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Amazon Publishing The Moonflowers
Book SynopsisIn a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generations of women who depended on each other to survive.Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he’s a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.Still confined to a state institution, Eloise has a lifetime of stories to tell. She agrees to share them all—about herself, about Tig’s enigmatic grandmother, and about the other brave and desperate women who passed through Benjamin’s orbit. Most revealing of all is the truth about Whitmore Halls, the mansion on the hill that was home to triage, rescue, death, and one inevitable day that
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Amazon Publishing Romancing on Jeju
Book SynopsisThis atmospheric novel about friendship and self-discovery from Korean author Hyun-Joo Park buzzes with romance, mystery, and just a hint of danger.Romi is an illustrator and hopeless romantic. When she can’t stop obsessing over a brief encounter with a handsome stranger, there’s just one thing to do: hop on a plane and find him.But Romi’s not leaving without her two best friends. Hadam, a budding filmmaker, suggests the trip in the first place. Facing her fear of failure, she envisions Romi’s search for love as the perfect subject for her first documentary. And Chakyung, marketing pro, sees a chance to build a new ad campaign for her cosmetics client—plus get some quality “me time” to figure out why she’s secretly so unhappy.The journey from Seoul to Jeju Island goes off without a hitch. The emerald waterfalls and sandy beaches are a balm to the trio’s souls. But then misunderstandings, mistake
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Amazon Publishing The Island
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Amazon Publishing I Become Her
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Amazon Publishing The Last Morning
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Amazon Publishing The Rebel Son
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Amazon Publishing Trailbreaker
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Blackstone Publishing And Then She Vanished
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£23.75
The New York Review of Books, Inc Max Havelaar: Or, the Coffee Auctions of the
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Fire
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Rowman & Littlefield Ghosts of the Green Swamp: A Cracker Western
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Quirk Books Ghost Eaters: A Novel
Book SynopsisErin hasn t been able to set a single boundary with her charismatic but reckless college ex-boyfriend, Silas. When he asks her to bail him out of rehab again she knows she needs to cut him off. But days after he gets out, Silas turns up dead of an overdose in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia, and Erin s world falls apart. Then a friend tells her about Ghost, a new drug that allows users to see the dead. Wanna get haunted? he asks. Grieving and desperate for closure with Silas, Erin agrees to a pill-popping seance. But the drug has unfathomable side effects and once you take it, you can never go back.Trade ReviewA Gothic-punk graveyard tale about what haunts history and what haunts the human soul. An addicting read that draws you into its descent from the first page. Chuck Wendig, New York Times best-selling author of The Book of Accidents
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Insight Editions Star Wars: Rebel Starfighters: Owners' Workshop
Book SynopsisAfter the Clone Wars, the Galactic Empire spared no expense to build a massive fleet of warships to enforce Imperial rule, intimidate defenseless worlds, and destroy all opposition. However, the Imperial Navy underestimated Rebel Alliance fighter pilots, who flew X-wing, Y-wing, A-wing, U-wing and B-wing starfighters, and whatever else they could obtain to fight their Imperial enemies. Decades later, Resistance pilots would fly next-generation versions of Rebel starfighters against the First Order. The Rebel Starfighters Owners’ Workshop Manual presents a thorough history of the starfighters that served the Rebel Alliance and the Resistance. The history includes design origins, production, and modifications for each Rebel starfighter, and is fully illustrated with numerous photographs, schematics, exploded diagrams, and computer-generated artwork by Star Wars vehicle experts Chris Reiff and Chris Trevas. Text is by Ryder Windham, author and co-author of more than 70 Star Wars books. This Haynes Manual is the most thorough technical guide to Rebel starfighters available, and is fully authorized and approved by Lucasfilm.
