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When Ripples Collide is a poignant tale of resilience, chronicling the lives of three formidable young women who defy the odds stacked against them. Cast into the protective arms of child services from troubled childhoods, the novel and its sequel explore their relentless fight for acknowledgment amidst covert biases. Battling the stigma of being raised in care and poverty, they wield an indomitable belief in themselves and a steadfast determination...
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"The Matryoshka Murders is a thrilling page turner and great read for anyone. Set in Gorbachev era Russia and NYC the characters are alive, engaging, human and deep. Important political and gender issues are woven in, add value and enhance the plot. A tour de force by authors, Kay Williams and Eileen Wyman! Truly terrific!" Mack Lipkin, physician, writer"This is a fascinating, disturbing look at conditions in Russia (Leningrad, 1991), particularly...
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It's 2018. Tom Knowles, a moderate Nevada Republican, is the American president hoping to lead his country into a new era of stability and growth. He sees his change to put his stamp on world affairs when thirty-two American aid workers are massacred in Uganda by a terrorist organization. Knowles opts for military intervention even though China considers Uganda its African sphere of influence, and warn him to keep out. Six weeks later, stock prices...
5) The Hill
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When the Alton's move to their new home on the hill they soon find that all is not as it seems. Sebastian becomes entangled between two opposing forms of evil, and soon must make a choice.The hill is a story of love, friendship, trust and its destructive effectsThe hill is the first story of 'the spillwork rattle,' a device buried within our history.
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Un número de teléfono mal marcado lleva a Donovan a la puerta de Sandia. Él pensaba que debía enseñarle Braille a una persona ciega, mientras que ella pensaba que el era un abogado de caos de discapacidad. Cuando Donovan se entera de las terribles circunstancias de Sandia y su abuelo, la lección de Braille se olvida y se embarca en una misión para ayudar a Sandia a resolver los diversos dilemas que amenazan con abrumarla.
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Sam Harman is a decent guy, working hard and raising a family. One day he learns that his recently-deceased biological father was one of the richest men in America. Now Sam is a billionaire and part owner of a huge corporation.The quick trip to Easy Street becomes a deadly journey into a world of money, power, intrigue and murder. Who are his enemies? Who are his friends? Will he survive? What will happen to him becuase of 'The Inheritance?'
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Jason Frasier grew up in the East End of London and was always told to look out for his younger brother. He did this willingly and could never see in Vincent what others could see, that he was a thoroughly nasty piece of work. The brothers were as different as chalk and cheese. Vincent had a nasty jealous streak and what he wanted he usually got, even if it was at the expense of his beloved brother. Vincent had a knack of dragging Jason into his dodgy...
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Former CIA undercover operative Chase Brandon takes us deep into the mystery of Cryptos, a work of art containing a seemingly uncrackable code, in The Cryptos Conundrum.
A fifteen-foot-tall steel sculpture stands in the courtyard of the Central Intelligence Agency, emblazoned with a message that no one can decipher. The three-inch-high letters on the sculpture form a coded message that is central to the survival of mankind--a message hidden in plain...
10) Dystopia
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Dystopia' is a high-octane political thriller set during the UK's Brexit referendum, with an intriguing love story that enthrals up to its climactic ending. Ellis has the right degree, family, connections - and a great pad in Brighton. But he's in with the wrong crowd - a notorious DJ and the beautiful yet enigmatic Madeleine who has a hold over him from the moment they meet. When Ellis becomes prime suspect in the murder of a model, he escapes by...
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Book Three of the bestselling Butch Karp legal thriller series: when a murder case and a child abuse case begin to merge into one, even Karp is shocked by the evil he uncovers. Butch Karp's career prosecuting New York's worst criminals takes a chilling turn when a series of ghastly child murders opens a window into the city's hellish underworld. Karp and love-interest Marlene Ciampi pursue a psychopath known to his young victims as the Bogeyman, but...
12) Code Zulu
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An ingenious code, devised from the ancient African myths, legends, and superstitions of the Zulu nation, holds the key to this intriguing terror plot. Nothing is what it seems. Murder, blackmail, kidnap, betrayal and treachery all form part of the fast-moving story as the action switches from London to South Africa, Malaysia, the Middle East, and back again. April McIntyre, bright young Deputy Director-General of MI5, activates a sleeper agent and...
13) V-3
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The specter of Armageddon looms in Melchior's eighth novel Its agent is the V-3, a poisonous exsiccating gas developed by Hitler to succeed the V-1 and V-2 rockets. In the present, aging but still fanatic Nazis plan to unleash the gas and kill millions. Army intelligence reactivates chemist Einar Munk, who, as a wartime operative for the OSS, first learned of the gas's manufacture. His orders: Find it and contain it. In this desperate mission,...
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Teddy is a young woman who rescues a boy from drowning in a public manner. But she is also on the run for her life from men who who do anything to prevent the secrets she is carrying from getting out. Having exposed herself, Teddy is on the run again, finding herself with odd protectors who will aid her in uncovering the truth. And the truth is more terrifying than she wants to admit.
15) LoveClub
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Exploring the dark side of social media and the human psyche, LoveClub takes the reader on a twisted journey into the mind of a sexual predator, and the dark world of LoveClub. The streets of Hungary are being hunted... When a string of gruesome suicides are suggested to be the work of a serial killer, Lili, a young and aspiring journalist, wants to expose the details of the case to the public after one of her friends turns up a victim. The Budapest...
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I'LL WATCH YOU DIEThe car accident that killed Tara's parents and sister wasn't an accident at all and now the killer wants to finish the last member of the family that survived.Alex has always been intellectually in a class of his own. Killing the Verny family was just an experiment, but when Tara didn't die, it opened up some interesting possibilities. Trying again, he finds her ability to survive him a challenge he can't resist. The competition...
17) The Greedhawkers
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Mark's life is shifting into the fast lane where all that he ever desired is quickly falling within his grasp. But soon Griffin finds himself the victim of blackmail. With his options narrowing, he must secretly travel to New York City and defeat this deadly threat.
18) Found Wanting
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Death isn't unusual in the back of an ambulance - or is it? Author Sean Fitzmorris draws on his many years of experience as a paramedic and a nurse to tell the story of Found Wanting. Marc is a veteran paramedic in New Orleans. Years of dealing with the worst of society have hardened him and left him with a dark secret, which his brand-new partner, Brian, begins to suspect.
19) The Shut Eye
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Five footprints are the only sign that four-year-old Daniel Buck was ever here. They're all his mother has left. Every day, Anna Buck guards the little prints in the cement. Polishing them to a shine. Keeping them safe. Spiraling towards insanity.
With little help or hope coming from the police or her husband, James, Anna is looking for any opportunity that may lead to finding her son. So when a woman tells her she's found a "shut eye"-a true psychic-Anna...
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"Look to Washington. Look to Moscow. Zebra One. Zebra Two." These cryptic words, whispered on a dark Moscow street, lead one-time CIA "golden boy" David McAllister on a desperate quest for the truth. Hunted by KGB and CIA alike, McAllister must decipher the riddle in order to unravel an espionage plot so vast that the Free World's fate hangs in the balance-and to prove his own innocence. And he's running out of time . . .
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