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2) The fury
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. You may think you know this story. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity, a private island, and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. What followed was a game of cat and...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
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Series
Riley Wolfe volume 4
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley ... No matter--with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful...
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Manchuria, 1908. A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes involved, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and men. Bao, a detective with a reputation for sniffing out the truth, is hired to uncover the dead woman's identity. Since childhood, Bao has been intrigued by the fox gods, yet they've remained tantalizingly out of reach. Until, perhaps, now. Meanwhile, a...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"When a treacherous betrayal ruins her chances for a full-time position at the illustrious merchant bank, Greene Brothers Hale, in NYC, intern Faye Walker, using her natural born gift for numbers, proves she is not one to be played with as she puts in motion a new plan"--
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024, 1986
Description
"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...
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Series
Lone McGantry western volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023, 2022.
Description
"The road to justice is sometimes long, narrow, and fraught with peril. That don't matter none to Lone McGantry. He'll stop at nothing to catch the lawbreaker in his sights. On the trail of the owlhoot who tricked him and stole his horse, former army scout Lone McGantry encounters a female bounty hunter and discovers she's after the same culprit. Seeing an advantage to working together, they agree to join forces in order to catch their man. Little...
9) Dragon rider
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Series
Soulbound saga volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court--ever since his father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves. When the emperor's son and heir is betrothed to Princess Erica of the neighboring Dansk Kingdom, she brings with her a dowry: dragons. Endemic to the northern nation, these powerful beasts come in several forms, but mystery surrounds them. Only Dansk royalty know the...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024
Description
"Nate Evers, a young black political activist, struggles with rage as his people are still being killed in the streets...When his little cousin is murdered, Nate shuns the graffiti murals, candlelight vigils, and Twitter hashtags that are commonplace after these senseless deaths. Instead, he leads 3 grief-stricken friends on a mission of retribution, kidnapping the descendants of long-ago perpetrators of hate crimes, confronting the targets with their...
12) Wild Houses
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, introspective loner Dev answers his door on Friday night to find Doll English-younger brother of small-time local dealer Cillian English-bruised and in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, County Mayo's fraternal enforcers and Dev's cousins. Dev's quiet homelife is upturned as he is quickly and unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' frenetic revenge plot against Cillian. Meanwhile,...
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Publisher
Union Square and Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Elliott D'Angelo-Brandt is sick and tire of putting up with it all. Every week, she attends a support group for teen victims of sexual assault, but all they do is talk. Elliott's done with talking. What she wants is justice. And she has a plan for getting it: a spell book that she found in her late mom's belongings that actually works. Elliott recruits a coven of fellow survivors from the group. She, Madeline, Chloe, and Bea don't have much in common,...
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"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
15) A drop of venom
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The legend of Medusa is retold as an empowering feminist tale in an Indian-mythology-inspired world"--
"Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters--she's been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the jungle to the King's army, who forced her people, the naga, to scatter to the ends of the earth. You might think that the kingdom's famed holy temples atop the floating mountains, where Manisha is now a priestess, would be safe--but...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York--twenty-two bestselling crime writers from diverse cultures come together from across the world in a razor sharp and deliciously sinister collection of crime stories"--
17) Warbonnet Creek
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024, 1989
Description
"Kirby had carried a seven-year grudge with him wherever he went. He'd followed Joe Lowry from Wyoming through Montana, New Mexico, Missouri and the Dakotas. But now that he'd found his man, Mason Kirby was stuck. Because there was real trouble in the territory. Further north, the Sioux and Cheyenne were joining forces as they had never done before. At Fort Fetterman the Army sat, tense with anticipation, waiting for a call for help. Now, of all times,...
18) Old haunts
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Series
Steve Dancy tale volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024, 2019
Description
"Sometimes the past refuses to remain sealed off from the present. In Old Haunts, Steve Dancy must deal with villains and locales from his early days exploring the Wild West. Years have gone by since violence was necessary to resolve problems, but his calm routines and growing family are shaken by dishonest characters intruding on his easy life. When Steve and his friend Jeff Sharp go to visit Joseph McAllen, former Pinkerton Captain, they don't expect...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"$$10,000: Dead or Alive. That was the price on Jack Rodiker's head. But after seven years on the run, the tough-muscled young cowpuncher had only one thing on his mind--vengeance. A woman's word had branded him an outlaw, and he'd come back to his home range to clear his name. "When I take her by the throat," he said, "she'll tell me what I want to know!" But the Santsander Valley was rumbling with a lot more than a worn-out murder charge. A bloody...
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the slaughter for himself--an entire family murdered--he can't let it go. Especially when the eldest daughter is missing. Right there and then, Caine makes a fateful decision: throw away his badge, form a vigilante team, and go after the killers ...There's one problem: Who would be crazy enough to join him?...
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