Purgatory Curve


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Two elderly hog farmers, who lived close to New Dresden, had accumulated substantial wealth. They purchased a computer, and hired Tom Hastings to help them learn how to use it. One of the brothers was killed in a train/pickup crash, which Hastings witnessed from the sidewalk. Some of the people in the area, including Hastings, didn't believe that the crash was an accident. Jolene Hunt, a friend of Hastings, had emotional ties to the victim. An elderly woman's memory divulged deadly information to her, which led to gripping adventures. The farmer's only known relative, an antagonistic nephew, used threats and the force of violence to impede Hunt's fight for justice. Investigations by local law enforcement were unproductive because of corruption from within.




Purgatory's Gate


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A dead young woman A mysterious cult A murdered best friend A menacing evil A trio of bloody killings Religious fanatics on the loose A black mass of ritual beheadings A satanic madness rules all After healthy young Debra Miller dies giving birth, guilt-ridden Dr. David Monroe's secret investigation yields the discovery of a truth too horrifying to believe: a bloodthirsty satanic cult is preparing the way for the Anti-Christ. Our deepest, darkest dreams of hell on earth are about to become reality. With the help of a disillusioned priest, Monroe has to confront the battle between good and evil that lurks in the human mind. To find those who are committed to do anything, no matter how ruthless, to fulfill their fanatic religious beliefs...before his blood is sacrificed next. Enter Purgatory's Gate and discover a world where madness and violence reign.




A Circle of Three


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Mandy enters A Circle of Three with her friends April and Sandy in a Newport, Rhode Island summer of seventeenth birthdays, summer jobs, an Enchanted Hurricane, and a Dream Invader, who's after a secret that the girls don't even know they're guarding. Struggling to catch up in her Magikal training with her friends, Mandy's newfound chaotic skills are both helpful and dangerous as the three teens and April's precocious younger sister, Brenna, try to have a normal summer amidst the coming Hurricane's 'Winds of Misfortune', the appearance of Aisling, the mischievous Invader of their summer Dreams, and an unwelcome return of Courtney who helps and hinders their every step. Each girl deals with a recent past as Sandys mom, Karen, struggles with her own past, a past that only Three can Free.




Purgatory's Shore


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On their way to fight in the Mexican-American War, a group of American soldiers are swept away to a strange and deadly alternate Earth in this thrilling new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. The United States, 1847. A disparate group of young American soldiers are bound to join General Winfield Scott's campaign against Santa Anna at Veracruz during the Mexican-American War. They never arrive. Or rather . . . they arrive somewhere else. The untried, idealistic soldiers are mostly replacements, really; a handful of infantry, artillery, dragoons, and a few mounted riflemen with no unified command. And they've been shipwrecked on a terrible, different Earth full of monsters and unimaginable enemies. Major Lewis Cayce, late of the 3rd US "Flying" Artillery, must unite these men to face their fears and myriad threats, armed with little more than flintlock muskets, a few pieces of artillery, and a worldview that spiritually and culturally rebels against virtually everything they encounter. It will take extraordinary leadership and a cadre of equally extraordinary men and women to mold frightened troops into an effective force, make friends with other peoples the evil Holy Dominion would eradicate, and reshape their "manifest destiny" into a cause they can all believe in and fight for. For only together will they have any hope of survival.




Yaguareté White


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In Diego Báez’s debut collection, Yaguareté White, English, Spanish, and Guaraní encounter each other through the elusive yet potent figure of the jaguar. The son of a Paraguayan father and a mother from Pennsylvania, Baéz grew up in central Illinois as one of the only brown kids on the block—but that didn’t keep him from feeling like a gringo on family visits to Paraguay. Exploring this contradiction as it weaves through experiences of language, self, and place, Baéz revels in showing up the absurdities of empire and chafes at the limits of patrimony, but he always reserves his most trenchant irony for the gaze he turns on himself. Notably, this raucous collection also wrestles with Guaraní, a state-recognized Indigenous language widely spoken in Paraguay. Guaraní both structures and punctures the book, surfacing in a sequence of jokes that double as poems, and introducing but leaving unresolved ambient questions about local histories of militarism, masculine bravado, and the outlook of the campos. Cutting across borders of every kind, Baéz’s poems attempt to reconcile the incomplete, contradictory, and inconsistent experiences of a speaking self that resides between languages, nations, and generations. Yaguareté White is a lyrical exploration of Paraguayan American identity and what it means to see through a colored whiteness in all of its tangled contradictions.




