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Carla et al continue their battle against government corruption, and an international terror family. They arrest the Speaker of the House and deal her some justice, Carla style. Clodagh McGuire continues as a Detective Third Grade and deals a death blow to the Kamatos empire.
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We all love the idea of houseplants, and maybe you've stood by helplessly as a cactus went all slimy or you've endured the perpetual indoor autumn of an unhappy Ficus. Good news-all of the plants in this book have two things in common: They're easy to find and hard to kill.
The benefits of plant ownership are legion. Studies indicate just being around plants creates a relaxing effect on people. And plants make great roommates-no Peace Lily will ever...
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"I kill everything I plant." Does this sound like you or someone you know? Give yourself a pat on the back because admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery. And lucky for you, you can easily turn your brown thumb into a green one with the help of Plants You Can't Kill. Seriously, it doesn't matter how many plants you've killed in gardens past. It's time to put those experiences behind you and finally grow something in your empty...
5) Easy to kill
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1987, c1939
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Retired police officer and occasional sleuth Luke Fitzwilliam wasn't thrilled to be stuck next to dotty old Miss Fullerton on the London-bound train. But at least she was amusing, regaling him with tall tales of "perfect murders" in the quaint village of Wychwood. When Miss Fullerton turns up dead, Luke becomes seriously worried and takes on the case. A visit to isolated Wychwood confirms his fears: There's a dark and dangerous secret that is dispatching...
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A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie's classic thriller, Murder is Easy.
Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line.
But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so-until...
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[1992]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Fitzwilliam, recently retired from a police career in Asia, meets a lady on a train to London and dismisses her talk of murder as nonsense until he reads of her death in the paper the next morning. Fitzwilliam hace poco jubilado de ser policia en Asia conoce un mujer en un tren para London y no creaaella cuando habla de matar hasta lea que ella murio en el peridico.
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"A twenty-nine-year-old man lives alone in his Glasgow flat. The telephone rings; a casual conversation, but behind this a job offer. The clues are there if you know to look for them. He is an expert. A loner. Freelance. Another job is another job, but what if this organization wants more? A meeting at a club. An offer. A target: Lewis Winter, a necessary sacrifice that will be only the first step in an all-out war between crime syndicates the likes...
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When Queen Samara Rani fulfills the promise she made to Emperor Valentin Kos to visit his court and meet with his advisors, she knows they won't welcome her with open arms, especially when she's been tasked with discovering the traitors within their ranks-traitors she tricked out of five million credits.
As soon as Samara begins her investigation it becomes clear that Valentin's advisors want her gone and they aren't picky about how. After their...
11) Hunting Molly
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Three killers hunting one girl, how hard could it be? Molly survived on the streets as a young sex worker until she witnessed the murder of her pimp. She goes on the run, only to be caught and left for dead.Detective Karen Pearce is assigned to the case and discovers her key witness to the murders is still alive. Molly is the only one who can help bring down the drug gang if she can be found.The race to find Molly begins with the detective and killers...
12) Army of One
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Biologically Engineered, Genetically Enhanced, Warrior, Incorporated has finally created the ultimate super-human, complete with great strength, telekinesis and telepathy in a small, compact body. However, what they did not count on was their new fighting machine becoming more human than they designed...or desired, complete with compassion for her fellow human beings, and falling in love.
To top it off, now their new secret weapon has been stolen,...
13) The Lunar Curse
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As Ayla continues to hone her craft of fighting and perfecting the use of weapons with the help of her mentors, Evan and Karina, she continues searching for both the vampire who turned her into the hybrid she's become, and head vampire Linden, the one responsible for ripping her family apart. Once she locates her assailant, she comes to realize he may not be as easy to kill as she thought but is in no way giving up. She tirelessly stalks him, which...
14) Survivors
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The predatory dinosaurs, amphibious, land-crawlers, air flyers, small and large, were dead; dead in all the forests, mountains, deserts, towns, and cities of America, and across the planet. They were still hunted, sought and exterminated when found, and these rogue beasts were becoming rarer every day. The humans' dinosaur killing serum, and extermination practices, had worked far better than anyone had prayed for, and they had eventually freed the...
16) Three Tricks
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Remember when I said Two Tricks doesn't work with MC gangs? Well, I might have jumped the gun on that.
The leaders of the Phantom Saints MC kidnapped me in order to broker a deal with Tricks. Joke's on them when they find out the truth. But that is the least of my worries right now after saving my best friend from getting taken by a rival MC.
Fun fact-turns out I'm now number one on everyone's hit lists. Someone out there doesn't like me, or the...
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"I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it." So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them, we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to...
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"Always surprises and always entertains." (Jonathan Maberry, V-Wars)
With the mysterious and charismatic Rev. Cameron Ingram rising as a world leader in the wake of a zombie outbreak, a group of outcast survivors vows to bring him down.
Ingram has formed an oppressive new government and demands loyalty from all refugees who seek protection. Those who refuse to wear his mark are considered enemies and left to fend for themselves. Ingram uses the military...
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The year: 3975.
The man: Christopher Randolph Kellan.
The mission: Kill the king of the galaxy.
He is the Kingslayer.
Young Kit Kellan has led a rough-and-tumble life-knocking around the Vega System in his youth as a tiger hunter, brawler, and a bouncer in a bar. But his real fight is just beginning. Summarily expelled from the prestigious Terra University, he is taken into custody by an agent of the System Bureau of Investigation (SBI). Kit's...
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A collection of tense thrillers, each centered on a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it, set in the world of Hideo Yokoyama's bestselling Six Four.
Four novellas: Each taking place in 1998.
SEASON OF SHADOWS
"The force could lose face ... I want you to fix this." Personnel's Futawatari receives a horrifying memo forcing him to investigate the behavior of a legendary detective with unfinished business.
CRY OF THE EARTH
"It's...