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2161) In the name of truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A shocking abduction rocks idyllic Sandhamn Island in an enthralling novel of suspense by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of In the Heat of the Moment.With the summer season on Sandhamn comes an unsettling mystery for Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson. A bullied young boy has vanished from a sailing camp on neighboring Lökholmen Island. Has the terrorized eleven-year-old run away? Or, in this isolated vacation spot where strangers lurk, is it...
2162) Evil in emerald
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Harriet Gordon joins a local musical theater production looking for a change of pace, but the brutal killing of a cast member will force her and Inspector Curran to turn the spotlight on murder in this all-new mystery from the author of Revenge in Rubies. Harriet Gordon has been enjoying the rehearsals for her role in the Singapore Amateur Dramatic and Music Society's latest production-Pirates of Penzance. Her work at her brother Julian's school,...
2163) The night we met
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Starlight : Rand Prescott believes that his chances for happiness are limited because he's going blind. But when he meets Karen McAlister one magical starlit night, he begins to imagine a different future - one filled with love. Karen already knows she wants to be with him for the rest of her life. But Rand refuses to consider marriage; he refuses to bind her to a man who can't see. Brokenhearted, Karen is prepared to walk away, but can Rand really...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rose O'Connell is barely surviving. Her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and their son isn't fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy. Their tiny flat in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood--the very place Rose grew up as the daughter of an infamous local con artist--can barely contain her family. Rose can't catch a professional break either, trapped in the same junior bank teller role for years. Life as the only mom...
2165) Master of sorrows
Author
Series
Silent gods ; 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
You've heard the story before: an orphaned boy, raised by a wise old man, comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil threatening his world. But what if that hero were destined to become the new dark lord? The Academy of Chaenbalu has stood against magic for centuries. Hidden from the world, acting from the shadows, it trains its students to detect and retrieve magic artifacts, which it jealously guards from the misuse...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1851 and Mrs Rodd has received an unusual commission: wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores our redoubtable detective to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for fifteen years. Joshua Welland was an Oxford scholar; brilliant, eccentric and desperately poor. Nobody can say exactly when he disappeared from his college, but he had taken to wandering the countryside and one day simply failed to return....
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Series
Language
Español
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Description
"La autora de Lágrimas en el mar y Entre tonos de gris regresa con un extraordinario y cautivante relato de amor, silencio y secretos situado en la época de la dictadura de Franco en España. Madrid, 1957. Bajo la dictadura fascista del General Francisco Franco, España esconde un oscuro secreto. Entre los empresarios y turistas extranjeros que llegan al país con la acogedora promesa del sol y del buen vino se encuentra Daniel Matheson, hijo de...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A bride and her friends decide to treat her cancelled destination wedding as a much-needed holiday--until explosive secrets threaten to tear them all apart. Lizzie is going to the south of France. She was supposed to be going for her wedding, but with only a week to go before the big day, she made the devastating decision to call it off. But since the chateau is already paid for, she and her closest friends have decided to use the wedding-that-wasn't...
2169) La oscuridad que conoces
Author
Publisher
Suma
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Todos son sospechosos. Todos tienen algo que esconder. Pero alguien va a tener que responder por la muerte de su hija. En una empobrecida zona de los montes Ozark, en Misuri, en un pueblo pequeño con grandes secretos, dos niñas de doce años aparecen asesinadas. Sin nada que perder y rota de dolor, Eve Taggert se lanza a averiguar qué le ocurrió realmente a su hija. Eve conoce el lado oscuro de la vida. Su propia madre se encargó de enseñárselo....
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Una amistad, dos corazones heridos y un montón de secretos que pueden cambiarlo todo. Madison y Aiden han sido amigos desde siempre. De niños compartían juguetes, y más tarde, al crecer, los cambiaron por estrellas. Pero Aiden esconde secretos y, cuando un día desaparece de Roadhill sin siquiera despedirse, Madison se esfuerza para no creer ninguno de los rumores que corren por el pueblo.Tras casi dos años de ausencia, Aiden reaparece y Madison...