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Turner Publishing Company The Machine in the Biltmore
Book SynopsisLocked away for over a century, this machine holds an alluring secret. After remaining sealed for generations, a hidden room is discovered in the basement of the famed Biltmore Estate. Within the musty, decaying confines of the hidden room, a large mechanical machine comes to light. Crafted with intricate gears, levers, and sophisticated mechanisms, the contraption is hailed as a significant archaeological discovery. The esteemed board of directors overseeing the operations of the Biltmore Estate enlists the expertise of Professor Dr. Daniel Garrison to unravel the purpose and origin of this enigmatic machine. While Dr. Garrison investigates, readers are transported back to the year 1906, when George Vanderbilt II commissions an inventor to construct this mysterious apparatus. What secrets lie within this machine? Why was it brought into existence? This compelling tale unfolds across intertwining narratives—the investigation of the machine in the present day and its creation back in 1906—to deliver a captivating and riveting ending.
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Turner Publishing Company Murder Strikes a Chord
Book SynopsisVeronica Mars meets The Golden Girls as event planner Cassidy Jamison and her four sixty-year-old employees race to solve a rocker’s murder before the curtains close on their show and their business.When Cassidy Jamison inherited her late grandmother’s event planning business, she also inherited her grandmother’s friends—four sixty-year-old women known around town as the Pearly Girls—as part-time employees. Now Cassidy barely has time to breathe between spending every waking hour trying to keep her business afloat and the Pearly Girls out of trouble and focused on event planning.So when she lands a three-weekend event complete with a chart-topping band, she’s thrilled. Until she and her chihuahua mix Elvis find the body of the Weathermen’s lead singer in her venue’s koi pond. With the help of the not-so-helpful Pearly Girls, Cassidy must stave off the bad publicity, navigate the prying questions of the local police department, and solve the murder before the media frenzy shutters her business for good, and takes one of the Pearly Girls with it.
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Turner Publishing Company Her Final Gamble
Book SynopsisWith her reputation on the line, one woman must make the ultimate gamble to save her career, her client, and a young boy''s life. Jacqueline Stone is an accomplished criminal defense attorney whose tenacity to uncover the truth has earned her the reputation as the one lawyer who can win unwinnable cases. But when a mysterious car accident kills both her son and husband, leaving her the sole survivor, she is exiled from her prestigious firm. Battling personal demons, Jacqueline finds herself at a crossroads, ready to give up law altogether, until accused murderer Ryan Mitchell seeks her counsel and she sees an opportunity for redemption. But with evidence mounting against her client, a child witness too traumatized to provide information, and a mysterious photograph leading to more questions than answers, this case will be no easy feat. Jacqueline must navigate treacherous waters to not only save her career but also protect Ryan’s young son from a relentless killer. In a high-stakes gamble, she must rely on the wisdom of a deceased woman, as she races against time to solve the murder and unravel a web of deceit that threatens to consume them all.
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SparkPress The Bus to Beluah: A Novel
Book SynopsisOn her way to a new job in America, Maria Puente accidentally discovers a human trafficking ring. Fearing exposure, the American company that manages the operation—with the help of their Mexican partners—kidnaps Maria. Maria’s disappearance triggers a desperate search, by her family and local law enforcement, to find her before the kidnappers can permanently dispose of her. As the investigation unfolds, long-time Hogg County high sheriff Will Moser confronts Albert Waters, a powerful businessman who Will suspects knows about Maria’s disappearance—but Albert and his Mexican cartel partners prove to be brick walls. At the urging of his wife, Lana, Will calls on Elijah Kahn, a man he got to know while serving in Vietnam who now runs one of the largest international security firms in the world. The idea of working with men who are rightly known as mercenaries troubles Will, but he knows he’ll never find Maria without Elijah’s help—and when Lana reminds Will of the debt they owe to Tomas Delgado, Maria’s