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61) Alice Thinks
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She is angry sure with me.By now she knows sure I'm here. When she's looked in all the other places she always knows I'm here and this is where she looks next.But I'm here anyway. Here is out of her wayest. Here is not under her feet, making her mad at me, always under her feet is what I am when I'm not here or in some other hiding place where she usually looks first, before she remembers here and then looks here and finds me.I don't have many hiding...
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Kerry is a pretty, 20-year-old woman who visits her grandfather every day at a posh retirement home. The old man has a condition that leaves him unable to remember anything from his past. Each day he loses all memories of what happened the previous day. Kerry recounts the family's struggle from its rough and poor beginnings through its triumphs and tragedies each visit using a photo album to regenerate lost memories and attach faces to the names and...
63) A Blue Moon
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Charlotte has a split personality, but she doesn't know it. Her mother knows it, and her mother is afraid of Bella. Bella takes care of problems and lately she's been killing them. Both women lead separate lives until an incident at work, that puts them on the run. Bella abducts Charlotte's only friend Vincent to keep Charlotte from freaking out on the road. Now Charlotte has to learn how to take control before disappearing forever.
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After 10 years service as a cryptographer with MI6 during the cold war, the extremely shy and reclusive George Withers becomes editor and compiler of the Sunday Times crossword.30 years later and now in his 60's, an old MI6 colleague asks him to place a code within the Sunday Times cryptic crossword puzzle. Unknown to him, this results in a number of gruesome deaths. The father of one of the victims discovers the puzzle maker had something to do with...
65) The Quiet Man
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A colleague's mysterious death propels an average guy into a searing affair with the woman of his dreams and also a lucrative job as chief counsel for a huge international conglomerate. Our quiet man soon finds, however, that both the woman and the client are far more challenging than he had expected, perhaps fatally so."This story is filled with bizarre twists and turns that keep the pages turning." Tiger02"I found this book to be quite sexy." Damsel"Full...
66) Alexithymia
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The truth shall finally be revealed in the journals of Alex Graves. What were his relationships with Marion, Daz, Rose, Eva, and the elusive Ryan Hoffman? Why was he imprisoned for murder? And what do the journals mean for the future? This is the seventh novella of the I AM MERCURY series.I AM MERCURY is a nine-part serial suspense thriller about visions of other worlds, the stories we tell ourselves, and the things we do for love. Each short novella...
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The bestselling British novel about love, marriage, family, secrets, and how the power of faith can transform lives even in the midst of inconsolable loss After being paralyzed in a rugby accident, twenty-year-old, wheelchair-bound Lenny Barnes feels he has nothing left to live for and is putting his affairs in order before committing suicide. As lively Mazey Day celebrations take place in the Cornish town of Penzance, Lenny summons a parish priest...
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A young Amish girl disappears, and no one knows what happened or where she is. Out of desperation the authorities turn to Michael Gillespie and his viewers. The story they tell of the girl is a tale of sexual assault and murder and, worse yet, they believe the killer is planning to strike again. But in the middle of that in a national emergency Gillespie and his team are brought into a secret government project to predict the firing date and the location...
69) Foster Child
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Charlie desperately wanted to belong to a family and even though his foster mother Barbara didn't provide the feeling of love and acceptance he always dreamed a real mother would offer, he forced himself to believe this is what a family was like. When Caroline entered the house as an exuberant five year old, Charlie found the only person in the world he thought of as family.As the years and Barbara became more and more cruel the pair believed they...
70) Still Life
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Reporter Tyrrell Garrett survived a terrible confrontation with an unidentified assailant. Now he's chasing the story of a woman whose life was stolen away due to her association with the fugitive Alex Graves. Who has the answers? This is the fifth novella of the I AM MERCURY series.I AM MERCURY is a nine-part serial suspense thriller about visions of other worlds, the stories we tell ourselves, and the things we do for love. Each short novella in...
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When anger and bad thoughts start to overwhelm every aspect of his life, Mr. Naismith decides to seek help. After his self-help exploration with psychiatrist Dr. Cochran, he is able to unlock a hidden door to his past that has been closed for a very long time. Once unlocked, Mr. Naismith walks through into a world that takes him from an innocent little boy into a vindictive killer seeking closure. Armed with newly discovered memories, Mr. Naismith...
72) Quarry
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"The most frightening novel of the year." – The Scotsman Todd, Randy, and Carter come across a boy while roaming the countryside near their town. They take him hostage in a cave in an abandoned quarry and consider what to do next. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding needed a plane crash and a desert island to bring out the capacity for violence and evil in his English schoolboys. Jane White, a mother and housewife living in Godalming when she...
73) Coral Hill
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Five years ago Dodgson was codenamed LVX, part of a kill-squad hunting terrorists in Ulster. Now, damaged and living the bleak cover of his retirement, he is reactivated for a final mission. Rush is an artist, a talented yet dangerous man. Like Dodgson he was once something sharp within military intelligence. But Rush has gone berserk, convinced that his teenage muse is in fact a terrorist mastermind. Dodgson is sent to investigate the girl, the mysterious...
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Garland is fascinated by venomous animals and insects. He has dedicated himself to the study of lethal creatures and is enthralled with their sleek, silent abilities to paralyze or expire their foes. He is also not quite right in the head.By day, Garland is a snake handler in the Henry Doorly Zoo. By night, something more sinister murmurs to him, deep in the recesses of his compromised mind, insisting he take action to temporarily soothe an insatiable...
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Killing them was my language!"If you betray me, I'll die," his unborn daughter warns the killer. But, can she save his soul?Brutal, yet emotional and hauntingly funny at times, Jung's Demon is an "absolutely riveting psychological thriller about a serial killer from the killer's point of view," a darkly funny, chilling story of self-discovery gone amok. "Killing them was my language; clobbering you was my last message to you," writes Roman in a letter...
76) Zeke
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Zeke is a dark novel of sexual obsession, psychological manipulation, and looming peril.Sue Cox is a naive college student who falls for the exciting new clerk at the local used bookstore. Captivated by Zeke's brooding good looks and menacing but irresistible charisma, Sue capitulates to his will, leaving her wide open for exploitation. Zeke begins to exert subtle control and entices her to leave town with him. As they travel, his behavior grows more...
77) Dragonfly
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Johannesburg 1999. Not all battles are fought in the field between armies arrayed side to side. Some are fought inside, where no one can see, a war of the soul. Every conflict has a victor, but it must also have its vanquished.Jacob must help an old friend from long ago find his way. Does he have the resources to succeed? Can he defeat an enemy he neither sees nor understands?#This story is the conceptual sequel to "Scars."
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All I wanted was to be left alone that weekend. My entire existence depended on that. The plot was in my mind and I just needed some time to pen my thoughts. Ahlin should've left after the party was over. He should've left next day. He was standing between me and my destiny. What could I do? He had to go away for me to work. Who knew things would take such a dark turn?
80) The Murder Tree
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It can be murder digging up your family tree, especially when your ancestor is trying to kill you.Chrissie Fersen desperately wants to know how she is connected to the death of a servant woman in Glasgow in 1862. Enlisting the aid of local librarian Billie Vane, she is determined to clear the name of the woman originally convicted of the crime. But her chief suspect appears to be alive and well - and it looks like he still has murder on his mind...The...