Jeff Harding
21) Past crimes
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Van Shaw novels volume 1
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Van Shaw was raised to be a thief, but at eighteen he suddenly broke all ties to that life and joined the military -- abandoning his illicit past and the career-criminal grandfather who taught him the trade. Now, after ten years of silence, his grandfather has asked him to come home to Seattle. But when Van arrives, he discovers his grandfather bleeding out on the floor from a gunshot to the head. With a lifetime of tough history between him and the...
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The next pulse-pounding thriller in John Connolly's internationally bestselling Charlie Parker series. The community of Prosperous, Maine has always thrived when others have suffered. Its inhabitants are wealthy, its children's future secure. It shuns outsiders. It guards its own. And at the heart of Prosperous lie the ruins of an ancient church, transported stone by stone from England centuries earlier by the founders of the town... But the death...
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A Classic adventure story for the whole family A family struggles to survive on a strange tropical island after their ship is destroyed at sea. This timeless tale was inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and is a moral and heartwarming tale of a family on the brink. Much more than the classic film, this novel is a delight for children and adults.
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Tarzan volume 2
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In this second addition to Edgar Rice Burroughs' epic adventures of Tarzan, listeners will find the jungle man leaving America to visit old friends in Europe. Through spirals of action, disaster, and shipwreck, we find Tarzan and a group of travelers, including his first love Jane and his new archenemy Rokoff, back in the jungle where he was raised. Encountering even more hardship in the harsh jungle, Tarzan again fights wild animals and savage tribes...
25) The black angel
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Detective Charlie Parker returns in The Black Angel, the sixth thriller by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.
The Black Angel begins with the mysterious abduction of a young woman. Intrigued by the case, Charlie Parker's longtime friend and professional killer, Louis, begins a solo search for the girl. The ties of friendship inevitably draw Parker into the search, as he soon discovers that the girl's disappearance is linked...
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"Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community. Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his...
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"Will Trent is undercover at Fort Knox. His assignment: to investigate a twenty-two-year-old murder. His suspect's name: Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher is in Fort Knox on his own mission: to bring down a dangerous criminal ring operating at the heart of America's military. Except now Will Trent is on the scene.But there's a bigger conspiracy at play - one that neither the special agent nor the ex-military cop could have anticipated. And the only option...
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"Still recovering from his life-threatening wounds, private detective Charlie Parker investigates a case that has its origins in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War. Parker has retreated to the small Maine town of Boreas to regain his strength. There he befriends a widow named Ruth Winter and her young daughter, Amanda. But Ruth has her secrets. Old atrocities are about to be unearthed, and old sinners will kill to hide their sins....
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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2020
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"Mr. Connolly's slam-bang thriller is studded with memorable characters and boasts cliffhangers within cliffhangers." —The Wall Street Journal
"Brilliant...Connolly is writing at the top of his game." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
The New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones and "one of the best thriller writers we have" (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times...
"Brilliant...Connolly is writing at the top of his game." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
The New York Times bestselling author of A Book of Bones and "one of the best thriller writers we have" (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times...
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Having melted easily into Cyprus's relaxed expat community, fugitive crime writer David Mitre is feeling relatively secure. His cash stashed in secret accounts and his exit routes mapped out, he can concentrate on his writing. All that changes when he's witness to a cold-blooded murder in broad daylight on Paphos Beach. The killing brings David to the attention of the FBI, who forcefully request his help in solving a crime far worse than anything...
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Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
32) Impact
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Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine.
But nothing's ever that simple. The package gets stolen, things get complicated.
Linda Cartwright's a happily married woman, and then someone tried to kill her on her own front lawn.
Why would they do that? Good question.
Keeler's interested, but Cartwright won't talk about it. When Cartwright's attacked...
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The Facility is gone. The cryptids being studied there are dead. Now the monsters are out in the open, changing the world forever.Dr Borm is on the run with Cryptid Nine, desperate to survive for the sake of the hybrid child his beloved 'Nina' carries.Shaw and Captain Case have become uneasy allies, both mutating after their encounter with the Wendigo, neither werewolf nor human.Detective Leonard and cryptid-hunter Dandy are tracking a vicious pack...
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Following Artefact, Legion is the second book of the Lazarus War, an explosive new space adventure series from one of the brightest new stars in science fiction -- perfect for fans of The Edge of Tomorrow, Alien and James S. A. Corey's Expanse series. Conrad Harris is the legend known as Lazarus, and he has died hundreds of times. Using simulant bodies, he runs suicide missions in the depths of space. But he always comes back.As commanding officer...
36) The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives
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Fear, Contemporary Society, and the Consequences of Security. Fear has grown into the single greatest threat to humanity and collective survival. This book aims to set us free from fear.
Over the last five hundred years, life for the average human being has changed dramatically-plagues no longer wipe out entire families, and no longer do we empty our chamber pots into the street. Nope, not today. But, western progress has shown that no matter how...
37) Cryptids
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Shaw and his loyal dog Girl do their best to avoid humanity, especially now that his fellow werewolves are nearly extinct. But humanity is heading his way.
The Facility is a research centre that specialises in cryptozoology: the search for legendary creatures. Once these 'cryptids' are found, they are caged, abused and experimented on to graft their physical prowess onto ordinary soldiers.
Even as the Facility's troops hunt down Shaw, and the cunning...
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The Accidental Business Nomad is an unvarnished, story-driven, practical guide to working across cultures. The book features real stories of companies going global and highlights the realities of doing business overseas in a post-globalization world. Each story gives fascinating insights and lessons into the cultural realities and unexpected surprises of modern globalization.
The Accidental Business Nomad is for anyone working in a more global environment...
39) The Matchmaker
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Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe.
Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations Refugee Committee, thinks she is in a normal marriage with a charming East German. But then her husband disappears and the CIA and Western German intelligence arrive at her door.
She had been targeted by the Matchmaker-a high level East German counterintelligence...
40) Time Shelter
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"At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time Shelter's enigmatic narrator, who goes unnamed. "In the mid-seventeenth century, the Irish bishop Ussher calculated not only the exact year, but also a starting date: October 22, 4,004 years before Christ." But for our narrator, time as he knows it begins when he meets Gaustine, a "vagrant in time" who has distanced his life from contemporary...