Abandon the Night


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Abandon the Night


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New York Times bestselling author Colleen Gleason (writing as Joss Ware) continues the Envy Chronicles, featuring men who have emerged from raging fires to be humankind's last hope … Quentin Fielding had everything. Money. Power. Women. But now that civilization is all but annihilated, Quent wants only one thing: revenge on the man responsible for the chaos and destruction, the man he should have killed years ago—his father. Zoë Kapoor is on her own quest for vengeance. The arrow-wielding beauty is searching for the fiends who murdered her family. Together with Quent, she journeys through the ruins of the world they once knew, on a hunt that draws them closer to an enemy they never imagined …




Abandon (The Abandon Trilogy, Book 1)


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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld. Pierce knows what it's like to die, because she's done it before. Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she's never alone . . . because someone is always watching her.Now she's moved to a new town, but even here, he finds her. Pierce knows he's no guardian angel, and his dark world isn't exactly heaven, yet she can't stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most. If she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.




Abandon


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"Jag, Zenn, Vi, and the rest of the resistance are determined to take down the Thinkers, but there is a traitor among them, who could cost them their cause--and their lives"--




They Cage the Animals at Night


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For use in schools and libraries only. The true story of an abandoned child's struggle for emotional survival.




Awaken (The Abandon Trilogy, Book 3)


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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, the dark reimagining of the Persephone myth comes to a thrilling conclusion. Death has her in his clutches. She doesn't want him to let go.Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera knew by accepting the love of John Hayden, she'd be forced to live forever in the one place she's always dreaded most: the Underworld. The sacrifice seemed worth it, though, because it meant she could be with the boy she loves.But now her happiness -- and safety -- are threatened, all because the Furies have discovered that John has broken one of their strictest rules: He revived a human soul.If the balance between life and death isn't fixed, both the Underworld and Pierce's home back on earth will be wiped away. But there's only one way to restore order. Someone has to die.




Abandon


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John Macmillan Is An Englishman In California Studying Sufism, And In Particular Rumi, The Thirteenth-Century Islamic Mystic And At Present Best-Selling Poet In America. Travelling To Damascus, He Hears Rumours Of A Secret, Heretical Manuscript That Might Have Escaped From Iran During The Chaos Of Its Revolution, And, Taking A Message Back To California, Ends Up Encountering Camilla Jensen, An Open If Somewhat Wayward Californian, Who Seems In Some Way Connected To The World Of Fugitive Texts. Following The Trail Of Mystical Poems Through Spain And India To Iran, And Trying To Unravel The Mystery That Lies Behind Camilla, John Finds Himself Descending Ever Deeper Into A World Of Passion And Bewilderment. Then, Suddenly, A Manuscript Appears, And Camilla Disappears, Leaving Him Closer To An Understanding Of Some Things, Yet Further From A Real Understanding Of What Is Most Important To Him. Eerie And Incandescent, Abandon Displays Iyer'S Unique Gift For Showing The Dance Of Dreams And Desires And Preconceptions That Ensues When Cultures Collide.




Song for Night


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My Luck, a West African boy solider who has not spoken for three years, fights in a senseless war and embarks on a terrifying yet beautiful journey to find his lost platoon.




My Life and Hard Times


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Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches and writings. In My Life and Hard times, first published in 1933, he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature.




Abandon


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Rediscover New York Times best seling author, Carla Neggers, sixth book of her thrilling Cold Ridge Series. On what is supposed to be a quiet long weekend in New Hampshire, Deputy U.S. Marshal Mackenzie Stewart is viciously attacked at the lakefront cottage of her friend, federal judge Bernadette Peacham. Mac fends off her attacker, but he manages to escape. Everything suggests he's a deranged drifter—until FBI special agent Andrew Rook arrives. With Rook, Mac broke her own rule not to get involved with anyone in law enforcement, but she knows he isn't up from Washington, D.C., to set things straight between them. He's on a case. As the hunt for the mysterious attacker continues, the case takes an unexpected turn when Mac and Rook return to Washington and find Bernadette's ex-husband, a powerful attorney, shot to death. Then Bernadette disappears, and Mac and Rook realize the stakes are higher than either had imagined, and a master criminal with nothing left to lose is prepared to gamble everything.