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1) Cari Mora
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Language
English
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Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to...
2) Malorie
Author
Series
Birdbox volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. There remains no explanation. No solution. All Malorie can do is survive. But then comes what feels like impossible news. And with it, the first time Malorie has allowed herself to hope. Someone very dear to...
3) Killfile
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Series
John Smith volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
John Smith has a special gift that seems more like a curse: he can access other peoples thoughts. He hears the songs stuck in their heads, their most private traumas and fears, the painful memories they can't let go of. The CIA honed his skills until he was one of their most powerful operatives, but Smith fled the Agency and now works as a private consultant, trying to keep the dark potentials of his gift in check - and himself out of trouble. But...
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Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Her beauty saved her life - and condemned her. Cilka is just 16 years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia....
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A Doc Savage Thriller volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, 'Meed', is demanding. She?s also his captor. Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he?s been chosen, and how he?ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first...
7) The revenant
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English
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Rocky Mountains, 1823. The trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Hugh Glass is one of the most respected men in the company, an experienced frontiersman and an expert tracker. But when a scouting mission puts Glass face-to-face with a grizzly bear, he is viciously mauled and not expected to survive. Two men from the company are ordered to remain with him until his inevitable death. But, fearing an imminent attack,...
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Find a future. Lose a past. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Find a future, lose a past. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her. Run, Rose, Run is a story glittering with danger and desire - a story that only America's #1 beloved entertainer and its #1 bestselling author could have created.
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Lincoln is a good boy. At the age of four, he is curious, clever and well behaved. He does as his mum says and knows what the rules are. 'The rules are different today. The rules are that we hide and do not let the man with the gun find us.' When an ordinary day at the zoo turns into a nightmare, Joan finds herself trapped with her beloved son. She must summon all her strength, find unexpected courage and protect Lincoln at all costs - even if it...
10) What I did
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Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Lisa is running. She has taken her child, Jack, and she has run from his father. Lisa thinks she's safe. She's found a remote house where no one will be able to find them. Lisa is about to wake up in her worst nightmare. And now she must face what she's tried to escape. Risking everything to protect her little boy, Lisa knows that in order to survive she will have to fight, but it's hard to face someone you loved, especially someone you still love,...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Penguin audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
'The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six ...' 1645. When Alice Hopkins' husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex town of Manningtree, where her brother Matthew still lives. But home is no longer a place of safety. Matthew has changed, and there are rumours spreading through the town: whispers of witchcraft, and of a great book, in which he is gathering women's names....
12) Robinson Crusoe
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Series
Language
English
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This adventure story begins as Crusoe leaves the English coast for Africa and finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck. On a desert island, he finds another human footprint on the shore, encounters cannibals, and befriends a native.
Author
Series
The Three-Body Problem volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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1967: University student Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during the Cultural Revolution. His crime? Failure to recant his belief in science. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, after a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal that styles itself the Frontiers of...
14) The winter rose
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English
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It's December 1902, and Rose O'Leary is looking forward to her baby girl's first Christmas. But then tragedy strikes - her husband dies at the shipyard where he works, and within days his friend Nathaniel makes it plain he's determined to have her. Rose flees with her child but soon finds the world is a cruel place for a beautiful woman with no protection. More tragedy ensues, and yet, although she's bruised and broken, Rose is a fighter. Then, when...
15) How to be brave
Author
Publisher
ORENDA BOOKS
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
All the stories died that morning ? until we found the one we?d always known. When nine-year-old Rose is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, Natalie must use her imagination to keep her daughter alive. They begin dreaming about and seeing a man in a brown suit who feels hauntingly familiar, a man who has something for them. Through the magic of storytelling, Natalie and Rose are transported to the Atlantic Ocean in 1943, to a lifeboat, where...
16) Three sisters
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Series
Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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The breath-taking new novel from the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, with exclusive material from interviews with Livia Ravek and her family. 'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?' When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise...
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English
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The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to the wealth and luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen and his childhood sweetheart, Camilla, taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla - and destroying Chester. Camilla, trapped...
18) Broken faith
Author
Series
Kingmaker volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
October 1463. England is a divided nation. In the north, the Lancastrian king struggles to hold power, while in the south, the princes of the house of York prepare for war. Across this land, pursued by the Church and the Law, a young man, Thomas, and a young woman, Catherine, make their way, bearing proof of a secret both sides will kill to learn. Bent on revenge for a past outrage, Thomas and Catherine journey to the mighty castle of Bamburgh to...
19) Beyond the sea
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Bolivar and Hector go to sea before a catastrophic storm. Needing cash, Bolivar convinces his boss to let him fish despite the weather. His fishing partner is nowhere to be found, so he brings Hector, a sullen and inexperienced teenager. The storm arrives, and though the two men survive, they?ve been blown hundreds of miles out in the Pacific Ocean with little hope for rescue. Coming to terms with their new reality, they are forced to accept their...
20) Run rose run
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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THE GLOBAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, SET TO BECOME A HIT MOVIE PRODUCED BY REESE WITHERSPOON AND STARRING DOLLY PARTON FIND A FUTURE. LOSE A PAST. She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her. She's also on the run. Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find her. And destroy her . . . RUN ROSE RUN: a story glittering with danger and desire. Also available: an album of 12...
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