uncle, his hesitation evaporates. Organized in an hour-by-hour structure, The Bus to Beulah is a taut thriller that culminates in a massive, heatrt-pounding chase to save Maria—before she disappears forever.Trade Review“Bus to Beulah takes us on a fast and furious ride through some of America's toughest territory—straight into border problems, trafficking, and drug cartels—and features a Dickensian cast of characters swirling around the kidnapped Maria through eleven tense days. Topical, timely, terrifying. I read it one sitting.” —Lee Smith, best-selling author and winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for fiction, the O’Henry Award, and Mercer University’s Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature “In The Bus to Beulah, Redge Hanes skillfully zeroes in on what happens when our byzantine immigration laws, the powerful farmers’ lobby. and local politics collide in bucolic North Carolina. In Billy Bowater, Hanes explored his state’s political jungle. Here, a local sheriff investigates the disappearance of a young woman and finds exploitative conditions that allow a human and drug trafficking network to set up shop.” —Howell Raines, former executive editor of The New York Times
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Ablaze The King Of The Moths
Book SynopsisEle and Tonya are celebrating their fourth anniversary, but what was going to be a romantic night will end up turning into the end of their relationship. What has happened to them? Why has everything become so difficult? Where was the promise to always love each other?They don''t know it yet, but the nightmare has only just begun: SOMETHING WANTS TO FEED ON THEIR FEELINGS, savoring the good, and leaving only the bad... and it won''t stop until there''s nothing left.Because he''s still hungry...THE KING OF THE MOTHS is an intimate and intense comic with high doses of action and terror. An explosive mix that will keep you on the edge of your seat til the very end!
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The McCall Ranch
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Pancho the Parrot Reviews the Year 2020
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Penguin Random House Group Disturbing the Bones
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Jnc Isekai Tensei Recruited to Another World Omnibus
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Sourcebooks, Inc The Woman with Two Shadows: A Novel of WWII
Book SynopsisFor fans of ATOMIC CITY GIRLS and THE SECRETS WE KEPT, a fascinating debut historical novel of one of the most closely held secrets of World War II and a woman caught up in it when she follows her missing sister to the mysterious city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Lillian Kaufman hasn't heard from her twin sister since Eleanor left for a mysterious job at an Army base somewhere in Tennessee. When she learns, on an unexpected phone call, that Eleanor is missing, Lillian takes a train from New York down to Oak Ridge to clear up the matter. It turns out that the only way into Oak Ridge is to assume Eleanor's identity, which Lillian plans to do swiftly and perfectly. But Eleanor has vanished without a trace-and she's not the only one. And how do you find someone in a town so dangerous it doesn't officially exist, when technically you don't exist either?Lillian is thrust into the epicenter of the gravest scientific undertaking of all time, with no idea who she can trust. And the more she pretends to be Eleanor, the more she loses her grip on herself.
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Sourcebooks, Inc Block Shot
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning author Kennedy Ryan comes the steamy, powerful second installment of the Hoops trilogy.If Jared Foster had a dollar for every time Banner Morales made his heart skip a beat-the heart everyone assumes is frozen over-he'd be richer than he already is. He's found success as a sports agent by always assuming "no" means "I'll think about it." And he knows Banner's thinking about him. Her simmering anger? The way she puts him in his place? Foreplay. She thinks she's won the game, but they're just getting started.If Banner had a dollar for every time Jared broke her heart, she'd have exactly one dollar. One epic failure of a night. After parting on such bad terms, Banner has no intention of ever giving Jared a second chance. She's found success in a field ruled by men like him. She's learned to call the shots and block them when she has to.So she'll ignore the way he makes her heart pound. Sure, he seems carved from her most private fantasies, but she can get past that.She's got her one dollar, and Jared won't have her.
