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Under the Whispering Door is a contemporary fantasy with TJ Klune's signature 'quirk and charm' (Publishers Weekly) about a ghost who refuses to cross over and the ferryman he falls in love with When a reaper comes to collect Wallace Price from his o...
"Kiran Mathur knows firsthand just how dangerous love can be. After all, her sister's marriage in India nearly destroyed Kiran's family. So she's decided to redeem romance herself-by not falling for anyone who might disappoint her parents. That is, until...
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"When a mysterious note leads her to a dying woman who names her friend, Frances, as her killer, fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy knows that's impossible and must wrap up this case before the trail runs cold."--Publisher.
"While the Hell Divers cross an ocean to battle the machines, an old flesh-and-blood threat returns to the islands. The mission to Rio de Janeiro ended in victory, but it came at a dire cost, killing most of those who set out to rescue the stranded s...
"Brenna Bellini is never going to get married again. She's thrilled to be her friend's bridesmaid though - that is, until she realizes who else is in the wedding party. Brenna's going to have to spend four days in the company of not only her ex-husband,...
"Appalachian artist and local guide Miranda Trent opens a new murder investigation after her Paint & Shine tour group discovers the remains of a missing hiker along an ancient trail... For her latest excursion, Miranda is thrilled to take a close-knit...
"Riley Rhodes... makes a bittersweet return to her childhood home of Penniman, Connecticut for a funeral... But Caroline and her brother Mike have to decide what to do with the assets they've inherited - the ice cream shop as well as the farm they grew...
"Lana Lee is all smiles when the first evening of Cleveland's Asian Night Market kicks off the summer. The weekly festival is always good for business, packed with locals and tourists, and this year, some stiff new food-truck competition. Wonton on Wheels,...
"America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence. They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender...
Graphic novel
"Darkness reigns over the Marvel Universe! As Knull makes his long-dreaded arrival, no corner of the world is safe - and all-star talents unite to explore key moments in the saga! Featuring epic clashes between Knull's army and Earth's heroes, the return...
"Road trip - to space! After learning some startling secrets about her family, Jessica Drew goes on a mission to find the one person who might know more: the High Evolutionary! But she's going to need her BFF by her side - and that means it's Captain...
"Unveil a tale that will engulf the world. Shao Jun, the last Assassin in China, has returned to her homeland with vengeance on her mind. The Templar Order's machinations must be stopped, and only Shao Jun stands ready for the battle to come. As she ...
"A woman walks alone at the foot of Mount Sengoku. A man appears, saying he's been waiting for her, and invites her to a nearby village. Surprisingly, the village is covered in hairlike volcanic glass fibers, and all of it shines a bright gold. At night,...
"A mysterious group known as the Pretty Boy Detective Club is rumored to solve (and perhaps cause) most of the trouble at Yubiwa Academy--in a strictly unofficial, undercover, uncommercial capacity, of course. In order to find a star she glimpsed ten...
"As Geralt explores new career possibilities, he receives a request from the mayoress of Badreine -- a small town where an unusual pack of foglets attacks children. Upon accepting the work, Geralt is caught between the townsfolk's recollections of the...
"A visual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning how to adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a challenging road ahead, the author uses creative flair and ingenuity in order to connect with his son, enable him to reach his...
"Geralt is summoned by an old acquaintance to help solve a mystery involving his daughter. Geralt soon discovers that the situation at hand, in which he believes to be helping with, only leads to more trouble for the witcher and results in all signs ...
"Yusaku Godai has set his heart on Kyoko Otonashi, but he still goes on dates with Kozue Nanao frequently. Kozue senses that Godai is growing emotionally distant, so she asks Kyoko's tennis coach, Shun Mitaka, for advice. Yet once Mitaka gets involve...
"This eleventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features twenty-six stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Marie Brennan, Maurice Broaddus, John Crowley, Theodora Goss, Xia Jia, John Kessel, Kelly LInk, Sam J....
"DS-5, a biologically enhanced law enforcement marshal, has embarked upon his final mission. His best years behind him, he must return to the ISS Houston where he will be decommissioned. As his body is lowered into the tank which will see him permane...
"There's a wicked attraction between Special Wolf Alpha Team (SWAT) werewolf Trey Duncan and medical examiner Samantha Mills, but Trey's never worked up the nerve to ask her out until now. But the trouble with wolves is that they're never far from danger,...
"Leo Eddowes is afraid of nothing and no one. So when she's asked to evacuate a man from the wilds of Alaska, solo, she doesn't hesitate. But, with enemies in close pursuit and the weather changing at the last minute, what should have been a simple m...
