John Pirhalla
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass...
2) Mickey7
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Series
Mickey7 volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Dying isn't any fun--but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous--even suicidal--the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal--and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when...
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"CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a bighearted mercenary"--
Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he's been living off the grid for over half his life. He's never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and an LSD microdosing...
5) The policy
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All Hunt Jackson has to do is sign the insurance policy on the dotted line - and note the minor provisions: If we abuse you over the phone, don't hang up. If we vandalize you home, don't get mad. If we authorize treatment at an iisolated hospital that's strangely empty, don't get scared. If we require a pounf of flesh for our investment, don't bother running.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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The buried contents of a Nazi train. An aging SS mass-murderer-still on the run. And the wartime secrets of a U.S. presidential hopeful's Jewish family, hidden for seven decades. War crimes investigator and ex-CIA officer Joe Johnson is more than intrigued when he learns of a link between the financing for the presidential candidate's 2012 campaign, the Nazi train, and a ruthless blackmail plot.
7) The walking
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Pub. Date
c2000
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Flowing seamlessly between time and place (from the present-day hassles of HMOs to the once-uncharted territory of the American West), the Bram Stoker Award- winning author's ability to transfix his audience while relinquishing scant details about the foreboding evil is superb.
8) 76 Hours
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Pub. Date
March 14, 2023
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The island of Tarawa, a tiny spit of sand out in the middle of the Pacific, teemed with five hundred pillboxes filled with artillery pieces and highly motivated Japanese soldiers. Their commanding officer encouraged his troops, saying, "It would take one million men one hundred years" to conquer Tarawa. They were convinced that the Americans would be slaughtered before they ever got ashore.
Private Pete "Hardball" Talbot was one of the US Marines...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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The explosive fallout from a top CI man's Corruption and a US Political leader's racism. The ruins of an iconic 450 year old bridge. And a family destroyed by civil war. War crimes investigator Joe Johnson is drawn into a search for a dossier of secret document that disappeared twenty years ago from the president's office in Sarajevo but which have damaging links to the White House.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Set during the heroism and heartbreak of World War I, and in an occupied France in an alternative timeline, Sarah Adlakha's Midnight on the Marne explores the responsibilities love lays on us and the rippling impact of our choices. France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Marchand has important secrets to keep. Her role as a spy has made her both feared and revered, but it has also put her in extreme danger from the approaching German army. American soldier...
12) The vanishing
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Series
Weather warden volume 06
Pub. Date
2007
Description
In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the slaughter. He leaves behind a chilling cryptic message..."This is where it begins."
Miles away, an alarmed mother receives an unsettling letter from her estranged husband, stained with bloody fingerprints.
And all across California, children are becoming affected by a monstrous change-and their parents, by a mounting fear.
Social worker Carrie Daniels and reporter Brian...
13) Antimatter blues
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Series
Mickey7 volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation. Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive--that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony's creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb,...