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1) The fury
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Language
English
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is a reclusive ex-movie star and one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to escape the English weather and spend Easter on her idyllic private Greek island. I tell you this because you may think you know this story. You probably read about it at the time -- it caused a real stir in the tabloids,...
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novel volume 24
Language
English
Description
"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancé of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...
3) The hunter
Author
Series
Cal Hooper volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"It's a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He's found it, more or less: he's built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he's gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places....
Author
Series
Witch and hunter duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she's determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenj̃gers--zealot witch hunters--to justice for the lives they ended. To do this, she will need to take down their leader, the merciless and enigmatic Kommandant Dieter Kirch. Otto is a hexenj̃ger--but that's just his cover. Years ago, the hexenj̃gers burned his innocent mother alive, and he has been plotting...
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Series
Vorclaw volume 2
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
General Baltus Blackpool enacts his revenge for his wife's untimely death by placing the nation of Vorclaw under his military control and begins to hunt down the rulers of Vorclaw, know as The Council of Twelve. The Queen of the Goblins wants her own revenge against the Blackpool brothers, even at the expense of losing her love.
6) Vorclaw
Author
Series
Vorclaw volume 1
Publisher
Austin Macauley Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Spurred on by the unexpected loss of his wife, the military officer Baltus Blackpool plans to enact his revenge by dismantling the decadent ruling council of Vorclaw by building his own cult-The Black Masks! Meanwhile, his son Dru bonds with others and delves into a less respectable career path that his father is forced to embrace. Magnus Foehammer, the infallible right hand of Baltus, rears an orphaned elf he names Leif. The elf, raised as a human...
7) Foxglove
Author
Series
Belladonna volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Nineteen-year-old Signa Farrow must solve a duke's murder and contend with a seemingly all-powerful deity, Fate"--
A duke has been murdered. The lord of Thorn Grove has been framed. And Fate, the elusive brother of Death, has taken up residence in a sumptuous estate nearby. He's hellbent on revenge after Death took the life of the woman he loved many years ago...and now he's determined to have Signa for himself, no matter the cost. Signa and her...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
After failing to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force. Hoping to end his reign of terror, Aquaman forges an unlikely alliance with his brother, Orm, the former king of Atlantis. Setting aside their differences, they join forces to protect their kingdom and save the world from irreversible destruction.
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Series
Lone McGantry western volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Months have passed since five ruthless men killed Lone McGantry's partner and stole the horses from their ranch. Now, finally free of obligations that have kept him from taking up pursuit sooner, Lone has set out on a cold trail to track down the killers and make them pay. He'd prefer revenge, he'll settle for justice . . . But the trail is not only cold, it is twisty and marked by dangers at every turn, even apart from the quarry he is after. Lone...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks "a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit" (Kirkus, starred review). At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all."...
11) Nightbreaker
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the Vanishing thrust Manhattan into darkness, resilient New Yorkers have adapted, but at night Rei Reynolds secretly hunts Deathlings--the deadly creatures that slaughtered her parents--but she soon learns of the elite who want to keep the city's ruling class in power.
Author
Series
Mummy chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex O'Connell, looking for adventure in Egypt in 1937, gets more than he bargained for when the Scorpion King rises from the dead in search of revenge.
14) A long time dead
Author
Publisher
Bywater Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere foggy, 1837 . . .Poppy had always loved the night, which is why it wasn't too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London, weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood, to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages, it more than made up for those in its benefits: immortality, a body that could run at speed for hours without tiring,...
15) The deep end
Author
Series
High water volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Every person has a pressure-point--something that can send them to places they never wanted to go. "It starts today. Your world is about to change." Harley ignores the cryptic warning at first, but soon learns the chilling message is absolutely true. When his motorcycle is stolen, he loses the one connection he has to his dad, the one thing keeping his dad's memory alive. He begins a dangerous plan to get his bike back, and make the thief pay. Parker...
16) Fast X
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: a terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is so determined to shatter this family that they'll need to collaborate with old enemies to defeat him.
17) Judy & Punch
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the anarchic town of Seaside, nowhere near the sea, puppeteers Judy & Punch perform their marionette show, which is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering. But Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whiskey lead to an inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
19) Dead man's hand
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Gunslinger Reno is headed west for a quiet life with his new bride. But when their stagecoach is ambushed, he kills an outlaw in self-defense. In a nearby town, Reno learns that the man he slays is the brother of the corrupt mayor, Bishop, who vows revenge. After their card game turns into a bloody shootout, who will be left standing? Cole Hauser appears as a U.S. Marshal who becomes Reno's ally in this pulse-pounding Western." --
20) Make me a liar
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's an open secret at Harvey Davis High School that Tia Dante can solve all your problems (for a fee, of course). As one of the few blessed with the genetic gift of transferable consciousness, she can slip inside your mind and do your dirty work--humiliate your cheating boyfriend, bring a bully to his knees, tell your boss where to stick it--and then return your body with no one the wiser. No task is too awkward, and unlike the competition, she...