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Audio CD
"Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West Africa...
eBook
"During an intense storm in Dark Harbor, Maine, a perplexing murder lands a dead man on Stone Barrington's doorstep. As secrets swirl around this mystery man's identity, Stone quickly sets out to unravel a web of cunning misdirections and lies. Soon enough,...
eAudiobook
Stone Barrington is back in this latest action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
"Everyone wanted her life But who took it? It was Hannah who found April's body ten years ago. It was Hannah who didn't question what she saw that day. Did her testimony put an innocent man in prison? She needs to know the truth. Even if it means q...
Book
"Violet garland may be a duke's daughter, but she has a strong streak of daredevil. What she wants most in life is adventure - and when she spots a Bow Street Runner among the ton, she knows she's finally found it. She'll help the investigator track down...
"Maddie James has big plans for the summer season at JJ's House of Purrs. But when her friend, master meditator and Tai Chi teacher Cass Hendricks, brings a potential animal hoarding situation to her attention, Maddie has to refocus her attention on the...
"When Mafia pressure destroyed his family, sniper Mack Bolan declared war on organized crime. The Battle of Pittsfield left dozens of mobsters dead, but that was only the beginning. Hunted by the police, the FBI, and every hood in America, Bolan plans...
"Hobart Town 1878 - a vibrant town drawing people from every corner of the earth where, with confidence and a flair for storytelling, a person can be whoever he or she wants. Almost. Ellen Thompson is young, vivacious and unmarried, with a six-month-old...
"With a new face and an old foe, the Executioner sets out to avenge his friends. Of the ten members of Mack Bolan's death squad, formed to take the war against the Mafia to a bloody new level, seven are dead and two are in jail. Only Bolan, the crack...
"The stories in Vanished feature women and girls who are often overlooked or unseen. Each character is dealing with something or someone who has vanished - a person close to them, a friendship, a relationship - as they search to make sense of the world...
"Alicia and her brother Avi are imprisoned in a camp on the edge of a forest. There, children are trained to forget their language through therapy, coercion, drugs, and larynx surgery. The Leid (or Belarusian language) is considered a perversion or sickness...
"A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station. They spend their days ripping up asphalt, drinking beer and eating hot dogs, and wandering through woods and towns in search of new ways of living. People come and go: a charismatic lands...
"A small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbors is murdered. An investigation ensues and as each of the victim's neighbors is questioned, the reader is offered...
"After past skirmishes with the police, local PI Maggie Laird is determined to steer clear, but her partner, Wilma Harcus, goes rogue. Not only does she have leads up her sleeve, but she has grandiose ideas to expand their PI agency into the realm of...
"The Accidental Medium is the first book in a brand new, hilarious series from Tracy Whitwell featuring Tanz, the accidental medium who, with the help of the dead, is about to become an unwilling crime-solver. Tanz is a wine-loving, straight-talking,...
"A murder. A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated. A festival. A grim celebration in a cultish hilltop community after the apple harvest. A race against time. As Visberg closes ranks to keep its deadly secrets, there could not be a worse...
"Iris Jenkins knows that bad things happen. She's tried to escape these things for years. So, when Iris is entrusted to house-sit at a lodge on the South Dakota prairie, she thinks she's prepared for anything. But one surprise is Sawyer Jones, the pr...
"A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses...
"Could a gorgeous old ballgown be used to commit murder? Deep in the heart of Texas, Chinese immigrant Daiyu Wu discovers a mysterious ballgown in her family's laundry business. It reeks of burned garlic and there is money pinned to it to pay for the...
"Communications specialist Alto's shift aboard the starship M.G. Yellowjacket turns hellish after waking from a tryst to learn every crewmate has vanished. Worse, a sinister presence has crawled aboard the ship."--
"Seven hard-won months into her sobriety, sociology professor Maris Heilman has her first blackout. She chalks it up to exhaustion, though she fears that her husband and daughter will suspect she's drinking again. Whatever their cause, the glitches s...
