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Series
Jolvix episodes volume 6
Publisher
Mirror House Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
""It's playtime." Leela's enemies are dying. They appear to be unrelated suicides, but she refuses to believe in mere coincidence. Someone is targeting these victims. But why? A single clue emerges, leading her to believe these deaths are linked to a cover-up job she did when she worked PR for the tech goliath Jolvix. It involves a high-tech novelty weapon, shrouded in secrecy, one she's legally forbidden from discussing with anyone--including the...
3) Night owl
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pulled out of retirement when someone sabotages an innovative aerospace project, Brad Tasker, drawn into a dangerous conspiracy-and a string of suspicious deaths, is targeted by assassins and, with no one to trust, must adapt to a new game of espionage or die.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 18
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ordered to protect TV news personality Amelia Chess, an unapologetic Black conservative who has been receiving death threats, Silence starts to see what lies beneath her villainous persona, but when the threats turn real, he is drawn into a dangerous conspiracy where he must fight his personal demons to survive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After becoming Queen, Cordelia falls into a deep slumber and cannot be awakened, so her siblings Rosalind and Giles embark on a kingdom-wide quest to seek assistance from ancient spirits and encounter formidable adversaries along the way.
9) Deadly game
Author
Series
DCI Harry Taylor volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team who...
10) The cuckoo
Author
Series
Under the northern sky volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made anew. Driven obsessively for glory, the upstart Bellamus and his exiled queen Aramilla are marshalling resistance and building a powerful army. Returning to the Hindrunn, Keturah is forced to fend for herself, battling enemies on all sides just when she is most in need of a place of safety. And all the while, the young Black Lord must deal not only with the...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jennie Jensen is touring Europe...when Prince Hugh of Wales...appears at a gig and requests his favorite song. He's already smitten, and soon so is she. After a secretive, whirlwind romance, Hugh proposes, and when Jennie accepts, her world changes overnight... She's still learning to navigate the minefield of constant scrutiny...When Jennie receives a threatening note, she can't help but see the parallels between herself and another young woman...
Author
Publisher
Duomo ediciones
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El mundo de Ellie no es exactamente como el nuestro. Están el colegio, los amigos y el centro comercial. Pero también existe Kirby, su perro fantasma, y un poder ancestral que corre por sus venas y le permite convocar a los espíritus de los que ya no están. Lo heredó de su abuela, junto con su nombre apache, Elatsoe, colibrí. Un pájaro muy pequeño, pero increíblemente fuerte, como ella. Cuando el espíritu de su primo Trevor la visita en...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip to Cairo. Amanda believes he's telling the truth, but...
14) La mesa herida
Author
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Méxicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"México, 1935. Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atraviesa un periodo de depresión ligado a su imposibilidad de ser madre, utiliza el dolor como inspiración para crear La mesa herida, una enigmática pintura de gran formato que años después formará parte de la primera exposición de artistas mexicanos en la Unión Soviética. Moscú, 1947. Olga, una burócrata rusa con una existencia tranquila y comprometida...
15) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukranian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian national guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO, by assassinating a deputy minister of...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this noirish mother-son tale playing out across the Wild West of mid-twentieth century America, published on the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination, a critically acclaimed writer investigates the short, troubled life of the ordinary man and his mother who took down the leader of the so-called Free World.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report....
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The discovery of a mysterious powder on some clothing and a very special show ticket leads Sherlock Holmes to believe a patient isn't the only victim of a grand conspiracy. Indeed, it seems the strange disappearance of Londoners can be explained by the performances of a Chinese magician. When other tickets are found, the detective's suspicions are confirmed...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of The Wolf Den and Kaikeyi comes the thrilling tale of the forgotten daughter of a legendary Egyptian pharaoh and the path she must take to escape her own dangerous fate. There are many paths to power. They all come with a price. Neferura, princess and high priestess of Kemet, knows her duty is to her people. When your mother is the great Pharaoh, it is hard to forget. But Neferura's unique position at court comes with high stakes for...
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Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-year-old Black woman Camille Fitzsimons is a talented early American history professor, working in fast-paced Washington DC, with her eyes on promotion. She's also currently persona non grata. Who knew that making an inconvenient historical discovery would see her stuck at her desk, shuffling paper? So when she receives an anonymous and very cryptic invitation to visit historic small-town Robbinsville, North Carolina and hunt for a missing...
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