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The Hit
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: David Baldacci
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (2013, Apr 23rd).
Pages: 448
From David Baldacci--#1 bestselling author and one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers--comes the most thrilling novel of the year. THE HIT Will Robie is a master of killing. A highly skilled assassin, Robie is the man the U.S. government calls on to eliminate the worst of the worst-enemies of the state, monsters committed to harming untold numbers of innocent victims. No one else can match Robie's talents as a hitman...no one, except Jessica Reel. A fellow assassin, equally professional and dangerous, Reel is every bit as lethal as Robie. And now, she's gone rogue, turning her gun sights on other members of their agency. To stop one of their own, the government looks again to Will Robie. His mission: bring in Reel, dead or alive. more
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Survivors (The Morningstar Strain)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Z.A. Recht
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Permuted Press; Original edition (2012, Jun 19th).
Pages: 320
The long-awaited finale of Z.A. Recht’s “action-packed zombie extravaganza” (Ryan C. Thomas) that began with the acclaimed novels Plague of the Dead and Thunder and Ashes. . . . THE MORNINGSTAR STRAIN WAS THE END OF THE WORLD. In the wake of the zombie apocalypse, two separate bands of survivors journey across a decimated America, each with the desperate goal of finding the cure for the virulent plague that threatens the existence of humankind—or what’s left of it. Now it’s up to these inheritors of the future to outlive their waking nightmare, any way they can. BUT FOR THESE SURVIVORS, IT IS JUST THE BEGINNING. One group includes a brilliant virologist; for the other, an immune soldier proves invaluable. more
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Dawn of the Morning
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Grace Livingston HillMore Info | Google Books | Check Availability
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2013, Apr 1st).
Pages: 500
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Still Wifey Material
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Kiki Swinson
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dafina; Reprint edition (2010, Nov 2nd).
Pages: 288
Kira is back and needs to make up for lost time. After deciding to leave the Witness Protection Program she gets disturbing news that Quincy an old flame, Rhonda her business partner, Sunshine an old rival, and her grandmother were all murdered. Kira wants a new beginning so she moves to Houston, Texas with her cousin, Nikki in search of southern hospitality. Little does she know that the streets in Houston and the men who run them are just as dangerous as the hometown she fled. Determined to prove that she is still wifey material, Kira jumps back onto the club scene in search of another sugar-daddy. When she meets Fatu, a Nigerian nightclub owner, her situation is instantly upgraded when he asks to marry her. As Kira begins to make plans for her wedding, her cousin Nikki has plans of her own. more
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Bad Blood (Kate Shugak Mysteries)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Dana Stabenow
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2013, Apr 1st).
Pages: 500
Publishers WeeklyAn affectionate nod to Romeo and Juliet, Stabenow's absorbing 20th Kate Shugak novel (after 2012's Restless in the Grave) focuses on two feuding villages in the 20 million acre Alaskan national park that Kate calls home. Kushtaka, founded by the Athabascan Mack family, is in decline, losing population and clinging to a subsistence lifestyle. Trappers led by the Norwegian Christianson family founded nearby Kuskulana, which has thrived with an airstrip, a growing population, and federal funds. When the body of Kushtakan Tyler Mack surfaces in a river, Sgt. Jim Chopin, a state trooper, thinks it's likely a homicide; when a second body, of a Kuskulaner, turns up, Chopin is sure more violence will follow. The secretive romance between Kushtakan Jennifer Mack and Kuskulaner Ryan Christianson might turn the feud into a war. more
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The Storyteller
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jodi Picoult
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2013, Apr 1st).
Pages: 500
Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet old man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to. Until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for sixty years - --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. more
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Return to Perdition (Vertigo Crime)
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Max Allan Collins
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Vertigo (2011, Aug 30th).
Pages: 192
A new chapter in the saga of the O’Sullivan crime family from the acclaimed movie ROAD TO PERDITION.The time is America in the early 1970’s and our third generation hero, Michael Satariano, Jr. is a Vietnam vet recently returned to the States. He doesn’t know that his father’s real name was Michael O’Sullivan, and is unaware of the confl ict between his dad, his grandfather and John Looney – the criminal godfather of Rock Island, Illinois. But when he’s recruited by the Mob as a hit-man, he’s going to learn the hard way that you can never outrun (or outgun) your past. more
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The Spirit Lens: A Novel of the Collegia Magica
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Carol Berg
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Roc Trade (2010, Jan 5th).
Pages: 480
In a kingdom on the verge of a grand renaissance, where natural science has supplanted failing sorcery, someone aims to revive a savage rivalry... For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments. Reduced to tending the library at Sabria's last collegia magica, he fights off despair with scholarship. But when the king of Sabria charges him to investigate an attempted murder that has disturbing magical resonances, Portier believes his dreams of a greater destiny might at last be fulfilled. As the king's new agente confide, Portier - much to his dismay - is partnered with the popinjay Ilario de Sylvae, the laughingstock of Sabria's court. Then the need to infiltrate a magical cabal leads Portier to Dante, a brooding, brilliant young sorcerer whose heretical ideas and penchant for violence threaten to expose the investigation before it's begun. more
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The Good House
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Ann Leary
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2013, Apr 1st).
Pages: 500
"Fresh, sharp and masterfully told, Hildy’s tale is as intoxicating as it is sobering."—People magazine A riveting novel in which an engaging and wildly irreverent woman is in complete denial—about herself, her drinking, and her love for a man she’s known all her lifeAnn Leary's The Good House tells the story of Hildy Good, who lives in a small town on Boston’s North Shore. Hildy is a successful real-estate broker, good neighbor, mother, and grandmother. She’s also a raging alcoholic. Hildy’s family held an intervention for her about a year before this story takes place—“if they invite you over for dinner, and it’s not a major holiday,” she advises “run for your life”—and now she feels lonely and unjustly persecuted. more
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Snow White Must Die
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Nele Neuhaus
Format: Large Print]
Publisher: Center Point Pub; Lrg edition (2013, Apr 1st).
Pages: 500
Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is a tremendous new contemporary mystery series and huge international bestseller—with more than 3.5 million copies in print!On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: A woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer.On a September evening eleven years earlier, two seventeen-year-old girls vanished from the village without a trace. In a trial based only on circumstantial evidence, twenty-year-old Tobias Sartorius, Rita Cramer’s son, was sentenced to ten years in prison. more
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