Jeff Harding
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Bloodlines volume 3
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A descendant of James Wolfe tries to uncover who killed the famous general.
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Bloodlines volume 1
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The descendants of Thomas Scott track down and confront ancestors of Scott's executioner.
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Bloodlines volume 2
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The famous last words of Isaac Brock are questioned by a descendant of one of his soldiers.
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In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child.
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Charlie Parker volume 15
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It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob Eklund has vanished and Charlie Parker is assigned to track him down. Parker's employer, Edgar Ross, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has his own reasons for wanting Eklund found.
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"Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John Connolly's series, in which ungodly fears haunt a strange and isolated community. Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings, and in doing so destroyed himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his...
7) Dark hollow
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When John Connolly burst upon the literary suspense scene in 1999, he was an immediate international sensation. His Every Dead Thing became an instantaneous best-seller in England, and here in America, his writing was greeted with extraordinary accolades. He won the prestigious Shamus Award for Best First Private Eye Novel, and, as the San Francisco Examiner wrote, "John Connolly's tale is as riveting and chilling as Thomas Harris's The Silence of...
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Following Artefact, Legion is the second book of the Lazarus War, an explosive new space adventure series from one of the brightest new stars in science fiction -- perfect for fans of The Edge of Tomorrow, Alien and James S. A. Corey's Expanse series. Conrad Harris is the legend known as Lazarus, and he has died hundreds of times. Using simulant bodies, he runs suicide missions in the depths of space. But he always comes back.As commanding officer...
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The Facility is gone. The cryptids being studied there are dead. Now the monsters are out in the open, changing the world forever.Dr Borm is on the run with Cryptid Nine, desperate to survive for the sake of the hybrid child his beloved 'Nina' carries.Shaw and Captain Case have become uneasy allies, both mutating after their encounter with the Wendigo, neither werewolf nor human.Detective Leonard and cryptid-hunter Dandy are tracking a vicious pack...
10) Cryptids
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Shaw and his loyal dog Girl do their best to avoid humanity, especially now that his fellow werewolves are nearly extinct. But humanity is heading his way.
The Facility is a research centre that specialises in cryptozoology: the search for legendary creatures. Once these 'cryptids' are found, they are caged, abused and experimented on to graft their physical prowess onto ordinary soldiers.
Even as the Facility's troops hunt down Shaw, and the cunning...
11) The Skittering
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Crease is known in Weaver as 'the bug guy', the man who takes care of insects and other critters. But what emerges from the shadows of the town's waste plant is beyond anything found in nature.
Fist-sized cockroaches. Bird-sized wasps. Spiders, millipedes, ticks, all swollen to enormous bulk with vicious appetites to match. And other things, creatures that should never exist.
Through the night they come, slithering, buzzing, scuttling, crawling...
12) Man on Ice
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Special agent Rake Ozenna watches as a fleet of Russian military helicopters head straight for his home. His tiny Alaskan island, with a population of just eighty. What he doesn't know yet, is why. Russia is playing a dangerous political game, reclaiming Rake's island as their own, even if it antagonises the US. Caught in the crosshairs of sabre-rattling big powers, Rake is determined to save his people and his island, even if it costs him his life....
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Justin E. H. Smith is professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris 7–Denis Diderot. His books include The Philosopher: A History in Six Types (Princeton). Twitter @jehsmith
From sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will be
In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to the rise of Twitter mobs and the election...
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Exciting, hard-hitting and gruesome by turn, this 1939 novel delivers violent, bloody fiction.
American heiress Miss Blandish is kidnapped by a gang of inept criminals trying their hand at big-time crime. Their plans are foiled when a rival mob, led by the sadist Slim Grisson, set their sights on the glamorous million-dollar hostage. Meanwhile, Private Detective Dave Fenner is hired to rescue her. Fenner is no stranger to the criminal underworld....
15) Reckless
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Drawing on new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption of America's Camelot.
'Reads like James Ellroy'– Daily Telegraph
'JFK didn't hesitate to employ deception, espionage and covert action' – Timothy Naftali, Wall Street Journal
John F. Kennedy's life is promoted by sentimental and careless myth-makers as pure legend. But a sinister shadow lies across it.
His death was such...
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Four Gospels. One Jesus.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John: The different details, timelines, and emphases of each Gospel can make it difficult to picture the whole narrative. And The Chosen TV series acknowledges its own timeline for the unique purposes of the show. That's why we've created The Chosen Presents: A Blended Harmony of the Gospels. We want you to see the factual accounts in one chronological story. You'll experience:
Immerse yourself...