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1) Prey
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English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
"Terrifying. . . irresistibly suspenseful." — New York Times Book Review
"Holds your attention ruthlessly from start to finish." — Time magazine
A terrifying page–turner in classic Crichton tradition, masterfully combining the elements of a heart–pounding thriller with cutting–edge technology. The result is a tale
...2) Desperation
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English
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There's a place alone Interstate 50 that some call the loneliest place on Earth. It's not a very nice place to live. It's an even worse place to die. It's known as Desperation, Nevada...
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Saucer ; 2
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English
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The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coonts's Saucer brings back the characters, action, and exhilaration that made the original a smash. After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers...
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2010.
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English
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On Jeep Reed's Wings Ranch near Reno, Jeep, her great-niece, former Wall Street banker Magdalene "Mags" Rogers, and their two dogs King and Baxter investigate a pump company employee's disappearance, along with an environmentalist's shooting "suicide" and the identity of a really cold corpse.
7) Bittersweet
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English
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An outcast teacher and her former student pursue life and love on the unforgiving frontier in the acclaimed author's tender Western lesbian romance.
Pennsylvania, 1870s. Schoolteacher Imogen Grelznik is unashamed of who she is, even if she's had to escape her neighbor's hateful judgments more than once. When she meets beautiful young Sarah, Imogen encourages her to celebrate her own individual spirit—a spirit that Sarah's husband...
Pennsylvania, 1870s. Schoolteacher Imogen Grelznik is unashamed of who she is, even if she's had to escape her neighbor's hateful judgments more than once. When she meets beautiful young Sarah, Imogen encourages her to celebrate her own individual spirit—a spirit that Sarah's husband...
9) Skin
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A freak storm has spawned three tornadoes that are bearing down on the town of Summerville.
Yet under the cover of the storm looms a much more ominous threat: A vindictive killer known as Red who's left a string of victims in his wake and is now bent on exacting his final revenge on the unsuspecting town.
But there is an enigma surrounding Red that the FBI is unwilling to admit-closely guarded secrets of something gone terribly wrong beneath the...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
"Cody Hatcher is the kind of teenager you don't want your kids hanging with. That's the book on him and it's why the citizens of Mineral Springs have no problem at all believing that he's guilty of three rapes. His mother, Cheryl, an old lover of Nameless's, is also being harassed by vindictive townspeople. It's against such odds that he must work to prove Cody innocent. There are few to help him and plenty to get in his way. It's a classic situation...
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Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The...
12) Forbidden
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English
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"Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the facade. The reason: Eddy Carmichael, the young woman he rescued in the desert. Outspoken, defiant, and beautiful, Eddy tempts Rhine in ways that could cost him everything ... and the price seems worth paying. Eddy owes her life to Rhine, but she won't risk...
13) The chase
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
"The Chase is a modern The Fugitive with characters only #1 New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Candice Fox can write. "Are you listening, Warden?" "What do you want?" "I want you to let them out." "Which inmates are we talking about?" "All of them." When 650 of the world's most violent human beings pour out of the Pronghorn Correctional Facility into the Nevada Desert, the biggest manhunt in US history begins. For John Kradle, this...
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Nevada's rugged, majestic beauty is a balm for the aches of Hope Gardener's heart. But the ranch she loves is dying of thirst, thanks to the worst drought the area has ever seen, Hope needs a miracle -- and one day it comes to the Valley of the Sun.
A man out of time, Rio is an anachronism in the modern-day West, bringing with him a reputation for finding water in any desert. Hope has no choice but to trust this dark stranger who claims to make dreams...
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Neil Garvin is a seventeen year old living in a small town outside Las Vegas. Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father - the local sheriff - for driving her away. Neil is good-looking, popular, the quarterback of the high school football team and as cruel to his peers as his father is to him. He plans to get out of town on his "million dollar arm," until the night he accidentally commits a terrible crime and his father,...
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"When Callie McBride finds a woman's phone number on a scrap of paper her husband threw away, she thinks her marriage is over. Callie flees to her aunt's Tamarosa Ranch, where she is joined by her sister. The two are shocked to find the place of so many happy childhood memories in disrepair. Worse, Aunt Nash is acting bizarrely -- hoarding old photographs, burying a book in the yard, and railing against a handsome park ranger. But when she pulls back...
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This novel, set in the mountains of West Virginia, tells the story of the life and death of a mountain stage driver.
Joseph Hergesheimer (1880-1954) was an American writer of the early 20th century known for his naturalistic novels of decadent life amongst the very wealthy.
Hergesheimer was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated in a Quaker school and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Hergesheimer
...19) Battleborn
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Description
A debut collection of ten short works reimagines the mythology of the American West and includes stories of a foreigner's arrival at a prostitution ranch, a hermit's attempt to rescue an abused teen, and a woman's role in a friend's degrading Vegas encounter.
20) Gumshoe Rock
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Series
Mortimer Angel ; 4
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The agent in charge of northern Nevada's IRS office, Ronald Soranden, has been missing for almost three months when his skull is dropped into the slashed top of a Mustang convertible, owned by PI Mortimer Angel's assistant. Though he is working on an unrelated embezzlement case, Mort is again thrust into the national spotlight. But the more progress Mort makes on his routine case, the closer he gets to Soranden's murder--and to the most lethal situation...
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