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"Every seven years, the people of Three Graces send a sacrifice to the woods. The death of their 'best boy' ensures seven years free from disease, blight, and pain. But this year, the Slaughter Moon has risen early, and three, not one, will run into the forest as a sacrifice"--
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Private Investigator Charlie Parker returns in this heart-pounding thriller as he seeks revenge against the darkest forces in the world. He is the best hope. He is the last hope. On a lonely moor in northern England, the body of a young woman is discovered. In the south, a girl lies buried beneath a Saxon mound. To the southeast, the ruins of a priory hide a human skull. Each is a sacrifice, a summons. And something in the darkness has heard the call....
6) Blood web
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Blood curse volume 10
Publisher
Ghost Pines Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Santos Olaru is a seasoned vampire-warrior and an unforgiving mercenary who protects the descendants of Jadon against all enemies, preternatural or human. He is also a whiz with technology and computers - a virtual ghost in any machine - who uses his unique set of talents to make problems disappear. Until now, Natalia Giovanni has flown beneath his radar, even though she has been following him through cyberspace for years. As the only child of a billionaire...
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Blood Curse volume Book 9
Publisher
Ghost Pines Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Kiera and Kyla Sparrow are twin sisters--humans, living very different lives. While Kiera is selfless, clever, and talented, Kyla is dark, duplicitous, and damaged--she belongs to a secret society of vampire-hunters, and she has sworn to destroy as many as she can. When Saxson's Blood Moon appears in a February sky, and the matching constellation, Cetus the Sea Monster, appears on Kiera's wrist, Kyla knows exactly what it means. The celestial gods...
8) Damsel
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Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself in this epic twist on classic fantasy-a groundbreaking collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Skye and the team behind the upcoming Netflix film Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown"--
Elodie never dreamed of a lavish palace or a handsome prince. Growing up in the famine-stricken realm of Inophe, her deepest wish was to help her people survive each winter. So when a representative...
9) Gravemaidens
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Gravemaidens volume 1
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Kammani, apprentice to her father, a healer, must try to heal the Lugal on her own in order to save her sister from the "honor" of a death sentence.
In the walled city-state of Alu, Kammani wants nothing more than to become the accomplished healer her father used to be before her family was cast out of their privileged life in shame. When Alu's ruler falls deathly ill, Kammani's little sister, Nanaea, is chosen as one of three sacred...
10) Sacrifice
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Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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What happens when a young man is plucked from modern society and thrust through time and space on a psychedelic journey into the heart of the Aztec civilization-one of the most epic and bloodthirsty eras in human history?
11) Apocalypto
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Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
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Mayan
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This intense, nonstop action-adventure transports you to an ancient Central American civilization, for an experience unlike anything you've ever known. In the twilight of the mysterious Mayan culture, young Jaguar Paw is captured and taken to the great Mayan city, where he faces a harrowing end. Driven by the power of his love for his wife and son, he makes an adrenaline-soaked, heart-racing escape to rescue them and ultimately save his way of life....
12) Given to the sea
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Speak
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Khosa was born to be fed to the sea, to prevent the kind of wave that once destroyed the Kingdom of Stille. She can't be sacrificed until she produces an heir, but human touch repulses her-- except for the touch of the Indiri. Dara and Donil are the last of the Indiri, a native race with magic that's a force of nature. Witt is leader of the Pietra, the fierce warriors who are now marching on the Kingdom of Stille; to ensure the survival of his people,...
14) At first light
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Dr. Evan Wilding novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"On the muddy banks of the Calumet River, a body has been found posed next to a series of mysterious glyphs and bearing wounds from a ritualistic slaying. Chicago detective Addie Bisset knows only one man who can decipher the message left by the killer: her friend Dr. Evan Wilding. A brilliant forensic semiotician, Evan decodes the etchings as Viking Age runes. They suggest either human sacrifice or righteous punishment. But to what god? And for what...
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Questar Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Join explorers, scholars, adventurers and archaeologists as they search for long-buried clues and missing pieces to the puzzle of history. Unravel the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics; uncover clues to Stonehenge; shed new light on the mythical Minoan civilization. Follow the celebrated Silk Road; discover why the ancient city of Catal Hoyuk was so prosperous; reconstruct the city of Petra's underground water system. Venture into the Andes to seek...
16) Sacrifice
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, wind-swept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her husband grew up here, it's the first time he's been back in twenty years. Digging in the peat on their new property, Tora unearths a human body, at first glance a centuries-old bog body, interesting but not uncommon. But realizing that the body is in fact much newer, that the woman's heart has been...
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Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Dirty Mary crazy Larry: Larry is a former NASCAR racer looking to score some quick cash. Mary is a sexy groupie aching to take a fast ride. Together with mechanic Deke, they pull off a cold-blooded supermarket heist and hit the highway. Now there is a maniacal lawman on their trail, an entire police force in pursuit and hundreds of miles of roadblocks between their '69 Charger and freedom.
Race with the devil: For old friends Roger and Frank and...