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181) Shadow flight
Author
Series
Shadow riders novels volume 5
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Nicoletta Gomez was a terrified teenager when Taviano Ferraro and his brother saved her life. Ever since, she's been trying to rise above what was done to her, molding herself into a survivor under the protective eyes of the Ferraro family. All the while, she's been falling hopelessly in love with the man who knows her darkest secrets... With one look, Taviano knew that Nicoletta was his, just as he felt their shadows connect. But no matter how much...
182) Leopard's wrath
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Born into a world of crime, Mitya Amurov has had a hard life, and his leopard has developed into a feral beast to protect him. It's constantly trying to claw its way to the surface, until a chance encounter with a stranger instantly calms the predator inside him. While Mitya wants Ania desperately, it's only a matter of time before his past catches up with him, and he'd rather die than put her in danger. But Ania is dealing with dangers of her own.......
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia's best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov's fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia-its tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration....
184) Steel crow saga
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tala lost her family to the empress's army and has spent her life avenging them in battle. But the empress's crimes don't haunt her half as much as the crimes Tala has committed against the laws of magic . . . and against her own flesh and blood. Jimuro has inherited the ashes of an empire. Now that the revolution has brought down his kingdom, he must depend on Tala to bring him home safe. But it was his army who murdered her family. Now Tala will...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the sight of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers. In this city without a name, fences in schoolyards separate the children of Serbs from those of Croats, and city leaders...
Author
Series
Into the crooked place volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A group of deadly young crooks who excel at using magic and trickery embark on a quest to save their city"--
The streets of Creije are for the deadly and the dreamers, and four crooks in particular know just how much magic they need up their sleeve to survive. Tavia, a busker ready to pack up her dark-magic wares and turn her back on Creije for good. She'll do anything to put her crimes behind her. Wesley, the closest thing Creije has to a gangster....
187) Norte
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
Español
Description
Esta es una historia de tres destinos separados por el tiempo y el espacio pero interconectados por la violencia, el desarraigo, la creacion y la locura; tres vidas extraviadas en el cruce de mundos y fronteras que caracteriza a nuestra epoca. En un pequeno pueblo del norte de Mexico, Jesus deja el colegio y se une a una pandilla. Para impresionar a sus nuevos companeros apunala a una prostituta, iniciando asi una carrera criminal que le llevara a...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by historical events and by personal history, a shattering, exquisite double portrait of a Norwegian family savaged by World War II and of a man devoted to crimes against humanity, conjoined by an actual house of horrors they both called home. Once the Germans conquer Norway in 1940, they quickly discover a tremendous native asset: Henry Oliver Rinnan, a double agent so cruel and manipulative that he would become notorious as one of Norway's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"On a fateful July morning in 2015, a riot takes hold of Her Majesty's Prison in Bream, Gloucestershire, with fatal consequences. The staff is caught completely off-guard--their supervising warden, Governor Magda Lyle, hasn't shown up for work, and the prisoners are able to start a fire that nearly results in a mass escape. Three years later and forty miles south, a most controversial wedding is about to take place in Bath's gorgeous Abbey, with a...
190) Wrath
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the history of New York City's underworld, there have been a host of criminal figures whose exploits have gone on to inspire. Their stories are told on street corners and in back alleys. One of them is Jonas Rafferty, known among friends and enemies alike as Wrath. Jonas, the only boy in a family of four children, came into the world under less than favorable conditions, and he has always been a fighter. From the neighborhood bullies to the stepfather...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Southern Brooklyn, July 1996. Punk kids have to make their own fun. Bobby Santovasco and his pal Zeke like to throw rocks at cars getting off the Belt Parkway. They think it's dumb and harmless until it's too late to think otherwise. Then there's Jack Cornacchia, a widower who lives with his high school age daughter Amelia and reads meters for Con Ed but also has a secret life as a vigilante, righting neighborhood wrongs through acts of violence....
192) Paperback Jack
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering cheap excitement for the common man and woman. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like hotcakes - or so Jacob is assured by the enterprising head of Blue Devil Books, a pioneer in paperback...
Author
Series
Avengers (2018) volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As Iron Man fights for his life in the distant past, the Avengers face an uncertain future! Trapped in an icy cave at the dawn of time, Tony Stark has lost most of his armor--and a good chunk of his mind. When the sun goes down and the devil comes around again, he may lose whatever's left of his soul. And in the present, Earth's mightiest villains unite! What do the king of Atlantis, the lord of vampies, the deposed duke of Hell, a mysterious Russian...
194) Tightrope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well. After spending her entire inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns too late that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath...
195) Enemy contact
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr's race to stop an international criminal conspiracy is intertwined with the fate of an old friend... The CIA's deepest secrets are being given away for a larger agenda that will undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why. Jack Ryan, Jr., is dispatched to Poland on a different mission. The clues are thin, and the sketchy trail...
196) The godfather
Author
Series
Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A Searing novel of the Mafia underworld, this book introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction, the Corleones - and became the definitive novel of the virle, violent subculture that remains steeped in intrigue, in controversy, and in our collective consciousness. More than thirty years ago, a classic was born. A searing novel of the Mafia underworld, The Godfather introduced readers to the first family of American crime fiction,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War. A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa,...
198) Brutal prince
Author
Series
Brutal birthright romances volume 1
Publisher
Bloom books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Griffins and the Gallos have been battling for control of Chicago's underworld for generations. Their bitter rivalry reignites when Aida, the youngest and wildest Gallo sibling, crashes a party at the Griffin mansion, accidentally setting fire to the library. To stave off all-out war, her father arranges a marriage with Callum Griffin, eldest son and heir. Cold, ambitious, and brutal, Callum is determined to tame his headstrong bride. Aida is...
200) The road to ruin
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Having set up a con on Monroe Hall, a fabulously wealthy and corrupt CEO, John Dortmunder and his hapless gang of crooks suddenly find themselves caught in the deadly crossfire between their would-be mark Hall and his own victims.
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