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81) Power Lust
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With the election fast approaching, influential California State Senator Max Johnson was behind in the polls and in desperate need of cash to jump-start his campaign and sway the minds of voters. When a tragic accident on a Los Angeles freeway provides diabolical insurance mogul, Adrian Fitch, with an opportunity to circumvent the campaign contribution laws and funnel much-needed funds to him, Max falls for the plan-a decision that would prove deadly.Young...
82) The Mosul Legacy
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There are no winners in war…
Mosul, Iraq, 2016: Once ISIL's greatest conquest, the city is fast becoming a giant graveyard. As Western attacks devastate the city, even senior officers like Karl realise defeat is inevitable, while traumatised families find themselves displaced, looking for somewhere safe to call home.
On Karl's instructions, two jihadists travel across the EU, planning to bring terror to the West. German police officer...
83) Garnier House
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John Atwood is a successful attorney and a good father. Everything seems to be lining up for him professionally when he has a serious stroke.John survives but suffers a serious deficit in motor function, including his ability to speak. During his hospitalization, his home life falls apart. At Garnier House, John is thrown into the Canadian long term care system where there is no shortage of extraordinary and humorous characters. John finds himself...
84) Chicago: A Novel
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The author of the highly acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago, with a cast of American and Arab characters achingly human in their desires and needs.
Egyptian and American lives collide on a college campus in post-9/11 Chicago, and crises of identity abound in this extraordinary and eagerly anticipated new novel from Alaa Al Aswany. Among the players are a sixties-style...
85) Shudder
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Shannon has always been 'special'.Even years after the closure of the government's 'Stargate' Program, her unique gifts are still in demand. When Matt Carter arrives at her door with a warning, he sets in motion a desperate attempt by an exiled terrorist to reclaim his place in a dangerous organisation.From her base in the picturesque seaside town of Portstewart, Shannon, her handler Mitch and the ailing Matt make their way to Dublin where Shannon...
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This is the sequel to 'Earth On the Edge of Forever', and relates the behind the scenes events of the Army and Defense Intelligence Agency in the Pacific, along with more of the World Intelligence Empire, on through the events of war and espionage, including Iranian and other nuclear concerns, unto the climatic measures that eventually have to be taken against the culmination of global warming. A smooth mix of wisdom, meaning, adventure, drama, humor,...
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Silver Dagger winner Giles Blunt delivers an exhilarating game of cat and mouse with a most unlikely-and likeable-pair of thieves
Eight years ago, Owen Maxwell was saved from a foster home by the arrival of his uncle Max from England. Once a promising Shakespearean actor, Magnus "Max" Maxwell has since put his dramatic skills to new use: a master of disguise, a virtuoso of foreign dialects, and a performer to his core, he has become an extremely...
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Crush and Velocity, two books originally intended to be one (very long) novel, are now reunited, as national bestselling author Alan Jacobson originally intended when he conceived of the groundbreaking story
In FBI profiler Karen Vail’s second adventure after the standout bestseller The 7th Victim, Vail finds herself in the Napa Valley, where a serial killer has been crushing his victims’ windpipes and leaving their bodies in caves and vineyards....
91) Into the Fire
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The first thriller in the WWII series featuring SOE agent Rosie Ewing, a "meticulously researched war novel" (Len Deighton).
Summer 1943: Rosie Ewing is an agent of SOE-Special Operations Executive-and a "pianist," Resistance slang for radio operator. Their average life expectancy is six weeks.
But Rosie is brighter than most, well aware of the consequences of a second's carelessness, or bad luck, or treachery. Or a fellow agent crumbling...
92) Desert Fire
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Joseph Assad-Sherif is one of the world's most dangerous assassins. Known as Saddam Hussein's "Jackal," his bloody hit list includes the 1972 Israeli Olympic athletes, the South Yemen cabinet, and the 20,000 slaughtered citizens of Hamma, Syria.
Now Assad-Sheriff has been called upon for his most vicious task, acquiring and transporting nuclear technologies for Iraq. When this psychopath takes the life of Sharazad Razmarah, an American citizen...
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Un alucinante thriller sobrenatural dónde los personajes se encuentran cara a cara con el pecadoFrank Peretti y Ted Dekker, dos de los escritores más reconocidos en novelas de ficción, han unido sus fuerzas por primera vez para crear una historia como ninguna otra que hayas leído. Entra en La casa, donde te encontrarás en medio del juego mortal de un asesino en el cual la única manera de ganar es perdiendo y la única manera de salir es entrando....
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El nuevo y electrizante thriller de suspense con un toque diferente que no podrás dejar de leer.
Una casa de campo aislada...
Después de perder su trabajo y a su novio, Jan Hamlin necesita desesperadamente empezar de nuevo. Así que no se lo piensa dos veces cuando le surge la oportunidad de alquilar una casita junto al bosque de Coleshaw.
Un golpe en la ventana...
Muy pronto, sin embargo, las cosas toman un giro inesperado e inquietante. Por la...
96) L'Épice
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Cette quête exaltante, imprévisible et pourtant parfois hilarante, vous emmène depuis le confort d'un restaurant londonien branché jusqu'aux jungles sauvages des Montagnes Cardamomes, o un boulanger anglais et un réfugié cambodgien sont à la recherche d'une famille disparue et essaient de trouver une plante mythique, source d'une épice incroyable et unique. Ben Bakewell est maître-pâtissier dans l'un des restaurants les plus prestigieux...
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A routine flight descends into terror in this spine-tingling tale of supernatural suspense from the bestselling Dutch author of Pyrophobia. As Oceans Airways flight 582 takes off from LAX in Los Angeles, passengers and crew prepare themselves for the long fourteen-hour flight to Sydney, Australia. But then the pilot's communication and navigation systems start malfunctioning. And that's just the beginning of a series of inexplicable and terrifying...
98) The Big Mark
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The Big Mark rides the rails in early 20th century America, lying in wait for the con men traveling alongside him. Portraying himself as a moneyed rube, he plays the short con against the long con and makes off with the money his would-be fleecers dangle in front of him before they realize they've been had.He makes a living in this manner for years, until he is eventually caught out following a failed ploy. Given one hundred days to pay back the hundred...
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Dos de la mañana en el metro de Nueva York, primera década del siglo XXI. En la ciudad está vivo el recuerdo del ataque a las Torres Gemelas. Jack Reacher y cinco pasajeros en un vagón. Algo no va bien con uno de ellos: cumple con todos los requisitos para ser un terrorista suicida. Reacher se los sabe de memoria y va a entrar en acción antes de que sea demasiado tarde. El reflejo de una guerra en el territorio menos pensado.
Así empieza a desenredarse...
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Getting shot down is just the beginning in this epic story of survival and resistance in a country crawling with Nazi soldiers during the Second World War.
They fought without glory-and without mercy.
France, Winter 1944: The long-awaited liberation is at hand.
The bombing missions had gone well, and the crew of the Lancaster bomber had begun to relax. Then the Messerschmitt came out of the darkness, its guns blazing.
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