Mystery

Whispers in the Night

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James Hunt

The Ghost and the Church Lady

When autumn arrives in Frederickport, it brings surprises—some welcomed.Meanwhile, the residents of Beach Drive learn there are some things more frightening than ghosts.
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Anna J. McIntyre

Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

In the latest novel in New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs's FunJungle series, Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident sleuth to solve his most improbable mystery yet—with a victim that's 65 million years old.Teddy was all set for a campout at his friend Sage's family ranch—but then Sage gets terrible news: The skull of a rare dinosaur that was being excavated on his property has mysteriously vanished overnight in the middle of a rainstorm, even though it weighed 500 pounds. Not a single footprint has been left behind. Since the dinosaur was top secret, the police don't believe anyone outside the dig could have stolen it. A T-rex skull can sell for millions of dollars, and everyone is a suspect—including J.J. McCracken, the owner of FunJungle. Meanwhile, Teddy's old foes, the Barksdale twins, have gotten into trouble with an illegally purchased anaconda, and Teddy's girlfriend Summer wants to find out who's...
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Stuart Gibbs

Learning to Breathe

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels comes a richly emotional story about a woman who discovers that taking a leap of faith is better than always wondering what might have been...Brenna O'Brien doesn't believe in happy endings. Not since the love of her life, Pierce McGovern, left her years ago without a word. Now, she leads a quiet life surrounded by her four matchmaking sisters, running a historic movie theater and collecting old wartime letters. But she leaves the letters unopened, preferring to imagine their possibilities rather than risk being disappointed. Then Pierce comes back to town, shattering Brenna's hard-earned peace—and forcing her to re-examine everything, and realize that if she doesn't come to terms with the life she let slip away, she may never have the courage to go after the life she wants.
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Karen White

Mapping the Silence of Dreams

Harris Palmer is an assistant director of security at a lab where scientists made contact with the dream sphere and accidentally brought something back: A sinister gunfighter and his sorceress bride, leaving the fate of the world up to a corporate security agent who never really liked his job in the first place.Harris Palmer is the assistant director of security at a laboratory where scientists have succeeded in making contact with something in the dream sphere, or more specifically, accidentally brought something back. Having touched one of the darker places of the place where people dream, a sinister gunfighter and his sorceress bride have returned to our world, leaving the fate of the world up to a corporate security agent who never really liked his job in the first place. This is a novella and comes from the much larger book, Darkened Passages. This story runs about 40 pages.
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Duane Gundrum

Aztlan

A group of teenagers stumble upon four stolen crop dusters loaded with an extremely potent nerve agent ready to attack Southern California. They steal vital information from the terrorists and flee across the desert fighting for their lives as they are pursed by the terrorists, Special Forces teams trying to rescue them, and the organization behind the terrorists as Los Angeles is ravaged.Aztlan is about four teenagers immersed in a fight for their lives after they stumble upon and disrupt a massive nerve gas attack on Los Angeles. A boy born in the slums of the Gaza Strip is brought to the United States as a sleeper at age twelve after his family was killed by US supplied rockets. He is recruited by a secret organization dedicated to overthrowing the United States Government with their Aztlan Project. They supply him with an extremely lethal nerve agent from the old Soviet Union, pilots willing to be martyrs and four stolen cropdusting planes. As the planes are departing from the desert outside Los Angeles, they are discovered by several teenagers who take some of the terrorist's antidote to the nerve gas, steal a laptop containing vital information regarding the terrorists attack plan, contact Homeland Security and flee across the desert pursued by the terrorists, the secret organization and Special Forces sent to rescue them. Many surprising twists and turns occur during the nonstop action as they are forced to get along and depend on each other as they fight for their lives as Los Angeles is ravaged by the attack. After being rescued they are thrust back into the middle of the fight with the terrorists as they are the only people immune to the nerve gas as Southern California continues to be devastated by the terrorists.
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James Parker

The Enid Blyton Book of Brownies

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Enid Blyton

Stolen Ghouls

STOLEN GHOULS is the is the third book in the Greek Ghouls series: a comedic mystery set in Greece and steeped in ouzo.Life is turning a strange corner for Allie Callas, owner of Finders Keepers, a company dedicated to scoring the ungettable gets and finding things that want to stay lost. Too bad she can't get Leo Samaras, hot cop and stubborn mule, a new pair of eyes. Leo can't see Allie's favorite cake shop—it exists, really it does—but the one thing they both agree on is that there's a cooling body on the Cake Emporium's floor.Leo says heart attack. Allie says murder. The dead man's ghost says murder, too. With a mouth like a drunken sailor and the personality of smallpox, it's hard to imagine who'd want to kill the man. But Allie's having a tough time figuring out whodunit. The foul tempered victim was one step up from a recluse, and Allie can't dig up even one suspect.If that's not annoying enough, Allie is...
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Alex A King

