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It's the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests' healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the "Manor Mule" cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. And yet, outside The Manor's immaculately kept grounds, and ancient forest bristles with secrets. The...
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"Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken Point in Big Sur, California. Where better to celebrate a marriage, a family, and a life together than at one of the most stunning places on earth? But now she's traveling solo. To add insult to injury, there's a wedding at Broken Point scheduled during her stay. Ellery...
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It's a snowy winter's night in the city. The bedroom lights are off and it's time to settle down to sleep. But wait! What's that? Strange and scary sounds are coming from the streets outside. What can be making these sounds? Are monsters coming? Don't worry! All will soon be revealed. These monsters aren't here to frighten. They are here to help. Through rhyming text and atmospheric artwork, young readers can first imagine what might be making these...
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In investigating the strange glitches happening all over the town, Minato and Akira reach the center of a large forest, thought to be the source of the mysterious phenomenon. There, they witness a strange scene right before their eyes. Trees floating in midair...huge wild animals...and strange figures in gas masks. Where has Hirata been carried off to" And what is the truth behind the existence of the other world" ?
6) Eruption
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A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
7) Swan song
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When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day--and their way of life.
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"Prohibition is a dangerous time to be a working-class woman in New York City, but Vivian Kelly has finally found some measure of stability and freedom. By day, she's a respectable shop assistant, delivering luxurious dresses to the city's wealthy and elite. At night, she joins the madcap revelry of New York's underworld, serving illegal drinks and dancing into the morning at a secretive, back-alley speakeasy known as the Nightingale. She's found,...
9) First frost
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"It's the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden storm assaults the shores and capsizes a nearby cargo boat. Walt and Henry jump to action, but it's soon revealed by the police who greet them ashore that the sunken boat carried valuable contraband from underground...
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An orphaned boy struggles against his parents' killer to save a planet and discovers a new world of danger...and wonder. Jack, a teenager from Earth, has a dire premonition: something is wrong. However, he cannot imagine the change he will experience in his life when he arrives home one day to discover his parents have been killed. In the midst of his sudden grief, he's transported by two mysterious strangers to a magical world. Together with Victoria,...
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When Lizel mysteriously finds himself in a city that bears odd similarities to his own but clearlyisn't, he quickly comes to terms with the unlikely truth: this is an entirely different world. Even so, laid-back Lizel isn't the type to panic. He immediately sets out to learn more about this strange place, and to help him do so, hires a seasoned adventurer named Gil as his tour guide and protector. Until he's able to find a way home, Lizel figures...
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"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion -- the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
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"No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred. After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests, and boarded-up homes seems stuck in the past in a state that is trying to forget its complex history and...
14) Clete
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"James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave's partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop the ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug. Clete Purcel-private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots-is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete...
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En ce temps la Judée, terre juive, est occupée par les Romains. Le cadavre d'une femme, que l'apparence semble désigner comme romaine, est découvert dans un quartier mal famé de Jérusalem. Afin de résoudre ce meurtre, le juge Shimon de Samarie, à l'éducation romaine mais au service du Sanhédrin de Jérusalem, se retrouve au cœur d'une réalité historique o les querelles entre peuples s'ajoutent aux divisions intra-communautaires. Rabbi...
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La série qui a révélé le talent d'Enrico Marini.
Charmant, risque-tout et aventurier, Olivier Varèse est un journaliste pas tout à fait comme les autres. Prêt à courir tous les dangers pour décrocher un scoop ou le sourire d'une femme, ses enquêtes le mènent aux quatre coins du monde. Entre scènes d'action menées à 300 à l'heure, intrigues politiques et histoires de cœur, Olivier Varèse ne s'arrête jamais !
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Solomon, Joe et Anna, trois flics au passé sombre, sont envoyés à Salem, puis Atlantic City. Que ce soit dans les ruelles poussiéreuses d'une petite ville des États-Unis ou sur les marches de marbre d'une luxueuse villa de la grande ville, la violence sera au rendez-vous. Une série qui se distingue par son traitement pictural.
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Le Réseau Bombyce déploie son intrigue policière dans un univers rétro-futuriste, qui revisite le style Belle Époque.
Ils ont braqué le mauvais coffre chez la mauvaise personne. Mouche et Eustache, deux cambrioleurs spécialisés dans les opérations à hauts risques, se retrouvent plongés dans une sombre histoire de trafic de femmes, de meurtres et de corruption policière. Aux dangers qui pèsent sur eux et sur la bien-aimée d'Eustache...
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L'aventure et le surnaturel cèdent le pas dans Carême à la fantaisie, la tendresse et la poésie.
Deux êtres solitaires se rencontrent par hasard dans une auberge, un soir d'hiver: Martinien Fidèle, frêle représentant en aspirateurs perdu dans la montagne et Aimé Carême, esprit subtil en butte aux moqueries, à cause de son extraordinaire obésité. Une amitié se noue, et désormais, la route sera commune. Mais pas de tout repos: des avaries...
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"On the night before graduation, seven students gather in the basement of their university's rare books library. They're not allowed in the library after closing time, but it's the perfect place for the ritual they want to perform--one borrowed from the Greeks, said to free those who take part in it from the fear of death. And what better time to seek the wisdom of ancient gods than in the hours before they'll scatter in different directions to start...