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Author
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
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
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...
8) 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...
9) 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...
13) 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...
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....
15) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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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
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a kingdom gripped by turmoil, privileged seventeen-year-old Iseul defies danger to rescue her sister Suyeon from the absolute power of tyrannical King Yeonsan, while Prince Daehyun, desperate to overthrow his despotic half-brother, forms an uneasy alliance with Iseul, leading them to join forces in a perilous gamble against the oppressive regime.
Author
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...
18) 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...
19) Womb city
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies.
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