"Lexie Greene hasn't thought about Pierce Cagle in years. So when the popular boy she knew in high school shows up in the middle of the Somali desert, part of the SEAL team rescuing her and a coworker from kidnappers, she's more than a little shocked....
"The King in Black invades Earth-65! Bonded to a synthetic symbiote from another reality, Ghost-Spider, A.K.A. Gwen Stacy, is unique among the web-slingers of the Multiverse! But when Knull descends on her adopted home, his gravity well of dark psychic...
"Knull's army of space dragons has arrived to attack Earth - starting with New York City! But Mayor Wilson Fisk has a plan: Bring back the Thunderbolts! To take on the unkillable, Fisk assembles a group of killers and mercenaries - including Taskmaster,...
"Knull's invasion tests Earth's Mightiest Heroes to their limits! T'Challa's most treasured allies have been lost - and once again, the Black Panther must choose between his role as a king and the yearnings of his heart! Captain America, aided by the...
"Gemma Masters, John's niece, is out for revenge for an assault she holds him responsible for--but in her quest for vengeance, she summons a demon she can't control. Then, she auctions off his beloved trenchcoat to the highest occult bidder, but the ...
"A heinous conspiracy--a volcano exacting revenge--an island paradise in anguish. Having killed his father's nemesis and gotten away with it, Hilo, Hawai'i Chief Detective Koa Kane, is not your ordinary cop. Estranged from his younger brother, who has...
"In the shadow of Mount Hood, sixteen-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister Sophie when the girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a d...
Large Print
A challenging wife for a warrior Viking... When Thorstein Bergson rescues a beautiful woman from a storm-tossed longship, he little expects to broker a powerful marriage alliance with her. This high-status ice queen is not the comfortable wife this w...
When different worlds collide... expect fireworks! Princess Isabella and racing driver Matteo are set up on a 'perfect match'... But both know that perfect doesn't exist! Isabella is meant to marry for duty, and Matteo is busy living in the fast lane....
The most shocking story of all: 'I am going to have a baby.' After the sexiest time of her life with Leonardo Ravenino, his swift rejection leaves journalist Emma Quinn mortified. Letting off steam, she writes a private scandalous expose of the tycoon......
Fifty dates to decide... if she will wear his crown! As a naive teenager, Lady Nataliya signed a contract promising herself to a prince. Ten years later, to release them both, she causes a scandal by going on fifty dates for a magazine. It works... Until...
A sensible spinster... shall go to the ball! Euphemia Denniston has accepted her quiet life as servant to her stepmother's family. Until cynical, wealthy Augustus Rushworth offers her an unusual arrangement: accompanying him around town to ward off.....
An unconventional friendship could ruin their reputations... Respecting each other's desire for independence, Lord Henry Cary and writer Melissa Taverner enjoy an uncomplicated friendship. Henry finds her amusing and intelligent company, but she's also...
She's inherited a fortune, but will she realise her true worth? Claiming her inheritance in London will help Beatrice Fothergill escape her bullying, belittling half-brother. When her carriage overturns, dashing Waterloo soldier Jack Kingswood comes to...
She's a free spirit. He's a serious businessman. Josefina Ricci has run away to fulfil her deathbed promise to her father and travel the world! During her stop in England, this free-spirited artist becomes embroiled in a wager - to paint an award-win...
When the something borrowed... is the bride! About to walk down the aisle at her Manhattan wedding, determined Priya realises it's impossible. After the news Greek playboy Eros has just shared with her about her convenient groom, she can't go through...
He kept his vow... and he won't let her break hers! In mere months, Juliet Castellucci has gone from her fairytale Verona wedding to a union in tatters. Convinced her husband Ralph has betrayed her, she demands a divorce... which means denying her st...
A convenient offer... from the stowaway on his yacht! Dev Kohli's superyacht is Clare Roberts's perfect hideout after a family betrayal has her running from a forced marriage. Trying to ignore the heat still blazing between her and Dev from their las...
The woman who could cost him his crown... or save it! Rumours abound that our beloved King Valentine is abdicating! His reasons are unknown, although speculation is that he cannot provide our kingdom with an heir. The eyes of the world are on him, and...
He's planned for everything... except becoming a father! A life of hardship and crushing responsibility has left billionaire Tsai Jun Li never wanting a child to suffer the same. He's made sure he can't have children. So when Ivy Lam, the woman he shared...
He will claim her company, but can he claim her too? Everleigh Bradford won't simply hand over control of the family vineyard she expected to inherit. She's lost too much already. If she must confront internationally renowned new owner Adrian Cabrera,...
