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1) The hunter
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"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
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FaithWords
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"The world tells us that having a good job, owning your own business, money, fame, and influence are all important for a successful life. If we don't have them, we feel like a failure. But even when we achieve them, we still end up unhappy, unfulfilled, or lonely. God wants us to be successful, but His definition of success is not the same as the world's definition. The truth is, God's way of achieving the dreams and desires that truly fulfill us...
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Valeron volume 9
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Ulverscroft, Linford Western
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Snowstorms have paralysed the stage and freight companies, and Castle Point is desperate for supplies. Doctor Nash Valeron wires his brother Jared, who loads up pack horses and mules with medicine and food to bring to the stricken settlement. But Castle Point is also a refuge for a pack of outlaws, who have committed a brazen robbery that left several soldiers dead. Jared must do the impossible: take twelve men into custody in a town with no sheriff...
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Joe Pickett novels volume 24
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"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fianc ǒf Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to methodically...
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Loner Western volume 7
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Linford
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When Blake Durant reached the town of Lincoln, he really should have just kept riding. But he didn't get the chance. Within moments of his arrival, a gun-tough named Nico Semole injured his horse and then tried to pick a fight with an old man. Blake intervened and beat him to a pulp. Yet Nico just didn't know when to quit. Later that day he came at Blake with a gun... and set off a chain of events that was to end in murder and bloody revenge.
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Linford
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Four men calmly walked out of the Ozark Branch of the First National Bank with close to $50,000. It was the perfect hold-up - until it all went wrong. Shot as he rode away, Frank Jerome had a harsh choice. Should he try to make it back to Mississippi, or let the other three escape without being slowed by a wounded man? Selflessly, he stayed to face a prison sentence. But now, years later, he's been released. And his companions have all disappeared...
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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"To be a bookseller or librarian... You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. An advocate. A visionary. A person who creates "book joy" by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, "You've got to read this. You're going to love it." Step inside The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians and enter a world where you can feed your curiosities, discover new voices, find whatever you want or require. This...
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"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
12) Ruby's piano
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Linford
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1887. Ruby's beloved piano has been taken to auction to pay off her father's debts. After finding out the name of its purchaser, Simeon Sinclair, she wonders if she might approach him and offer to buy it back from him, paying in instalments. But her father warns her to stay away from the Sinclairs. Ruby persists, however, and uncovers the secret that led to a feud between their two families. Can she and Simeon find a future together despite it?
13) The #1 lawyer
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Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case he tries. In his sharp suits and polished Oxford shoes, Penney is Biloxi, Mississippi’s #1 Lawyer and top local celebrity. Just as Penney notches his latest courtroom victory, his wife is scandalously killed. He spirals into a legal and personal losing streak, damaging his reputation and ruining his career. That’s when Penney makes a bold decision....
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city...
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Shane and Jonah volume 5
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Linford
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Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town of Conchita. But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to his problem. Huston was an old friend of Shane's, and when he asked for help in getting the travellers to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his sidekick couldn't refuse......
16) Melody Rose
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Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
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Up-and-coming conductor Melody is married to her music. Successful journalist Zack is, in his heart, still married to his late wife. Will they walk away from each other, believing there is no future together? Or will they have the most glorious Last Night of the Proms?
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Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
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A diagnosis of infertility has driven Tilly and her husband Rory apart. She is determined to pick up the pieces and moves to a small town to start again, because she will not let this stand in the way of having the family she longs for. But unbeknownst to Tilly, Rory is not about to give up on his dreams of happiness, either...
18) Island rescue
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Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
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After her marriage ends, Grace follows her dream of starting up a cat sanctuary in Crete. But things don't run smoothly. With funds running low, she secures a job at a local restaurant that brings its own surprises. She works hard to get the villagers on her side, and engages a local vet to help her. But when a friend visits, assumptions are made, putting their relationship in jeopardy. Will an altercation with a local man scupper her plans?
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
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