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Copperlight Wood Pegasus
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Muswell Press Lost Women: An Inspector Low Novel
Book SynopsisIn the Essex marshlands, twelve women are found abandoned in the back of a truck. Armed with knives but with nothing to say, except Grace. She will only speak to DI Stanley Low. Flown in to assist and aid his ex-colleague, and sometime lover, Met detective Ramila Mistry, Low finds himself confronting a global trafficking ring. They must hurry. Another truck is being prepared. Another twelve, vulnerable women are being groomed. Low can only find them by uncovering the ugliest of truths.Trade Review'Stanley Low is a great character' The Sun. 'This impressive police procedural presents an unflattering but authentic picture of the multiracial megacity' Times Crime Club. 'Fast, tough and smart - this is crime fiction to die for' Tony Parson. 'Classic Raymond Chandler school, wonderfully evocative scenes and illuminating insights into modern, multiracial Britain. A read page-turner' Mihir Bose
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Corylus Books Deadly Autumn Harvest
Book SynopsisImaginative contemporary crime novel set in Romania
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Cybirdy Publishing Limited La bouillie de la comtesse Berthe
Book SynopsisLa Bouillie de la Comtesse Berthe est un conte du petit peuple écrit par Alexandre Dumas, le célèbre auteur des Trois Mousquetaires et du Comte de Monte-Cristo. Sur les rives du Rhin médiéval, vivait jadis une femme au grand coeur, charitable, une personne aimable, compatissante, déterminée et noble : la comtesse Berthe. Celle-ci instaura une tradition plutôt inhabituelle, une fête annuelle qui devait se tenir le premier mai de chaque année, la bouillie de la comtesse Berthe. " Je dois d'abord vous dire qu'il y avait autrefois en Allemagne une race de bons petits esprits, malheureusement disparus depuis, dont le plus grand mesurait à peine six pouces. On les appelait les Cobolds. " La Bouillie de la Comtesse Berthe est une perle rare du passé remise au goût du jour par cette nouvelle édition dans l'intérêt mais aussi pour l'amusement des lecteurs, petits et grands, où qu'ils se trouvent sur la planète Terre.
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Cybirdy Publishing Limited The Beautiful Harpies
Book SynopsisSomething sinister is afoot in dreary Dysael. First, several women go mysteriously missing. Then, one by one, their husbands begin turning up dead - killed in increasingly brutal ways. Sister Kempson of the Holy Sisters of Conviction and her bodyguard Garth arrive in the city to investigate the situation. However, Constable Thackery deems them nothing but an interference in his own investigation as he aims to restore law and order at any cost. Amidst all the quarrelling, will they be able to put a stop to the growing darkness in Dysael as more and more people are killed? Sister Kempson will need to uncover the truth fast before hysteria breaks out as the townspeople grow more frightened and paranoid ... that is, as long as she doesn't lose sight of which side represents the good and which the evil ... Ominous, striking, and set in a plausibly real world, this dark tale blurs the lines between black, white, and all the shades of grey in between.
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Ginger Cat Arden
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Oachoa Publishing The Rise And Fall Of Aos
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Allen & Unwin Sweet Jimmy
Book SynopsisAn engrossing collection of gritty, raw and sometimes very funny short stories with fully realised characters and surprising twists and turns. This is Aussie noir at its best by one of Australia''s great actors. In the tradition of Peter Temple, Australia has found its new voice of urban crime fiction.
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ECW Press,Canada Fenian Street: A Mystery
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ECW Press Angelhunting
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Guernica Editions,Canada Blow Up the Ashes: Vol. 2
Book SynopsisBlow Up the Ashes, Volume 2 of American Mayhem, reveals the story of Pierre Doucet, a gambler and then a killer for the New Orleans mob during World War II who at one time admires from afar a yellow-haired girl.When decades later he travels to New York, he meets KJ again. They discover she was his "yellow-haired girl". KJ learns Pierre is a killer, but instead of drawing back in horror joins him. KJ and Buckles come together at the novels' end when Buckles wreaks revenge on Big Bill.