He's trouble with a capital 'T'! Can she walk away? Starting a new job is never easy. But for doctor Kirsten, the hardest part is cracking the enigma that is Snowden - the surgeon she'll be working very closely with! She can't help but ask how he can...
Can he prove... that her heart is safe with him? For single dad Dr Angus Knox and his little son, a move to a slower pace on Shearwater Island is just what they need. Angus just hasn't counted on the intense pull he feels to new colleague Nurse Freya...
Just one night... double the consequences! Dr Adeline Turner is horrified when Dr Elias Garcia arrives as chief rival for her dream fellowship. She could really do without their instant - and inconvenient - mutual attraction! Burnt before, Adeline never...
A wounded princess... an off-limits surgeon. Can they heal each other? Adjusting to life as an amputee, independent medic Princess Georgiana refuses help from anyone. Yet using surgeon Edward Lawrence's state-of-the-art clinic would speed her recovery...
She's tempted... but can she trust him to stay? Mallory's life is turned upside down when she finds a sexy French stranger in her house. Handsome doctor Josue pushes all the right buttons, and before long, helicopter pilot Mallory is in his arms and in...
An irresistible fling... that changed his life for ever... What's the key to a happy life? Well, for relationship-weary doctor Kaleb it's simple... Keep love out of the equation! But when diagnostician Nicola is introduced as his new colleague, life ...
"As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Coleshares is plucked from her too-tame existence when she is invited to tour as the only white backup singer for Vernon and Ruby Shakely and the Shakettes. The exciting years she spends as a Shakette are a mix...
"This collection of stories about love and privacy is serious, funny, tender, and alive with the elegance and spirit that characterize Laurie Colwin's work.In these stories, the reader moves among young men and women: pianists, historians, book illus...
"Eight connected stories recount the temporary, eventful affair of Billy DeLielle and Frank Clemons and Billy's gradual achievement of confidence and openness, especially with and within her marriage"--Provided by publisher.
"Rodeo cowboy Wes Harding left his family ranch after one reckless mistake cost his loved ones everything. But when his sister needs help, Wes agrees to come home and take the reins of their ranch's big charity event. However, he didn't plan for his....
"They live in the big houses on the pretty street. Those other women, as we call them. And to think I used to want to be like them, to have their money and happiness, to live and laugh and play like them. Not any more. It's the fourth of July and the...
"Indie filmmaker Kyle Freeman is a man at the end of his tether. He faces bankruptcy and obscurity, until he lands a commission to make an unusual documentary. The Temple of the Last Days was a notorious cult, which reached its bloody endgame in the ...
"The Games are the biggest underground event in the world, followed by millions online. New recruits must leave behind their twenty-first century lives and vie for dominance in a gruelling battle to the death armed only with ancient weapons - and their...
"The insect kingdom has finally come to seek retribution for humankind's negligence. Never has a creature been so topical - with headlines warning of the mosquito bearing viruses, fire ants destroying power sources, invasive yellow ladybirds or an ec...
"When her twin brother goes missing in Northern California, Vivian Owens follows his trail to the town of Mount Hookey, home to the followers of Telos: a mountain-worshipping cult that offers spiritual fulfilment to those who seek it. While trying to...
"It's the most wonderful time of the year... Isn't it? This year, Lottie is hosting one last big family Christmas at the home she grew up in - just like her Nana would have wanted. But when her relatives descend on the old manor house, Lottie gets more...
"The locals of the Cornish village of Polperran are grieving the sudden loss of Bea Kimbrel, a cornerstone of their small community. Now her reclusive, estranged daughter Alice has turned up, keen to tie up Bea's affairs and move on. But Alice receives...
"When the remains of a young woman are discovered near to Branodunum, a Roman archaeological site on the Norfolk coast, DI Tom Janssen and his team must work to discover who she was and how she came to be buried there. The area is steeped in myth and...
"Susan Knight has a good life. So she turns a blind eye to the gambling winnings her husband Donny puts through the books at her salon. After all, he needs some way to unwind. At work, he is a headteacher at Second Chance, an alternative provisions school...
"When anxiety-prone Rachel Granza learns that her growing sense of emptiness is affecting her relationship with her almost perfect boyfriend and that she's jeopardizing any possibility of a marriage proposal, she knows she must pull herself out of her...
"When Annie returns to Thorndale, the village where she spent much of her childhood, she's looking for a new start. All she wants to do is fix up the cottage her godmother left her, and fix up her broken heart. When she clashes with local hero Jon, Annie...
"Alba meets Massimo, an elderly man who wants to spend his final years pruning his fruit trees, alone with his painful memories. His face turns pale when Alba brings up the war, but she senses that their shared grief connects them. An unlikely friendship...
