Man Overboard: a Jesse McDermitt Novel: Caribbean Adventure Series, #23

Man Overboard: a Jesse McDermitt Novel: Caribbean Adventure Series, #23

Wayne Stinnett

Wayne Stinnett

Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air. One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. He's tight-lipped about how he came to be a guest in Rufus's little shack behind the bar. Something very sinister is going on—Jesse smells it. He's usually very good at rooting out the source of a problem, but is stumped this time.Until another tight-lipped hollow man shows up.
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ShadowMarked

ShadowMarked

AJ Eversley

Young Adult / Science Fiction / Dystopian

This is no longer just about the Marked kids, its about every person alive. Sienna and Theo escaped the Void, but they are not free of the Reeks. With the Void overrun by Reeks the wall that has kept them safe for years may soon fall. Already, Reeks are destroying villages, and there are not enough of them to keep up. He's here, he's alive. Jayla keeps reminding herself that Caspian escaped the horrors of the Void with his life, but the memories of what she saw threaten to destroy her. She's not weak, and these people need a leader, but she can't hide the truth from Cas or Em, and she doesn't know how to stop the panic. Gunner made a mistake; he trusted the wrong people all because he needed information. There is no way to make up for what he did, but if he stays by Vic's side maybe he'll have a chance to survive. He knows her friends will come for her, but will they kill him on sight? Genetic kids are going missing, not just...
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Beautiful Lies

Beautiful Lies

Alta Hensley

Alta Hensley

Welcome to the luxurious, opulent Oleander Mansion, where powerful men play out their most secret, sinful fantasies... I was born into an inheritance I never wanted. And now twenty gorgeous women stand before me across the ballroom. I'm to choose one, as my father before me did, and his father before him. One woman to endure three months of trials alongside me. Sinful, sometimes sadistic trials. Trials to see if I'm one of them, to test me... to break me. This is my dark heritage, but the women? They all chose to be here. They are far from innocent lambs. I can feel one's hatred even as she stands in her glittering dress staring me down. She loathes me and all that I stand for... that's why she will be my choice, my belle of the ball. The heat fires through my veins just from looking at her. We'll be fire and oil and together we'll burn, baby. Maybe hot enough to burn this whole place down. ...
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The Flower Ornament Scripture

The Flower Ornament Scripture

Thomas Cleary

Thomas Cleary

Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and studied by Buddhists of all traditions. Through its structure and symbolism, as well as through its concisely stated principles, it conveys a vast range of Buddhist teachings. This one-volume edition contains Thomas Cleary's definitive translation of all thirty-nine books of the sutra, along with an introduction, a glossary, and Cleary's translation of Li Tongxuan's seventh-century guide to the final book, the Gandavyuha, "Entry into the Realm of Reality."
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Autumn Shadows

Autumn Shadows

Shirley Wine

Shirley Wine

One night of blistering passion ... six years of total silence ...The last person Gemma Halliday expects to arrive on her doorstep in the middle of a family crisis is Ben Mc Glade, the SAS soldier with whom she shared one stolen night of passion.Honouring a promise he made to Gemma's brother, a fellow SAS soldier, to watch out for his sister in his absence, Ben bears news of a threat against her and her child.Determined to protect the woman he can't forget, Ben vows to keep her and her infant son safe despite the memories of their night together that simmer beneath the surface. Giving way to these emotions is a sure way to endanger all their lives, a risk he dare not take.While the threat to her and her infant son is real and horrifying, Gemma worries about protecting her vulnerable heart from Ben McGlade?
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Maestro

Maestro

John Gardner

Literature & Fiction

Kruger guards the life of a famous conductor with a shocking secret past The Soviet Union barely outlasts Herbie Kruger. By the time the Berlin Wall comes crashing down—and the KGB security apparatus along with it—London’s shabbiest spy is living in happy retirement. Not even the prospect of wreaking havoc in a fractured Eastern Europe could lure Big Herbie back to the Secret Intelligence Service. But he’s willing to accept one more assignment—not for Her Majesty, not for his country, but for his love of classical music. The finest conductor the world has ever seen, Louis Passau is a ninety-year-old German Jew who, rumor has it, spent World War II working for the Nazis. Kruger has just begun investigating this wild accusation when an assassin targets the maestro. To keep Passau alive while he searches for the truth, Kruger takes him into hiding—and ultimately learns that, though he may conduct like an angel, Passau has got the devil inside.
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Lucio's Confession (Decadence From Dedalus)

Lucio's Confession (Decadence From Dedalus)

Mario de Sa-Carneiro

Mario de Sa-Carneiro

When in 1916, Mario de Sa-Carneiro committed suicide in Paris at the age of 26, he left behind him an extraordinary body of work, which dealt obsessively with the problems of identity, madness and solitude. Lucio's Confession is the first of his novels to be translated into English. A brilliant and remarkable short novel of great eroticism and enigmatic beauty Lucio's Confession is set in the fin de siecle artist circles of Paris and Lisbon. It deals with the friendship of two young Portuguese poets, Lucio and Ricardo de Loureiro, and their search for identity through love. When the bachelor Ricardo returns to Lisbon, to everyone's surprise he is accompanied by a wife. She, Marta, seems the perfect partner, and establishes an immediate rapport with his close friend Lucio on the latter's return from Paris. Soon they become lovers. Despite the passionate nature of their relationship, Lucio suspects that Marta is sharing her favours with Ricardo's other close friends. Something is not quite right. Where did this mysterious woman meet Ricardo, and, indeed who is she? Why does she never speak of her past and why is Ricardo conniving at her infidelity? Lucio's attempts to unravel this mystery have tragic and terrible consequences. **
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Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend

Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend

Robert James Waller

Literature & Fiction

The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Bridges of Madison County once again brings characters and situations with his special blend of lyricism and magic. This is a bittersweet story about two good people who discover that true love, when it comes, is rarely fair, or right--or without pain.
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