Tyler is a good hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler’s life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program,...
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Author:Black, HollySummary:Cassel comes from a family of curse workers—people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they’re all criminals. Many become mobsters...
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Author:Brand, DionneSummary:The story of a young six-year-old boy, Quy, separated from his family as they are fleeing Vietnam to begin a new life in Canada. Twenty years later his mother still lives in hope of finding him. Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal,...
- Author:Phillips, GarySummary:
O'Conner needs a place to hole up after an especially bloody job. Tooling his sputtering motorcycle into the suburban community of Willow Ridge, he expects to find a place of refuge. Instead, he tumbles headfirst into a world of...
- Author:Moreno-Garcia, SilviaSummary:
1970s, Mexico City. Maite is a secretary who lives for one thing: the latest issue of Secret Romance . While student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite escapes into stories of passion and danger. Her next-door...
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Author:Murphy, PaulSummary:"Whether the crimes are lurid, shocking, or downright sad, Murphy provides an unflinching look into sides of Japan that we don't usually see." ,Brian Ashcraft, journalist and author of Arcade Mania! and Japanese Tattoos
- Author:Pearson, Ryne DouglasSummary:
An artful criminal is hell-bent on killing his way to the top of the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List, in this electrifying tale of madness and murder.
- Author:Lipinska, BlankaSummary:
The steamy and thrilling story of Laura and Massimo continues in this unputdownable sequel to 365 Days. Laura Biel's new life in Sicily looks like the perfect fairy tale: a grand wedding, a wealthy and devoted husband, a baby on...
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Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:Full of gory conflict, these three whodunits offer nonstop action, savage violence, and an unforgettable cast of characters
The Wilson Mystery Omnibus brings together Mike Knowles’s first three...
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Author:AviSummary:High adventure from a master storyteller about one boy's attempt to fend for himself among cruel orphan masters, corrupt magistrates, and conniving thieves. In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts...
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Author:Torre, Lillian de LaSummary:Edgar Award Finalist: The true story of the female Norwegian immigrant who led a secret life as a serial killer in the early twentieth-century Midwest. On the morning of April 27, 1908, the farmhand on a lonely property outside La Porte...
- Author:O'Faolain, NualaSummary:
Nuala O'Faolain branches into new territory with her biography of the infamous Irish-American prostitute and thief, Chicago May. O'Faolain uses May's autobiography, primary sources from the turn of the 19th century and her own...
- Author:Crow, DavidSummary:
Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David...
- Author:Meyers, Randy SusanSummary:
When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu's mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the...
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Author:Hamilton, IanSummary:Ava is in Shanghai with Pang Fai to visit her ailing friend Xu when a triad war breaks out in Hong Kong. Sammy Wing, an old enemy of Ava’s who has twice tried to kill her, has enlisted the aid of his nephew Carter — the new Mountain...
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Author:Berry, JedediahSummary:"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker
Reminiscent of imaginative fiction from Jorge Luis Borges to Jasper Fforde yet dazzlingly original,...
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, an eminent art historian is framed and the ace investigators of the department of sensitive crimes are on the case... Detective Ulf Varg is a man of refined tastes...
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Author:Smith, BarbaraSummary:When Albert Johnson, the Mad Trapper of Rat River, was gunned down in February 1932, he went to his death without anyone knowing who he really was—most people believed the name "Albert Johnson" was an alias. He'd eluded a well-organized...
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Author:Rohmer, MaxSummary:The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu is the first title in the famous series of "Yellow Peril" novels published by English writer Sax Rohmer, aka Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883–1959), between 1913 and 1959. The novel, like its many sequels, pits the...
- Author:Lista, MichaelSummary:
Whether investigating a gruesome triple-murder, a fairy tale marriage gone horribly wrong, or a brilliant con artist, Michael Lista has proven himself one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation. In his belief that crime...
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