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The Facility is gone. The cryptids being studied there are dead. Now the monsters are out in the open, changing the world forever.Dr Borm is on the run with Cryptid Nine, desperate to survive for the sake of the hybrid child his beloved 'Nina' carries.Shaw and Captain Case have become uneasy allies, both mutating after their encounter with the Wendigo, neither werewolf nor human.Detective Leonard and cryptid-hunter Dandy are tracking a vicious pack...
62) Impact
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Tom Keeler finds himself in the town of Promise, Indiana. He just needs to drop off a package, then he can get back to the Florida sunshine.
But nothing's ever that simple. The package gets stolen, things get complicated.
Linda Cartwright's a happily married woman, and then someone tried to kill her on her own front lawn.
Why would they do that? Good question.
Keeler's interested, but Cartwright won't talk about it. When Cartwright's attacked...
63) Marching Orders
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A stunning account of how the American military's breaking of the Japanese diplomatic Purple codes led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. Bruce Lee, having had access to more than one million pages of US Army documents and thousands of pages of daily top-secret messages dispatched to Tokyo from the Japanese embassy in Berlin, assembles fascinating revelations about pivotal moments in the war, including the reason Eisenhower stopped his army at the Elbe...
64) Cryptids
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Shaw and his loyal dog Girl do their best to avoid humanity, especially now that his fellow werewolves are nearly extinct. But humanity is heading his way.
The Facility is a research centre that specialises in cryptozoology: the search for legendary creatures. Once these 'cryptids' are found, they are caged, abused and experimented on to graft their physical prowess onto ordinary soldiers.
Even as the Facility's troops hunt down Shaw, and the cunning...
65) Survive
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In the frozen wilderness of Alaska, a cabin is readied for the winter. Jonesy and Lisa, with their loyal dog Lad, have been preparing their home to avoid a repeat of their horrific first year living apart from civilization. They survived that. They'll survive this. But then the strangers arrive. Two people who are even more desperate to survive, who have clawed their way through hell to reach Jonesy and Lisa, and who will drag them back down there...
66) Breacher
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After four months on a fishing boat Tom Keeler is done with Alaska. He's on his way to a permanent vacation. But Alaska isn't done with him. Jane Abrams just got there, and she's got big problems. Her son has gone missing and the police can't help. On top of that some very bad people are pushing her around. Abrams wants Keeler's help, but he has other plans. But then the bad guys take a big step across the line. They thought that owning the town gave...
67) The Skittering
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Crease is known in Weaver as 'the bug guy', the man who takes care of insects and other critters. But what emerges from the shadows of the town's waste plant is beyond anything found in nature.
Fist-sized cockroaches. Bird-sized wasps. Spiders, millipedes, ticks, all swollen to enormous bulk with vicious appetites to match. And other things, creatures that should never exist.
Through the night they come, slithering, buzzing, scuttling, crawling...
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The Accidental Business Nomad is an unvarnished, story-driven, practical guide to working across cultures. The book features real stories of companies going global and highlights the realities of doing business overseas in a post-globalization world. Each story gives fascinating insights and lessons into the cultural realities and unexpected surprises of modern globalization.
The Accidental Business Nomad is for anyone working in a more global environment...
69) The Fear Paradox: How Our Obsession with Feeling Secure Imprisons Our Minds and Shapes Our Lives
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Fear, Contemporary Society, and the Consequences of Security. Fear has grown into the single greatest threat to humanity and collective survival. This book aims to set us free from fear.
Over the last five hundred years, life for the average human being has changed dramatically-plagues no longer wipe out entire families, and no longer do we empty our chamber pots into the street. Nope, not today. But, western progress has shown that no matter how...
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Maybe the best way to explain Bill Heavey's writing is to note that both Ted Nugent and the Wall Street Journal-two entities rarely seen in the same sentence-like it. For more than twenty years, Heavey has staked a claim as one of America's best sportsmen writers. In feature stories and his Field & Stream column A Sportsman's Life, he has taken readers across the country and beyond to experience his triumphs and failures as a suburban dad who happens...
71) The Dark Path
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The Dark Path introduces John Morrigan in this unmissable new crime thriller. It's the perfect read for fans of authors like Damien Boyd, D.S. Butler and Peter Robinson. There is no turning back...Detective John Morrigan arrives at what appears to be a routine homicide in a botched armed robbery. However, as a key witness to the murder is herself violently killed less than 24 hours later, Morrigan discovers that someone very dangerous is responsible....
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This sharp and engaging collection of essays by leading governmental scholar Cass R. Sunstein examines shifting understandings of what's normal, and how those shifts account for the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the founding itself, the rise of gun rights, the response to COVID-19, and changing understandings of liberty. Prevailing norms include the principle of equal dignity, the idea of not treating the...
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Exciting, hard-hitting and gruesome by turn, this 1939 novel delivers violent, bloody fiction.
American heiress Miss Blandish is kidnapped by a gang of inept criminals trying their hand at big-time crime. Their plans are foiled when a rival mob, led by the sadist Slim Grisson, set their sights on the glamorous million-dollar hostage. Meanwhile, Private Detective Dave Fenner is hired to rescue her. Fenner is no stranger to the criminal underworld....
74) Liars
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A powerful analysis of why lies and falsehoods spread so rapidly now, and how we can reform our laws and policies regarding speech to alleviate the problem.
Lying has been with us from time immemorial. Yet today is different - and in many respects worse. All over the world, people are circulating damaging lies, and these falsehoods are amplified as never before through powerful social media platforms that reach billions. Liars are saying that COVID-19...
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In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room. Fearing that he would be held responsible, and sensing that his wife was involved, he wanted to do all he could to protect his young family. Jamie worked through the night to dispose of the body. But his luck ran out days later, as he was arrested and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. Jamie entered the American prison system and was to stay there...
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A lively and razor-sharp critique of mindfulness as it has been enthusiastically co-opted by corporations, public schools, and the US military.
Mindfulness is now all the rage. From celebrity endorsements to monks, neuroscientists, and meditation coaches rubbing shoulders with CEO's at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it is clear that mindfulness has gone mainstream. Some have even called it a revolution.
But what if, instead of changing the...
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Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions – a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an age of innovation that seemed to have the future firmly...
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Orphaned as a babe in the African jungle, tiny John Clayton, the only child of Lord and Lady Greystoke, is rescued by a tribe of great apes. The child, now named "Tarzan," grows to manhood in this savage world among the fierce anthropoids. Aided by his keen knife and innate intelligence, Tarzan ascends to become king of the apes, able to face any peril and conquer all foes. When men come to Tarzan's jungle, they bring danger that is motivated by greed...
79) Pretty Ugly Lies
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A psychological thriller that asks: What would cause a woman to murder her own family?
Jo's idyllic life would make most people jealous. Until the day her daughter is abducted, and the only way to find her is to unravel her dark past.
Ellie is a devoted wife... until she discovers the pain of betrayal. Now vengeance is all she can think about.
Party girl Shayla knows how to hide her demons. But when she's confronted with a life-shattering choice,...
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Drawing on an archive of previously unseen records, Rothmiller and Thompson reveal Sinatra's pact with the Mob in shocking detail. They expose Sinatra's lifelong association with the Mafia, which he always denied, and its deadly collateral damage. Sinatra may not have been an actual made man, but the Mafia certainly made him. -- adapted from back cover