The Director

The Director

C. S Luis

C. S Luis

Dr. Nicholson has arrived in Milton. He's determined to find the source he's been in search of, even if his hunter has fallen off his game. Finding a new love interest in Dr. Aaron Spencer was never part of his plan. Despite his best intentions, he can't leave the other man alone. Darkness is coming for Claudia Belle and when it arrives, Claudia will discover powers she never knew she had. It's getting tougher and tougher to hide who she is, especially with Dr. Nicholson trying to take John away from her. John Slater knows there's only one way to keep Claudia, but he'll have to trust the very man who betrayed him to achieve his goals. If all goes according to plan, Claudia and John will have a chance to build a future together, but they will both have to leave behind everything they've come to know and love.
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Forsaken Island

Forsaken Island

Sharon Hinck

Sharon Hinck

On an uncharted world, happiness is effortless and constant ... but can true joy exist without sacrifice? The people of Meriel have long believed their island world floats alone in the vast ocean universe, so they are astonished when another island drifts into view. With resources becoming scarce, Carya and Brantley quickly volunteer to search the new land for supplies. After navigating a barrier of menacing trees, the pair encounter a culture of perpetually happy people who readily share their talents and their possessions. But all is not what it seems. At the core of the island is a horror that threatens everyone, including Brantley and Carya. Freeing the villagers of the bondage they've chosen may cost Carya and Brantley more than they could have imagined. Even if the two succeed, they'll have to find a way to return to Meriel quickly ... or be cut off from their home forever.
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Killing Crazy Horse

Killing Crazy Horse

Bill O'Reilly

European Literature / Fiction

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers. The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught history of our country's founding on already occupied lands, from General Andrew Jackson's brutal battles with the Creek Nation to President James Monroe's epic "sea to shining sea" policy, to President Martin Van Buren's cruel enforcement of a "treaty" that forced the Cherokee Nation out of their homelands along what would be...
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The Mourning Missed

The Mourning Missed

J. Don Wright

J. Don Wright

Lilly is born in Vietnam in 1974 after her African-American serviceman father is sent stateside. She meets him for the first time at 18 months old, when he is finally able to reunite the family. Her mother dies in childbirth of her fifth brother and her father crawls into a bottle. Lilly graduates from the Police Academy in Montrose City, Louisiana at age 21 and soon becomes embroiled in one of the largest drugs-and-guns smuggling rings ever devised. Along the way she meets Clint, her split-apart or soul mate, who dies in the line of duty shortly after they graduate. Through a combination of fate, persistence, and Voodoo magic, she absorbs Clint's soul and becomes...one very special police officer. Follow Lilly as she battles mercenary hit squads, street gangs, and the political powers-that-be who control organized crime in her city.
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Fool's Paradise

Fool's Paradise

Mike Lupica

Mike Lupica

When an unknown man is found murdered in Paradise, Jesse Stone will have his hands full finding out who he was—and what he was seeking.When a body is discovered at the lake in Paradise, Police Chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim—the man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him, nor does any neighboring state have a reported missing person matching the man's description. Their single lead is from a taxi company that recalls dropping off the mysterious stranger outside the gate at the mansion of one of the wealthiest families in town... Meanwhile, after Jesse survives a hail of gunfire on his home, he wonders if it could be related to the mysterious murder. When both Molly Crane and Suitcase Simpson also become targets, it's clear someone has an ax to grind against the entire Paradise Police Department.
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Open House

Open House

Jane Christmas

Jane Christmas

Moving house has never flustered author Jane Christmas. She loves houses: viewing them, negotiating their price, dreaming up interior plans, hiring tradespeople to do the work and overseeing renovations. She loves houses so much that she's moved thirty-two times.There are good reasons for her latest house move, but after viewing sixty homes, Jane and her husband succumb to the emotional fatigue of an overheated English housing market and buy a wreck in the town of Bristol that is overpriced, will require more money to renovate than they have and that neither of them particularly like.As Jane's nightmare renovation begins, her mind returns to the Canadian homes where she grew up with parents who moved and renovated constantly around the Toronto area. Suddenly, the protective seal is blown off Jane's memory of a strict and peripatetic childhood and its ancillary damage—lost friends, divorces, suicide attempts—and the past threatens to shake the...
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Fake It 'Til You Break It

Fake It 'Til You Break It

Brandy, Meagan

Brandy, Meagan

Fake.That's what we are.That's what we agreed to be.I thought it would be harder, convincing everyone our school's star receiver was mine and mine alone, but we played our parts well.So well, the lines between us began to blur until they disappeared completely.The thing about pretending, though, someone's always better at it, and by the time I realized my mistake, there was no going back.I fell for our lie.And then everything fell apart.It turned out, he and I were never playing the same game. He didn't have to break me to win. But he did it anyway.  
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Hidden

Hidden

Linda Gillard

Linda Gillard

A birth.A death.Hidden for a hundred years.1918..."Lady, fiancé killed, will gladly marry officer totally blinded or otherwise incapacitated by the war."A sense of duty and a desire for a child lead celebrated artist Esme Howard to share her life and her home – 16th-century Myddleton Mote – with Captain Guy Carlyle, an officer whose face and body have been ravaged by war. But Esme knows nothing of the ugliness that lurks within Guy's tortured mind, as he re-lives, night after night, the horrors of the trenches.As a child grows within her, Esme fears Guy's wrath will be turned on them both. A prisoner in her own home, she paints like one possessed, trusting that one day someone will hear her silent cries for help.2018...When Miranda Norton inherits Myddleton Mote and its art collection from a father she never knew, she decides to move on after the end of an unhappy marriage. Inviting her extended family to join her,...
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Noble Front

Noble Front

Hideyuki Kikuchi

Hideyuki Kikuchi

Out on the Frontier, the killers called the "Nameless" have no wanted posters—because everyone they go after winds up dead. Now D must measure his sword against these grotesque and deadly freaks!Hired by the mayor of Schwartzen to stop a corrupt political ploy that would sacrifice human lives to appease the local Noble, Grand Duke Bergenzy, the vampire hunter arrives in town to find his client has himself dropped dead under suspicious circumstances. His widow, wanting no more bloodshed, begs D to simply forget the job—but D's interest in the job is just beginning...
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