"When a fishing boat is wrecked off the treacherous North Sea coast and the body of a young woman washes up on the beach beside the iconic 'Marsden Rock', DCI Ryan cannot ignore the call to duty. With one already dead and more human cargo missing from...
"Single mother Marissa stands in her daughter's untidy room. Olivia's phone is still charging at the wall and her clothes are still hanging in her closet. The mirror above her daughter's desk is cracked and a message written in red ink reads 'Never F...
"In 1967 a group of Dublin socialites gather in an old lake house in the West of Ireland for a summer break. But, before they leave, they will have witnessed something that will silently haunt them all the days of their lives... Moira Fitzpatrick has...
"Baal has been saved from the tyranids, yet the Blood Angels' greatest challenge awaits them. Reinforced by the new Primaris Space Marines, Commander Dante has been made warden of Imperium Nihilus. But to save the shattered Imperium, he and his brothers...
"1870. Apprentice lighthouseman James Meakes joins two others at the remote offshore rock of Ripsaw Reef - replacement for a keeper whose death there remains unexplained. Meakes' suspicions grow as he accustoms himself to his new vertical world. He f...
"The crumbling marble angel is Vega's most ambitious restoration project yet, but she thinks she can manage it, if she could just find somewhere to house the statue while she works. Her father, Vince, has the solution: the abandoned Seafarers' Hotel,...
"A writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant; though for a long time he succeeds mainly in procrastinating - getting an electrician to rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer; buying...
"With an air of faded splendour, Willoughby Hall was an idyllic childhood home to Ruben de Lacy. Gazing at it now, decades later, the memories are flooding back, and not all of them are welcome... In a tumbledown cottage in Willoughby's grounds, Dolly...
"Natasha and Daniel were meant for each other. On paper you'd never think it so; whilst Taz would arrive at school hungry and in clothes too small, Dan's affluent background was no secret. But they were drawn together and found comfort in the fact that...
"In 1944, in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Nunawading, a brutal triple murder heralds the return of a long-forgotten cult. A man named Anthony Prescott has declared himself the Messiah and has promised his followers immortality. There are those who believe...
"In 1752, Seamus a'Ghlynne, James of the Glen, was executed for the murder of government man Colin Campbell. He was almost certainly innocent. When banners are placed at his gravesite claiming that his namesake, James Stewart, is innocent of murder, ...
"An agent with an agenda. A killer with a conscience. A showdown that brought a global network to its knees ... For disgraced MI5 agent Michael Kensington, the events of the past year have exploded his life like a fist closing around a grenade. For s...
"1661, North Berwick, Scotland: One stormy night, healer Honor Seton and her daughter Alice are summoned to save the town lord's wife - but they're too late. A vengeful crusade against the Seton women leads to whispers of witchcraft all over town. Honor...
"When her parents die in a car accident, the highly talented physicist Ruth Schwarz is confronted with an almost intractable problem. Her parents' will calls for them to be buried in their childhood home - but for strangers, Gross-Einland is a village...
"A coffin is dug up by builders in the grounds of an historic convent - inside is the body of a young nun. In a city as old as London, the discovery is hardly surprising. But when scratch marks are found on the inside of the coffin lid, Detective Jane...
"Paige might bake wedding cakes for a living but that doesn't mean she's dreaming about her own perfect day. Far from it. Trusting people is hard after she was badly let down by her family and boyfriend just when she needed them most. And to make things...
"In 1360, the Great Bridge over the River Cam is close to collapse. To repair it will cost the town and the University dear, especially if its rotten wood is replaced by more durable stone. As arguments rage over raising the money other, equally heat...
"After another taxing day as the sole female employee at her New York City tech startup, Edwina comes home to find that her husband, Marlin, has packed up a suitcase and left. Did he give up on their increasingly hopeless quest to secure their green cards...
"DC Maggie Jamieson crosses paths once again with Probation Officer Lucy Sherwood when a domestic violence survivor stumbles into her new refuge, unable to speak, desperate for help. Then another case hits Maggie's desk. A young man has been murdered,...
"Twenty years ago a girl was snatched from the Isle of Portland and the world kept on turning. Her name was Anna Hunter. And her sister's world ground to a halt. Emma Hunter is now a bestselling investigative journalist renowned internationally for h...
"For a Homicide cop, murder often started the day. For the mixed-race female sloppily wrapped in a tarp and stuffed in a construction site dumpster, it had surely ended hers... Lt. Eve Dallas hasn't even arrived at work when her first call of the day...
"Vanessa has always found it easy to pretend to be somebody different, somebody better. When things get tough in her real life, all she has to do is throw on some nicer clothes, adopt a new accent and she can escape. That's how it started: looking round...
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