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Time of Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsJ. D. Robb’s In Death novels have been praised as “Law & Order: SVU—in the future” (Entertainment Weekly). Now, together in one volume, three stories that spotlight Lieutenant Eve Dallas doing what she does best: solving crime with skill, integrity, and passion… “Eternity in Death” A seductive killer is luring in victims with a promise of the impossible—immortality...Categorized as:
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Three in Death by J.D. Robb
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers a potent combination of futuristic suspense, thrills, and passion in these three favorite In Death stories—together in one volume for the first time.INTERLUDE IN DEATHLieutenant Eve Dallas is resigned to the fact that she’s been ordered to give a seminar at a police conference—and that she’ll have to leave Earth to do it...Categorized as:
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Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsControl the past.Save the future. One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered. For Sam, the horror is only beginning. He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted. And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses. But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison...Categorized as:
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Defiant Vow by Delta James
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe had long ago given up on finding her hero. He would make her believe in happy-ever-after again.SerenaThere was a time, a very long time ago when I believed in fairytales and happily-ever-afters. Those dreams died a painful death the night my parents were murdered. I need to get close to Aries Borgia in order to get information about my parents' murderer...Categorized as:
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The Sixth Day by Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison
Special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine take on a ruthless mastermind in the fifth highly anticipated thriller in the New York Times bestselling A Brit in the FBI series. When several major political figures die mysteriously, officials declare the deaths are from natural causes...Categorized as:
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Otherside Picnic: Volume 2 by Iori Miyazawa
Summer has arrived, and university students Sorawo Kamikoshi and Toriko Nishina’s connection deepens as they explore the alternate world known as the Otherside.There's a rescue operation for the U.S... -
The Winter Garden by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSweeping across generations from the 1600s to the present day and inspired by the true story of the leader of the infamous Gunpowder Plot, Nicola Cornick’s latest historical mystery combines past and present story lines that fans of Philippa Gregory and Susanna Kearsley will devour.1605: Anne Catesby fears for her family... -
Gluttony by Lana Pecherczyk
When the city's playboy hero needs a bodyguard... sparks fly!Tony Lazarus is a hero who seems to have everything. Movie star good looks, lethal skill, money, and women falling at his feet. But appearances can be deceiving...Categorized as:
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The Garden of Promises and Lies by Paula Brackston
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe third installment of a bewitching series brimming with charm and charisma that will make fans of Outlander rejoice! (Woman's World Magazine). New York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston's second novel in the Found Things series, Secrets of the Chocolate House, was called a time-swapping romance [that] will please fans of Alice Hoffman (Publishers Weekly)... -
Hold My Heart by Esther M. Soto, Lea Burn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn a manhunt for a serial killer, FBI Special Agent Ileana Harper falls through a break in time, ripping her from the present and everything she knows. After forming an uneasy alliance with the man who comes to her rescue, she unearths long-buried family secrets...Categorized as:
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Guarding His Melody by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsDeaf since childhood, Sebastian Armitage had a promising musical future until his dreams were shattered when he transformed at twelve years old. In a world where enhanced humans are terrorized and imprisoned, his life shrinks around him even more as he suffers the torment of his father’s experimental research to enable him to hear...Categorized as:
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Caught in Time by Julie McElwain
Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret. October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel—back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that’s not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in Lancashire... -
Ghost Ship by James Rollins
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe discovery of a burned body sprawled on a remote Australian beach shatters the vacation plans of Commander Gray Pierce. To thwart an ingenious enemy, he and Seichan are pulled into a centuries-old mystery surrounding a lost convict ship, the Trident. The vessel—with a history of mutiny and stolen treasure—vanished into the mists of time, but nothing stays lost forever... -
Come Back to Me by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy.That's exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father's quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister Ellen from the genetic disease that stole their mother from them...Categorized as:
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Past Be Damned by Rebecca Royce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is the end of days… Ripped from her life and her loves, Teagan spent five hellish years in a demon infested mine. The darkness she experienced, living on within her long after her rescue. Lost without her loves, she worries as the darkness grows—she will not become the evil they have faced...Categorized as:
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Blown Away by Cara Bristol
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrapped in a sandstorm, they’ll battle passion and danger… Breeze O’DayWindswept, sandblasted Sajave isn’t every astrogeologist’s dream assignment, but it’s been my safe zone from a dangerous past, and now I’m about to announce a game-changing discovery. But on the way to finalize my research, my hovercraft gets caught in a violent sandstorm and crashes... -
Shattered Alliance by Tricia Owens
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNow that the terrible truth is out, life has only grown more complicated. Genesis has full control over the men of JC2, forcing them to commit atrocities across the city and destroying Black's reputation in the process. Even if Black succeeds in rescuing his teammates, the JCPD and Captain Dickerson may not be forgiving... -
The Butterfly Code by Sue Wyshynski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShivering, I wind my arms around my ribs.That's when I see him. Dr. Hunter Cayman.The man the town has been whispering about. The man no one really seems to know. The man my father despises.He's across the street, leaning against a steel monster--a low-slung black car, its curves somehow wicked in the night. Rain sparkles like fire on the front hood under the glow of the orange streetlamps...Categorized as:
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Willing to Die by Lisa Jackson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWHEN A KILLER HAS NOTHING TO LOSE The crime scene is as puzzling as it is brutal. Doctor Paul Latham and his wife, Brindel, are found dead in separate beds in their beautiful San Francisco home, each the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. There are no signs of forced entry, and despite the emptied safe it’s clear this murder isn’t random... -
The Strength of His Heart by Victoria Sue
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo protect and serve…. All Vance Connelly ever wanted to do was continue his family’s tradition and join the Tampa Police Department, but his dreams were crushed the day he woke with the enhanced mark on his face. After years of struggling to adjust to life as an enhanced human, by a stroke of luck, he met Talon Valdez and became a proud member of the FBI’s Human Enhanced Rescue Organization... -
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Bobby Phillips is an average fifteen-year-old boy. Until the morning he wakes up and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming. Bobby is just plain invisible... There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to Bobby's new condition; even his dad the physicist can't figure it out. For Bobby that means no school, no friends, no life. He's a missing person. Then he meets Alicia...Categorized as:
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Something New Under the Sun by L.A. Witt
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLiam Lansing is heir to a prominent family of bio-modified vampires. That is, until he chooses the wrong lover and is cast down to the Gutter to scrape for his life. Daniel Harding is heir to Cybernetix and a prince of the corporate Sky. That is, until his ideology drives his father to put a price on his head, forcing him into the Gutter... -
On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 33 ratings“Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of.”—Washington Post“Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.”—William GibsonThe remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed Declare—brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference... -
Archetype by M.D. Waters
In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom but is held captive by the love of two men—one her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only she could remember which is which . . . In the stunning first volume of a two-book series, Emma wakes with her memory wiped clean...Categorized as:
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Krondor: The Assassins by Raymond E. Feist
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsBook Two of The Riftwar Legacy. A place of unparalleled wonders a sprawling kingdom coveted by enemies on all sides; a bustling center of commerce and magic, vibrantly alive and eternally in conflict...Categorized as:
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In Any Lifetime by Marc Guggenheim
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife is still alive in this bold and thought-provoking novel. Dr. Jonas Cullen has spent his career as a groundbreaking physicist defying the odds...Categorized as:
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The Runestone Incident by Neve Maslakovic
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWe found ten men, red from blood and dead… At the center of an expanding mystery: a fabled Viking runestone left behind in the Minnesota woodland of ages past. In this much anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time travel series, St...Categorized as:
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Winter Moon by Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIn Los Angeles, a hot Hollywood director, high on PCP, turns a city street into a fiery apocalypse. Five die. Heroic LAPD officer Jac McGarvey is badly wounded and lands in the hospital for months, uncertain he'll walk again... -
Down the Rabbit Hole by J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome of your favorite New York Times bestselling authors present five all-new stories told through the looking glass—including a new Eve Dallas novella! You’re late for a very important date... Enter a wonderland of mesmerizing tales. It’s a place that’s neither here nor there, where things are never quite as they seem...Categorized as:
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Only Hard Problems by Jennifer Estep