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Guernica Editions Ley Lines
Book SynopsisSet in the waning days of the Klondike Gold Rush, Ley Lines begins in themythical boom town of Sawdust City, Yukon Territory. Luckless prospectorSteve Ladle has accepted an unusual job offer: accompany a local con artist to the unconquered top of a nearby mountain. What he finds there brieflyupends the town's fading fortunes, attracting a crowd of gawkers andacolytes, while inadvertently setting in motion a series of events that bringsabout the town's ruin.In the aftermath, a ragtag group of characters is sent reeling across theKlondike, struggling to come to grips with a world that has been suddenly and unpredictably upturned. As they attempt to carve out a place for themselves,our protagonists reckon with the various personal, historical andsupernatural forces that have brought them to this moment.A wildly inventive, psychedelic odyssey, Ley Lines flips the frontier narrativeon its ear, and heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in Canadian fiction.
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Biblioasis The Country of Toó
Book SynopsisOne of Crime Reads most anticipated LatinX Horror and Crime Fiction of 2023This sumptuously written thriller asks probing questions about how we live with each other and with our planet.Raised on his wits on the streets of Central America, the Cobra, a young debt collector and gang enforcer, has never had the chance to discern between right and wrong, until he’s assigned the murder of Polo, a prominent human rights activist—and his friend. When his conscience gives him pause and his patrón catches on, a remote Mayan community offers the Cobra a potential refuge, but the people there are up against predatory mining companies. With danger encroaching, the Cobra is forced to confront his violent past and make a decision about what he’s willing to risk in the future, and who it will be for.Following the Cobra, Polo, a faction of drug-dealing oligarchs, and Jacobo, a child caught in the crosshairs, Rey Rosa maps an extensive web of corruption upheld by decades of political oppression. A scathing indictment of exploitation in all its forms, The Country of Toó is a gripping account of what it means to consider societal change under the constant threat of violence.Trade ReviewPraise for The Country of Toó"When tasked with assasinating a friend, a Guatemalan gang enforcer flees to the Mayan countryside, where the struggle to keep community land from mining companies forces him to rethink his allegiances."—New York Times"The Country of Toó is ... about a lot of things, including political corruption and reform; a young man’s surreal recovery from a traumatic injury; and the moral crisis faced by a man known only as the Cobra, who has begun to feel the strain of years of working as a hired gun. Tonally, the work shifts from realistic to dreamlike and back again; the result is a complex reckoning with histories both personal and national."—Tobias Carroll, Brooklyn Rail"The Country of Toó is like little else you’ll read this year, and it’s another strong entry in its author’s impressive bibliography."—Words Without Borders"A deep, satirically streaked dive into the violent culture of Guatemala."—Kirkus Reviews"Rey Rosa illuminates how an Indigenous culture is besieged by outsiders ... [and] leaves readers with plenty to chew on."—Publishers WeeklyPraise for Rodrigo Rey Rosa“Intense … By the end of this novel you feel glad to have come out on the other side and carry the hope that Rodrigo Rey Rosa, those close to him, and his fellow countrymen will do so, too.”—New York Journal of Books“Rodrigo Rey Rosa creates stories of mythic proportions.”—San Francisco Chronicle “[Human Matter's] exploration of the history of violence and secrecy in Central America has obvious relevance to today's politics, but the tale of a writer trying to understand the truth behind the things he's seeing gives the novel a resounding, universal echo.”—Vanity Fair“Rey Rosa, a Guatemalan writer often compared to Roberto Bolano … was inspired to write a meta-novel about his experiences [visiting Guatemala's National Police archive] and the stories he uncovered. The result … reads like the journal of a heartbroken researcher who stumbles on the darkest truths about his native country.”—Chicago Tribune“Wonderful … The tension between the fundamental pleasure of the novel—which comes from trying to piece together meaning out of the disparate information available to us and the narrator’s insistence that it’s futile—creates a weirdly gratifying reading experience.”—Chicago Review of Books“To read him is to learn how to write and is also an invitation to the pure pleasure of allowing oneself to be borne along by sinister or fantastic stories ... To say that Rey Rosa is the most rigorous writer of my generation, and at the same time the clearest, the one who weaves his stories together best, the most brilliant of them all, is not to say anything new.”—Roberto Bolaño
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Second Story Press The Dogs of Winter
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DC Comics Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Book One New Edition
Book SynopsisFor nearly a decade, Geoff Johns was the primary architect of the Green Lantern universe. He created a vibrant world that elegantly built upon and streamlined decades of Green Lantern mythology, earning both critical and commercial success. From the return of Hal Jordan to the introduction of other Lantern Corps, Johns' run turned the established canon on its head and forever changed the direction of the Green Lantern books. This critically acclaimed Green Lantern run begins here, with art by such talented artists as Carlos Pacheco (Superman/Batman), Ethan Van Sciver (Green Lantern: Rebirth), Patrick Gleason (Batman and Robin) and Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier). Collects Green Lantern: Rebirth #1-6, Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 #1, Green Lantern Corps: Recharge #1-5 and Green Lantern #1-3.
