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The Bureau of Time
By Brett Michael Orr. 2015
You cannot change fate.Cassandra Wright is a Timewalker - a teenager with a genetic mutation that allows her to manipulate…
the flow of time. But her inexplicable powers have made her a target for Adjusters - monstrous assassins from a parallel universe. Saved from almost certain death, Cassie is pulled into a secret agency sworn to defend our timeline against these threats: the Bureau of Temporal Integrity, Monitoring, and Execution. Cassie's life soon becomes entwined with Shaun Briars - a reckless Timewalker with an alluring smile and dark suspicions about the Bureau itself. When Cassie and Shaun cross into the parallel universe, they discover a world in the grips of nuclear winter, with a new war threatening to spill over into our universe. With time running out, they must learn the true history of Timewalkers, confront the unforgivable crimes of their future selves, and defy their own fate to save two worlds.Murder, D.C.: A Sully Carter Novel
By Neely Tucker. 2015
Washington, D.C., reporter Sully Carter returns in a thrilling murder mystery of race, wealth, and corruption, by the author of…
The Ways of the Dead When Billy Ellison, the son of Washington, D.C.'s most influential African-American family, is found dead in the Potomac near a violent drug haven, veteran metro reporter Sully Carter knows it's time to start asking some serious questions--no matter what the consequences. With the police unable to find a lead and pressure mounting for Sully to abandon the investigation, he has a hunch that there is more to the case than a drug deal gone bad or a tale of family misfortune. Digging deeper, Sully finds that the real story stretches far beyond Billy and into D.C.'s most prominent social circles. An alcoholic still haunted from his years as a war correspondent in Bosnia, Sully now must strike a dangerous balance between D.C.'s two extremes--the city's violent, desperate back streets and its highest corridors of power--while threatened by those who will stop at nothing to keep him from discovering the shocking truth. The follow-up to last year's acclaimed The Ways of the Dead, this gritty mystery showcases Tucker's talent for spot-on dialogue, authentic characters, and complex narrative.The Drama Teacher: A Novel
By Koren Zailckas. 2018
By the New York Times bestselling author of Mother, Mother and Smashed comes a propulsive new thriller: the story of…
a desperate and devious woman who will do anything to give her family a better life Gracie Mueller is a proud mother of two and devoted wife, living with her husband Randy in upstate New York. Her life is complicated by the usual tedium and stressors—young children, marriage, money—and she’s settled down comfortably enough. But when Randy’s failing career as a real estate agent makes finances tight, their home goes into foreclosure, and Gracie feels she has no choice but to return to the creatively illegal and high-stakes lifestyle of her past in order to keep all that she’s worked so hard to have. Gracie, underneath all that’s marked her life as average, has a lot to hide about where she’s from, who she is, and who she’s been. And when things inevitably begin to spin out of her control, more questions about the truth of her past are raised, including all the ones she never meant to, or even knew to, ask. Written with the style, energy, and penetrating insight that made her memoir Smashed a phenomenon, Koren Zailckas's next novel confirms her growing reputation as a psychological novelist that can stand up to the best of them.Red Harvest (The Haunted Hollow Chronicles #1)
By Patrick C. Greene. 2018
In the epic tradition of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Jonathan Maberry, a chilling new masterwork of small-town evil, centuries-old…
traditions, and newly-risen terror… RED HARVEST Every year at harvest time, something strange and wonderful happens in the sleepy farm community of Ember Hollow. It comes alive. Truckloads of pumpkins are sent off to be carved into lanterns. Children scramble to create the creepiest, scariest costumes. Parents stock up on candy and prepare for the town’s celebrated Pumpkin Parade. And then there is Devil’s Night . . . But this year, something is different. Some of the citizens are experiencing dark, disturbing visions. Others are beginning to wonder if they’re losing their minds, or maybe their souls. One newly sober singer with the voice of a fallen angel is tempted to make a deal that will seal his fate. And one very odd boy is kept locked in a shed by his family—for reasons too horrible to imagine . . . Whatever is happening to this town, they’re going to make it through this Halloween. Even if it kills them . . .The Christmas Killer
By Patricia Windsor. 1991
Explorer Academy: The Nebula Secret
By Trudi Trueit. 2018
Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers.Cruz leaves…
his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at the Academy than he discovers that his family has a mysterious past with the organization that could jeopardize his future. In the midst of codebreaking and cool classes, new friends and augmented reality expeditions, Cruz must tackle the biggest question of all: Who is out to get him, and why? Readers can get in on the excitement with puzzles and codes embedded throughout.Everybody's All-american
By Frank Deford. 1981
Gavin Grey is everyone's All-American. A star running back at the University of North Carolina in the late 1950s, he…
