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1. Whack Job
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WordFire Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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From an author who is "like Quentin Tarantino on paper," a thriller featuring a special agent on a mission to uncover a conspiracy (New York Times-bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson). When world leaders burst into flame like a string of firecrackers, the President calls on a renegade former agent with a history of mental problems. Otto "Aardvark" White possesses a unique quality. He's lucky. What Otto discovers in the mountains of Colorado will...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"A brilliant and bloody examination of the axe's foundational role in human history, from prehistoric violence, to war and executions, to newspaper headlines and popular culture. For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill. Much like the wheel, the boat, and the telephone, the axe is a transformative piece of technology-one that has been with us since prehistory. And just as early humans used the axe to chop down trees, hunt...
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Maximum Ride volume 1
Lexile measure:
700L
Language:
English
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After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
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English
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Lynsey G. never imagined that she would ever work in porn, but at twenty-four years old, with a degree in English literature and an empty bank account, she found herself reviewing the film East Coast ASSault for an adult magazine in New York City. One interview later and it was official: she was a porn journalist. The job was supposed to be temporary, just a paycheck until she could spark her legitimate writing career, but she loved it and spent nearly...
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English
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A mob boss's right-hand man must track down a missing cache of heroin The corpse isn't anybody special-a low-level drug courier-but it has been so long since the organization's last grand funeral that Nick Rovito decides to give the departed a big send-off. He pays for a huge church, a procession of Cadillacs, and an ocean of flowers, and enjoys the affair until he learns the dead man is going to his grave wearing the blue suit. Rovito summons Engel,...
7. Whacked
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English
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Life promises to be perfect for Dani Hale. She has an almost-perfect boyfriend named Dave and a dream job writing for the TV crime series "Flesh and Bone" that allows her to indulge her macabre forensic passions. But something isn't quite right with her relationship, and Dani, a wily and inventive snoop, learns that Dave's real creative talents are (1) lying and (2) cheating on her. Soon she is plunged into the world of Los Angeles singledom, enduring...
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Pepper Martin mysteries volume 1
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Language:
English
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She sees dead people Beautiful, smart, and chic, Pepper Martin never had to work a day in her life -- until her surgeon daddy was convicted of fraud, her wealthy fiancé took a powder, and the family fortune ran bone dry. Suddenly desperate, the inexperienced ex-rich girl was forced to take the only job she could get: as a tour guide in a cemetery. But a grave situation took a turn for the worse when a head-on collision with a headstone left her with...
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English
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Giovanni's Ring is the story of "Giovanni Rocco," a New Jersey police officer, known undercover as "Giovanni Gatto," who was the mysterious agent at the epicenter of Operation Charlie Horse, a federal undercover operation that ultimately brought down ten members and associates of New Jersey's DeCavalcante Mafia family, the criminal organization known as "the real Sopranos." Giovanni spent nearly three years working his way into the DeCavalcante hierarchy....
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Titan Comics
Language:
English
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In 1954, Nelson Flagg took part in an experimental US Military procedure that saw his mind transferred into the enhanced and revitalized body of this dead brother, Johnny Flagg, to become America's first and only superhero, Fighting American! 63 years later, Fighting American and his sidekick Speedboy have found themselves marooned in the 21st Century whilst on a mission chasing down Poison Ivan and his horde of Communist lackeys. Using time-traveling...
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Hired to promote the new American dream car, a former reporter finds himself mired in a deadly conspiracy against a union boss and Ford Motors itself It's only been two decades since Connie Minor was on top, but it feels like centuries. Once a journalist, Minor spent Prohibition with his finger on gangland's pulse, a confidant of every rumrunner, boss, and triggerman in Detroit. But as the gangsters fell, Minor went with them, replaced by a generation...
13. The Healer's Way
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Tantor Media, Inc
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English
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Mikhail came here from a world where not just force, but also a man's word, meant something. But here in his new home, it was different. Not only were there few here who possessed strong Gifts, or were truly powerful mages, there were still fewer who knew how to keep their word. How, then, was he to restore the status of the Bulatov Family? Of course, as the head of the Family, Mikhail would never give up, and he always managed to find a way to outsmart...
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In a follow-up to Lord Gray's list, an advertisement for a housekeeper in Lord Gray's tabloid newspaper, the London list, brings together two people--Lady Imaculata Anne Egremont and Major Gareth Ripton-Jones--who both need to repair their less than savory reputations.
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Publisher:
Darren Fleming Pty Ltd
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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STOP PLAYING WHACK-A-MOLE WITH MENTAL DISTRACTIONS We spend our day playing whack-a-mole with distracting thoughts. When we need to concentrate we're taken off-task by the urge to check emails, social media or other trivial things. Even if we can suppress the desire to check, we will soon be distracted by a memory of a conversation from last night, a secret fear we have, or something our inner voice wants to tell us. It's a constant struggle to quieten...
16. Shaker: a novel
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English
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"Roy Cooper, a stoic, unassuming "errand runner" for New York criminals, is finishing up a job in Los Angekes a week after a powerful earthquake has wreaked havoc on the city. Wandering the streets of North Hollywood while looking for his car, Roy runs into four teenage gangbusters and finds himself in the last place he wants to be: the middle of another killing. A mugging goes awry, and a passing jogger--who turns out to be a prominent mayoral candidate--dies....
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Publisher:
Rushmore Press LLC
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
If anyone would have said to me years ago that I would be talking and teaching about energetic healing and co-creating with God, I would have laughed and considered them one of those "woo-woo" types. You know, the airy fairy new-age whack job! That's before my life crashed and burned and I found "The Me I Couldn't See".
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English
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A beautifully crafted memoir about fathers and sons, masculinity, and the lengths we sometimes go to in order to confront our past "[A] lucidly written memoir . . . Coffin's triumph lies in ridding the language of his father, a language that compelled him to dwell in a house he did not recognize." -Matthew Janney, The Los Angeles Review of Books While lifting weights in the Seldon Jackson College gymnasium on a rainy autumn night, Jaed Coffin heard...
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Publisher:
AmarindaJones
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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"You killed him!" The blonde stepped back from the women with the axe, her eyes were wide open with horror at what she was witnessing."Almost." The brunette held a long handle axe in her right hand as she lifted her left arm and wiped the sweat off her brow onto the fabric covering her left forearm. This humidity is a bitch."He's bleeding!"Like I need hysterics now. But that was her sister for you. Always worried about mere details. "Yes, now get...
20. Grill!
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Publisher:
CCB Publishing
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Denise, a middle-aged idealist, cashes her last $400 paycheck and drives south with her two Chihuahuas in search of a summer job that will renew her weary spirit. As she drives through a national park in Northern California, Denise stumbles upon a job as a fast-fry cook at Hacienda RV Park and seizes the promising opportunity. Unfortunately, her job behind the grill turns out to be more complicated than flipping burgers and transforms her working...