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Kill Zone

Anderson, Kevin J. · Forge Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone, a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste...
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A Slip on Golden Stairs: Wanted: Dead or Alive

Joanne Sundell · Five Star Publishing
Pages: 275
Format: Hardcover

This frontier ghost story is a romantic slip in gold-rush time, inspired by an actual EVP recording made in the Slide Cemetery, Dyea, Alaska, in which a haunting male voice can be heard calling, "Abigail . . . Abigail." Historic Dyea is a true ghost town. There are portals to all ghost...
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Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Datlow, Ellen · Saga Press
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre - including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen...
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The Accidentals: A Novel

Gwin, Minrose · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback

Following the death of their mother from a botched backwoods abortion, the McAlister daughters have to cope with the ripple effect of this tragedy as they come of age in 1950s Mississippi and then grow up to face their own impossible choices - an unforgettable, beautiful novel that is threaded...
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The Wisdom of the Renaissance

Kellogg, Michael K. · Prometheus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

An overview and appreciation of Renaissance literature for lay readers that takes account of major intellectual trends, various genres, and key historical figures of the period.This engaging survey of important works spanning the lives of Petrarch (1304-1374) to Shakespeare...
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Black Card: A Novel

Terry, Chris L. · Catapult
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"Black Card holds many modes and many moods in its packed and tactile narrative. Chris L. Terry has managed to capture, all at once, the complications of being black, being young, and being in love. This is a detailed ride about finding one's way to the inside, and finding that...
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The Vexations

Horrocks, Caitlin · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic debut novel about love, family, genius, and the madness of art, circling the life of eccentric composer Erik Satie and La Belle Époque Paris, from a writer who is "wildly entertaining" (San Francisco Chronicle) , "startlingly ingenious" (Boston...
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The Chocolate Maker's Wife: A Novel

Karen Brooks · William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtaking novel set in 17th century London - a lush, fascinating story of the beautiful woman who is drawn into a world of riches, power, intrigue ... and chocolate.Damnation has never been so sweet...Rosamund...
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Old Bones

Douglas Preston · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 364
Format: Hardcover

The #1 NYT bestselling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in this thrilling novel of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense.Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive...
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The Tinderbox

Lewis, Beverly · Bethany House Publishers
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

With her Amish parents' twentieth anniversary approaching, eighteen-year-old Sylvia Miller stumbles across a surprise--the old brass tinderbox her clockmaker father keeps in his Lancaster County shop has been left unlocked. Against her better judgment, Sylvia opens the cherished heirloom,...
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