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DC Comics Detective Comics 1000 The Deluxe Edition New
Book SynopsisThe landmark 1000th issue of Detective Comics, the title that defines DC-- in a new hardcover edition!
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Orion Publishing Co Hostage: London
Book SynopsisA superbly tense classic thriller from the bestselling author of ROGUE MALE.What happens when a terrorist decides to pull out?Julian Despard is a cell-leader in the ruthless international revolutionary organisation MAGMA. As one of MAGMA's leading activists, he has been responsible for many daring operations, including the recent hijacking of an arms shipment in the Mediterranean. But then Despard finds out that the cargo he stole was not conventional weaponry but nuclear material. And that the MAGMA leadership intends to use it for a devastating attack on London. Sickened, Despard makes a dramatic personal decision to begin a bloody last-minute mission of his own, only to find himself hunted by both MAGMA gunmen and the police in a race against time to stop certain destruction...
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Birlinn General Ardnish Was Home: A Novel
Book SynopsisYoung Donald Peter Gillies, a Lovat scout soldier lies in hospital in Gallipoli in 1916, blinded by the Turks. There he falls in love with his Queen Alexandra Corps nurse, Louise, and she with him. The story moves back and forth from their time at the field hospital to the west highlands of Scotland where Donald grew up. As they talk in the quiet hours he tells her the stories of the coast and glens, how his family lived and the fascinating life of a century ago: bagpiping, sheep shearing, celidhs, illegal distilling, his mother saving the life of the people of St Kilda, the navvies building the west highland railway and the relationship between the lairds and the people. Louise in turn tells her own story of growing up in the Welsh valley: coal mining, a harsh and unforgiving upbringing. They get cut off from the allied troops and with another nurse are forced to make their escape through Turkey to Greece, getting rescued by a Coptic priest and ending up in Malta. By this time their love is out in the open, but there is still another tragic twist to their story waiting on the way back to Donald’s beloved highland home . . .Trade Review'If ever there was a story ready-made for the big screen, the Ardnish trilogy is it: an unforgettable case, heart-thumping adventure and romance, but above all a backdrop of spell-binding beauty' * National Trust Magazine *'Extraordinary. Far more than another wartime love affair. I closed the book with the strong feeling of the importance of kin shire, the need to nurture one another, and the power of love. It will enter your soul' * Scots Magazine *'a tragic tale, captivating and a good read' * Press and Journal, Book of the Week *'Striking, charming, page-turning novel about love in the ruins of the first world war' * Piping Times *'Burns with love for his country…[Macdonald's] plain, easy-going style takes on a natural engaging momentum' * The National *'a genuine portrait of a time gone forever ... a very good read' * Rosamunde Pilcher *'This is a book that is truly enthralling - brutal, poetic, unjust but beautiful… A beautiful yet tragic tale, set in the First World War, Ardnish Was Home kept me captivated throughout and left wanting more at the end. It delivers everything the title implies about family and community in the Scottish Highlands and illustrates that love can be found in the most desperate of circumstances' * The Bookbag *'a fast-paced narrative with deeply likeable characters … far more than yet another wartime love story … impossible to put down' * Scottish Field *
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Canongate Books A Price to Pay
Book SynopsisIt starts with the death of a teenage runaway, killed when she leaps from a motorway bridge into the speeding traffic below. The girl''s identity remains a mystery - until the discovery of the dead girl''s details along with profiles of three other girls, all recently reported missing. And a further shocking discovery causes the whole file to be handed over to Greater Manchester Police''s Counter Terrorism Unit.Detective Constable Iona Khan - still struggling for acceptance in the male-dominated CTU - little realises that, because of her close resemblance to the girl who leapt from the bridge, she is now in the sights of a sinister figure. Someone whose reputation for ruthlessness has attracted notoriety, even among those who trade in the most depraved of human markets .
