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Alex Cross novels volume 32
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2023.
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"Detective Alex Cross is in the sights of the Dead Hours Killer, a serial murderer on a ruthless mission ... An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. 'Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport,' DC Metro Police dispatch says. 'A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto.' Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane...
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[2023]
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Vera Bodine, an elderly shut-in with an exceptional memory, has gone missing and famed detective Lillian Pentecost and her crackerjack assistant Willowjean "Will" Parker have been hired to track her down. But the New York City of 1947 can be a dangerous place, and there's no shortage of people who might like to get ahold of what's in Bodine's head. Does her disappearance have to do with the high-profile law firm whose secrets she still keeps; the...
8) Crossed
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Clarissa Monroe knows a few things for sure: When summer is over she's moving across the country with her best friend Anna, she's going to be a librarian, she doesn't know who she is yet, and she can't get that first kiss with Bryant Crossman out of her head.
Bryant Crossman can't grab a firm enough hold on his life. Weighed down by the expectations of his father, he's being thrust forward on a path that isn't his own. Until he makes a bold move and...
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New Americana volume 8
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When news of her grandfather's stroke sends Jo Beth Ellis back to the family farm, she finds it in danger of foreclosure. Lone Oaks Crossing is in rough shape, but Jo has big plans--she'll use her expertise as a Derby-winning horse trainer to reinvent the property as a healing retreat. But renovating while trying to keep her independent grandfather in check is a huge job for one woman--and even more challenging when she receives her first client,...
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The year 1592 in Dai Viet, a devotee to the secret No Name Society began an assignment to receive that would take him to China. Troung Van Ba began the perilous trek to receive the Jade Cross from a Chinese Master Cutter. Along the way, there were sub-hamlets where he would receive an update on the safety issues along his route. At one sub-hamlet, he was assigned a sixteen-year-old female guide, Tran Thi Mot. Both taking an immediate dislike for each...
11) Crossing
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He stole her lipstick … and her heart.Twenty-year-old Dani Walker can't believe her luck when she's paired up with the gorgeous Liam Garrett as her Acting I scene partner–or when he ends up in her bed.Being a Plain Jane with a mouth on her hasn't exactly served Dani well in the guy department. In fact, she's had nothing but one-night stands. Still, she lets go of her insecurities and falls for Liam, despite feeling like he's holding something...
12) CROSSED
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This first book in the Crossed series is the collaboration between a professional boxer turned engineer and an English teacher. Even more unlikely is that the authors are a mother and her son-in-law. He had a dream, and she wrote that dream into their first novel.
Dante Morelli is headed down the cold hallways of San Quentin to face lethal injection. His wife has disappeared, his best friend has had his throat slit, and Dante is responsible for...
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While dramatic history unfolds from Greensboro to Selma to Memphis, one man makes his own stand for justice and inclusion.Crossing the Tracks is set in the railroad yards and union halls of Kansas City during the Civil Rights Movement. It's the surprising story of a white, working class family man confronting racism and bigotry on the railroad, in the neighborhood, and in his church.EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the story of one man's, and by extension...
14) Star-Crossed
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It's the dawn of a new era for humanity: an encounter of the fourth kind has been made with an advanced alien species known as the Eo'Tarx, and the two civilizations embark on a path toward mutual understanding.
For this classified mission, CIA linguist Danko Orton is recruited to analyze their interspecies communication alongside an Eo'Tarx counterpart by the name of No'mi. Under the pressure of governmental cross-examination, their mission to...
15) Lily's crossing
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1999, 1997.
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During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
16) Cross-Stitch
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A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
It was meant to be the trip of a lifetime. Mila, Citlali, and Dalia, childhood friends now college aged, leave Mexico City for the England of The Clash and the Paris of Courbet. They anticipate the cafés and crushes, but not the early signs that they are each steadily, inevitably changing....
17) Cross Fire
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Earth's century of peace as a colony of an alien race has been shattered. As the alien-run government navigates peace talks with the human terrorist group Sapience, Donovan tries to put his life back together and return to his duty as a member of the security forces. But a new order comes from the alien home planet: withdraw. Earth has proven too costly and unstable to maintain as a colony, so the aliens, along with a small selection of humans, begin...
18) Adam's Cross
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Look into the darkness of the human psyche, which lies behind Adam's eyes. Adam as a child believes he is the perpetrator behind a number of mysterious deaths. Is Adam a child serial killer?Surviving a chaotic childhood, he enters adulthood as a successful musician with a sublime talent, which mesmerizes his audiences. Fearing the axe of his past is about to drop he begins to confront the traumatic shadows of his childhood, only to discover a far...
19) The Cross
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In contemporary Christianity, the cross is a symbol of the atonement and reminds Christians of God's love in sacrificing His own Son for humanity. It represents Jesus' victory over sin and death since it is believed that through His death and resurrection He conquered death itself.
"Having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15).
The Catholic Church celebrates...
20) Cross Current
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From Publishers WeeklySalvage boat captain and sometime sleuth Seychelle Sullivan returns in Kling's follow-up to her well-received debut, Surface Tension, this time to aid a frightened Haitian waif named Solange. Seychelle-who's plying the South Florida waters on her tugboat, the Gorda, with her mechanic cum lover, B.J.-discovers the girl on a swamped boat and makes saving her, both from danger and from immigration officials, a personal crusade....
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