New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Estep continues her Galactic Bonds series with a new, action-packed novella that blends science-fiction technology and magical fantasy elements with a touch of historical romance. This rollicking space opera focuses on a fan-favorite secondary character who’s part hero, part villain, and all arrogance... -
The Rich and the Dead: A Novel by Liv Spector
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTo solve the crime of the century, she'll have to go back in time.... Welcome to Star Island, where Miami's wealthiest residents lead private lives behind the tall gates of their sprawling mansions... -
The Memory Painter: A Novel by Gwendolyn Womack
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwo lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery.Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills..Categorized as:
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The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTwo lovers who have traveled across time. A team of scientists at the cutting edge of memory research. A miracle drug that unlocks an ancient mystery. Bryan Pierce is an internationally famous artist whose paintings have dazzled the world. But there's a secret to his success: Every canvas is inspired by an unusually vivid dream. When Bryan awakes, he possesses extraordinary new skills..Categorized as:
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Where Ivy Dares to Grow by Marielle Thompson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMexican Gothic meets Outlander in this spellbindingly atmospheric timeslip debut, as a woman struggling with struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiancé's mysterious, alluring 19th century ancestor... -
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A Most Extraordinary Pursuit by Juliana Gray
Known for “charming, original characters, a large dose of humor, and a plot that’s fantastic fun,”(New York Times beststelling author Jennifer Ashley) Juliana Gray presents an extraordinary novel of an uncommon pursuit..Categorized as:
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The Little Shop of Found Things by Paula Brackston
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA new series about a young woman whose connection to antiques takes her on a magical adventure, reminiscent of OutlanderNew York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter Paula Brackston returns to her trademark blend of magic and romance to launch a new series guaranteed to enchant her audience even more... -
Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsOriginally published as Secret of the Seventh Son.Assigned to the high-profile "Doomsday" serial killer case, FBI agent Will Piper is hitting dead end after dead end. The victims seem to have nothing in common: age, background, or even the way they die...Categorized as:
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Don't Look Now: and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
"Daphne du Maurier is in a class by herself." -- New York Times A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island...Categorized as:
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Apocalypse Island by Mark Edward Hall
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA Maine city has turned into a killing ground.Is it a serial killer, someone with a penchant for the macabre and a need to destroy?Or is it a darker force, an ancient legend from a mysterious Island come ashore to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting?Amid the backdrop of Portland's burgeoning night scene, Police Lieutenant Rick Jennings discovers that no one is safe, and that evil has many faces...Categorized as:
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Midnight Train to Paris by Juliette Sobanet
Dive into the pages of the bestselling third novel in Juliette Sobanet’s City of Light series for a thrilling ride to Paris that you'll never forget… When hard-hitting DC reporter Jillian Chambord learns that her twin sister, Isla, has been abducted from a luxury train traveling through the Alps, not even the threat of losing her coveted position at The Washington Daily can stop her from...Categorized as:
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The Far Time Incident by Neve Maslakovic
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a professor’s time-travel lab is the scene of a deadly accident, the academic world and the future of St. Sunniva University get thrown into upheaval...Categorized as:
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Where Ivy Dares to Grow: A Gothic Time Travel Love Story by Marielle Thompson
Rated: 3.46 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsMexican Gothic meets Outlander in this spellbinding, atmospheric timeslip debut novel, as a woman struggling with her mental health spends the winter with her cruel in-laws in their eerie, haunting manor that sweeps her back through time and into the arms of her fiancé's mysterious, alluring 19th century ancestor... -
Brain Camp by Susan Kim, Laurence Klavan
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsNeither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents in a last-ditch effort to produce a child worth bragging about...Categorized as:
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The Possessions by Sara Flannery Murphy
Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsIn this electrifying literary debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones...Categorized as:
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Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley
Rated: 3.36 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsCult Classic is a comic mystery about love, memory, and mind control from New York Times-bestselling author and two-time Thurber Prize finalist Sloane Crosley.One idle weeknight in New York’s Chinatown, our heroine is at a reunion dinner with her former colleagues when she ducks out to buy cigarettes. On the way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And...another... -
Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsSay you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself...Categorized as:
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