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Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different. Except that these secrets are not buried in the past. Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can't ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a justice of the Supreme Court is killed by the police officer assigned to protect him, the country is shocked. Hayley Chill's superiors suspect the assassination is part of a major conspiracy. In Maui, where one member of the Supreme Court owns a vacation home, a busload of children is taken hostage with the justice's death as ransom. Together with a deputy US marshal, Hayley embarks on the monumental task of rescuing the children while also...
Author
Series
Love and honor volume 0.5
Publisher
Olivia Kimbrell Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Afghanistan born U.S. Army consultant Emma Selah works as a fluent and multi-lingual interpreter assigned to a special forces team. Deployed to a base in Djibouti, Emma and First lieutenant Jorge "Pina Colada" Pena start to form a relationship built on friendship, mutual respect, and undeniable attraction. Then she discovers that he has been married the entire time when news of his wife's untimely death reaches them. She gives him no room for excuses...
6) Shot caller
Author
Series
NYPD Negotiators volume 2
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"NYPD detective Gemma Capello is called to Rikers Island, where a prison riot threatens to become a bloodbath... On Rikers Island, tensions always run high, especially in the Enhanced Supervision Housing unit. The ESH is home to Rikers' most dangerous offenders, many of them members of rival street gangs. When Gemma Capello and her team get word of an uprising at the ESH, they know how much is at stake. Gemma also has her own unresolved feelings to...
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
8) Dragon rider
Author
Series
Soulbound saga volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jai lives as a royal hostage in the Sabine Court -- ever since his father Rohan, leader of the Steppefolk, led a failed rebellion and was executed by the very emperor Jai now serves. When the emperor's son and heir is betrothed to Princess Erica of the neighboring Dansk Kingdom, she brings with her a dowry: dragons. Endemic to the northern nation, these powerful beasts come in several forms, but mystery surrounds them. Only Dansk royalty know the...
9) Coming home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"From the nine-time women's basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist -- a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women's basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested...
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