"A handsome, if slightly shabby, stone house in Upper Oddington is home to Umberto Kingley as well as his three dogs and will be Thea Slocombe's latest house-sitting assignment. Without even a local shop, Thea expects the location to be one of her qu...
"1883. Leo Stanhope, transgender journalist and amateur detective, and his wife Rosie have come to Portsmouth - but this is no simple seaside retreat. While Rosie's sister expects them for dinner, two young people have been killed by the docks. Having...
"It's summer in the Isle of Wight, and the islanders have little more to do than munch crab sandwiches, sip pints of Wight Squirrel, and complain about the hordes of tourists arriving for the world famous Cowes Week regatta. But when the local busybody...
"Hiding in the horror of Warsaw's Jewish Ghetto with his family, scientist Roman Loszynski has a secret: a means of making aerial bombing raids frighteningly accurate. Codenamed Tatra, it could change the course of the war. With British agent Jack Miller...
"The peace is broken. Eighty years after the Wars, the northern hemisphere and most of the southern is a chemical wasteland. The long-dormant hatred between the two remaining superpowers, the Commonwealth and the Fringes, is reawakened in the struggle...
"A.D. 2080. It has been sixty years since the Wars. Most of Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland. The remaining human population is crammed into Australia, New Zealand, and the ruins of the Indonesian archipelago. In the Commonwealth, most believe the...
"Isaac stands alone on a bridge and screams. Something screams back. And that, like everything which follows, is unforgettable. This is a book about a lot of things - grief, hope, friendship, love. It's also about what you'd do if you stumbled into the...
"1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, becoming an unlikely hero whose name will ...
"Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run - from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them. Plantation owner's daughter, runaway wife, pirate - Anne Bonny has forged...
"After losing someone close to her, nurse Joelle Diedrich needs a change of scene. But stepping in as a last-minute medical escort on a prisoner transfer flight results in a bigger one than she bargained for. Waking in the wreckage of a crash, Joelle...
"The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious cyberattack obliterates every single one. In the aftermath,...
"Zora: 'I'm Denver's unmatchmaker. Every city needs one. Why? Because people break up - and sometimes they should. But when I learn that entertainment attorney Cyrus Hart is someone else's mistake, I can't believe it. He's smart, successful, and sexy...
"When Shouji Arai crosses one of his company's most powerful clients, he must leave Akakawa immediately or risk his life. But his girlfriend Youko is nowhere to be found. Haunted by dreams of drowning and the words of a fortune teller who warned him away...
"In October 1989, a set of triplets is born, and it is this moment their father chooses to reveal his affair. Pandemonium ensues. Over two decades later, Sebastian is recruited to join a mysterious organisation, the London Institute of Cognitive Science,...
"n Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonderland, a social media app where people project their dream...
"1915, London. World War I has been raging for over a year, but despite it all Rose Spencer is feeling hopeful about the future. She's in love and planning her wedding to lovely, bicycle-shop owner Charlie. She loves working as a seamstress at the gl...
"Fifty years ago, a group of teenagers spent a weekend on Holy Island, forging a bond that has lasted a lifetime. Now, they still return every five years to celebrate their friendship, and remember the friend they lost to the rising waters of the causeway...
"On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake are a success, and he's generously invited the village to drink champagne with their wealthy new neighbors. But by midnight, Rhys will be floating dead in the...
"Private investigator Charlie Parker is unwittingly drawn into a world of vengeance. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly pits Parker against two separate - but vitally connected - investigations, which prove to be among the most complicated...
"January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year Reich is shrinking. Even Goebbels has run out of lies to sweeten the reckoning to come. An Allied victory is inevitable, but who will reap the spoils of war? Two years ago, Werner Nehmann's...
"Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent - a professional bodyguard, and he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his...
Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the ...
Eight-year-old Gideon Mercer loves to help people, but she has leukemia. When her illness goes into remission at Christmas, she is sure this miracle is a gift from God. So to celebrate, she and her father volunteer to serve meals at a mission for the...
