worldwide financial meltdown are unmistakable. This time, the elites have an audacious plan to protect themselves from the fallout: hoarding cash now and locking down the global financial system when a crisis hits. Since 2014, international...
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Marvel Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Dreams and nightmares! Moon Knight wrestles with revelations from a savage murder - and there's more blood on the streets as assassins work their way through the list of names who once formed his Shadow Cabinet! But with a number of potential targets and no idea who's next, how can Moon Knight save his former associates? And when a sinister pied piper plays a deadly tune - one that spells death and chaos to all who hear it - Marc must figure out how...
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BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
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The Erden Archives: A Monthly Short Fiction Series by Whisky Wilson. In a digital world, truth is numeral, and whoever holds the code can break free or enslave. Erden is a world on the brink of cataclysm. Overpopulated and unenlightened, humanity settled into a comfortable cycle of technological progress at a considerable, hidden expense. Shadow players move people, private militaries, and entire governments in a games of winner-take-all chess. From...
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Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"In this easy to use, informative, and occasionally eccentric guidebook, David A. Steinberg blazes the trail to more than twenty-five unusual landmarks and hard-to-find destinations that are mostly within a two-hour drive of New York City. Suitable for the experienced hiker or camping adventurer--as well as anyone that has the desire to explore--Hiking the Road to Ruins has been updated to include detailed directions and GPS coordinates to specific...
20. The road
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670L
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English
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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In this postapocalyptic novel, a father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they...