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761) The final reckoning
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Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he'd bring "a reckoning" on Tom and everyone the Southern lawyer holds dear. When Wheeler escapes from prison, he aims to fulfill his promise. Victim by victim, he's getting closer to his ultimate target. But for Tom, who's dying of cancer, the role of savior and protector is a struggle that is becoming more desperate by the hour. As the body...
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"Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton...
763) Hush
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"A stunning and timely debut from activist Dylan Farrow, Hush is a powerful feminist fantasy full of surprising insights, that casts a ray of light into the shadows of a society based on silencing and lies. How do you speak up in a world where propaganda is a twisted form of magic? In the land of Montane, language is literal magic to the select few who possess the gift of Telling. This power is reserved for the Bards, and, as everyone knows, the Bards...
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Jim Jim is in federal prison after performing a successful hit on a detective that was getting a little too close to the truth about dirty Detective Janikaski's illegal dealings. Thinking it was Heath's young nephew Exavier who snitched, after giving him the murder weapon and landing him in juvenile detention, the heartless Jim Jim is out for revenge.
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Once again, Yvonna Harris, D.C.'s favorite villainess has returned! But is she cured or still the same girl that has been causing destruction and reeking havoc on all those who cross her list. Recently being released from the mental institution which held her captive for years, Yvonna returns home with one goal in mind. To take care of her precious daughter, Delilah, and be the mother she herself never had. But the moment she touches down, she comes...
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Through the darkest tunnel comes the light, but for Caesar King, there is nothing but more darkness on the other side. After the failed attempt on his life, he is placed into hiding while the world crumbles around him. The Pact, the saving grace for peace between the five families, is no more, and Boogie is out for more than just revenge for the murder of his father. With Caesar out of the picture, Boogie decides that it's time to dub himself king,...
768) The djinn's apple
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When Nardeen's home is stormed by angry men frantically in search of something - or someone - she is the only one who manages to escape. And after the rest of her family is left behind and murdered, Nardeen sets out on an unyielding mission to bring her family's killers to justice, regardless of the cost...
769) One night, New York
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"At the top of the Empire State Building on a freezing December night, two women hold their breath. Frances and Agnes are waiting for the man who has wronged them. They plan to seek the ultimate revenge. Set over the course of a single night, One Night, New York is a detective story, a romance and a coming-of-age tale. It is also a story of old New York, of bohemian Greenwich Village between the wars, of floozies and artists and addicts-lighting up...
770) All about him
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"Felicia Spears is the epitome of a woman scorned. Nothing is right in her life since her ex left, and she blames him for all of her misery. It may have been three years since Cooper walked out and left her destitute, but it feels like it was just yesterday. Now that Cooper is a big singing sensation, he's riding his newfound fame all the way to the top with his second wife, Evelyn, planted firmly by his side. Felicia has every right to be bitter...
771) The big finish
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Teaming up with the FBI to catch his son's killer by setting himself up as bait, Thorn travels to a small North Carolina town to infiltrate a gang only to discover that nothing he has been told is true.
772) City of thorns
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"I never thought I'd be singing happy birthday to myself in a dungeon. And yet when a sinfully sexy demon crashes happy hour, that's exactly what happens. He's known as the Lord of Chaos, he's mistaken me for my succubus doppelgänger. Happy birthday to me. When he tastes my blood, he finally understands I'm mortal. And I realize we have something in common: we both crave revenge. So we make a deal: I can stay in the forbidden city to hunt for my...
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"Using an old cannon that once belonged to Napoleon's army, an outlaw gang has been bringing trains to a screeching halt and then robbing them. Now Edward Sheffield, one of the owners of the railroad, wants to hire Kid Morgan, the man known as The Loner, to wipe the gang off the map. Morgan isn't interested--even when Sheffield's hot-blooded wife tries to seduce him into going after the gang's leader, Gideon Black, a renegade ex-colonel-turned-outlaw....
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"Revenge requires a bottle of the finest. Just get yourselves here, everything else is on us. Raj and Rachel Ranjani have invited a small group of their ride or dies from college for a celebratory weekend in Napa Valley. On the agenda: three nights in the couple's vineyard mansion, a lavish dinner at Napa's hottest new restraurant, exclusive tastings, and the grand opening of the Ranjanis' ultra-high-end winery. It's a reunion of six friends who haven't...
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Leah's crazy scheming has finally paid off. Now that YaYa is out of the picture, Leah has everything she's ever wanted. She steps into YaYa's shoes, and now she has money, family, and, most importantly, she has Indie. She's the queen of his empire, and no one suspects a thing. There's only one problem. Disaya Morgan isn't dead. Newly initiated into a powerful circle of women, YaYa is out for blood, and when she comes gunning for her spot, the streets...
776) Almost dead
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"Life for private investigator Lizzy Gardner will never be the same. It's been three weeks since her fiancé, Jared, was shot on what was supposed to be their wedding day. He's in a coma now, and Lizzy is being forced to make a decision she might not be able to live with. But a string of deaths has forced her to get back to work. While they appear to be unrelated accidents at first glance, a closer look shows they all have something in common....
777) The vine witch
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"A young witch emerges from a curse to find her world upended in this gripping fantasy of betrayal, vengeance, and self-discovery set in turn-of-the-century France. For centuries, the vineyards at Chateau Renard have depended on the talent of their vine witches, whose spells help create the world-renowned wine of the Chanceaux Valley. Then the skill of divining harvests fell into ruin when sorciere Elena Boureanu was blindsided by a curse. Now, after...
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La escoba de Pongwiffy se está comportando de forma extraña. En cuanto oye la palabra "trasgo," se pone a temblar de miedo. Pongwiffy ignora que los trasgos están planeando secuestrar a todas las escobas de las brujas. También ignora que Ali Oli, un genio sin escrúpulos, le ha echado el ojo al contenido, celosamente guardado, del mismísimo vertedero de Pongwiffy. Una historia tronchante con mucha basura, mugre y algunas muy malas costumbres....
780) Camelia, la texana
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A dangerous love finds Camelia when the once-innocent young woman, stuck under a powerful Mexican drug lord's thumb, falls for Emilio Varela while escaping her small town. Emilio's subsequent betrayal will turn Camelia into a notorious criminal wanted in both Mexico and the U.S. as she heads down a dark road that is a far cry from the life she led long ago.