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The police reported that Jaeger was killed by his drug gang, still Anna cannot shake the feeling that her abusive ex-husband is watching from the shadows- waiting to kill her. Neighbor boys, Hank and Bill, ask Bart for help butchering bears that Hank shot because they were after his brother. Before Hank finds relief from his troubles, he must cope with a rattlesnake, hospital staff, Child Services, the Game and Fish Commission, and the Prosecuting...
2) Pursued
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Anna tutors the six children in the Dugan home and helps cook and clean. When Maddi's Grandmother buys the house next door, Maddi moves in with her. Grandma Berta, frightened when someone broke her fence and entered the backyard, asks Bart and Anna to move onto the second floor of her new home with their guns. Berta's cousin comes to visit-she is near when fire burns Maddi's hair, and a landslide causes dirt and rock to fall on Hank and Maddi. Berta...
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Sandy Gordon, a merciless mutineer and pirate, is hanged by the British Navy and cannot return to his young wife, abandoned and alone on White Island. She remains faithful to a promise to protect his treasure, and her spirit haunts the miserable rock where she had been deserted. Martha is protecting, however, far more than just the loot of Gordon: she also guards the staff of the Israeli High Priest and the wisdom stone of the ancient Hebrews, the...
4) The Cape
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The Cape by Jeff Lovell
Therese McNulty, the brilliant daughter of Mac McNulty, learns that her father has been kidnapped, his soul transported into the body of a sailor on board the long lost ship, The Flying Dutchman. Joined by her college friend and roommate, McKenna, Therese leads a search for the ship off the Cape of Good Hope at the Southern tip of the African continent. As they search they find their way hindered by a seaman whose unique mental...
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"On June 20, 1945, just before the end of the war, 123 American bombers took off from the island of Guam for an attack on Shizuoka, a Japanese city at the foot of Mount Fuji. The raid destroyed two-thirds of the city, taking the lives of two thousand of its citizens. Twenty-three American airmen also died when two of their planes collided in mid-air. That these twenty-three men were enemy soldiers mattered little to one Japanese person, who buried...
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Anna and Bart have been best friends since childhood. Bart is in love with Anna, but she wants to graduate college before surrendering to love. After Anna's parents die, Jaeger, involved with a drug and human trafficking cartel, forces Anna into an illegal marriage and holds her captive. He plans to sell her in South America and take her inheritance after she disappears. Anna escapes, enrolls in college, and finds a job as a live-in nanny for Carol...
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You would think Cecilia LaRoque has it all: a loving father, wealth, beauty, social position and a devoted suitor. She doesn't. Crushed by a cold and critical mother who soon absconds to live with a dissolute lover, 'Cissy' struggles to prove herself worthy of love and respect. She could not have foreseen in her teenage years that the genteel and privileged life she had led would come to a crashing halt with the outbreak of Civil War, a bitter struggle...
9) Tigers Code
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Tiger's Code by Betty J. Vaughn
Quint Cord's latest assignment is proving to be his most challenging and could well lead to catastrophic events if he doesn't break the code in time to avert them.
Quint Cord is an unlikely spy. With sufficient family money so that he never needs to work, he could have spent his life idling on a beach chasing women. But from the moment he discovers famous codes of the past in a university class, he is hooked. His...
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Annie Brown RN, still working at Trenton James General Hospital in Houston, faces the problem of sexual harassment. Though Annie's experience occurred before the #metoo times we live in now, it echoes the same challenges; who can she tell, who will believe, and can her job be saved? Even Chris, her friend and partner in Day Surgery, a follower of the rules, is reluctant to speak out. The hospital administration, Risk Management attorneys, and a powerful...
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Riley "Rocky" Stone, a twelve year old boy hiking on a family vacation in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona, finds what his grandfather tells him might be an Apache arrowhead. Riley has no idea his arrowhead possesses magic. He finds himself taken back one hundred and fifty years in history on a wild adventure back to the Superstition Mountains where he meets an old miner, Jacob "Dutch" Waltz. During his time with the Dutchman, as Jacob is...
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New York, NY (August 1, 2011) Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Special Agent Mike Angley writes his military/political thrillers with the genuine voice, insight and realism that comes with actual experience in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. Angley's novel brings the reader into a dangerous game of international intrigue.
North Korean terrorists stage a brazen attack on the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, stealing his twin daughters in...
13) Acid
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Rick Howell, living in the shadow of two women, who have the power to change reality, must risk his life to stop the genocidal exploits of a desperate lunatic, who wants to acquire their powers. The discovery of a mind controlling drug opens a pathway to frightening mental abilities for Rachel Farrell, who can move backward and forward in time at will, while Donna Riske, Rachel's best friend, can control the thoughts of others. The battle of Good...
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Stacey is forced to make a decision that no mother should ever have to make. She walks away from her home, her husband and three beloved children intending to be away seven months. Nothing prepares her for what happens to keep her away for seven years. When she returns, she is torn between two lives.
While She Was Gone is a fast paced novel that takes the reader on a journey with Stacey Martin. The story starts in Ottawa then moves to Sudbury and...
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After they depart, law enforcement is notified that Joe Schitt (villain in Book I) and another criminal have escaped from prison. They are hunting Barlow and Sarah to kill them in revenge for Joe Schitt's arrest and incarceration. (The fugitives have the rough itinerary of the honeymoon from the wedding announcement in the newspaper.)
A deputy from Quayle County is dispatched to try to find and warn Sarah and Barlow because they haven't been...
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Ann is an author, happily marries and living a simple life in Canada's capital city Ottawa. She receives a letter that is somewhat confusing and because of it she finds and meets her biological father. The story weaves daily occurrences into a story that follows Ann and her friends and family. Ann is diagnosed with leukemia which brings tension to the story as her fate is a concern. Life is not longer simple and at the same time the world is facing...
17) Thunder Canyon
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This book is unusual, since it deals with the counterfeiting of gold coins and gold bars around the 1900s. Most Americans, outside of coin collectors, don't realize that gold coins were once a common form of currency in our country. In the book are photos of a counterfeit gold coin detector, patented in 1857, that depicts spaces for 1 dollar, 2.5 dollar, 3 dollar, 5 dollar, 10 and 20 dollar gold coins. The book is set in 1900, Cripple Creek, Colorado,...
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Mary Murphy works in Hell. It's usually a pretty good place to work, with high salaries, great benefits, and immortality as a job perk. When Satan decides to take a vacation, all that changes. There is a lot of jealousy and resentment from employees who feel the promotion should have been theirs, but no one dares to go against Satan's choice.
As the week rolls forward, Mary discovers that she has a saboteur in Hell. The problems start with practical...
19) Pigeon Spring
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When former FBI Agent Matt Steel retired from the FBI after twenty-five years of undercover operations, locking up mobsters and drug dealers and following terrorists, he took a job as the Director of Security at a major Las Vegas casino. Alex, his wife of thirty-five years, thought that they could finally enjoy the well-deserved benefits of a post FBI life: Especially after they bought the weekend ranch in a secluded mountainous area at the north...
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In 1937, Ollie and Roy, after striving to keep their farm during the Great Depression, leave to pursue a better life in California. Finding it is not the Promised Land they anticipated, they return to Arkansas.
On a small Arkansas farm, they labor with mortgage payments, drought, and sickness. Roy goes away almost every year to work and supplement farm income, while Ollie and the children work the land. Roy wants to hire a man to help, but Ollie's...
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