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1) Torch
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Grounded in the everyday particulars of life in a small town, leavened by earthy humor, this book presents the saga of a family coming to terms with death--a tale of love and loss, grief and redemption set in rural Minnesota.
2) Torch
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"When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--
3) Torch
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Private eye Fred Carver can't figure it out.Normally women pay him to follow cheating husbands,but Donna Winship hired him to follow her to arendezvous with a lover. Before Carver can find out why,Winship is run over by a truck and her husband is shot.
4) Torch
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It was Friday eve: around three in the afternoon a ringing phone. Wrong number, perhaps? My sister answered; who was she talking too? Who was the voice on the other end? Were they asking for someone? What was being spoken in her ear that caused her to be unable to speak? What had startled her so much that she completely froze? All time appeared to have stopped; surly the dial of Ahaz, the sundial had gone back another ten degrees. For what appeared...
5) Torch
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How do you fight fire without fire? When a freak storm uncovers the entrance to a mysterious underground chamber, Ivy and Martin expect to find treasure. But what they discover is even more valuable: a barrow full of sleeping spriggans, magically preserved for centuries. With the vengeful piskey queen Betony determined to capture Ivy and her followers, the secret hideaway could be key to both their peoples' survival. But the piskeys and spriggans...
6) Torch
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Tate Warren has never met a woman he couldn't charm-until now.
Wren Gallagher won't give him the time of day and it's making him crazy.
But he won't give up without a fight… because there's one thing he knows for sure:
Enemies make the best lovers.
Most women swoon over Tate's devilish grin and firefighter uniform. But Wren couldn't be less impressed by his good looks and flirtatious banter-in fact, she seems to downright despise him. She thinks...
7) Torch
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Trace Caldo's smart mouth always gets him in trouble. As the youngest of three brothers, he's used to fighting to earn respect. But when he picks a fight with the wrong person, Trace ends up blindfolded with no hope for escape. And when a beautiful woman offers him a way to stay alive, Trace can't refuse her outlandish offer. Ana Marie Kelly appears to live a charmed life. Raised in a wealthy family, she has everything a woman can want-if you don't...
8) Torch
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Clara grew up in the Belize jungles but was sent to live in San Francisco after a childhood trauma. Her older boyfriend, Gabriel encourages a trip back to her jungle home. Once arriving, the familiar faces and tropic environment fills Clara with hope for a brighter future. She's soon reminded that the jungle has a dark side and begins to realize that Gabriel may have an even darker one himself.
9) Torch
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Torch ignites in the opening chapter and blazes through a gripping tale of physical and psychological terror. An investigative reporter sensing a big story, Jillian Ross drags her friend Randi into a rough Dallas neighborhood to cover a political rally. When a riot breaks out, Randi is gruesomely murdered. Feeling responsible, Jillian descends into a lethargic depression. Her friend Ash McGraw, a fire investigator, gets her moving again when he enlists...
10) Torch
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A terrifying arsonist is terrorizing Edinburgh in Torch, the second novel in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod.
It's Edinburgh, Scotland, days before the biggest New Year's party in the world. When Karen, a young homeless girl, dies in a case of suspected arson, her friend Jaz sets out to avenge her death.
Faced with similar cases in Glasgow, Dr. Rhona MacLeod heads to the capital to establish whether the string of attacks...
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Ember in the ashes volume 2
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After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces, human...
14) Falling Torch
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Twenty years after Earth is conquered by invaders from space, the exiled US government has a chance to reclaim their lost planet 2513 AD. For the past generation, since Earth was taken over by the Invaders, the US president and his cabinet have lived in exile on a planet in orbit around faraway Alpha Centauri. The Centaurian colony has become the center of the human race, reducing Earth to a backwater region in a sprawling foreign domain. But the...
15) Gloriana's torch
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A curtain of death advances towards England as King Philip of Spain's Armada closes in – the largest fleet the world has ever known. The Spanish believe that none can stand in its path.In it sails a man who works for the Inquisition and plans to open a Holy Office in London after the conquest. He hates all Jews and is determined to destroy them all, in England as well as Spain.Amid the chaos, Merula – a slave woman – desperately searches for...
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The King's blue flame quivers as a new fire arises, and Kadira must hold fast to his torch. It's destiny; she's a torch keeper.
A fiery revolution sweeps across the kingdom of Érkeos, and each person must choose a side. Kadira, a girl set apart to serve the King, finds her city engulfed in the Liberation's emerald flames. Her blue eyes mark her as the enemy, and she flees from death. It stalks her anyway. When she meets Rekém, the Liberation warrior...
18) Torch River
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Sexual love, the wilderness, the births and deaths that connect them, the breathing and the not-breathing that connect birth and death, the interior wilderness of desire and the sensual love of wild things, of trees, earth, water -- these are Philips's themes and subjects, rendered in a language of tremendous immediateness and authority. These are poems that will take your own breath away that will give it back to you bigger, deeper than you imagined...
19) Autumn's Torch
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A man named Cidal, a struggling artist, creeps closer to middle age. There is a tug-a-war within him, which forces him to take the highest aim possible in altering his situation. He walks a thin line between two extremes. He can see both sides clearly, but at certain times, the two converge into one. His fight is never with the outside world, but from within. He spirals into a severe downward state of his being.
A host of personalities enters or...
20) Torch Ginger
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Paradise is full of missing people.She's the only one who realizes they're gone.Detective Lei Texeira and her dog, Keiki, transfer to the lush, tropical island of Kaua`i where she uncovers a pattern of disappearances that may be related to a bizarre cult-or is it just one madman at work?He knows what he does is wrong… but he has to silence the voices.He thought he'd finally find peace with this latest sacrifice, but there's someone coming for him…...
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