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Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge. After...
3) Predator
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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He caught him before and let him go. Now, Hector wants him dead. So does the US government. Congo is locked up on Death Row in the most secure prison in the free world, counting down the days until his execution. He?s got two weeks. He wants out. He?s escaped before and knows he can again, and with whizz kid D?Shonn Brown enlisted, he might just have a chance. Cross, still licking his wounds from his last bruising encounter with Congo, is back and...
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Robert Hale
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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They called him 'Catamount' Cody because he has once fought a cougar to a standstill - bare-handed. No man to mess with. But Curtin and Willis tried, robbed him of his cache of furs, left his partner parboiled, the cabin a pile of ash. There was no place for the killers to hide this side of hell.
5) Nevernight
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The Nevernight Chronicle volume 1
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Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Mia has many names: The Pale Daughter, The Crow, or Kingmaker; she is the killer of killers and destroyer of empires; but her story begins when she is only ten years old and forced to watch her father hang as a traitor. At the time of his death, her shadow deepens and a darkness joins Mia. A darkness that takes the shape of a cat and helps her to escape the men tasked with her disposal.She calls him Mister Kindly, and he drinks her fear.
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
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Unabridged.
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English
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Look around you. Who holds the most power in the room? Is it the one who speaks loudest, who looks the part, who has the most money, who commands the most respect? Or perhaps it's someone like Christine Butcher: a meek, overlooked figure who silently bears witness as information is shared and secrets are whispered. Someone who quietly, perhaps even unwittingly, gathers together knowledge of the people she's there to serve - the ones who don't notice...
7) Godsgrave
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The Nevernight Chronicle volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. In a land where three suns almost never set, a ruthless assassin continues her quest for vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she?s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a...
8) The shadow
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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Unabridged.
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English
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Norah has just moved from Berlin to Vienna in order to leave her old life behind her for good when a homeless woman spits these words at her. Norah is unnerved: many years earlier, something terrible happened to her on February 11. She shrugs this off as a mere coincidence, however, until shortly afterwards she meets a man called Arthur Grimm. Soon Norah begins to have a dreadful suspicion: does she have a good reason to take revenge on Grimm? What...
11) Half a war
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Shattered Sea volume 3
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Harper Voyager
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English
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A classic coming-of-age tale set in a vivid and richly-imagined world from Sunday Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie.
13) Nemesis
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Courtney volume 22
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
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Paris, 1794. Revolutionary fervour has erupted into the Reign of Terror. A young man, Paul Courtney, hides in a crowd watching as the condemned are brought to the guillotine. Among them is Constance Courtney, Paul's mother. As he watches her brutal execution, he knows he must avoid the same fate and fulfil his promise to her - to survive, no matter what. He joins Napoleon's army and is taken to Egypt, but with the world at war and traitors in every...
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The Jason Bourne novels volume 8
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Orion
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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In 'The Bourne Objective' the hunter will become the hunted as Jason Bourne targets his nemesis, Leonid Arkadin. But revenge can cause great psychological devastation. Has this become too personal for Bourne?
15) War cry
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Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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A scout finds himself in hostile territory in this western from Spur Award-winning author Charles G. West.Will Carson's life once lacked direction, but now that he's Fort Dodge's best scout, no one is complaining. Will's troubles begin when he saves a lovely widow named Sarah, who was helpless under Cheyenne Indian fire. His rescue has made him a mortal enemy of the Cheyenne-and his life has taken a deadly new direction.Bloody Hand and his band of...
16) Die trying
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Jack Reacher volume 2
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English
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Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere. A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. He offers her a steadying arm. And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach. Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds?.
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English
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The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother's Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents' yard. Twelve years later, Robin's murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin's sister Harriet - unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson - sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her...
18) The lie
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Avon
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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know your name’s not really Jane Hughes . . .
Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She’s happier than she’s ever been but her life is a lie. Jane Hughes does not really exist.
Five years earlier Jane and her then best friends went on holiday but what should have been the trip of a lifetime rapidly descended into a nightmare that claimed the lives of two of the women.
Jane has tried...
19) Sweet revenge
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Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
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Women Without Mercy Ingrid gave up her career to support her husband. Now he's having an affair. Birgitta is avoiding the doctor. No one can see the bruises her husband leaves. Victoria left Russia to marry a man she met online. But he is nothing like she imagined. Maybe the only way out is to commit three perfect murders ... Truth or Dare Best friends Liv, Martina, Max and Anton are spending New Year's Eve together. But each of them is keeping a...
20) Deception
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Harry Tate volume 3
Publisher
Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The explosive new Harry Tate thriller - Former MI5 officer Harry Tate?s skill at tracking down runaways is second to none - and the Security Services need his help. When MI6 ask him to trace Vanessa Tan, a lieutenant with the Royal Logistics Corps who failed to report for her return flight to Afghanistan, Harry instinctively feels it's a mission to avoid. But when he learns of the involvement of his former boss, Henry Paulton - the man who tried to...
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