The Forevers

What would you do if you knew the world was going to be destroyed by a huge asteroid in one month? The mesmerising YA debut from the winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel 2021 and the New York Times Bestselling author of We Begin at the End.They knew the end was coming. They saw it ten years back, when it was far enough away in space and time and meaning. The changes were gradual, and then sudden. For Mae and her friends, it means navigating a life where action and consequence are no longer related. Where the popular are both trophies and targets. And where petty grudges turn deadlier with each passing day. So, did Abi Manton jump off the cliff or was she pushed? Her death is just the beginning of the end. With teachers losing control of their students and themselves, and the end rushing toward all of them, it leaves everyone facing the answer to one, simple question... What would you do if you could get away with anything?
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Chris Whitaker

The Hunted (Blood Series Book 0)

The Hunted is a Prequel Novella to Blood of a Werewolf and the blood series. Bonus content included. Devon and Blake have been running from hunters most of their adult lives. They're used to life on the run - so much so that they've got it down to a science. Meet our brother duo before they venture to California and meet up with their destinies in the shape of the O'Rielly sisters.The Hunted is a Prequel Novella to the Blood Series Books starting with Blood of a Werewolf. As an added bonus the first ten and a half chapters of the first book are included with The Hunted. Devon and Blake have been running from hunters most of their adult lives. They're used to life on the run - so much so that they've got it down to a science. Meet our brother duo before they venture to California and meet up with their destinies in the shape of the O'Rielly sisters.
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T. Lynne Tolles

Moon Child

Mother, wife, private investigator. . . vampire. Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now in MOON CHILD, sequel to AMERICAN VAMPIRE, private investigator Samantha Moon is faced with an impossible decision—a decision that no mother should ever have to make. A decision that will change her life, and those she loves, forever. And through it all, Sam finds herself in a lethal game of vampire vs. vampire as a powerful—and desperate—enemy will stop at nothing to claim what he most desires.
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J. R. Rain

Where Angels Fear

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D. K. Hood

Uncoiling the Coil

Lee Coil is always tangled in a bind.  Taking off to the aftermath of the last tragedy, Lee is forced to discover more than she ever imagined.  Torn between who she can trust and who she can't, Lee knows there are no easy answers.  

Trekking through Torbelli with Darren by her side, unwelcome and unwanted, Lee fights to uncover the truth.  Sifting through lies and wrongful judgments, Lee is determined to find the truth--even if it hurts her in the end.  

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Riley Moreno

Survival Tactics

Ten genre-spanning speculative tales of worlds both strange and familiar...On a planet that should have been long abandoned, a salvage operator discovers an impossible ecosystem...On an isolated mining outpost on Mercury, a woman dreams of suicide-and wakes to find other people dead...Alone in a crowded city, a woman seeks the origins of a haunted clock connected to a captivating stranger... Plus seven more stories of aliens, poltergeists, threatening polygons, and carnivorous rabbits, exploring why we need each other-and why sometimes we don't.Includes three adventures set in Bonesteel's acclaimed Central Corps universe.This edition contains the full text of the original 2020 release and adds three new stories, two never before published.
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Elizabeth Bonesteel

City Spies

In this thrilling new series that Stuart Gibbs called "a must-read," Edgar Award–winner James Ponti brings together five kids from all over the world and transforms them into real-life spies—perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith's Spy School for Girls.Sara Martinez is a hacker. She recently broke into the New York City foster care system to expose her foster parents as cheats and lawbreakers. However, instead of being hailed as a hero, Sara finds herself facing years in a juvenile detention facility and banned from using computers for the same stretch of time. Enter Mother, a British spy who not only gets Sara released from jail but also offers her a chance to make a home for herself within a secret MI5 agency. Operating out of a base in Scotland, the City Spies are five kids from various parts of the world. When they're not attending the local boarding school, they're honing their unique skills, such as sleight of hand,...
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James Ponti
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