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1) Rock bottom
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"The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right. Isabelle "Izzy" Flanders and Yoko Akia are beginning a new project-an indoor/outdoor cafe that will be the cornerstone of a market village. Izzy knows just where to get the project off the ground-...
2) Knockout
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One of the Hell's Belles-a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London, Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other.
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"A gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives. In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five thousand residents have toughed it out, and have reasons for both worry and hope as this neglected place teeters between decay and renewal. For some of them, their biggest troubles...
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Jack Reacher stand aside, Joe Hunter is on the job! Dead Men's Dust marks the debut appearance of an unforgettable new tough-guy hero-as Matt Hilton, a superb new thrill-master, joins the ranks of Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Robert Crais, John Sandford, and Michael Connelly. Readers will be riveted as ex-military officer Hunter follows the trail of his estranged brother, who may be the next target of a terrifying serial killer.
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2023 Best Adult Fiction & Nonfiction (SCPL)
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD New York Times Top 10 Books of 2023
OBD 100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times Book Review - Adult
OBD New York Times Top 10 Books of 2023
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"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman...
6) Vapor trail
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It's hot.
The snow is gone, the ice is gone — winter is long forgotten. When the phone wakes Phil Broker at five a.m. on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday — six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life — it's already ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave in local memory.
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Lena Diaz launches her thrilling new series featuring the undercover vigilantes of EXIT Inc. with a skilled operative putting his life-and his heart-on the line for a woman in trouble
When Sabrina Hightower awakens to the sound of an intruder, she figures he's there to rob her, murder her- or worse. She doesn't expect to be carried off by a muscle-bound stud with male-model good looks . . . or that he came to rescue her.
Mason Hunt became an enforcer...
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Sun of blood and ruin volume 1
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In 16th-century New Spain, Lady Leonora, with witchcraft punishable by death, masquerades as Pantera, who uses her magic to fight the tyranny of Spanish rule--and who is doomed to a short life, and must fight to the end when an ancient prophecy of destruction threatens to come true.
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Jordan Manning novels volume 2
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After dropping her child off at preschool, Marla Hancock, a stay-at-home mother, disappears. She had recently left her verbally abusive husband in rural Indiana and moved in with her sister, Shelly, who simply can't believe that her sister would ever willingly vanish without her children. But with limited support from the town's police department or media resources, Shelly fears that Marla's disappearance won't get the attention it deserves, or worse,...
10) No exit
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Lena Diaz returns to the thrilling world of EXIT Inc., with two enemies who become unlikely allies-and discover that only through love can they save each other
As an agent of the Equalizers, Jace Atwell will risk everything to destroy EXIT Inc., the corrupt antiterrorist group, before more innocent lives are lost. The only way to infiltrate EXIT is by getting close to the CEO's beautiful daughter, but when they get a little too close, Jace finds...
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"It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the slaughter for himself--an entire family murdered--he can't let it go. Especially when the eldest daughter is missing. Right there and then, Caine makes a fateful decision: throw away his badge, form a vigilante team, and go after the killers ... There's one problem: Who would be crazy enough to join him?...
12) Batman returns
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Gotham City faces two monstrous criminal menaces: the bizarre, sinister Penguin and the slinky, mysterious Catwoman. Can Batman battle two formidable foes at once?
13) Brides of blood
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A detective fights corruption in a city whose most vicious killers work for the state. More than a decade after the dawn of Iran's Islamic Republic, Darius Bakhtiar still chafes under the harsh yoke of Sharia law. He is an alcoholic in a country where intoxication is punishable by whipping, and a homicide detective in a society that sees death as an opportunity for martyrdom. In Teheran, a young woman is found murdered, but her makeup and scanty clothing...
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"Ren came to Nadežra with a plan. She would pose as the long-lost daughter of the noble house Traementis. She would secure a fortune for herself and her sister. And she would vanish without a backward glance. She ought to have known that in the city of dreams, nothing is ever so simple. Now, she is Ren, con-artist and thief. But she is also Renata, the celebrated Traementis heir. She is Arenza, the mysterious pattern-reader and political rebel. And...
17) Robin & Batman
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"Robin is just starting out at the side of Batman, struggling to find his own path from personal tragedy to being a Superhero. The Eisner-winning superstar team of writer Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth) and artist Dustin Nguyen (Batman) unite for a three-issue limited-series exploring the beginning of Dick Grayson's crime-fighting career."-- from publisher
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In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001).
Yet as the historian, Andrew C. Isenberg, reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction,...
19) Devil's gulch
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Devil's Gulch Western volume 1
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"John Holt is a traveling gunslinger. He's been liberating dirty towns west of the Mississippi of murdering outlaw trash ever since the Civil War ended. No questions asked. Payment on demand. The only way out of this town is in a pinewood box. Holt's latest job is in Devil's Gulch in Colorado Territory. But wiping out bands of bank robbers is just the beginning. More disorder is brewing, and the skittish mayor has handpicked Holt as the new sheriff....
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