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While the immortal samurai, Manji, has his hands full with a trio of skillful and merciless killers of the renegade Ittö-ryü sword school, Manji's charge, Rin, prepares to make her way through government checkpoints to leave Edo and find Anotsu Kagehisa -- lord of the Ittö-ryü and murderer of her parents -- and fulfill her quest of vengeance. Unjustly wanted for murder, Rin must try to pass in disguise, but the checkpoint officers are no fools,...
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The showdown that fans have been waiting for begins here, as Manji and Shira finally cross swords! Although he's missing an arm, Manji's mystical healing powers still ensure that he's a formidable opponent - but his greatest foe, the masochistic Shira, has a few depraved tricks up his own sleeves! With Shira deadlier than ever, having had plenty of time to plot twisted revenge schemes, will Manji be able to protect Rin from his deranged nemesis? Plus...
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024
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A seemingly idyllic summer picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost.
July 1815: The Prince Regent’s grandiose plans to celebrate Napoléon’s recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found...
July 1815: The Prince Regent’s grandiose plans to celebrate Napoléon’s recent defeat at Waterloo are thrown into turmoil when Lady McInnis and her daughter Emma are found...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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A fragile peace gives way to conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion in this sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Little Hatred from epic fantasy master Joe Abercrombie.
Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . .
Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in...
Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . .
Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement, fortune and reputation in tatters. But she still has all her ambitions, and no scruple will be permitted to stand in...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian and The Financial Times
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived.
Like his earlier...
From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a noirish detective novel set in the 1920s that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived.
Like his earlier...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2016
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Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company—secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong—with a fleet of helicopters registered in Iran faces bankruptcy if their copters are claimed or destroyed by the uprising. The pilots need to escape, but they've built lives in Iran, some even have families. Finnish pilot Erikki Yokkonen has married Azadeh, an Iranian
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Dani Dee
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"Jewels Among The Ruins", 2nd Edition, is a romantic family saga that begins with the heroine remembering being flown out of Warsaw, Poland, as a child in 1988 – to escape the turmoil of the Soviet-style government collapsing.In the present, she is an interior architect in a Chicago firm owned by an American relative.While interviewing to remodel offices of a successful attorney, she meets a business owner and American war veteran, who is deeply...
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Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC
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2023.
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English
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"What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. A patriarchal society reacts to this devastating disease in the only way it knows how: it sequesters women as much as possible, limiting contacts between the sexes except for married couples. While imperfect, such drastic actions do limit the spread of the disease. The 'Wasting' (HIV) has caused devastating...
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The Etera Chronicles series 2 volume The Age of Darkness Book 2
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Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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They survived extinction—but at what cost? What If…The blood of the Ancients, nearly lost, now flows in the veins of their hybrid descendants, the Sassen and the Akassa. But though they share the same past, their futures are destined to diverge.Alone and unprepared...The mantle of leadership lies heaviest on those unprepared to accept its weight. Burdened with a responsibility she did not want, Pan, daughter of Moc’Tor, searches for the answers...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Every day, more and more people fleeing war in the north show up at Kyung Tak and her family's house on the southeastern shore of Korea. With nowhere else to go, the Taks' home is these migrants' last chance of refuge "before falling into the sea," and the household quickly becomes crowded, hot, and noisy. Then war sirens cry out over Kyung's city too, and her family and their guests take shelter underground. When the sirens stop, Kyung is upset--she...
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Dutton
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[2024]
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English
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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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The Mysterious Press
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[2023]
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English
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Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash, until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly established Russian government privatized its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens,...
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All the duke's sins volume 1
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Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The brooding, illegitimate son of a duke meets his match in the determined woman hired to transform him into a gentleman"--
Rafe Audley lives to thwart his father, the Duke of Bentley. The ne'er do well who abandoned his children claims he wants to make up for his failures, but Rafe only cares about protecting the people of his mining community and providing for his three siblings, who've been his sole responsibility since childhood. So far, Rafe...
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I escaped volume 11
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Best Day Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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It’s 1852, and California’s Gold Rush is in full swing. Tempers are flaring along the mighty Klamath River, where men are wild with gold-rush fever. 14-year-old Hudson treads carefully amongst them, desperate to find her long-lost father. She can only pray that he’ll take her in. A battle erupts between miners and local tribespeople, trapping Hudson in the crossfire. She is no fighter; she’s just a runaway kid from San...