The Monster Baru Cormorant


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A breathtaking geopolitical epic fantasy, The Monster Baru Cormorant is the sequel to Seth Dickinson's "fascinating tale" (The Washington Post), The Traitor Baru Cormorant. Her world was shattered by the Empire of Masks. For the power to shatter the Masquerade, She betrayed everyone she loved. The traitor Baru Cormorant is now the cryptarch Agonist—a secret lord of the empire she's vowed to destroy. Hunted by a mutinous admiral, haunted by the wound which has split her mind in two, Baru leads her dearest foes on an expedition for the secret of immortality. It's her chance to trigger a war that will consume the Masquerade. But Baru's heart is broken, and she fears she can no longer tell justice from revenge...or her own desires from the will of the man who remade her.




The Right to Remain Silent


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Page-turning detective fiction from the author of I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES / THE IRISHMAN who was himself a homicide investigator and prosecutor. Wisecracking cop Lou Razzi’s zeal, dedication and talent for extracting information from suspects make him destined to rise quickly through the ranks . . . until a frame-up sends him to jail for two years. He loses his career, his marriage, and his baby daughter, and following his release from prison, he leaves the country for a sort of self-imposed exile in Brazil. Fifteen years later, an exonerated, more hardened Razzi comes back to serve a single day on the force and claim his pension. But that one day becomes a continuing education when Razzi is drawn onto a conspiracy and finds his old police tools fruitless in the wake of the Miranda decision. Forced to learn, like a rookie, from his mistakes, he starts to find his way with the help of assistant district attorney Honey Gold. . . and is able to combat the powers that framed him then and thrive now in the new era of police procedure. When The Right to Remain Silent was first published, then-President Ronald Reagan wrote Brandt an unsolicited fan letter: “I commend your novel…for your forthright stand on improving protection of law-abiding citizens.” "The Right to Remain Silent is a novel written and to be read for entertainment, but it also encourages study of the art of interrogation and contains the line that 'confession is one of the necessities of life, like food and shelter.'" -- Charles Brandt from the Preface




Ruby River Ruckus


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Virginia city was being overrun with outlaws,thugs,and criminals of every kind. Citizens couldnt walk down the streets safely. They had no law and order and the recently organized city council was struggling to find a solution. They heard about a sheriff named George Menton who had cleaned up many Texas towns and recently Oklahoma City. Bart was picked to go find him and try to convince him to come to Virginia City. Bart wondered why a famous man like that would agree to come to Virginia City,but he had to try.




Games for Fun, Fitness and Learning


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This is the Australian edition of a games book for parents, teachers, childcare workers, Cub Scout leaders, home-schooling families, and anyone else who supervises or entertains children. The book contains 339 activities, and is divided into three main sections: physical and mental, life skill, and educational. The physical and mental games are for fun and fitness, and can be enjoyed at birthday parties, family get-togethers and weekend outings. The life skill games are designed especially for Cub and Brownie Leaders, and include map and compass reading, knotting, first aid, home safety and outdoor cooking. The educational games include fun activities in maths, English, science, history, geography, foreign languages, art and music. Teachers and home-schooling families will find this section instructive, stimulating and very unusual. The games are suitable for 7 to 17 year olds, and some of the activities will stretch the minds of even the cleverest teenagers.




My Name is Runaway


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It's day 2 of the extermination of the worst criminals in Tersatellus, and things aren't looking much easier for anyone involved. Temporarily exiled in Hudson Bay, the criminals in question have to deal with all sorts of cultural divides, from language barriers to locals trying to kill them, not to mention the wildlife trying to eat them and automobile malfunctions trying to fry them. And that's just when the two established gangs aren't fighting. Well, technically only two. When new participants turn out to be old friends interested in a treasonous alliance, Rat manages to find herself in even deeper trouble, which is impressive for someone who started her Monday blowing up an island and being revealed as one of the greatest saboteurs of her country's history. With her own past unravelling beyond her control and her future turning less certain by the hour, this longtime fugitive of the law has to figure out where her loyalties lie and what things she can't escape from.




Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences


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From the Creators of the award-winning steampunk Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series ( Phoenix Rising and the Janus Affair) comes a collection of new adventures from around the world. The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences investigates the bizarre and unusual, and protects the citizens of the Empire from forces of darkness. Every agent knows that thrusting themselves into danger is part of the job, and may demand of them the ultimate sacrifice. They call on their own inner strength, wits, intellect, and innovations of science and technology. But is it enough to face the unknown and the unexplainable? This is Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, a collection of short stories featuring the derring-do of secret agents cut from a different cloth. These original short stories feature the imagination and voices of... Leanna Rennee Hieber The League of S.T.E.A.M.’s Glenn Freund Delilah S. Dawson Jared Axelrod Tiffany Trent Karina Cooper ...and many more! Travel to the farthest corners of Queen Victoria’s mighty empire and back again to the shores of Old Blighty, unlocking the mysteries of legend, lore, and shadowy societies. Welcome to a world of steam, secrets, machinations and madness.