2171) Her father's secret
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Following her father's sudden death -- after having not heard from him for decades -- Ilka Jensen has impulsively abandoned her quiet life in Denmark to visit the rural Wisconsin town where he ran the local funeral home. There, she's devastated to discover her father's second family: a stepmother and two half sisters she never knew existed. Now a local woman has been killed, seemingly the unfortunate casualty of a home invasion turned violent. But...
2172) Silent fear
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On a searing summer's day paramedic Holly Garland rushes to an emergency to find a man collapsed with a bullet wound in the back of his head, CPR being performed by two bystanders, and her longestranged brother Seth watching it all unfold. Seth claims to be the dying man's best friend, but Holly knows better than to believe anything he says and fears that his reappearance will reveal the bleak secrets of her past. Detective Ella Marconi suspects Seth...
2173) Goldilocks
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for human habitation. It's humanity's last hope for survival, and Naomi, Valerie's surrogate daughter and the ship's botanist, has been waiting her whole life for an opportunity like this - to step out of Valerie's shadow and really make a difference. But...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 336
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts,...
2175) A través de ti
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Series
Publisher
wattpad by Montena
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"Nothing is so easy and simple in the life of someone like me. How does it feel to live with three such handsome guys? You are so lucky. Living with those beauties, what a privilege. How can you live with them? Have you slept with any of them? Could you get me their phone numbers? That's just a little bit of what I've had to deal with since the Hidalgo boys grew up and became the fantasies of every girl in this town. Artemis, Ares, and Apolo Hidalgo...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Keyshia wasn't your typical hood chick from the bricks. And with beauty, education, and a hustler's ambition, she proved just about everyone who doubted her wrong. Making it to the top wasn't easy, but with her brother Ru, and his crew behind her, she was destined to make it happen. But she soon learns what goes up must come down and that having a few secrets of her own may just come back and bite her in the ass along with tearing her relationship...
Author
Publisher
Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Oleander Court in Alpharetta, Georgia looks like a utopia, complete with identical McMansions and pruned lawns. The residents collecting their newspapers at the end of their drives similarly appear perfect. The beauty ends at the surface, however, with no one as they seem. Tripp, the cheery politician, always waves but won't lift a finger for a neighbor. Pam uses her position as the Homeowners Association president for petty revenge, gleefully issuing...
2178) Deserving death
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Howell writes short, tight scenes with authentic-sounding dialogue and relentless pacing. Howell deftly illustrates the way insights into the ways of life and death are a new religion to crime readers." "Weekend Australian" Two female paramedics murdered in a month. Is it coincidence, or are they victims of a serial killer? Detective Ella Marconi isn't sure, but goes hard after her key suspects, including police officer John Morris. But each turn...
2179) Mister
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una nueva y apasionada historia de amor de E L James, autora del fenómeno mundial de ventas, la Trilogía Cincuenta sombras. Londres 2019. Maxim Trevelyan ha tenido siempre una vida fácil. Con su apostura, sus conexiones aristocráticas y el dinero familiar, nunca ha tenido que trabajar y pocas veces tiene que dormir solo. Pero todo cambia cuando una tragedia golpea la familia y Maxim hereda el título de nobleza, las propiedades y la responsabilidad...
2180) Lo ultimo que me dijo
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Antes de que Owen Michaels desaparezca, logra pasar de contrabando una nota a su amada esposa de un año: Protégela. A pesar de su confusión y miedo, Hannah Hall sabe exactamente a quién se refiere la nota: Bailey, la hija de dieciséis años de Owen. Bailey, quien perdió trágicamente a su madre cuando era niña. Bailey, que no quiere absolutamente nada que ver con su nueva madrastra. Mientras las llamadas cada vez más desesperadas de Hannah...
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