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Alex Cross novels volume 32
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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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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"In this retelling of a classic Hindu myth, Ganesha's older brother, Kartikeya, challenges him to a race around the world to see who will win a prized magical mango, gifted by the gods. Ganesha must use all his wit and intelligence in order to compete against his lightning-fast brother"--
3) The secret
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Jack Reacher novels volume 28
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English
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"1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected. Until one body - the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window - generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative. Reacher may be an exceptional...
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"When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive...
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Buster the race car volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Rescued race car Buster tends to let his emotions get the best of him, but with the help of his teammates, he learns how to breathe through his feelings.
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2020.
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English
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Princess Mini takes the chocolates she has made to her friend, Gobo the troll, and he takes her on an exciting, dangerous, and messy boat ride down the Chocolate River--and she encourages him to enter the beginners race at the Chocolate River Run.
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Nowadays, most of us and not only Englishmen, often talk about the weather and our climate. We sit at night in front of our TV sets, and various meteorologists and environmental experts tell us that our planet is rapidly heating up and drying up, because of the effect of the men-made greenhouse gases. The meteorologists and environmental experts claim that these calamities are but an introduction to two imminent and much worse catastrophes: We hear...
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1998.
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With the Empire on the brink of total collapse, the New Republic, an awkward confederation of many races and cultures, confronts its own problems as age-old animosities threaten to unravel the alliance, with the help of old enemies and ambitious new threats.
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2023.
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"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...
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2023.
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Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horserace to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her.
15) The reckoning
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[2024]
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"Twelve-year-old Lamar dreams of becoming a filmmaker, but when his grandfather is killed in a racist act of violence, Lamar becomes determined to honor his legacy by documenting the fight for justice"--
16) Creed
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Minnesota Marshalls volume 13
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In the heart-pounding conclusion to the epic Minnesota Marshalls series, Princess Imani finds herself once again in peril as she becomes the target of a deadly plot. She needs Creed - only problem is, he's facing charges in Lauchtenland. But he's not going to let that stop him from protecting her...even if he has to become a fugitive. But who is trying to kill her? Together, they race against time to unravel a web of deceit and conspiracy that seems...
17) Triple
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2018.
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"As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world's balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, the KGB, the Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is a nuclear holocaust"--...
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Secret of the hidden scrolls volume 8
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Nine-year-old Peter, ten-year-old Mary, and their dog Hank journey to first century Jerusalem, where they race to evade capture by temple guards, follow Jesus, witness miracles, and uncover a secret plot.
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"It's August in Holmes County, and that means it's time for the Holmes County Fair. It's the county's biggest annual event, drawing tourists and locals alike to see livestock, eat too much fried food, and watch the rodeo and speed racing contests. This year, Millie has entered the quilting competition -- while her very not Amish best friend, Lois Henry, is distracted by her new dating app and her search for husband number five. In a place where quilting...
20) Brooms
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"It's 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that allows Black folks to legally use magic and take part in national...
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