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"New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Linwood Barclay delivers the second spine chilling thriller set in the troubled town of Promise Falls, following the electrifying cliffhanger ending of Broken Promise. After the screen of a run-down drive-in movie theater collapses and kills four people, the daughter of one of the victims asks private investigator Cal Weaver to look into a recent break-in at her father's house. Cal discovers...
62) The Forgetting
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The Forgetting (Sharon Cameron) volume 1
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Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
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"The author discusses how we should think about conspiracy theories, who believes them and why, which conspiracy theories are likely to be true or false and what criteria we can use to assess them, and what we should do to combat dangerous conspiracism and reestablish trust in our democratic institutions, in the media, and in one another"--
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"A premier historian penetrates the fog of corruption and cover-up still surrounding the murder of a Stanford University founder to establish who did it, how, and why. In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy...
65) Elysium tide
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"Dr. Peter Chesterfield is the top neurosurgeon at the Royal London Hospital. He's also a workaholic, and after a blow-up with a colleague, his boss orders him to attend a medical symposium at the luxurious Elysium Grand on the island of Maui. During a midnight walk on the beach, Peter pulls a woman with a skull fracture from the water. Despite all his skill, she dies in his arms, leaving him with only one clue to what happened to her: the word honu....
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The sea shanties, YOLO's, and red bandanas aren't even half of the GameStop story.
Did you know Robinhood didn't initiate their infamous trading halt?
Did you know why Redditors refer to 2021 as the "sneeze" rather than the squeeze?
Did you know that shares in your brokerage account might be counterfeits?If not, buckle up.
Witness firsthand the real and utterly ludicrous hivemind that brought Wall Street to its knees in January 2021, and...
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El Top 5 de las Ciudades Secretas La mayor parte de nosotros estamos acostumbrados a entrar y salir de la ciudad a nuestro antojo. Pero ese no es el caso para toda la gente. Algunas personas se encuentran atrapadas en sus propias ciudades – a veces incluso en áreas reducidas de la ciudad, mientras que otros habitan en túneles subterráneos o en espacios secretos. 5. La Bóvedas de Edimburgo 4. Mercury 3. Dixia Cheng 2. Oak Ridge 1. Ozersk El Top...
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¿Conoces alguna leyenda urbana? ¿Sabes de buena tinta por un amigo que eso tan fascinante pasó en realidad? ¿No será que la historia es tan buena y sorprendente que deseas que sea cierta y no te planteas que es inverosímil? En esta obra repasaremos las más interesantes, divididas en diversos temas:
Famosos: Cuando el cantante de Kiss se injertó una lengua de vaca.
Accidentes caseros: ¿Puede una serpiente trepar por el váter y morderte mientras...
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What does a lesser-known member of the Kennedy clan have in common with a Sri-Lankan businessman? Or with Albert Loewenstein, one of the richest men in the world in 1928, who mysteriously fell from his plane into the English Channel? Or with two aircraft that went missing and were never found, one disappearing over Scotland in 1975 and the other in 1953 over Lake Superior? In this gripping new book, Keith McCloskey, who has previously written about...
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"The truth may hurt-but the lies will kill us. In They Knew, New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior explores the United States' "culture of conspiracy," putting forth a timely and unflinching argument: uncritical faith in broken institutions is as dangerous as false narratives peddled by propagandists. Conspiracy theories are on the rise because officials refuse to enforce accountability for real conspiracies. They Knew discusses conspiracy...
71) Best laid plans
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Lucy Kincaid thrillers volume 9
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To solve a murder, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid must convince a belligerent teen prostitute named Kassie to help with the investigation, which endangers her career and her relationship with Sean Rogen.
72) Killing floor
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A discharged soldier is framed for a murder by the chief of police in a small town in Georgia where he has just arrived. When the soldier learns that the murdered man was his brother he breaks out of jail and carries out his own investigation.
Early one morning Jack jumps off a bus in the middle of nowhere and walks 14 miles down an empty country road. The minute he reaches the town of Margrave he is thrown into jail. As the only stranger in town,...
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Navigating the marketplace of ideas can be difficult when there is so much bullshit to wade through. This book helps connect the underlying arguments used by charlatans and gives readers a skeptic's toolkit to identify the logical traps and pitfalls of different types of nonsense, and to discard each of them using critical thinking practices. From paranormal and medical quackery, to conspiracy theories and religion, the authors unpack the Grand Unified...
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¿Te has preguntado cuáles son los sucesos más impactantes de todos los tiempos que han dejado a la humanidad sin poder encontrar explicación o sentido alguno? Entonces sigue leyendo..
"Se encuentra frente al gran misterio... Al que hace temblar a la humanidad desde su origen: lo desconocido." - Gastón Leroux.
Más allá de lo que se ha registrado en los libros, los tesoros en la historia son muchos más de los que ya se han podido documentar,...
75) World's Most Notorious Secret Societies: The Histories and Mysteries of the Freemasons, the Illumina
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For decades, parodies featuring ominous, mysterious cults have been a favorite gag in pop culture. These fraternal brothers are often depicted in some type of underground lair, dressed in extravagant ceremonial robes with their faces hidden in their hoods, seated around a long table brimming with Gothic chalices, skulls, and glittering dark treasure. Flicks on the more morbid side might even show choppy, flashing imagery of blood, torture, and sacrifices.
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"In short, I have found that the covert of a Mason Lodge had been employed in every country for venting and propagating sentiments in religion and politics, that could not have circulated in public without exposing the author to great danger. I found, that this impunity had gradually encouraged men of licentious principles to become more bold, and to teach doctrines subversive of all our notions of morality-of all our confidence in the moral government...
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"Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block--her neighbor Theo But...
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On the night of June 4, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in a steamy pantry of the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel. Kennedy and his entourage had been celebrating his victory in the California primary for the Democratic nomination for president.
Everybody knew that Sirhan was the assassin. But was there a wider conspiracy? Did the FBI truly solve the crime? After working his way deep inside the investigation-and spending more...
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William Carpenter, a printer and author, was born in England and later moved to Baltimore where he continued to advocate for the flat-Earth theory. While this is not Williams first publication on the topic, it is certainly impressive as to the amount of information that William was able to provide and the passion with which he makes each point.
Carpenter's evidence is given in short paragraphs allowing the reader to take in the information without...
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An innovation in aviation development, Concorde was the subject of political rivalry, deceit and treachery from its very inception. After their failure to be the first nation to develop a jet airliner for transatlantic flight or to send spacecraft into space, the US Government was adamant that they would beat other nations to the goal of supersonic flight and so development of the SST began. However, with McNamara and Shurcliff's negative attitudes...