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1) Bride
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"A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre bride and an Alpha werewolf becomes a love deep enough to sink your teeth into in this new paranormal romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast-again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance...
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"On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children-especially fifteen-year-old Etty-grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father-and the...
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When the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, and then turns up dead, obituary writer Winter Snow falls under suspicion and, with the help of friends and family, must uncover the killer before the next obituary written is her own.
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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him-to save him....
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January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted...
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The world is full of shadows, and lurking within them are the enigmatic stories of those who vanished without a trace. These unsolved mysteries, like echoes in the night, refuse to be silenced, captivating imaginations and fueling our deepest desires for answers. In "Vanished Without a Trace," we delve into the captivating narratives of these missing individuals, exploring the circumstances of their disappearance, the investigations that followed,...
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2024.
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From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel about eight translators and their search for a world-renowned author who goes missing in a primeval Polish forest. Eight translators arrive at a house in a primeval Polish forest on the border of Belarus. It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey, and they are there to translate her magnum opus, Gray Eminence. But within days of their...
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In their first non-fiction book, Professor of Psychology and Criminal Justice Mandy McNeely and Investigative Journalist and victim advocate Raven Rollins share an analysis of three of the coldest cases in Oklahoma from their investigations of them for their podcast, Sirens A Southern True Crime Podcast.They take you to 2004 Maysville, Oklahoma, to look into the unsolved homicide of Sheila Deviney, who was burned alive in her own home.They send you...
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Most of us have seen a movie or some tv series on the trials and tribulations of college bullies and the popular football player and cute teenager cheerleader. Most of us have probably already formed some kind of perception on what type of people they are – rude; full of themselves; picking on others and generally a downright plague to those around them. But this was no movie or tv series and, Emma Walker was not any preconceived version of a...
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"After fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth--and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined"--
12) I Am God
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Will the Monster of Florence ever be found? To this day his (or her or their) identity remains a frustrating mystery to both Italian law enforcement and INTERPOL. But here's what they know: the Monster, who was once the inspiration for Thomas Harris's cannibalistic serial killer, Hannibal Lector, not only needed to kill his victims, he also felt the need to brutally mutilate them. This story, which is graphic in nature, explores the mind of the Monster,...
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Immerse yourself in "More of the World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries", the enthralling sequel that deepens the enigma of the unknown. This is a beacon for those drawn to the shadows of the unexplained, offering new mysteries to unravel and secrets that defy conventional wisdom. Crafted with precision, this book presents a collection of cases that have baffled the brightest minds. These stories are a mosaic of the human experience, blending the historical...
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"The Disappearance of Ann Marie Burr" delves into one of America's most baffling missing person cases. Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl from Tacoma, Washington, vanished from her home in August 1961, sparking a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. The book explores the events leading up to her disappearance, the initial investigation, and the subsequent search efforts that failed to locate her. It also examines the theories and suspects that...
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This book is about the unsolved murders of young women on Interstate 4, between Tampa and Lakeland, Florida in 1976. Law enforcement believed these deaths were attributed a lone serial killer. They were wrong! Almost fifty years later, I was able to identify who did these killings and it had nothing to do with one serial killer, but two! And, that's because I lived to tell tale.
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In this captivating collection of stories, you are taken on a journey through the shadowy corridors of history's most perplexing mysteries. "The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries" travels the earth and spans the decades, exploring cases that have puzzled experts and mystery enthusiasts alike. Delve into the curious case of the Circleville Letters, where an entire town was gripped by fear of an unseen menace, ponder over what really happened at Area...
17) One Evil Bitch
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Judith and Alvin Neelley are an American married couple who were convicted of two torture murders in the early 1980s in Georgia and Alabama. Judith became the youngest woman to ever be sentenced to death in the United States, however, the Alabama governor at the time commuted her death penalty to life imprisonment in 1999, likely due to her age. Alvin died in prison in 2005 at the age of 52 due to complications resulting from surgery. Unlike most...
18) Sex Criminals
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The horrifying true stories of two of the most psychopathic serial killers in recent memory. Christopher Wilder, nicknamed the Beauty Queen Killer, was a serial killer who kidnapped and raped at least twelve women and killed at least eight during a cross-country crime spree where he started in Florida and made his way all the way to California. Wilder had a counterpart in Charles Sobhraj, who was a French serial killer that preyed upon female tourists...
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Known by many as the Poet Laureate of America's Damned, Stephen Wayne Anderson had a talent for expressing himself with words – earning himself plenty of awards and admiration despite the fact that his literary masterpieces were written while he awaited execution on death row...In fact, Anderson's knack for language allowed him to innately capture the feelings of despair, hopelessness, and regret that were abundant among the condemned. His elegant...
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On the surface, Herb Baumeister looked to have a 'normal' life. He was married with three children and the founder of a successful thrift store chain...But behind the scenes there was a very troubled individual. He had been committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in his youth and his wife could count on one hand the number of times they had sex over the course of their twenty-five year marriage. Baumeister was a closeted homosexual...and...
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