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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
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1957 - Young Queen Elizabeth II is finding her way in a challenging world as the United Kingdom must adjust to having neither an empire nor a set place in post-war Europe.
As she travels the world to try and build bridges, the Queen is advised by the 'men in moustaches', as Philip calls them - her father's old courtiers, who may or may not have her best interests at heart. One of them is trying to sabotage her: that much she is sure of.
And then...
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Someone's preying on Aberdeen's growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness a paedophile who's on the run, Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal, they keep on happening, and soon DS Logan McRae will have to decide how far he's prepared to bend the rules to get...
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Orla and Kate have been best friends forever. Together they've faced it all - be it Orla's struggles as a new mother or Kate's messy divorce. And whatever else happens in their lives, they can always look forward to their annual weekend away. This year, they're off to Lisbon: the perfect flat, the perfect view, the perfect itinerary. And what better way to kick things off in style than with the perfect night out? But when Orla wakes up the next morning,...
6) Ghosts from the Library: Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (A Bodies from the Library spe
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It is said that books are written to bring sunshine into our dull, grey lives – to show us places we want to escape to, lives we want to live, people we want to love. But there are also stories that can only be found in the deepest, darkest corners of the library. Stories about the unexplained, of lost souls, of things that go bump before the silence. Before the screaming. And some stories just disappear. Stories printed in old newspapers, broadcast...
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When the FBI assembles a BAU unit to hunt down killers who strike during natural disasters, Agent Tori Spark finds herself in the eerie wake of catastrophic emergencies-while hunting down deadly killers...
In the wake of a devastating hurricane, FBI Agent Tori Spark plunges into a coastal town to hunt a sinister killer. As nature's wrath wreaks havoc, will Tori find and stop him before he strikes again?
AMIDST THE DARKNESS (A Tori Spark FBI...
8) Hard Rain
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From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster.
In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others.
Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
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Amateur sleuth Violet Brewster wants to embrace the quiet village life, but a decades-old mystery threatens to disrupt the peace of her new hometown...
Ex-journalist Violet Brewster is keen to make a good first impression in her new community, having just moved to the small village of Merrywell. When Violet hears about the mystery of Helen Slingsby, who disappeared from the village forty years earlier, she decides to help uncover what happened. But...
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Meet, mystery writer, coffee lover, and amateur detective? Crime writer returns to her small hometown with a bestselling book behind her and a bad case of writer's block. Finding sanctuary in the local bookstore, with an endless supply of coffee, Jen waits impatiently for inspiration to strike. The stakes are suddenly higher when evidence places Jen at the scene of the crime and the reading of the will names her as the new owner of the bookstore......
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The first body is chained to a stake: strangled, and stabbed, with a burning tyre around its neck. But is this a gangland execution or something much darker? Someone's leaving little knots of bones on DI Logan McRae's doorstep, but he's got bigger concerns. Rival drug gangs are fighting over product and territory; two teenage lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan's been lumbered with an ambitious new Detective Sergeant...
12) Empty Soul
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LAFD Arson Investigator Bree Noble can smell the difference between a natural fire and arson. Ever since a suspicious fire claimed the lives of her parents, Bree's life mission has been to stop arsonists-but after a deadly new fire, she may just be up against the case of her life...
Bree uncovers a trail of infernos set by a distinct chemical compound and must use her skills and brave the flames of her past to find, and stop, a cold-blooded killer....
17) Bodies from the Library 4: Selected Lost Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden
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Mystery stories have been around for centuries-there are whodunits, whydunits and howdunits, including locked-room puzzles, detective stories without detectives, and crimes with a limited choice of suspects. Countless volumes of such stories have been published, but some are still impossible to find: stories that appeared in a newspaper, magazine or an anthology that has long been out of print and unpublished stories that were absorbed into an author's...
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Siebzig plus Mord
Lotte Hansen, Bewohnerin der eleganten Wohnanlage Schloss Bucheneck, irgendwo in der Nähe von Rostock, sieht sich plötzlich gezwungen, in dem Mordfall an einer jungen Sängerin zu ermitteln. Denn die Polizei nimmt doch allen Ernstes ihren dementen Mann Hannes ins Visier. Zusammen mit der ehemaligen Finanzbeamtin Ute und dem emeritierten Professor Harald geht Lotte auf Mörderjagd. Wer hat die Frau getötet, und warum ist ihr...
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Agatha Christie's Criminal Games The 70s volume 10
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Français
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When Rose is accused of murdering a teacher, Beretta goes undercover at an exclusive borading school to clear her name.
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