graces the covers of Time and LIFE magazines and appears on the Ed Sullivan Show.The Killing Room (The China Thrillers #3)
By Peter May. 2000
When a mass grave containing eighteen mutilated female corpses is discovered in Shanghai, detective Li Yan is sent from Beijing…
to establish if the bodies are linked to an unsolved murder in the capital. Here, Li will be working with Mei Ling, deputy head of Shanghai's serious crime squad. Mei Ling is a formidable woman: a fact that is not lost on Li's on-again, off-again lover, forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell. But when Campbell, vulnerable and still grieving the death of her father, learns that the victims were subjected to "live" autopsies, she swallows her pride and joins Li Yan and Mei Ling in the hunt for the murderer.As Li, Campbell, and Mei Ling enter the arena of a sickening nemesis they are forced to confront each of their very worst nightmares.Sin Vuelta Atrás
By Neva Squires-Rodriguez, Laura Rebollo. 2016
Liliana descubre un terrible secreto que la empuja a buscar respuestas por parte de su padre, El Jefe. Pero nada…
puede prepararla para la tragedia que le traerá la relación con su padre... o la valiosa oportunidad que puede suponerle.Every Wicked Man (The Bowers Files #11)
By Steven James. 2018
A criminal mastermind's chilling terrorist plot forces FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers to the brink in the latest thriller from…
bestselling novelist Steven James. When a senator's son takes his own life and posts the video live online, Agent Bowers is drawn into a complex web of lies that begins to threaten the people he loves the most. As he races to unravel the mystery behind the suicide and a centuries-old code that might help shed light on the case, he finds a dark pathway laced with twists and deadly secrets that touch a little too close to home.A fast-paced, intelligent thriller, Every Wicked Man will have readers racing through the pages to its thundering conclusion.Dovecote
By Anne Britting Oleson. 2017
Six years ago, Gwynn Forest's husband Richard committed suicide. After that, she struggled to keep things together, emotionally, mentally, and…
financially. Then three fortuitous things happened: she sold the family construction company; she inherited a seaside cottage from an elderly English great-aunt whom she had never met, and she was offered a job illustrating a book for a friend. Thus, a new start in a new place. Once ensconced in Gull Cottage, she begins to learn disturbing things about her great-aunt and her new home. The cottage itself seems unwelcoming, perhaps haunted by the imprint of a sad and lonely old woman, with peculiar noises, strange happenings, and a back garden full of untamable brambles, no matter how much they are cut back. Gwynn doesn't believe in ghosts—until the disturbing occurrences at Gull Cottage change her mind. Gwynn doesn't believe in herself—until, with no one else to turn to she has to rely on her own inner resources to confront the mysteries of Gull Cottage.Identity
By Mark Hosack. 2012
The corporate greed of Wall Street meets the Hitchcockian suspense of North by Northwest in this thrilling debut by screenwriter…
Mark Hosack (The Good Spy Dies Twice).One day Paul Majors is a respectable businessman looking into some accounting irregularities in his office's parent company. The next he's wading through a murky world of dark finance, uncovering a vast web of illegal activities in the CEO's executive circle, being hunted by a ruthless corporate assassin and the FBI, and getting sucked into a second company's illicit dealings. As he travels across the United States to unravel the twin mysteries he's caught in, it's not clear who Paul can trust--or even who is who. The woman who seduced him at the hotel bar might be there to help, or take him out. The government agents change with a chameleon's ease. Heck, even Paul's running around under an assumed name! In this corporate shell game of names and motivations, Paul's got 1,500 loyal employees--and his own life--on the line. But it's becoming dangerously clear that Paul himself is not Too Big to Fail...or to be killed.Predator: Scarpetta (Medieval Mysteries #14)
By Patricia Cornwell. 2005
My German Brother: A Novel
By Alison Entrekin, Chico Buarque. 2018
An uproarious novel about a man’s often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brotherMy German Brother is the…
renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque’s attempt to reconstruct through fiction his obsessive lifelong search for a lost sibling.In 1960s São Paulo, the teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a journalist and scholar, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing this library. Ciccio feels like an afterthought in his own family, largely left to his own criminal devices. Forbidden to touch any of these books, Ciccio sneaks off with The Golden Bough one day to discover a decades-old letter hidden inside. The letter reveals an illicit affair his father carried on while posted in Nazi-era Berlin, an affair that resulted in the birth of a baby boy. The child, along with his mother, vanished into the chaos of the Second World War. Ciccio develops a fascination for his mysterious German brother: a fixation that becomes a mission, both comical and courageous, pursued over decades, through dead ends and embarrassments and cases of mistaken identity. My German Brother is the project of a lifetime, combining what was, what might have been, and outright fabrication, all in order to arrive at the truth.Aaron Trow
By Anthony Trollope.