Dear (never-been-quite-over-you) Crush, It's been a few years since we were together, but I can't stop thinking about the time we almost...Wren Roland has never been kissed, but he wants that movie-perfect ending more than anything. Feeling nostalgic...
Their rise was meteoric. Only a few years before, they had been three friends from Glasgow, trying to survive in a world of danger and dysfunction. Suddenly they were thrust on to the world's biggest stage, accepting an Oscar in front of the watching...
Cassie Lewis, a widow for over 20 years has begun to realise there must be more to life. In-between working at the family boatyard in picture perfect Dartmouth and raising two children, she wonders where the years have gone. Both her children, Tom and...
A notebook full of secrets, two untimely deaths - something sinister is stirring in the perfect seaside town of Morranez... It's summer and holidaymakers are flocking to the idyllic Brittany coast. But when first an old traveller woman dies in suspic...
Yorkshire 1860. With the heat of their beloved India far behind them, Evie Davenport and her widowed British Army officer father, are starting a new life in England. But Evie is struggling. With her dearest mother gone, Yorkshire with its cold, damp....
Once bitter enemies, Samantha Reynold and Seb Stoker's powerful alliance enables their firms and casinos to go from strength to strength. With the families no longer in opposition, it seems that Sam and Seb are untouchable... But not everyone is happy...
Winteringham Village 1947. As a thank you for her previous brilliant crime solving, amateur sleuth, Martha Miller is guest of honour at the Winteringham Country Fair. However, this time she is looking forward to simply judging dog shows and eating cream...
Charley Glass arrived in her family's lives like the hurricane she'd escaped. But she hadn't run far enough: the ruthless Giordano family are on her tail and want two things - her life, and the return of the property she stole from them. No matter how...
Billie is looking forward to a quiet, man-free Christmas. It's just a shame her family doesn't feel the same way... With a house full of unexpected (and unwanted) guests, Billie needs to find the perfect escape to get away from the chaos. So when her...
When Charley finds herself suddenly single on Christmas Day it feels like her world has fallen apart. Forced to move back in with her parents, she embarks on a journey of re-invention. When she meets Ed, who is on honeymoon alone after being jilted at...
As a toddler Elodie Jacques was abandoned by her mother and left in the care of her French grandmother, Gabriella in Dartmouth, Devon.Now 24 years old, Elodie struggles to reconcile the deep anger for the mother she has never since seen. When Gabriel...
After the heartbreak of a secret unrequited love, Millie Treadaway has finally found someone to spend her life with.Harry Rose is handsome, successful and treats her like a princess. That is until Millie presents her fiancé with a surprise birthday gift,...
In the imposing Glen Carrick House overlooking Scotland's famous Loch Ness, lives eighty-eight-year-old Mimi McKinlay, cared for by her three adult sons. Hamish has inherited his mother's musical talents, Fin is the responsible brother, and Angus has...
Can she get her life back online? Tired of being underestimated, Annie Valentine is determined to prove to everyone that she can make her life a success. Her job as a personal shopper is brilliant, but she's now intent on setting up a shoe and handbag...
Two decades on from a passionate courtship and marriage, Lucas and Esther are getting divorced. For Esther, it's proving hard not to feel bitter watching Lucas enjoying his successful career, not to mention the attentions of his gorgeous, and predict...
She's in your home... Leigh Simons can't say for sure what made her do it. A moment of madness, perhaps, but when the young, loud and gorgeous waitress at her favourite coffee shop reveals she is homeless, Leigh offers her the empty room in her house.In...
May 1944Hope and excitement is in the air when news breaks of the allied forces landing in Normandy. D-Day has arrived. However, the day-to-day struggles for the Tobacco Girls continue. Carole Thomas wants her old life back. She is burdened with the guilt...
