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1) Loyalty
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[2023]
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English
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"#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty, an emotional, action-packed epic of love and justice, set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily"--
"Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome laborer toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning a lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. When the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy, Franco makes a decision that will change...
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The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer—in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco, and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most notorious as well as lesser-known serial murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes more obscure killers like Coral Eugene Watts, known as “The Sunday Morning Slasher,”...
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Amid the current alarming rise in xenophobia, Ana Maria Spagna stumbled upon a story: one day in 1875, according to lore, on a high bluff over the Columbia River, a group of local Indigenous people murdered a large number of Chinese miners—perhaps as many as three hundred—and pushed their bodies over a cliff into the river. The little-known incident was dubbed the Chelan Falls Massacre. Despite having lived in the area for more than thirty years,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023
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456 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Arcade and Daffodil are twins born one minute apart. With their fiery red hair and thirst for escape, they form an unbreakable bond nurtured by their grandmother’s stories. Together, they disappear into their imaginations and forge a world all their own.
But what the two sisters can’t escape are the generational ghosts that haunt their family. Growing up in the shadow of their rural Ohio town, the sisters cling tightly to one another. Years...
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All gangster Tommy Spinelli wants to do is board a plane and get to San Diego so that he can deliver his carry-on duffel bag to his boss. Unfortunately, the bag is dumped during boarding and is switched with that of a Mexican-bound medical student...who has no idea that the bag he now carries contains the severed heads of eight Los Angeles gangsters.
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As a teenager, in the early 1900s, Antonio Caliendo left Italy in hopes of finding a better life in America. His journey from the Italian countryside would take him from the steel mills of Western Pennsylvania to the iron bars of Western Penitentiary.
Through his involvement in "bootlegging" during the Prohibition, Antonio would be introduced to the beginnings of organized crime in his new country. He would eventually face the most challenging...
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Lenzy Kelley was born and raised in New York City. He attended Haaren High School in Hell's Kitchen. After graduation in 1962, he joined the United States Army. After completing parachute training at Fort Benning Georgia, he was assigned to Fort Campbell Kentucky. In 1963 he married his childhood sweetheart Carolyne. Their first son Lenzy Darnell was born in 1963 at the Naval hospital in Queens NY with a second son Darren born in 1964 at Fort Campbell...
9) Alexi
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The Russian mob sent me to kill her. I screwed her senseless instead.
ALEXI
My brother nearly killed the wrong man.
Now, the Russian mob has sent me to clean up his mess.
The last thing I want is to get innocent bystanders involved.
Especially the curvy, innocent woman who is the only witness to my brother's crime.
I've never let my emotions get in the way of a job before.
And I won't start now.
But I'm bound by blood to protect the Malchov...
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You've followed his adventures through the Gold Rush, the building of the Continental Railroad, and the taming of the frontier. Now Chen Long the Chinaman, the triumphant creation of Olivier TaDuc and Serge Le Tendre, is back for his greatest adventure of all: finding out he's a father. Twenty years after his violent past drove away his true love Ada, the Civil War, prison camp, and opium have left Chen Long a broken-down shell of his former proud...
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Ian Mallory lives anything but a boring life. He lost his first wife to a bullet that's now stuck in his brain, and when his second wife's step-daughter stabbed a classmate, it was up to him to get rid of the body. This is no secret for the NSA, which has blackmailed Ian into working for them. Thrust into the midst of secret agents, dirty lawyers, mobsters, and former Navy SEALs hell-bent on attacking their homeland, Ian will stay calm, cool, and...
12) Criminal Network
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Ryan and James, two brothers leave University parting ways with what seems like a bleak future ahead of them. Two years pass before James seeks to meet up with Ryan only to find himself swept up in London's organized crime.
13) White Oleander
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After fifteen-year-old Astrid (Alison Lohman) witnesses her uncompromising but seductive mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), arrested for murder--both their lives change forever. Shuttled between foster mothers (Robin Wright Penn and Renée Zellweger), Astrid struggles to survive her emotionally harsh world, desperately trying to forge her own identity in an ever-changing environment. The only constant in Astrid's life is her jailed mother's powerful...
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Jessica Blandy hasn't been the same since her brush with death in the Florida Everglades. Back in San Francisco, she tries to drown her sorrows in whiskey and the kisses of a dark, handsome stranger... a saxophonist with sad eyes and a deep connection to Charlie Parker. But how much does she know about him, really? And what does he have to do with the women who keep disappearing from the club where he plays?
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In the third installment of Renaud and Dufaux's classic thriller series, Jessica Blandy finds herself a prisoner in the Florida everglades-at the mercy of a pair of murderous brothers and caught up in a plot to make a man disappear. Do her captors plan to hold her for ransom, or do they have something else in mind? Set to the sounds of the swamp and the haunting voice of Jim Morrison, this might be Jessica's most dangerous adventure yet.
16) The new house
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"Three couples. Three houses. One home to die for... Stacey and Felix are the glamorous owners of the stylish, modern Glass House, with its pool and floor-to-ceiling windows. Now they're downsizing, but Stacey can't sell to just anyone. She needs the right buyer, who will keep her secrets. Millie and Tom have always imagined living in the Glass House. Now it's for sale. With property prices booming, if they can sell quickly, it could be theirs. But...
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"In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon's bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti's own youthful past helps solve a mysterious murder. On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri...
18) Trouble in Mind
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Jack Kiley, a professional footballer turned private investigator, is hired to track down a solider who has gone missing while on leave from Iraq. The soldier's mind is disturbed by what he has seen and done in the war, and he is armed. There are fears both for the man himself and for the safety of his estranged wife and two young children. Kiley's search leads him to Nottingham, where he teams up with D. I. Charlie Resnick. Together they search the...
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The short ebook is about Narcissistic Personality Disorder.It could simply help people to understand NPD Disorders.As of my best knowledge how to deal with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.How many types of Narcissistic Personality Disorders are?How people with NPD can affect your life in the relationship, at the job, your parents etc..
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The New York City Police Department had its origin in trying to find a better way
to control the rising crime rate as early as the mid-19th century.
As you begin reading, you will understand how the crime, in the city that never
sleeps was brought on by the massive population growth which caused primarily
by poor Irish immigrants from Ireland beginning in the 1820s.
You will learn how New York City implemented the London, England policing
model...