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Canongate Books Borrowed Time
Book SynopsisAdam Nunn''s search for his true identity has horrifying consequences in this compelling psychological thriller.A badly mutilated body has been discovered in a remote woodland pond on the Essex borders - a location known to be the haunt of the ruthless crime gang that ruled London in the 70s. When one of the victim''s hands is found nearby, forensic tests reveal a number scrawled on the palm. It is quickly identified as the National Insurance number of struggling family man Adam Nunn.As Adam is arrested in connection with the murder, it emerges that the dead man was a private investigator he had hired to find out the identity of his birth parents. Just what did Larry Paris discover that got him killed?As Adam seeks the truth surrounding his origins and promises justice for the mother he never knew, he is drawn into a lurid criminal world of violence and violation, reprisal and merciless death. Torn between the man he wants to be and the man he fears becoming, Adam''s investigations will lead him ever deeper into darkness.
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Canongate Books The Garden of Angels
Book SynopsisAt his beloved Nonno Paolo''s deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943.A Times Best Thriller Book of 2022The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice''s Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he''s waited his whole life to share.When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week''s suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . .Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining moment of his grandfather''s life: when Paolo''s support for a murdered Jewish woman brings him into the sights of the city''s underground resistance. Hooked and unsettled, Nico can''t stop reading - but he soon wonders if he ever knew his beloved grandfather at all.
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Canongate Books A Web of Silk
Book SynopsisUrsula''s quiet life on her Surrey estate is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a new neighbour in this absorbing Tudor mystery.August, 1582. The queen''s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, has ordered Ursula to keep an eye on her new neighbour, Giles Frost, who is rumoured to be spying for King Philip of Spain. Arriving at Knoll House on the pretext of teaching his two daughters embroidery, Ursula''s secret mission is to feed false information to Frost to pass on to the Spanish.Walsingham has assured Ursula that she''ll be in no danger. But events take a decidedly sinister turn when a body is found in the woods near Ursula''s home, a stained glass window is smashed and a bridal dowry is stolen.What secrets are contained within the Knoll House . and is Ursula being lured into a lethal trap?
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Canongate Books Watchers of the Dead
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Canongate Books The Clockmaker
Book SynopsisDetective Chief Inspector Henry Johnstone discovers that things are not as they first appear when clockmaker Abraham Levy''s nephew goes missing.February, 1929. Clockmaker Abraham Levy''s young nephew has vanished. He was last seen boarding a train on his way to see his fiancée, and with no sign of foul play, the suspicion is that he may have got cold feet about his upcoming nuptials and alighted at an earlier stop. The police seem to think so, but Abraham isn''t convinced. Feeling he has no other option, Abraham makes an unexpected visit to DCI Henry Johnstone to appeal for his help. Despite his initial reluctance, Henry''s curiosity gets the better of him, and his review of the case soon leads to a startling discovery. As Henry is plunged fully into a new investigation, it seems the truth is far more complicated and disturbing than it first appeared.
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