Long Way Down


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DIVDIVA John Doe murder spurs Hastings to confront the leader of a Satanic cult/divDIV For homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings, the day starts with an assassination attempt. During a rally in San Francisco’s Civic Center, someone takes a potshot at the governor, sending the whole of downtown into chaos. Once he has taken control of the scene, Hastings chases down the gunman—a Mexican immigrant with a political bent—and captures him after a tense standoff. Miraculously, no one is killed. But Hastings’s long day is just getting started./divDIV He’s barely had time to catch his breath when the call comes in from Noe Valley, where an unidentified man has been found dead on a nude model’s floor. All signs point to a simple case of death by jealousy until a second killing upends the investigation, setting Hastings on a collision course with the charismatic leader of a Satanic cult. For this homicide lieutenant, saving the governor will have been the easy part./div/div




The Divine Engine


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A past filled with sexual and emotional abuse has left Marcus Quincy, as he would often say, "One more childhood trauma away from becoming the next Ted Bundy or John Wayne Gacy." Due to his tumultuous past, Marcus has frequently been exposed to the cruelty and ignorance of others and has slowly distanced himself from the outside world and all of the people in it. All, that is, but his beautiful wife Anna and their twin daughters Tara and Tori. Marcus loves his family more than life itself and he will do anything for them! Marcus struggles with the concept of becoming the savior of a world he has spent his life hiding from, a world he has grown to despise. He reflects on his past, how ridicule and discrimination had molded him into a potential time bomb of violence and hatred, and how choice and the unconditional bond of love he shares with his family had saved him from that dark path. Guided by a being of light and hunted by a psychotic version of himself from another reality, Marcus embarks on a journey throughout the multiple realities of Heaven, Hell, and the known universe in search of the pieces to the Divine Engine, mankind's only hope of stopping Armageddon. The story unveils Marcus' struggles with his past and his faith, humanity and all its frailties, the possible existence of Heaven and Hell, and above all else, the ripple effect a single choice can have on future events. Will Marcus find the faith within himself and all of humanity to gather the knowledge and power to confront pure evil? And can Marcus make the ultimate sacrifice to save the human race?




The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told


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The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told celebrates the art of hunting fish at many angles. This ancient tradition is practiced all over the world. Tales of baiting, angling, and the watery outdoors are recounted by great writers such as Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, and Lord Byron. In scenic rivers, lakes, and seas, praise the trout, snap up that salmon, angle, aim, and sing the fisherman’s song! This superbly presented collection of fishing stories will set the reader sailing on the Loch or along the Thames and tracking down sharks or carp in many exciting waterways. You will find memories, essays, true stories, and fishing accounts more or less exaggerated or imagined. Their authors and their editor, Nick Lyons, all share a communicable passion for a great day out fishing—a passion only surpassed by the love of telling the tale with or without the catch to show! With work by more than one hundred of the world’s most eminent authors and fishermen, including: John McPhee Howell Raines Ted Leeson Jimmy Carter Lefty Kreh Dave Barry Norman Maclean Rudyard Kipling And many more!




The Pride Series Bundle 2


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Once the hot-blooded shapeshifters in New York Times bestselling author Shelly Laurenston’s Pride series catch a scent of desire, the hunt is on, and every fang and claw are out and ready to take what truly belongs to them . . . BEAST BEHAVING BADLY Some men just have more to offer. Like Bo Novikov: he’s part polar bear, part lion, and pure alpha . . . Ten years after Blayne Thorpe first encountered Bo, she still can't get the smooth-talking shifter out of her head. Now he's shadowing her in New York, determined to protect her from stalkers who want to use her in shifter dogfights. She may insist Bo's nothing but a pain in her delectable behind, but polar bears have patience in spades. Soon she'll realize how good they can be together. And when she does, animal instinct tells him it'll be worth the wait . . . BIG BAD BEAST When it comes to following her instincts, former Marine Dee-Ann Smith never holds back. As a deadly member of a shifter protection group, she’ll do anything to prove one of her own kind is having hybrids captured for dogfights. But her too-cute, rich-boy boss Ric Van Holtz is making it real hard for Dee to keep her heart safe. He's wanted the fiercely independent she-wolf from day one, and he’s ready to show her what she needs is a wily, resourceful wolf who'll always have her back in a fight . . . and between the sheets. BEAR MEETS GIRL Lou Crushek is a reasonable, mellow, easygoing kind of guy. But once someone starts killing the scumbags he works so hard to bust, that really gets under his fur. Especially when that someone is Marcella Malone, a curvy she-tiger from an elite feline protection unit ready to body drop anyone who hunts her kind. Her impressive skill set is turning Crush's lone-bear world upside down—and bringing his passion out of hibernation . . . WOLF WITH BENEFITS Sure, Toni Jean-Louis Parker has to be the responsible oldest sister to a crazy-brilliant clan of jackal siblings. But now she's cutting loose for some hot, sweaty, no-commitments fun—and the sexy, slow-talking, swift-moving predator assigned to keep her family safe is just the right thing to shapeshift her love life into overdrive. Trouble is, Ricky Lee Reed's starting to get all obsessive wolf on her every time he looks in her direction . . Praise for the Novels of Shelly Laurenston “Hot and humorous.” —USAToday.com “Shelly Laurenston’s shifter books are full of oddball characters, strong females with attitude and dialogue that can have you laughing out loud.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “A little bit of everything . . . humor, passion, and suspense with a touch of paranormal.” —FreshFiction "Hot shape-shifters and even hotter passion." —New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter "Delicious, sexy and wicked fun!" —New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter on Bear Meets Girl "Non-stop laughter, snark, and witty banter." —SmexyBooks on Beast Behaving Badly