讲述了一艘灯塔船上的船员与一伙劫船逃犯英勇搏斗的故事。小说情节一波三折，同时寓意深刻，富于哲理，虽然表面上很像惊险小说，实际上却是一篇反映德国乃至欧洲20世纪50年代社会状态的现实主义作品。作者借这个故事表达自己的观点：战后的欧洲并非风平浪静，善良的人们对于破坏社会秩序的人必须保持高度的警惕。此书另包含《雷曼的讲述》《塞尔维亚女孩》《一种紧急的自卫方式》三部短篇。
擅写“失败人生”的耶茨，凭借他敏锐的心灵和独到的观察角度，仿佛拼贴艺术般，将美国“小人物”及其生活片段立体展现在我们眼前：失败的艺术家、生活艰难的单亲家庭母亲、疏离的亲情、劳燕分飞的婚姻、叛逆的女儿、转瞬即逝的情事、不可靠的梦想……
"When Lise, a pianist, suffers a nervous breakdown early in her marriage, her husband, in a warped act of protection and jealousy, has her piano taken away ... Lise's separation from her one source of expression and fulfilment cascades into her relat...
"Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie - a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big - agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once...
Follow an animal-loving bartender and her hot, protective boss as they finally give into the attraction between them in this emotional and steamy romantic comedy about healing the past to let love in.
"Get ready for a bumpy ride of disaster dates, self-discovery, and sizzling chemistry in this friends to lovers romantic comedy about learning to trust in love, one more time. I have three rules for dating: 1. Always be my best self 2. Don't put out too...
"Turning thirty has a way of making you take a good, hard look at your life. And I think we all know what any sensible adult does in that situation: tequila shots. Lots of them. It's okay, though, because I've finally escaped my tiny New Zealand home...
"Tony Stark never built an Iron Man armor. Thor is an atheist who despises hammers. Wakanda is dismissed as a myth. Captain America was never found in the ice--because there were no Avengers to find him. Instead, this planet has always been protected...
Set in Southland and Otago, 'The Secrets of Others' tells of Carl Hassen, whose family are farmers of the old school. His dad and uncle both fought in the Second World War and his traumatised father carries wounds from those days. Carl serves his country...
Graphic novel
"The Great Tomb of Nazarick and Carne Village are both suddenly thrust into the hands of acting leaders, and days of chaos and hardship await those now burdened with these responsibilities. And it seems the destiny that Ainz planned out for Enri and Nfirea...
"Mayumi Dojima has just become the newest member of the Pretty Boy Detective Club when her first challenge as Mayumi the Seer literally falls into her lap: a suspicious businessman drops a wad of counterfeit bills on the sidewalk, and suddenly the games...
"Three years have passed since Hina crashed straight into Nitta's life. She's grown into a charming young high schooler. But what kind of school accepts a student with academic performance like Hina's? And what about Nitta? Is the 'Monster of the Modern...
"Once the most powerful group in the world, the Justice League was destroyed by tragedy and time, disbanding under a veil of mistrust and anger. Now, on the eve of the universe's greatest murder trial, the League must come together one last time. Can...
"TROUBLE IN PARADISE After her life fell apart, Mayumi decided to ditch the city and live in the countryside. While things haven't always gone smoothly between her and her boisterous landlady, Mayumi and Rin have grown close and even shared a kiss or...
"Fired and ditched by Charlie, Vita sets off in hot pursuit of her former client and some answers. But Charlie's not alone. She's hired a brand new bodyguard, Circe, unaware she's a killer who has been stalking Charlie since her crowdfunded assassina...
"From the visionary team behind Batman: The Animated Series and 2020's hit comic book series Batman: The Adventures Continue comes an all-new season set in this seminal animated world! Gotham City is changing. After Mayor Hill is killed by a mysterio...
"From the high plains of Wyoming down to the rocky desert of Yuma, Arizona, there is a legend. Whispers of a man that sold his soul to the Devil for a chance at revenge. Revenge for a family lost to greed and savagery. People say an entire town was wiped...
"When evil people escape from the depths of the eternal abyss, the Pirate Queen Lady Shih is sent to retrieve them. But when one of history's most notorious killers breaks free, even she needs help. Enter the Heathens: Shih, Lucky Luciano, Bumpy Johnson,...