Legacies: Book #3: Purgatory's Key


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"Based on Star trek created by Gene Roddenberry."




Texas Bomber


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Texas Bomber By: Ernest Francis Schanilec Tom and Samantha Hastings, warm weather Minnesotans and winter Texans, are currently enjoying the balmy climate at Texas Palms Resort in Donna, Texas. Their stay is interrupted by a stranger named Nick, who offers Tom a part-time job: ferrying oil tanker truckers from Texas Palms across the border to Progreso, Mexico, where they will set off on their run to Bloomington, Minnesota. Tom quickly accepts, but Samantha soon has concerns about the legitimacy of the job. Her reservations deepen when first one man and then another are murdered at Texas Palms, blown up in their golf carts. Both men are far from being innocent victims. They seem to belong to a rival organization seeking to interfere with the company Tom works for. The scenario is reminiscent of what Sammy saw in The Godfather, but will Tom listen to her concerns, or will he too meet a gruesome fate?




Dead Man's Curve


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A spy comes back from the dead in the first book in The Gates series from the award-winning author of the Campbell Cove Academy books. Coming in from the cold is the only choice for Sinclair Solano, once a fiery young radical turned CIA double agent turned fugitive. Not only must he free his kidnapped sister from the rebels he betrayed, but he also must clear his name. And neither will be easy with beautiful FBI agent Ava Trent dogging his trail. Seeing no other option, Sin uneasily joins forces with Ava to plan an ultra-daring guerilla attack and rescue op. But the mission requires trusting Ava, and putting her irresistible body in the line of fire. Being alive has never been so dangerous . . .




Purgatory's Angel


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“An awesome paranormal romance that fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon and J. R. Ward will really enjoy . . . No simple angels here.”—Danielle DeVor, author of the Marker Chronicles Jaime Connor was once one of the mightiest archangels in heaven. Sent to earth to stop demons from claiming another victim in their sleep, she has battled far too long. Tired of all the killing, she awaits the demon who will overpower her and send her back to heaven. Yet her life lingers on and a dream she can’t remember plagues her thoughts. Only remnants of her memory remain in the image of a gorgeous demon who circled her before the kill—the scent of Ireland on his breathe, a brogue on his tongue, and the sea in his penetrating eyes. The demon must have died. She never would have woken if he hadn’t. That’s how it works. How it’s always worked. So why did he appear in her world the next day? And why is he trying to seduce her? Will he be the fated one to finally steal the life of the strongest dark angel the world has ever known? If she’s lucky, that will be all he steals. “With compelling characters, interesting subplots and plenty of paranormal action Purgatory’s Angel is the kind of book that keeps one up at night! Kudos to Ms. Hughes-Millman for some of the most well-written action scenes this reviewer has ever had the pleasure of reading!”—InD’tale (5 stars)




Purgatory


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'You don't want to be digging there,' Ma says like he can hear her. No one can hear her, just us boys. We're the dead Finnegans – Ma, Thomas, Ben and me. Ten-year-old John Finnegan can't leave his garden. Ever since they were murdered he, his brothers and his ma have been stuck there, caught between the worlds of the living and the dead. Unseen and unnoticed, he watches the events after his life unfold – including the actions of his murderer. James Stack is born dirt-poor on an Irish tenant farm and the great famine shadows his childhood. But his clever sister's lace making may save the family – until Aileen is sent to the other side of the world on a convict ship. To save her, James joins the redcoats and follows her across dangerous waters to a hopeful new land. But can he ever leave the death and hunger of his homeland behind? Based on the 1865 Otahuhu murders, Purgatory is a startling, gripping novel from an immensely talented new author.




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