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Nightshade crown novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The corrupt king August is dead. Prince Bastian has seized the throne and raised Lore--a necromancer and former smuggler--to his right hand side. Together they plan to cut out the rot from the heart of the sainted court and help the people of Dellaire. But not everyone is happy with the changes. The nobles are sowing dissent, the Kyrithean Empire is beating down their door, and Lore's old allies are pulling away. Even Prince Bastian's changed. No...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When women are being kidnapped and murdered, including a bright young college student he bought coffee from every morning, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, Anchorage homicide detective DeHavilland Beans and his team are determined to stop a serial killer's spree before it's too late.
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English
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"Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara...
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Series
Publisher
Neon Squid
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Journey around the world to follow the lives of these cold-blooded reptiles as they hunt, hide, and fight their way through their day. Biologist and conservationist Christian Cave tells the story of the world's most amazing venomous snakes in the style of a nature documentary, including gentle science explanations of topics such as camouflage and skin shedding that are perfect for future biologists.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing...
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Series
Publisher
Red Tales
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Hardworking veterinary technician Jayvon Fletcher was honest, friendly, and without an enemy in the world. But two Christmas Eves ago, while covering the night shift, he vanished, leaving behind only a broken window and smears of blood on the clinic's back steps. Neither police nor the private detectives hired by Jayvon's grandmother could find him. Now Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller is asked to take another look at the case, although he doubts...
7) True death
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Tales
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Detective Lieutenant Rick Peller's wife Sandra died on a country road. The driver who rammed her car vanished without a trace, leaving police stunned and baffled. But it wasn't murder. It was a freak accident, and the statute of limitations has run out. Now a bungled robbery raises new questions. As Detective Sergeants Corina Montufar and Eric Dumas investigate, Peller's memories awaken, triggering a series of insights that shine new...
Author
Series
Detective Sheridan Holler volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A cold case that's no longer cold. A suspect who's been murdered. A silenced witness. DI Sheridan Holler is used to solving crimes on Liverpool's streets, but after a decayed corpse turns up in a cemetery, she finds herself reopening not one but two cold cases. Seven years earlier, two women were gunned down and the only suspect, small-time drug dealer John Lively, was never seen again. Case closed. Until the body in the cemetery is identified as...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets is Sid Catchpenny. Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he's all but squandered his reputation as...
Author
Publisher
Mindstir Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1934, a backyard auto mechanic, his dullard brother, and an M.I.T. graduate fleece the Massachusetts State Police at a Boston auto show when the trio steals a Thompson submachine gun from an exhibit. Days later, the bandits turn the weapon on hostages used as human shields, while killing two police officers during a bank heist in the sleepy suburb town of Needham. For the first time in Massachusetts history a machine gun has been used in a crime....
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Publisher
Vintage Housewife Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the woods of a Pacific Northwest town, a prestigious college becomes the setting for a chilling murder. When nursing student Jaime is brutally killed in her exclusive private all-girls room, the authorities quickly abandon her case, dooming it to the cold case files. But fate has other plans. Five unsuspecting students receiving cryptic invitations that thrust them into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Drawn together by an unknown hand,...
12) Ecosystem-led growth: a blueprint for sales and marketing success using the power of partnerships
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Everything is breaking. With a recession looming and company valuations plummeting, every salesperson, marketer, and executive is reevaluating their company's path to success. Meanwhile, growth playbooks have stopped working -- cold calling is dead, email inboxes are saturated, and ad targeting has been defanged by regulation. Not to mention the massive disruption that AI will cause to just about any growth strategy without real human relationships...
Publisher
Dead Sky Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Climate change can be terrifying as we navigate through climate action--haunted by our past which dictates our future. In this anthology--Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action--twenty-one legendary horror authors bring both dark tales and awareness to our worldview. Apocalyptic futures, dire warnings, things unleashed from icy tombs... this collection gets under your skin and gives readers a peek into worlds where prophecy and nihilism reign....
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Five years ago, Batman and Robin worked the most disturbing case of their crimefighting careers... Bringing down the organization of the ultimate human trafficker, the mysterious woman known only as Mother. At the time, Dick Grayson never quite understood the scope of that case, but now its darkest secrets are coming back to haunt him and everyone else who ever worked with Batman! With Bruce Wayne now lost to them, Dick and all his allies are out...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"I've had a sense since I was young that there's more going on here, that the world is not a cold, dead place, but that it's alive in some compelling and mysterious way. This book is about that sense. I've tried to listen to it, and follow it, and trust it. It's been been devastating at times, intoxicating at others, heartbreaking and maddening and euphoric -- how do you make sense of this experience we're having here on this ball of rock hurtling...
16) Polar bear
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Series
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Polar bears are truly majestic animals: the largest land-dwelling carnivore on earth, these white-furred, black-skinned giants can measure up to three meters in length and weigh up to fifteen hundred pounds. They are also iconic in other ways. They are a symbol of the climate change debate, with their survival now threatened by the loss of Arctic ice, and their images decorate fountains and the cornices of buildings across the world. They sell cold...
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