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Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
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The story of a vapid bank clerk who descended to murder for the sake of a bank roll and immediate security, and who spent the rest of his life guarding the secret burial spot in the dingy city backyard, while his family ran riot on the money he more or less accidentally made on a fluke. The interest lies more in the development of the relations of the man to his down-trodden wife, his son and daughter; in the aftermath of murder. When eventually he...
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Terminal list volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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On his last combat deployment, Lieutenant Commander James Reece's entire team was killed in a catastrophic ambush that also claimed the lives of the aircrew sent in to rescue them. But when those dearest to him are murdered on the day of his homecoming, Reece discovers that this was not an act of war by a foreign enemy but a conspiracy that runs to the highest levels of government. Now, with no family and free from the military's command structure,...
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2023.
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English
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Set at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, Rosa Mancuso, known as Madame Mystique who mixes magic with a dose of burlesque, plots her revenge for the murders of her family while protecting her cousin from a dangerous mobster, making vengeance a family affair.
5) The searcher
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Solomon Creed novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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On a hilltop in the town of Redemption, Arizona, the townspeople gather at an old cemetery for the first time in decades to bury a local man. The somber occasion is suddenly disrupted by a thunderous explosion in the distant desert. A plane has crashed, and it's pouring a pillar of black smoke into the air. As Sheriff Garth Morgan speeds toward the crash, he nearly hits a tall, pale man running down the road, with no shoes on his feet and no memory...
7) The drifter
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Peter Ash novels volume 1
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English
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Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his "white static," the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic stress that has driven him to spend a year roaming in nature, sleeping under the stars. But when a friend from the Marines commits suicide, Ash returns to civilization to help the man's widow with some home repairs. Under her dilapidated porch, he finds more than he bargained for: the...
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2023.
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English
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"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his...
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Roth trilogy volume 3
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
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340 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
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372 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.
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"Charming, wealthy and wickedly handsome, Oliver 'Beau' Blackthorn has it all...except revenge on the enemy he can't forget. Now the opportunity for retribution has fallen into his hands. But his success hinges on Lady Chelsea Mills-Beckman--the one woman with the power to distract him from his quest. Desperate to escape her family's control, Lady Chelsea seizes the chance to run off with the notorious eldest Blackthorn brother, knowing she's only...
13) Shotgun moon
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Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
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302 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Merry McCoy has served her time. Convicted of killing the man who raped her four years earlier, Merry returns to the family ranch in Hazel, Montana, where she plans to steer clear of the law. But when her cousin Lauri is accused of murdering an ex-boyfriend, Merry can't let her be railroaded the same way she was.
14) Hell's corner
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Camel Club novels volume 5
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English
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A bomb detonates in the White House immediately after the British Prime Minister departs from the State Dinner. Oliver Stone, who witnesses the event, believes the Prime Minister and the President were the targets of a terrorist plot. MI-5 agent Mary Chapman is assigned to assist the Stone and his Camel Club with the investigation, which reveals that the bombing may have actually been botched and is part of a darker, deadlier conspiracy.
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One thousand White women trilogy volume 2
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English
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"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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" . . . A novel about an autistic boy whose drawings represent something much deeper than even the doctors who study can grasp; his father, serving 25 to life for murder; his mother, trying to hold herself together and fix her broken child. It's a supernatural journey of crime and punishment, retribution and redemption that ultimately leads to a father saving his son, a mother connecting with her child, and an American family reclaiming itself"--
17) Electric God
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Hayden Reese is a middle aged man unsuccessfully trying to bury his past. He is newly released from jail, living a marginal life in a remote California town. He has just buried his dog, Jenny, the thing he loved most in the world. Now he finds that he is losing the woman who forms the closest thing to a relationship he has known for years. It seems that God will never be done with him, with his destruction as a man. Hayden refuses to give up. Somewhere...
18) Play nice
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Anya Danielovich was an assassin in her former life. But that was a long time ago. Today she's just Anna Smith--a single, thirtysomething woman living in San Francisco with a simple desire to lead a better life. But she's still haunted by her past--the people she killed, the mentor she betrayed, the woman she was. She's taken care to cover her tracks, but she's beginning to feel like she's being watched. Nick Dade is a hired gunman--the best of the...
19) Retribution
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Anna Strong chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"A newly turned vampire, Anna is forging an uneasy balance between her old human life and her new supernatural one. Still, with her partner out of town, her family abroad and her mentor estranged, she doesn't have anyone to turn to--which is why she's keeping a low profile. But now young vampires are turning up dead, completely drained of their life force. Although Anna worries she might be next, things start getting personal when her shape-shifter...
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Series
Death notice volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach.
"An elite police squad hunts a manipulative mastermind out to publically execute criminals the law cannot reach"--
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