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"Only the Dead Know Peace is a powerhouse book. An adrenaline-fueled epic that is authentic, propulsive, timely, and unforgettable. It will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last page." – Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author
In the spirit of The Cartel, The Little Drummer Girl, and I Am Pilgrim, Alberto Mansur's debut thriller offers a bracing, wide-angle portrait of the fence dividing Israel and Palestine, the most controversial...
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Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution.
Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world.
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3) The risen
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Survivor chronicles volume 4
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With new challenges and threats arising every day, the survivors struggle to reach their destination in the hopes of finding somewhere safe to stay. Along the way allies will become enemies and startling answers will be uncovered that will rock the very foundations of who they are. As the world continues to change around them, they begin to realize that it is not who they were, but what they will become that matters the most in their frightening new...
4) The forsaken
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Survivor chronicles volume 3
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New friendships will be forged, answers will be found, and lives will be lost as the survivors journey deeper into unfamiliar and treacherous areas. With new dangers arising every day, they find themselves face with only one conclusion; sometimes the end of everything they know is just the beginning of something more.
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America.
Valentine focuses on the "dark arts" of empire: the black bag of CIA covert operations, including bribery, right-wing coups, assassinations, disinformation, and intimate relationships with...
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The Prime Minister's pregnant, superstar mistress is murdered by a criminal financier with an assassination plan that will bring down Government and Monarchy in one deadly, catastrophic afternoon. Beautiful camera girl, Henri Fox, has been kidnapped, taken bound and gagged down the river Thames. Guy Royce, the PM's laconic personal security cop, must find her and the assassin quickly-and eliminate him. His kill chase will take him from 10 Downing...
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People are vanishing without a trace. And the disappearances are getting closer to home-the next likely target is Mac, Matt Helm's shrewd old boss. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Helm follows two beguiling and treacherous women, who lead him all the way to his ancestral home-Scandinavia. With a coup from within the agency, and a terrorist threat from without, it's clear that nobody can be trusted.
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Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.
"Ingeniously constructed and stylistically...
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers the eagerly awaited new Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying mini-dragon. Sure to delight longtime fans and win new ones, Flinx's Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body. It is a quest that forces him to confront a horror almost beyond...
10) Mad Money
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Nolan must rob every store in a mall in one night-or his girlfriend dies.
Nolan and Jon have put their lives of crime behind them-but when a cruel adversary from their past resurfaces, they're forced back into the heist game with a brutal ultimatum: pull off an insanely ambitious overnight robbery or Nolan's kidnapped lover won't live to see the morning.
Appearing in bookstores for the first time in thirty-five years (originally published under the...
11) Dig Two Graves
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Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.
Winter, 1969. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Velda learns her father is not who she thought he is. Seeking to uncover her true heritage, Velda and Mike Hammer travel to sunny Dreamland Park, where retired law enforcement officers keep an eye on notorious criminals held...
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When a Chinese military plane explodes in a fireball before her lens, life for street photographer Henrietta Fox gets dangerous.
Five murders across Europe, each victim found dead with an exotic, lop-eared Sumxu cat, animals considered extinct for 300 years. Only Henri Fox knows why-and that knowledge could kill her. To survive she must pursue a madman across China with partner, Cass Farraday, but the hunters soon become the prey.
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13) Shortcut
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For fans of Andy Weir's THE MARTIAN and PROJECT HAIL MARY, from the first editor of THE MARTIAN.A mathematical genius. A formula that speeds up space travel called SHORTCUT. His loving wife. When Laura Maxx disappears after an attack that leaves Jason Maxx in the hospital, his only goal is to find her and bring her back. Then he gets a message from Voyager One: Laura is alive. In space. To get her back, he'll do whatever it takes-even taking on government...
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When tabloid camera girl, Henri Fox, pictures a Hollywood megastar making love on the back seat of a stretch limo, the star's father, a ruthless Bogota emerald mine owner, must bury his daughter's scandalous snapshot-and Henri Fox with it. He enlists the aid of left-wing FARC guerrillas forcing the US President to join the hunt. Henri Fox is in mortal danger and will have to survive them both in a chase from London via Madrid to the notorious Boyaca...
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Michael Kohlhaas seeks justice. His wife is murdered, his property confiscated, and his servants abused. All of his attempts of seeking legal ramifications are thwarted, but Kohlhaas will not stop until he gets retribution-even if he has to stand alone against bureaucracy.
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In the shadows of war and history, the mirror between man and monster breaks …
From the haunted hills of Roman Britain to the sewers of occupied Warsaw … in the bloodied streets of Revolutionary Paris, and the anarchy World War II Shanghai … out of the wilds of America, India, Africa and Europe … down the long savage darkness of the centuries, monsters have fed upon us. They are shapeshifters, vampires, sorcerers and spirits-things named...
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Fascinating "What If?" stories from Hugo and Nebula award-winning masters of altnerate history!
What would the world be like if Teddy Roosevelt had fought in World War I? If the space race started during World War II? If Joseph McCarthy had been elected President? These and other questions are answered in this collection of alternate histories. As these stories suggest, the world as we know it might have turned out different than it is today, if...