Roger Clark
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This science fiction novel is about Berenice, a middle-class college junior, who needs a summer job to earn money for her fall semester. Berenice goes to the college placement office to meet a perspective employer. Having taken flying lessons in a jet trainer and her skills in art metal sculpture, she is a perfect match for her future employer. Her eccentric would-be employer, Dr. Eigen, describes himself as the Chief Executive Officer for a foreign...
2) Six of crows
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Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price--and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone. . . . A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender...
3) The searcher
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"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...
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It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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Blackstone Publishing
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2024.
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World War I veteran Jesse Cole is grateful to live a quiet life, but when his best friend runs afoul of local criminals, he must spin his moral compass and enter a violent and volatile underworld. The arrival of Texas Ranger Amon Atkins and Jesse's lost love Adaline complicate matters, as Jesse must now choose between the law and the lawless in his fight for survival.
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Blackstone Publishing
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2021
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Attempting to escape his abusive father and generations of cyclical poverty, young Jonah Hargrove joins the mysterious River—a teenage girl carrying thousands of dollars in stolen meth—and embarks on a southern gothic odyssey through the East Texas river bottoms.
They are pursued by local drug kingpin John Curtis and his murderous enforcer, Dakota Cade, with whom River was romantically involved. But Cade and Curtis have their
...7) Old Hound
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Has the old hound finally lost his appetite for the hunt?Rhett Morgan is working off-books for the Department of Homeland Security. But his handler thinks he's slipping, suggesting that if he can't deliver on his contract, it may be time to hang 'em up. If only he had something to walk away to, he just might consider it, but the pay is good and the perks even better. Can Rhett deliver one more time or will he find a reason to abandon the hunt once...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2021
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A promising young banker is killed in a Dublin alleyway. Two very different detectives try to find the murderer.
A night out turns into a nightmare for a young man who is killed in Dublin's city centre. Once a street brawl or mugging is ruled out, it begins to look like he was targeted. But why?
DI Aidan Burke struggles to get anything useful out of the man's friends and family, so the investigation leads to his workplace. It is here...
A night out turns into a nightmare for a young man who is killed in Dublin's city centre. Once a street brawl or mugging is ruled out, it begins to look like he was targeted. But why?
DI Aidan Burke struggles to get anything useful out of the man's friends and family, so the investigation leads to his workplace. It is here...
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HighBridge
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2020
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English
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2018
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The massive offensives on the Eastern Front during 1915 are too often overshadowed by the events in Western Europe, but the scale and ferocity of the clashes between Imperial Germany, Hapsburg Austria-Hungary, and Tsarist Russia were greater than anything seen on the Western Front and ultimately as important to the final outcome of the war. Now, with the work of internationally renowned Eastern Front expert Prit Buttar, this fascinating story of the...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2019
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In Russia's Last Gasp, Prit Buttar looks at one of the bloodiest campaigns launched in the history of warfare—the Brusilov Offensive, sometimes known as the June Advance. With British, French, and German forces locked in a stalemate in the trenches of the Western Front, an attack was launched by the massed Russian armies to the east. The assault was intended to knock Austria-Hungary out of the war and divert German troops from the Western...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2017
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The fighting that raged in the East during the First World War was every bit as fierce as that on the Western Front, but the titanic clashes between three towering empires—Russia, Austro-Hungary, and Germany—remains a comparatively unknown facet of the Great War.
With the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely exposé of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front—a...
With the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the war in 2014, Collision of Empires is a timely exposé of the bitter fighting on this forgotten front—a...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2019
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At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the Kerensky Offensive, saw the final collapse of her army. This helped trigger the Bolshevik Revolution and a crippling peace, but the Central Powers had no opportunity to exploit their gains and, a year later,...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2021
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Two dead bodies in the Dublin mountains. What's the connection between them?
A man is found in his car, having met a painful death. Another man is found in the woods, clearly murdered.
DI Aidan Burke seeks to establish the connection between these deaths. The first man is a wealthy property developer. Little is known about the second victim.
Burke's sergeant, DS Fiona Moore, sets to work gathering evidence. But the investigation...
A man is found in his car, having met a painful death. Another man is found in the woods, clearly murdered.
DI Aidan Burke seeks to establish the connection between these deaths. The first man is a wealthy property developer. Little is known about the second victim.
Burke's sergeant, DS Fiona Moore, sets to work gathering evidence. But the investigation...
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He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the fourth and fifth days, however, he had the reward for his caution. The chestnut's ribs were beginning to show painfully, but he kept doggedly at his work with no sign of faltering. The sixth day brought Andrew Lanning in close view of the...
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A deal gone bad...
...and Van Delano is left to die in the desert.
But most folk said he'd been cursed with a double-barreled shotgun of mulishness.
So when his first attempt at bargaining for his kidnapped sister's freedom lands him with a dead horse, a bullet in his leg, and miles of desert between him and the nearest town... he's not about to give up.
He'll fight and claw, cheat and steal, even kill, if he has to... he made his sister a promise...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2021
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English
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Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among other places, Paris and London in 1720, Latin America in the 1820s, Melbourne in the 1880s, New York in the 1920s, Tokyo in the 1980s, Silicon Valley in...
18) The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2021
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English
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One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans. A new spirit of goodwill had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland's...
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Tantor Media, Inc
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2021
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A man is found dead after a house fire. Detective Fiona Moore suspects foul play.
It's not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law enforcement or the traces of accelerant, so much as the bullet hole in his chest.
When a weapon is recovered at the back of the still-smoldering house, it will be the first clue that the death is connected to China.
And when Phelan is identified as an airport worker, the investigation...
It's not the charred remains of Tony Phelan that really trouble Dublin law enforcement or the traces of accelerant, so much as the bullet hole in his chest.
When a weapon is recovered at the back of the still-smoldering house, it will be the first clue that the death is connected to China.
And when Phelan is identified as an airport worker, the investigation...
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time...
In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the "peaceful" theory of Rome's "transformation" is badly in error. Indeed, he sees the fall of Rome as a time...