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A Cornucopia of the Best New Mysteries
If you're a fan of The Best American Mystery Stories series, Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James or Her Body and Other Stories by Carmen Maria Machado, you'll love The Book of Extraordinary Amateur Sleuths and Private Eye Stories.
Collected by one of the genre's eminent editors, Maxim Jakubowski: One of the best mystery books of the 21st century, this volume features outstanding new stories of...
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"The ongoing battle between star quarterback Quentin Barnes and team owner Gredok the Splithead is coming to a head. Endless threats and promises of ultraviolence hang on their every word. With sentients of several groups trying to manipulate or kill him, Quentin must chart a new course if he is to survive and overcome his injury to once again lead his beloved Krakens into battle.
Set against the backdrop of a professional American football franchise...
43) America's Eden
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Following Russia's thermonuclear first strike, America is a shattered wasteland, its survivors crushed under the iron fist of the brutal Soviet invader. But some have chosen to continue the fight for freedom's cause under Ted Rockson, the ultimate soldier of survival. And when Rockson receives a strange visitor who is near death, a long-rumored legend suddenly comes alive. Built by American millionaires generations ago beneath a remote Mexican mountain...
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In the nuclear-ravaged 21st century, liberty still thrives in free cities under the ground of a wasted America until Pattonville, second largest of these bastions of freedom, is seized by the power-crazed General Hanover. Using a newly developed lethal gas, Hanover holds the city captive in a dark and brutal reign of terror. But word has reached the one man who can save democracy for America: Ted Rockson, the Doomsday Warrior. Together with his brave...
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After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today's leading master of what Tolkien called secondary creation, the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't...
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For nearly a century, a wasted and savaged America has struggled to rise from the radioactive ashes of a Russian thermonuclear sneak attack. And one man has led the desperate fight to free a once-great nation from the enslaving clutches of the brutal Red Army invaders. He is Ted Rocksonthe Doomsday Warrior. Killov, the insane leader of the KGB, is alive and planning the final annihilation of America. To achieve his terrifying goal, the Soviet death-monger...
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"The World is caught off guard by the sudden advances in technology, some are not happy about that at all.
Bethany Anne's group needs to move into production, who is she going to hire for that position?
Old enemies take a stronger stance at revenge than before.
Helping others is a tall order, but TQB Rises to the Occasion!
Now, the World is on Notice!
Performed by Colleen Delany, Emily Beresford, Chris Stinson, Thomas Penny, Rob McFadyen, Michael...
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Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisas got him riding the brutal Mexican frontier chasing outlaws led by Tony Lazzaro, a notorious thief whose deadly weapon, Sugar Delphi, is a blind and blood-hungry pistolera. While Lou and Louisa hunt for Lazzaro, theyve got two gangs hot on...
49) Sunken Pyramid
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The note from her friend and colleague had read "I have quite the monster for you to chase, dear Annja." And then before she could speak to him, he'd been found dead in the hotel's stairwell. It didn't seemed possible. Annja Creed had been looking forward to three days of geeking out at the archaeology conference in Madison, Wisconsin, and then this tragedy strikes. And his is only the first death over the long weekend. Determined to investigate her...
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A surprise Russian thermonuclear first strike nearly a century earlier had transformed the United States into a decimated wasteland, its people enslaved by rampaging hordes of brutal Soviet invaders. But one man has refused to allow the flames of freedom to flicker out. The ultimate champion of a lost democracy, he is Ted Rockson the Doomsday Warrior! From the ruined California coast, Rockson and his Freefighters set sail for a remote Pacific Island....
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The city of the gods. Elantris once stood as the symbol of all that is beautiful. A sprawling metropolis of unrivaled grandeur, it was a symbol of power and strength, built to be as imposing as it was magnificent. The only thing more glorious than the city itself was its inhabitants, Godlike beings, with silvery skin and hair of the purest, flowing white. Able to create powerful magics with a mere wave of their hands, the Elantrians were able to heal...
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He may be a Confederate turned-bounty-hunter with a predilection for trouble, but Lou Prophet knows you never overstay your welcome in a town that wants you dead. Now, all because a young fool with a lousy poker hand couldn't hold his temper, Prophet has a bloodthirsty posse aiming to pump him full of lead for murdering the son of prominent cattleman Gerard Loomis. Unfortunately, before he has the chance to hightail it out of the Dakota Badlands,...
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From the number one New York Times best-selling author of the Generations Trilogy comes the second book in the Sun Symbol series (formerly Earthcore), an epic story of lost civilizations, redemption, and immeasurable treasure. With shades of Tom Clancy, Stephen King, and James Rollins, Mount Fitz Roy continues the tale of Patrick O'Doyle and Bertha Lybrand, who were part of the horror show that occurred far below the mountains of Utah. They learn...
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Ravaged by WWlll, America is now a brutalized Russian colony, but a loose and secret federation of Free Cities rises up to fight the hated oppressors! Rockson the Doomsday Warrior leads the American Rebels against the Russian occupation in their most desperate hour and is captured and tortured by the KGB. Escaping into the Western Desert he is swept into a time trapped 20th Century Utah by a post-nuke mega storm. He awakes and finds that he must battle...
55) Rescue
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The last gunfighter series volume 7
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In California Frank Morgan nearly found a home. But now he's pulled up stakes and hit the road again, aiming to reach the high desert of Arizona. For Frank, the plan changes when he steps into a saloon in a dusty boom town called Los Angeles. That's where he learns that his nemesis, Val Dooley, has found a new business: the selling of young women into prostitution, with the victims as young as 12 years old and the survivors ending up drugged and beaten....
56) Violent Sunday
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When iron clears leather, anything can happen. In Frank Morgan's case, a sudden duel with an assassin has left an innocent woman with a bullet in her back - and a friendship between Frank and a young Texas Ranger in tatters. Wanting to make up for his part in the tragedy, Frank rides to central Texas to help Ranger Tyler Beaumont put down the so-called Fence-Cutting War. But as big ranchers battle small ones, an outlaw gang has hellish plans of its...
57) The forbidden
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Outlaws smashed his life, left his wife dying, and took his young son. Now all Frank Morgan wants is to hang up his guns and settle down. But when he rides into the middle of a Montana range war, his legend proves to be as dangerous as his guns.
58) The Rider
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Armored little people riding armored dinosaurs in a full-contact bloodsport? Welcome to Dinolition, the biggest show in the galaxy. Star rider Poughkeepsie Pete and his T-Rex mount "Old Bess" are fixtures of a league struggling to reach profitability and gain intergalactic recognition, to be thought of as something other than circus-freak sideshows. But to get that credibility (and the massive payday that comes with it) Pete has to manage a league...
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Vampire hunter D volume 9
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In Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing so incurs the wrath of the entire town. The citizens of Sakuri have entered into a pact with the Undead princess and her monstrous bodyguards. With the ritual offering disrupted, the vampire's armored...
60) Avenger
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William W. Johnstone's epic westerns brilliantly pit the courage of a man alone against the rugged landscape of frontier America. Weaving actual historical characters and events with hoof-pounding suspense, Johnstone's new Frank Morgan adventure finds the West's last gunfighter facing his toughest enemy yet.
Death Is Not The End--Sometimes It's Just The Beginning
When Frank Morgan finds there's a price on his head, there's only one thing to do--kill...