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Asha Oberoi's best friend Jessi Jackson is a high-school soccer prodigy. Jessi's team, unfortunately, becomes a victim of a well planned sabotage. Asha and her friends embark on a mission to solve this mystery by narrowing suspects and motives. In a race against time, will they have enough determination and grit to stop a mastermind who will do whatever it takes.
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"Limoux. The year, 1379. After an enigmatic meeting, the Inquisition incarcerates the family of Jean Duver, a humble carpenter, with no apparent motive. Ejean, the Duver's eldest son, returns to his home town after traveling through Toledo and Barcelona.Ejean manages to force a confession from three members of the Tribunal who condemned his family, confirming his brothers were forcibly admitted as oblates in San Miquel de Cuixaa's monastery. Still...
1464) Descendent
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"Conspiracy theories, government corruption, and a really good mixtape drives David Corey to help solve the mysterious disappearance of a famous politician's son. When David realizes that the truth is much more dangerous than a kidnapping, he must battle ancient secrets that have endangered the lives of children for centuries"--Page 4 of cover.
1465) JFK: the smoking gun
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Veteran police detective Colin McLaren spent four years on the forensic cold-case investigation of JFK's assassination. What he had, and other investigators did not, was modern technology and access to all the evidence, facts and eyewitness testimony. He claims to have solved a crime that is every bit as shocking and incredible today as it was when it happened 50 years ago. A far cry from the fanciful conspiracy theories, McLaren believes he has found...
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Jack Noble novel volume 11
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"Jack Noble faces off with Frank Skinner one final time. Skinner is judge, jury, and executioner, and he's prepared to carry out a death sentence. There's only one way out. Jack has to break all the rules. One final job to complete. One final life to take. One final deadline"--Back cover.
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"Amy Thomsett - the girl who flies on moth wings - is confident she can solve any mystery, sleuth out any secret and defy any dark force. With her friends in the Moth Club she travels to London to take part in the Great Game, a contest of skill against other institutes of learning. In a nightmare, and in the cellars of a house in Piccadilly, Amy glimpses a spectre who might have dogged her all her life, the Broken Doll. Wherever the limping ghost...
1468) A dangerous engagement
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Regency spies of London volume 3
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Just as merchant's daughter Felicity Mayson is spurned once again because of her meager dowry, she receives an unexpected invitation to Lady Blackstone's country home. Being introduced to the wealthy Oliver Ratley is an admitted delight, as is his rather heedless yet inviting proposal of marriage. Only when another of Lady Blackstone's handsome guests catches Felicity's attention does she realize that nothing is what it seems at Doverton Hall.
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"A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who's about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. The Impossible Postal Express is no ordinary train. It's a troll-operated delivery service that runs everywhere from ocean-bottom shipwrecks, to Trollville, to space. But when this impossible train comes roaring through her living room, Suzy's world turns upside down. She has no choice but to sneak on board if...
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The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping...
1471) Thinking critically about the Kennedy assassination: debunking the myths and conspiracy theories
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"Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination uses the tools of critical thinking, historical research, and philosophical inquiry to debunk the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding JFK's shocking and untimely death. As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of the violent public assassination of President John F. Kennedy, over half of all Americans surveyed continue to believe that he was killed by a conspiracy involving multiple assassins....
1472) End of days
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James Swanson brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination. He starts with the Kennedys' arrival in Texas, to the shooting in Dealey Plaza, and the shocking aftermath.
1476) Tokyo time
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In 1942, during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, two seasoned homicide detectives--one a Eurasian, caught between two worlds, and the other, a pacifist Japanese escaping dark and tragic secrets at home--are thrown together to solve a high-profile murder and come to terms with each other under the yoke of a brutal and corrupt military regime. Eurasian homicide detective, Martin Bach, has survived the war and the surrender: now all he has to do...
1477) Survivor of Ceres
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"Colony 9 has been obliterated. Just before the explosion, Gavin's teacher whisks the class away on an impromptu field trip. The official reports say the colony was full of traitors who destroyed themselves in a botched plot against the Grand President. The school ship's cameras prove otherwise; the government itself sent warheads to destroy Ceres. Bring branded an outlaw only strengthens Gavin's resolve. He rallies those around him to help him fight...
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"Well over a century ago Joseph Conrad gave the most modest of subtitles to The Secret Agent, his novel about London's late-Victorian anarchists. A Simple Tale of the Nineteenth Century, he called it. On the face of it, the story told in this book about an earlier, non-fictional group of terrorists in regency London is a simple tale too. It takes us up-close-and-personal to the conspirators who on the night of 23 February 1820 assembled in an obscure...
1479) On tilt
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Alexis Parker novels volume 14
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Five years ago, a teenage girl vanished. After a thorough police investigation, the case went cold. Her parents spent the next few years hiring private investigators to search for their daughter, but they've had no luck until now. When Alexis Parker, the newest detective at Cross Investigation, starts poking around, the cold case suddenly turns hot. Even though it's been five years, some secrets were meant to stay buried, and the men that buried them...
1480) Hard wired
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"When an ex-Delta Forces operative dies in a car wreck in Miami, the FBI dismiss it as a tragic accident. But Jon Reznick isn't so sure--especially when he learns that his teetotal former colleague was apparently drunk at the wheel. Reznick's one-man investigation quickly enters dangerous territory when it becomes clear that this was merely the first in a series of mysterious deaths. All of the victims are ex-Delta Forces, and all were involved in...
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