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From the number one New York Times bestselling coauthor of Judge & Jury and Lifeguard comes this electrifying solo debut, The Blue Zone. Kate Raab's life seems almost perfect: her boyfriend, her job, her family . . . until her father runs into trouble with the law. His only recourse is to testify against his former accomplices in exchange for his family's placement in the Witness Protection Program. But one of them gets cold feet. In a flash, everything...
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Taking readers further into The Gate Cycle, Kristin Jacques will thrill fans of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn and Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone.
Every magic has a flavor, from the cold, cloying sweetness of the Winnowrooks to the hinted rot and bitter earth of the Mire witches. To know the flavor of one's magic is, to know the poison that will control it.
Oswin Brixby is, a traveling Meister, accompanied by his dearest childhood friend and helpmate,...
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Every day in the United States, ordinary people are called to testify in court. Most of them have never been involved in a legal proceeding. But they have probably seen witnesses in high-profile trials on television, being harshly cross examined, looking nervous or anxious-perhaps even humiliated. The thought of testifying can be scary. Being subpoenaed can lead to weeks or months of anxiety until the day arrives when they raise their right hand and...
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Amy was once a party girl, but she now lives a lonely life, helping the house-bound to receive communion in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. She stops in at one of the apartments on her route and Mrs. Epifanio says her usual caretaker, Diane, has the flu-or so Diane's son Vincent says.
Amy's brief interaction with Vincent in the apartment that day sets off warning bells, so she assures Mrs. E that she'll find out what's going on. She tails...
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One of America's most celebrated writers and the first truly great American humorist, Mark Twain drew on his own experiences growing up on the banks of the Mississippi River to create this rich and realistic tale, a timeless classic to be read over and over. The adventures and mishaps of the impish, irrepressible Tom Sawyer have delighted readers ever since the book's original publication in 1876.
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"The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join the tide. Big Wheat is king as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed. But with Big Wheat comes a serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man. He believes he has a holy calling to water the...
7) What we saw
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"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
8) No way back
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No Way Back is a thrilling page-turner from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and The Blue Zone. One woman is framed for a horrific crime, and desperate to prove her innocence.
A chance meeting with a stranger in a hotel ends in a shocking murder. Wendy Gould is an average mom-and the only witness. Nanny Lauritzia Velez knows a shocking secret that could prove to be deadly. Both of their lives in danger, this unlikely...
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Hidden faces series volume 1
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The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths passing in the night. Twelve-year-old Erin Willit opened her eyes to darkness lit only by the dim green nightlight near her closet door and the faint glow of a street lamp through her front window. She felt her forehead wrinkle, the fingers of one hand curl as she tried to discern what had awakened her. Something was not right . . . Annie Kingston moves to Grove Landing for...
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Brenda Farley was born and raised in a devote family of Jehovah's Witnesses. In her childhood home nothing mattered except the Watchtower Society's rules, what was printed in their books, The Watchtower and Awake! magazine, attending five meetings at the Kingdom Hall every week, and going house to house telling about Jehovah's Kingdom on earth. Brenda thought she was in the "TRUTH" and all other religions worshipped the devil and were Babylon The...
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WARNING: This book contains material of a CONTROVERSIAL nature relating to what is taught in Christianity today. Now, if controversy scares you, stop reading here. Really. It means this book is NOT FOR YOU. "May people know that you, whose name is JEHOVAH, You alone are the Most High over all the earth."--PSALMS 83:18 Today, many still believe that the divine name of God should not be used, because it is not known exactly how to pronounce it. The...
12) The John Code
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The mysterious death of an elder from the Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses plunges Mary and Father Raymond into a world of sinister plots and intrigue. They find themselves in a race to decode the clues of the most powerful secret of all time – the secret of the number 666. They discover that the seven heads of the beast spoken of in Revelation 13:01 are the seven leaders of the Jehovah's Witnesses as of December 4, 2010. In order to stop them...
13) To save a son
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Desperate for worldwide success, a businessman places himself in the hands of the unforgiving mafia Born a refugee, Eddie Franks intends to live like a Rockefeller. He wants wealth, not for its own sake but because it means never having to be like his father, who fled Nazi Germany only to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. For most of his childhood, Eddie was raised by the Scargos, an American family whose patriarch kept his real...
14) Dark deception
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"Kate O'Brien led a quiet life in small-town Shelter Cove, Arkansas, until her past came roaring back to life. Four years ago, she and her twin sister were attacked by a serial killer and only Kate survived. Her drawing of the attacker helped convict the suspect, and she's been in witness protection ever since. Now new evidence suggests the convicted man isn't the murderer, and Kate's been subpoenaed to testify. Nervous about the risk, she'll...
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Marshall Grade novels volume 2
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"Ex-undercover cop Marshall Grade is hiding out in New York City when he learns that federal agent Lucas Cohen has survived a kidnapping. Cohen was Marshall's ticket into witness protection, and his captors have a simple question: where's Marshall now? Marshall's undercover work gave him a long list of enemies, and the enemy in this case is a corrupt businessman named Dexter Vine. Vine's almost broke, in debt to people even worse than himself, and...
16) Next of kin
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Rebel Ridge novels volume 1
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Witnessing a major mob hit in L.A., Beth Venable hides out in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, but her blissful reunion with Ryal Walker, the man she's always wanted, is made bittersweet by the fight she's brought to the clan's doorstep.
17) The hunted
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OPSIG Team Black volume 1
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How well do you really know the person you love? How far would you go to find out? If there were one person in the world Dr. Lauren Chambers was sure she could rely on, it was her beloved husband, Michael. Recovering from an agoraphobic depression and prone to episodes of blinding anxiety, Lauren is a gifted psychologist for whom her husband's love and support mean everything. So when Michael suddenly and mysteriously vanishes, Lauren once again...
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This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Elizabeth Loftus, renowned expert on human memory and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science; Criminology, Law, and Society; Cognitive Science and Law at UC Irvine. This extensive conversation covers her ground-breaking work on the misinformation effect, false memories and her battles with "repressed memory" advocates, how getting expert memory testimony introduced...
19) Finding mercy
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Home Valley Amish trilogy volume 3
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When Alex Caldwell, a Wall Street whistle-blower under witness protection, arrives in their close-knit Amish community, Ella Lantz, who spends her days tending her lavender fields, finds her life forever changed by this man who brings violence--and love--to Home Valley.
20) The old religion
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Tom Killgannon volume 1
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The Cornish village of St. Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex—undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Program hiding from some very violent people, and St. Petroc offers him a chance to live a safe and quiet life.
Until he meets Lila. Lila is a seventeen-year-old runaway. When she breaks into Tom's house, she takes more than just his money. His wallet holds everything about his...
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