"Gussie, Ina Mae, and Blanche have been best friends for more than sixty years. From their humble beginnings of founding the Sunshine Club when they were girls to becoming the matchmaking queens of Newton, Texas, these three were inseparable. When Bl...
"Journalist Grace Marks, needing a story to boost her career and finances, is intrigued by a surge in minor crime in New Zealand suburbs. She discovers it's organised, but why? Her investigations lead her to Will Manilow, CEO of Erebus Optics, whose ...
"The deeply moving, propulsive story of ten teenagers brought together by a high school production of The Diary of Anne Frank that will shape and influence the rest of their lives. Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school...
"The effects of Spawn's explosive conversation are still being felt. New Spawns are starting to appear, and Al is shown a horrific version of a possible future!"--Provided by publisher.
"Mjolnir, the powerful Uru hammer that Thor has wielded in battle for centuries, has gone missing! And nobody, not even the all-seeing Lady Sif, is able to locate it. So Thor must turn to the last person he wants help from: Odin. For until the hammer...
"In the state of Liberty, water is rationed, free speech comes at a price, and paranoia runs deep. Eleanor, a rebellious young witch, has been put under house arrest with her lecherous co-worker Stan, who loves craft beer, fish tacos, and... shooting...
"Based on the Netflix film of the same name! This award-winning comic book series has taken the US by storm with a magazine and multiple spin-offs. Angelino and Vinz have left the simmering neighborhood of Palm Hill and are being pursued by men in bl...
"Nominated for Outstanding Comic by the GLAAD Media Awards, Liebestrasse tells the heart-wrenching, poignant tale of forbidden love and survival through the rise of hatred. During the final years of the Weimar Republic, Sam meets Philip in Berlin and...
"Wally West is back! The fan-favorite character has returned to the role of the Fastest Man Alive and is leaping through time on a quest to return him to glory! Wally West is ready to call it quits. After a tumultuous and traumatic few years from DC ...
"Firuz-e Jafari was able to escape the slaughter of traditional blood magic practitioners by immigrating to the city-state of Qilwa. But now a terrible disease is spreading through the city, and Firuz believes it comes from ineptly performed blood magic....
"Rose and Charlotte arrive in 1990s New York, fresh out of college and full of ambition. When they end up working at the same music magazine, Charlotte, earnest, bookish, is wary of brash, outspoken Rose. But hesitancy gives way to begrudging admiration,...
"Tang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China. Though they have been estranged for years, Yitian promises to come...
"Elektra is the world's deadliest assassin -- but when she took on the mantle of Daredevil, she took a vow not to kill. Now that solemn promise is about to be put to the ultimate test. Kraven the Hunter has Elektra dead in his sights, and he has no.....
"Iron Man finds himself marooned in a small colony on a remote planet! Life here seems perfect ... but who's pulling the strings behind its delicate design? As Tony digs deeper for answers, a message from home warns him that Korvac is still a threat ......
"The Hulk's uncontrollable rage has reached an all-new level--and nobody, including the Avengers, is prepared to handle it. But is it really the Hulk that people should fear ... or is there another factor at play? Bruce Banner thinks he finally has t...
"New York, 1979. It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart weighted with gratitude for what she has and regret for what she has given up. She has lived in America for over thirty years, but she...
Hana Westerman is a tenacious Maori detective juggling single motherhood and the pressures of her career in Auckland's Central Investigation Branch. When she's led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man hanging in a secret room. Hana...
"This book defies categorisation. It's a history, it's a novel, almost it's a kind of archaeology, an investigation into the reality of the past and an exploration of that uncertain borderland which lies between fact and fiction. Using archive material...
"The hunt is on for the greatest art forger who ever lived ... Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly with his beautiful wife and their young twins in Venice, the only place...
""A classic of LGBTQ literature that has become a cult sensation! The heroes of this enchanting group have been enjoyed by millions of readers worldwide! Adapted on TV (BBC), Limited Series (Netflix), Theater...and now in graphic novel form for the first...
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