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1) Thursday
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Two conflicting weather systems, after wreaking havoc in North America and the West Indies, come across the Atlantic, the first in the far North, the second moving swiftly past the Azores. Both are held up by a massive anti-cyclone over Northern Russia and intensify, the first in the North Sea off Norway, blowing a hurricane southward, the second centred over Oxford, blowing a hurricane up the English Channel.
During the spring tides in February,...
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Every adventure we embark on shapes who we are, enriching our lives with new experiences and wisdom. In this moving narrative, follow the journey of a hero whose bravery and determination inspire us all. Through trials and triumphs, this hero learns to embrace love and resilience, and we are invited to witness the transformative power of these emotions on the characters around them. Written with love and patience over the course of four years, this...
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The Butterfly Theory – the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have significant effects elsewhere.
A thriller oscillating between three generations...
In 1937 Amy's life was consumed by trying to survive, living hand to mouth on a small farmstead in the wild wind-swept hills of the Derbyshire moors high above the village of Castleton, England. Never knowing where the next meal might come from and with the added...
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Taken captive twice within twenty-four hours, Eineen McDermott is held by a renegade hunters' group to be used as a target of revenge and blackmail against her father. The only thing is, a tumble down a cliff has taken her memory. Forestry worker Grady Michaels happened upon Eineen just before her captivity and is held as well. Freed by one of the group members, Grady flees with Eineen to a nearby town, where the couple decides the only way keep her...
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The future for all life on Planet Earth is bleak, and human activities are largely responsible.
This is a story that travels with breakneck speed and excitement, travelling back and forth through various time zones, reality and fantasy, while giving an insight into the mysteries of wild nature and providing possible solutions to help avert species extinction.
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This book begins with the history of Cyprus from the Bronze Age to the present day and uses hypothetical events during the ages and its occupations. A retired couple decides to live in what is now called The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Ray is a retired mining engineer and his wife, Chantel, a technical translator. Ray becomes fascinated with a large earth mound on the slopes of the Kyrenia Mountains which, according to the locals, was an...
7) 15:37
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Not all monsters live solely in your nightmares. Dean looked across at his friends and family. He breathed a sigh of relief. They were safe for now, huddled together in this fort. Safer than they had been since that day, every noise shook them to their core. Scanning the room, something moved in the shadows. His heart stopped and he jumped out of his skin, reaching for his gun. His friends looked at him and knew. Darkness was coming.
That day was...
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They had all heard the rumours about the place of course, but they had dismissed them as jailhouse myth and bullshit, a place where the prison doctor would pronounce you dead, and you would disappear from heart and memory, and enter into Hell on Earth as the warden's guest in San Diablo the devil's haven.
The Devil's Haven is set in the middle of the baking hot desert. Hidden far from public view and scrutiny resides the top-level, top-secret super-max...
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In the tranquil coastal town where Miranda pursued quiet career in social care, she relished the freedom and flexibility it granted her to nurture her two children, despite their significant age gap. However, when her teenager's inexplicable decline in energy coincides with an elderly client's enchantment with mysterious lights at sea, Miranda's world takes an unforeseen turn. The appearance of an unfamiliar boy on the beach not only saves Tanya from...
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It's Halloween 2019 in Mobile, Alabama. Jennifer Riley, CPS supervisor and her team, face a nightmare line-up of child abuse cases. A young boy, imprisoned by his mother, in the family basement, fights for his very life. A baby girl, whose parents are drug addicts, is on life support from a traumatic brain injury. Despite the signs and natural assumptions that could lead the team to the perpetrators, the investigators discovered that the truth is...
12) Maelstrom
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In the tense atmosphere of the Cold War, John Fisher, a laid-back Australian, lands a job with a shipping line in Rotterdam, blissfully unaware of the concealed financial and political schemes harboured by some of his new friends and colleagues. He soon finds himself entangled in an international scandal involving influential entities, facing relentless pressure from various quarters.
Navigating the challenges of dealing with intoxicated ship captains,...
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The crew of Ngarra's deep sea mining Skimmer are at Xed Ocean Academy under the watchful eye of officials and soon to return to sea. Previously, they had been pursued at sea for a technology one of the crew developed that enabled Xtract mining drones to learn autonomous group behaviour.
Chang, a crew member, is convinced his sister Ying Yue is in danger. She works onboard the Chinese-owned GlobeCorpMining deep-sea mineral Harvester and is developing...
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The story begins with the main hero, Ben Arnold, when he is 11 years old. You see this young child on an almost suicidal mission. And after he loses his parents he is sent to the learning rooms, deep at the bottom of the De Molay complex; this is where all De Molay orphans are sent. There you see the other seven main characters within the Omega Squadron. The story then jumps forward 20 years. The now Hollywood heartthrob and chief director of the...
15) The Devon Scot
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John Gunn has found himself the perfect job, close to his home in South Devon. Having trained as a marine biologist, it's a change of career, but it will allow him to set up home with Kate, his long-term girlfriend. But within weeks, it all starts going wrong.
Together with his boss Bill Hexter, he becomes embroiled in a macabre discovery on a local farm. It looks like a scoop. But with no explanation, Bill tells him to drop the story. Ever impetuous,...
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Three enigmatic words uttered by a dying elderly man, in Berkeley, California, lead to the search for a mysterious old play. In the course of events, a mugger snatches the small camera with which the text was photographed (most probably in a murky archive in England). Trem, the main character of the book, manages to retrieve the camera and, thanks to his girlfriend, is poised to create a sensation in the literary world with his bombshell discovery...
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Love will be shared between two opposing sides, and it is that very act of heresy that will become the breaking point. It will tip the scale, causing chaos. Even in the brightest of lights, darkness can find you. It creeps around like a disease. Witness as your once-friendly allies become your deadliest foes. No one is to be trusted as fate takes you to places nobody knows. Follow the stories of the three individuals who are connected by blood as...
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Part thriller, part action adventure-this story is from the standpoint of a young woman who foils rape. It's 1963 and Inny spends a summer in her parents' new home in swank Montecito while waiting to finish her senior year at UC Berkeley. She's determined to graduate, but when a senator's stepson stalks her back to Berkeley, neither her family nor her first real love can protect her from the heart of darkness. "Once I started reading this five-star...
19) Escape
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When Michael Rorke, a talented yet self-absorbed author, meets his untimely end in an accident, he awakens as a wanderer – a spirit caught between worlds, unsure of what afterlife, be it blissful or grim, lies ahead. In this liminal state, he is unable to return to the living and faces an uncertain path forward.
This twilight world is fraught with dangers, teeming with predators that prey on spirits like him. Michael's urgent quest for resolution...
20) Curiosity Kills
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In the heart of the town stands Bright House, ominously empty, with its owners too terrified to reside there. A dark curse has plagued the Bright lineage: no firstborn survives past their twenty-first birthday.
As Paula Bright, pregnant and determined, seeks to shield her unborn child from this malevolent fate, she stumbles upon a shadowy presence. This ancient evil, hidden within the house's very foundation, has claimed the lives of Bright descendants...
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