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Series
Ben Jones novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ben Jones is an honorable but down-on-his luck truck driver on a lonely Utah highway. His life takes a sudden turn into violence, mystery and longing upon finding a beautiful woman playing a cello in an isolated house in the high desert.
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Series
Language
English
Description
For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. Working for the Bakken County, North Dakota, sheriff's department, Cassie has set what she believes is the perfect trap and she has lured him and his truck to a depot. Standing by ready to close the net are half a dozen undercover officers,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Keisha Taylor lived a quiet life with her wife, Alice, until the day that Alice disappeared. After months of searching, presuming she was dead, Keisha held a funeral, mourned, and gradually tried to get on with her life. But that was before Keisha started to see her wife, again and again, in the background of news reports from all over America. Alice isn't dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Following a...
4) Furnace
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition in the USA.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
McKenzies of Ridge Trail volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Trucker Sterling (Star) Parson is no stranger to the challenges a woman faces, both in her industry and in life. But she can take care of herself. She's never needed--or wanted--a man around...until she meets Cade McKenzie. The take-charge bar owner sets off all kinds of alarm bells for Sterling, but he also sets her heart racing. Cade's lived in Ridge Trail long enough to know trouble when he sees it, and the moment Sterling--Star--walks into his...
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English
Description
"Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver...
7) The circle
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Ben Jones novels volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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Description
Winter has come to Route 117, a remote road through the high desert of Utah trafficked only by eccentrics, fugitives, and those looking to escape the world. Local truck driver Ben Jones, still in mourning over a heartbreaking loss, finds a mute Hispanic child who has been abandoned at a seedy truck stop along his route, far from civilization and bearing a note that simply reads "Please Ben. Watch my son. His name is Juan." At the bottom: "Bad Trouble....
Author
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1. edición.
Physical Desc
108 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
Novella about the innocent young Maria, whose bookish interests centre on swashbuckling piratical adventures ; her virginity is for sale at a bordello, until she is rescued by Manolo. A new twist on the Cinderella tale. Includes an account of how the novella became the movie Cachito.
10) Blood victory
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, Charlotte Rowe, who baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks, goes after a long-haul truck driver whose cargo bay is a gallery of horrors on wheels.
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Series
World War II (David L. Robbins) volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
445 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
12) Extra Indians
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every winter, Tommy Jack McMorsey makes the long haul from Texas to northern Minnesota to watch the meteor showers. One cold night, in a moment of kindness, Tommy picks up a deluded Japanese tourist determined to find the buried ransom money from the movie Fargo. When she dies of exposure in Tommy Jack?s care, a media storm erupts, jarring loose pieces of Tommy Jack?s past: the horrors of Vietnam, a love affair, and the suicide of his closest friend,...
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Series
Daniel Whelan mystery volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ex-police dog handler Daniel Whelan is asked by his former boss to help a friend who is struggling to run her husband's haulage company while he is recovering from a vicious attack, he and his German shepherd, Taz, rapidly find themselves attracting the wrong sort of attention. Daniel investigates, and soon finds evidence of some very nasty business indeed - but after several violent warnings, he begins to wonder, has he bitten off more than...
14) Deeply Odd
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Series
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas journeys through California and Nevada after a vision about the murders of three children, an effort throughout which he befriends a series of eccentric helpers who become allies in a battle against a sociopath and a network of killers.
Author
Series
Brotherhood of the Wheel volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1119 A.D., a group of nine crusaders became known as the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon--a militant monastic order charged with protecting pilgrims and caravans traveling on the roads to and from the Holy Land. In time, the Knights Templar would grow in power and, ultimately, be laid low. But a small offshoot of the Templars endure and have returned to the order's original mission: to defend the roads of the world...
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