Aaron Trow, because of his murder of a man during a strike in England, is shipped off to a prison…
in Bermuda. He escapes and breaks into the house of a pastor and his daughter on a night when the daughter is alone. He demands food, drink and money. She gives him the first two but protests she hasn't a penny to give him. He gets physical and they have a knock-down, drag-out brawl until the girl's fiance comes to the rescue. Trow escapes and a posse is sent out after him, a chase that ends in a cliff cave over the crashing sea. By the time it is all over, everyone who has been a part of this drama has been changed for the rest of their lives.Christmas after All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift (Dear America)
By Kathryn Lasky. 2001
Twelve-year-old Minnie Swift recounts living through one of the toughest times in American history, the Great Depression, through her diary…
that spans over one Christmas month. Reflecting both sadness and optimism that characterized the time, this is an intimate portrait of a Midwestern family's triumphs and losses. Photos.The Cannibal Galaxy
By Cynthia Ozick. 1983
Ragdoll (Muñeco de trapo)
By Daniel Cole. 2017
Ragdoll (Muñeco de trapo), el aclamado debut de Daniel Cole, es pura adrenalina. Un thriller taquicárdico. Vertiginoso. Entretenimiento adictivo. «Ragdoll,…
el muñeco de trapo» es el nombre con el que los medios sensacionalistas han bautizado al macabro hallazgo en un piso vacío de Londres. Cuelga del techo mediante unos hilos, apunta con un dedo hacia la ventana y está hecho con «retales» de seis personas, cosidos para formar un solo cuerpo del que solo han podido identificar la cabeza. ¿Quiénes eran las otras cinco víctimas? ¿Y por qué el dedo del Ragdoll señalaba hacia el apartamento de enfrente, donde vive el detective William Fawkes, alias Wolf? Casi inmediatamente después del macabro hallazgo, el asesino hace llegar a la prensa una lista con sus seis próximas víctimas y el día en que las matará. El detective y su equipo, presionados por sus superiores y acosados por la prensa, deben descubrir por qué fueron asesinados y que tienen en común para desenmascarar al culpable antes de que cumpla su amenaza. Un malévolo juego del gato y el ratón con un asesino que desafía a la policía y un país entero que contiene el aliento... Y es que esa mente perversa siempre va un paso por delante. Un peligroso desafío en el que es imposible no involucrarse. Críticas:«Un thriller tenso, dramático, con giros muy inteligentes que te sorprenderán. Si te gustan autores como Jo Nesbø, Karin Fossum y Henning Mankell, te encantará este libro.»Scrutton Bland «El debut más emocionante que hemos leído en mucho tiempo.»Heat Magazine «Hay ecos de la película Seven en ese villano tan omnipotente.»The Daily MailDeath Valley
By Susan Perly. 2016
Legendary war photographer Vivienne Pink has five days to photograph servicemen about to deploy for active combat. Racing to meet…
her deadline, she heads to Las Vegas, where she'll capture images of men who may die the next day – and where she'll confront an abuser from her past to force a reckoning. Accompanied by her husband, a celebrated novelist, and her best friend, a former CIA spook, Vivienne heads out into the Nevada desert in search of adrenaline, vengeance and the perfect shot. Told in a vivid, hallucinogenic realism, Death Valley is a sexy, fast-paced tale that's part Pynchon, part Tarantino.Ragdoll (Ninot de drap)
By Daniel Cole. 2017
Ragdoll (Ninot de drap), l'aclamat debut de Daniel Cole, és pura adrenalina. Un thriller taquicàrdic. Vertiginós. Entreteniment addictiu. «Ragdoll, el…
Ninot de drap» és el nom amb què els mitjans sensacionalistes han batejat la macabra troballa en un pis buit de Londres. Penjat del sostre amb tot de fils, assenyala amb el dit cap a una finestra i està fet de «retalls» de sis persones, cosits per formar un únic cos de qui només s'ha pogut identificar el cap. Qui eren les altres cinc víctimes? I per què el dit assenyala cap a l'apartament del davant, on viu el detectiu William Fawkes, àlies Wolf? Pràcticament l'endemà de l'inquietant troballa, l'assassí fa arribar a la premsa una llista amb les properes sis víctimes i la data prevista de la seva mort. El detectiu i el seu equip, pressionats pels superiors i assetjats per la premsa, han d'esbrinar per què van assassinar les primeres víctimes i què tenen en comú per poder desemmascarar el culpable abans que compleixi la seva amenaça. Un malèvol joc del gat i la rata amb un assassí que desafia la policia i un país sencer en suspens... Perquè aquesta ment perversa sempre s'avança als altres. Un perillós desafiament en què és impossible no involucrar-se. Crítiques:«Un debut molt esperat. Sens dubte, el thriller més escabrós de l'any.»Metro «Un thriller tens, dramàtic, amb girs intel·ligents que et sorprendran. Si t'agraden autors com Jo Nesbø, Karin Fossum i Henning Mankell, t'encantarà aquest llibre.»Scrutton Bland «El debut més emocionant que hem llegit en molt de temps.»Heat Magazine «Hi ha ecos de la pel·lícula Seven en aquest vilà tan omnipotent.»The Daily Mail