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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Charles Raynaud feels at home in the jungle. A snake trapper, he makes a tidy profit selling poisonous creatures to the zoos of Europe, but it isn?t just the snake trade that pays his bills. Raynaud is the finest artifact smuggler the world has ever known, and his particular talents are about to be put to the test. Between jobs in Paris, Raynaud meets an old drinking buddy. One of London?s wealthiest, nastiest men, Richard Pierce has eyes on his late...
Author
Series
Poppy Pym volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Fiction
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing Poppy is thrilled that they're spending the summer at Smuggler's Cove. It might even take her mind off the mystery of her past. But Poppy is about to make some amazing discoveries - and solve more than one mystery...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The suitcase looks like a standard weekend bag. But like the man who carries it, it isn?t what it seems. Lined with tinfoil to mask the smell, it is a smuggler?s bag and will soon be filled to the brim with marijuana bricks. The smuggler is a Harvard student who has come to California to make his fortune. He hopes to score not just with his connection but with his new girlfriend, a Golden State beauty with an appetite for fine weed. When the deal...
Author
Series
Far South volume 2
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Aurora
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, near the tiny harbour town of Riverton, Finn Bell moves into the isolated Smuggler's Cottage. He's running away from his old life and broken marriage, and still hasn't decided whether or not he's come here to die. At first, Finn dares to believe that he's building a new life with the help of new friends, counselling, a place in the local Murderball team. But chance encounters and odd occurrences convince...
Author
Series
The Hounds of Penhallow Hall volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
?Penhallow is full of dogs, Polly. Look around and you?ll see. We?re everywhere. We always have been.? Polly is thrilled when she wakes Li-Mei - the Chinese porcelain dog in Penhallow?s Red Drawing Room. But can Rex help Polly uncover the true story behind the little dog?s tales of smugglers and ghouls?.
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has discovered a message hidden inside a particularly difficult set of hieroglyphics. It just may lead him to a secret tomb holding the greatest riches of the ancient world. Barnaby could put his name to the most fantastic archaeological find of the century. But he doesn?t just want to dig it up. He wants to steal it. With the help of a smuggler, a thief, and an English lord, he plans his heist. They find that...
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Series
Language
English
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The war is drawing to a close, but the munitions girls are still hard at work in the factory. Gladys, who's been promoted to overseer, has been feeling lonely lately. Her daughter has moved away, and a lot of her friends have left Gosport too. Then an act of kindness towards Goldie, a homeless teenager, provides Gladys with a new friend and lodger. But Goldie has run away from her dangerous family - a group of local gangsters and black-market smugglers,...
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Her Black Coral Dive Shop was the best on the island. She no longer missed Houston, or thought about the man who didn't want her or their child. And for two short weeks, Cozumel was home to Jerry Sharpe, the diving instructor she'd hired. Until they found him-murdered.Suddenly Jonas Sharpe, Jerry's twin brother, stormed into her well ordered life with grief in his eyes and revenge in his heart. He plunged them both into the desperate world of drug...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
I am Not Your Slave is the shocking true story of a young African girl, Tupa, who was abducted from southwestern Africa and funneled through an extensive yet almost completely unknown human trafficking network spanning the entire African continent. As she is transported from the point of her abduction on a remote farm near the Namibian-Angolan border and channeled to her ultimate destination in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, her three-year odyssey...
Author
Series
Publisher
mysteriouspress.com
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A letter tips off a Denver narcotics detective to a colossal smuggling ring. Once, Denver's small-time pushers sold nothing harder than dime bags of bad California grass. But in the last year, heroin has appeared on the streets of the Mile High City, and the police department has responded by forming a narcotics division. Detective Gabe Wager and his rookie partner spend their nights trailing dealers, making buys, and acquiring informants, in the...
13) Treasure Island
Author
Language
English
Description
(Oxford Bookworms Library is a new edition of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations.)
Author
Series
The Marriage Game volume 3
Publisher
eKensington
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Quinn writes classic Regency romance at its best!" -Shana Galen Ella Quinn's bachelors in The Marriage Game series are charming and cunning when it comes to the ways of love-until the right woman captures their unsuspecting hearts... Custom-made gowns...nights at the theater...and a host of eligible bachelors. Accustomed to living a quiet life in the Scottish Borderlands, Lady Serena Weir has never had any of these luxuries. But when Serena's brother...
15) The salt path
Author
Language
English
Description
The landscape is magical: shape-shifting seas and smugglers' coves; myriads of sea birds and mauve skies. Raynor writes exquisitely . . . It's a tale of triumph: of hope over despair; of love over everything . . . home was no longer about bricks and mortar. It was a state of mind' The Sunday Times Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing...
16) The wild silence
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path. 'Extraordinary: wise, unflinching, exquisite. Profound' Observer 'A thrill to read. The nature writing is beautiful . . . heartening and comforting. You feel the world is a better place' The Times Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 miles homeless...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Join the Resistance (Book 1) IF BEING A HERO WERE EASY, EVERYBODY WOULD BE ONE. MATTIS BANZ knows that he's meant to be a hero of the galaxy like the legendary Luke Skywalker, and when General Leia Organa's Resistance recruits him to join its efforts against the evil First Order, he finally has a chance to fulfill his destiny. But the rest of his squadron doesn't seem very promising. Sure, there's the Zeltron girl Lorica, famous for her exploits foiling...
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