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A woman's mysterious past is unearthed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Mary Higgins Clark). Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago, but her heart belongs in San Francisco, where her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple, has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her, she hopes his fiancée, the manipulative Judith Renwick, is just a passing fancy. And now Sara has packed her bags to prove it. Sarah's mother...
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Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but...
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
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A young hiker is out one day and ventures upon the old Witch's house nestled in the darkest part of the forest. She is dead, but the house seems to call to the young man, who brazenly enters. Once inside, he finds an old book and begins reading as the story of the Witch unfolds before him. All she ever wanted was to love and be treated like the rest of the town. The animosity of the townspeople, however, changed her whole life and she was forced to...
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Ian Ashtons Großvater, Lord Ashton, liegt im Sterben. Seit dem Tod seiner Eltern ist Ian ihm sehr verbunden und wacht daher an seinem Sterbebett. Im Fieberwahn spricht Lord Ashton immer wieder von Ians vor Jahren im Moor verschollenen Schwester Celice. Zudem nimmt er Ian das Versprechen ab, das Gemälde im Treppenaufgang von Ashton Manor nie aus den Augen zu lassen.
Keine leichte Aufgabe für Ian, der das Bild seit Jahren meidet, denn die Augen...
6) Liliana
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In a lonely mansion, a young woman lives and works with the few servants of the house. As the newest maid, she doesn't know much about the rest of them, or even their employers. But, on an especially stormy evening, after endless tales of the story of the house and its owners, she begins to fear for her life as she tries to discover what is true and what is false.
7) Malum
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The odyssey of Lord Samuel Kainz continues. Hunted by Death, cursed by life, forged by ambition, he knows neither surrender nor defeat. He has no qualms about annihilating anyone or anything that stands between him and his goal. The fate that awaits him is to cancel himself in the oblivion of the afterlife, like all living beings on this earth, but the same will that saved him will lead him far beyond human possibilities. He will sacrifice his life...
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What the sea takes for its own can never return… Portugal, 1750s. Cecilia Lamb knew being a sea captain's wife would mean a life of waiting and watching the horizon for her husband's ship. But John has been gone longer than any voyage should last. Everyone else has given up hope of his return. But she knows in her bones that he is not lost. Gone, but not lost. Barely able to tear her eyes from the shimmering sea, she feels drawn to the sun-baked...
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Drawn to Hollywood, Haven, discovering a string of murders that point directly to members of her family, is given shelter by a mysterious benefactor and finds the trail of death ending at a studio from the Golden Age of horror films, where the lines between reality and fiction dangerously blur.
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When George Smeaton inherits his Uncle Samuel's estate, he sees it as an opportunity to uproot his family and start anew. But as he settles into Cringlemire Hall, he realizes that something is not quite right. The servants are keeping secrets, his youngest child falls ill with a mysterious illness, and George himself disappears en route to a business trip in Edinburgh.
As the family grapples with these strange occurrences, they turn to Inspector...
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Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American master The Complete Short Stories is the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabre-from the world-famous classics "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Cask of the Amontillado" to lesser-known masterpieces such as "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Devil in the Belfry." Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover...
12) Calling
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On a bus outside Vegas, a washed-up gambler meets a strange preacher As the bus rolls away from the Las Vegas strip, Timber Goodman screws his eyes shut and tries to keep his stomach from lurching. He came to Vegas in hopes of jump-starting his fading broadcasting career, but he leaves hung over and dead broke. Beside him sits a preacher in cowboy boots, whose only luggage is a Bible, a bottle of bourbon, and a razor-sharp bowie knife. This is Ezekiel...
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Tuala looks like you and me-human, that is-but something is not right. Trapped on earth, an offspring of a union of human and fae, Tuala has gossamer wings on her back masquerading as tattoos. When she gets hangry, she turns into something other than her sweet seductive svelte self. She needs to be sated so she can earn her earthly upkeep as a sex worker in sweltering Kuala Lumpur. She must imbibe humans-whole, body and soul, all the blood and juices....
14) None Shall Sleep
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Blake Alexander, the King of Death, is captured, and no one dies while he's caught by order of his captor; who also demands the soul of his wife be returned to him, or he will kill death. The grim reapers send the Necromancer, Death's son, with the soul. The soul pleads with their husband to let her go and let Death go. What will he do? How will this end? Will Death survive this or die?
15) Dark memory
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"Experience a connection that defies death in this captivating novel in Christine Feehan's #1 New York Times bestselling Carpathian series. Safia Meziane has trained since birth to protect her tribe, the family she holds so dear. All along she told herself the legends she was raised with were simply that. But now, she must call upon all of her skills to fight what lies ahead. Evil has come to their small town on the cost of Algeria, evil that Safia...
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Set in England from the 1880s through World War I, this enthralling romantic saga tells the story of a remarkable woman who defies London's aristocratic society and attempts to build a department store that will rival Selfridge's The plump, plain daughter of a successful shopkeeper, Beatrice Bonnington has no illusions about her looks-or her marital prospects. So when she receives a proposal from the dashing William Overton-a man she's secretly desired...
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Daughters of England volume 2
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Played out against the seething rivalry between Inquisition-torn Spain and Elizabethan England, The Lion Triumphant traces the linked fates of strong-willed Catherine Farland and Captain Jake Pennlyon Called "The Lion," Captain Jake Pennlyon is a fearsome and virile plunderer who takes what he wants, and his sights are set on Catherine Farland. Blackmailed into wedlock and haunted by memories of the gentle boy she was forbidden to wed, Cat vows to...
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In Hollywood, a cynical writer recalls five faded beauties of the silver screen Charlie Caine has been to too many Hollywood funerals. The studio system is long gone, and its stars-some forgotten, some preserved for display on a late-night show-are beginning to pass on, as well. Only a few turn out for the final performance of Babe Austrian, a peroxide-blond beauty whose red-hot talkies changed the way America thought about sex. As he gazes into her...
19) Emerald
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Running from her brutal ex-husband, Carol Barclay seeks refuge with her aunt, a reclusive aging movie star.
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A special three-in-one edition by Dorothy Eden-featuring Bride by Candlelight, Cat's Prey, and Bridge of Fear-in which a bride-to-be, a wedding guest, and a recently married woman come face to face with evil as they innocently prepare to celebrate love Think well before you marry Paul Blaine. In Bride by Candlelight, this anonymous note is the prelude to a series of disturbing events plaguing Julia Paget. At an isolated New Zealand sheep-farming estate,...
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