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A horrific day in the Boko Haram terrorist camp in the Sambisa Forest saw the mysterious disappearance of seven girls belonging to the late leader's private harem. Shortly afterwards, a secret list of their sponsors from around the world was found missing. When the anxious sponsors launch a manhunt for the girls to recover the documents, another secret organisation hires the services of Captain Winters, formerly of Delta Force 2, to search out the...
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During the first World War, over a million Armenians were killed as Ottoman Turks embarked on a bloody campaign of ethnic cleansing. Scholars have long described these massacres as genocide, one of Hitler's prime inspirations for the Holocaust, yet the United States did not officially recognize the Armenian Genocide until 2021.
This is the first book to examine how and why the United States refused to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide until the early...
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This practical and accessible book empowers readers to access their brain's full potential, featuring cutting-edge neuroscience research presented for the first time.
This book introduces the new and fascinating field of Clinical Neuroscience, which argues that the brain has the power to prevent and treat a variety of neurobiological disorders, from autism to attention deficit disorder. With ground-breaking neuroscience research presented in an accessible,...
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Cecilia Lapthorne always vowed she'd never go back to Dune Cottage. So no one is more surprised than Cecilia to find herself escaping her own seventieth birthday party to return to the remote but beautiful cottage on Cape Cod--a place filled with memories. Some are good--especially memories of the early days with her husband, volatile artist Cameron, before his fame eclipsed their marriage. But then there are the memories she has revealed to no one....
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"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
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"A man is drawn back to his childhood home and discovers his parents living just as they were on the day they died thirty years before. . . Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he's drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building. One night, when Harada returns to the dilapidated...
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The BRAND NEW instalment of the Cornish Cove series from Kim Nash
It's never too late…
After five husbands and five broken hearts, Lydia feels like she's always been chasing something. But now she's found her purpose, and having moved to Driftwood Bay to spend more time with her daughter Meredith, she's happier than ever.
But there's still life in these old bones yet! With her newfound sense of identity, she's keen to re-explore the things that...
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After the tragedy at Tamburlaine, and its long-time role of burying the queer community's dead, it's time for the bar to receive its own obsequies-funeral rites. Without knowing why, the cast and crew and staff and friends find themselves drawn to the burned-out husk of the ancient bar, consumed by their memories and sadness. Chris Marlowe, Jericho Taylor, Nancy Ann, Hank Miller, Billy Lake, Matilda, and the whole Broadway crew must discover new hope...
9) Il duello
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2020
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Scritto da Casanova dopo il suo ritorno a Venezia, e in italiano, questo racconto autobiografico offre già tutte le qualità che renderanno impareggiabili le Memorie. Con tocco felice, vivacità nei particolari e gusto nel commentarli, Casanova racconta qui una sua disavventura d'onore, che poteva costargli la vita, durante il suo soggiorno a Varsavia: per un insulto subìto nel camerino di una ballerina italiana, sfida a duello un nobile polacco,...
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In his own voice and uniquely unpretentious style, Tom Selleck brings listeners on his uncharted but serendipitous journey to the top in Hollywood, his temptations and distractions, his misfires and mistakes and, over time, his well-earned success. Along the way, he clears up an armload of misconceptions and shares dozens of never-told stories from all corners of his personal and professional life. His rambunctious California childhood. His clueless...
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When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society. Named for the nineteenth-century monster regarded as America's first serial killer, the society is comprised of a twisted web of killers, working to carry out heinous murders in Holmes's memory. And now the group's been linked to a Scottish castle turned B and B--here...
12) Dreadful
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"It's bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard's workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn your skull into a goblet or something. It's a lot worse when you realize that Dread Lord Whomever is... you. Gav isn't really sure how he ended up with a castle full of goblins, or why he has a princess locked in a cell. All he can do is play...
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"As a teenager, Amy Therese Brewer argued with her friends and stormed out of a party-moments before the five other teens were brutally murdered. Now, on the anniversary of those deaths, ten people with connections to the crime have been invited to a remote cliffside house by a journalist looking to do a story about the so-called Memorial Day Massacre. But the group quickly learns the event is not what it seems. As a storm closes in and guests begin...
14) Her Last Summer
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Don't miss the BRAND NEW thriller from bestselling author Nina Manning
I had vowed I would never get back into the water, but of course, this was always going to be the outcome. I never really had a choice.
When out of work actress Rey Levine is offered her dream acting role, she knows she has to make it work. But there's a catch: the film calls for Rey to swim, something she hasn't done since her last fateful summer holiday fifteen years ago. The...
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 22
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Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't...
16) When she was me
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"Twin sisters Cassie and Lenora are inseparable. Ever since that night, they've been on their own, and that's how they like it. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, the twins manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true crime junkies. The peace and quiet is almost enough to make them forget what happened all those years ago. Almost. Until a teenage girl camping at the...
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Gypsy Soul: Memoirs of a Hippie Kid is a book based on my extremely unusual life as the child of hippies in rural Montana. I share memories of poverty, trauma and neglect while preserving the magic of growing up as a hippie kid. This book will have you laughing and crying because it is both hilarious and horrifying. With memories like "Swinger Party Turned Stepdad" and "The Cocaine Scavenger Hunt," you won't even believe the level of "hippie" I experienced....
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"Detective Chelsey Calhoun's life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state--but Ellie's reappearance leaves Chelsey with more questions than answers. It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun's sister vanished when they were teenagers, and ever since she's been searching: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. But happy endings...
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Morning in Whitehorse, and everything is the normal. All too normal. A girlfriend who loves him, an evening at the farmer's market in Shipyard's Park. Idyllic, relaxing, peaceful. What more could a man want?
John Lee isn't sure, but stray thoughts intrude, and memories of a different time, a different place, a different world keep intruding. Angst-ridden, exhausting memories of a world of pain and struggle. Nothing like the paradise he lives...
20) Hollywood Hex
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Norah Wintry is on the run, but not for long. She has a plan to free all those brainwashed by Magdea and restore Frondle's memories.
She's gonna need a little help.
Sea monsters are on the beach and creating havoc for magicals and mundanes alike.
Is this Magdea's work or the Deep Queen's?
They'll have to find out before they can put an end to this for good.
Will Norah and Wintry's Warriors discover the answers they need to free everyone from...
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