Pretender's Gambit (Rogue Angel, Book 51)

By Alex Archer, Mel Odom

With one small chess piece, the sport begins…

For archaeologist and television host Annja Creed, a late-night telephone name from the NYPD skill something: there's been a homicide and the police desire her services. the one hyperlink among a lifeless physique and the killer is a small elephant of white jade. An artifact that's long past lacking.

Once belonging to Catherine the good of Russia, the elephant used to be key in a dicy political gambit all these years in the past. yet there's one other tale connected to the artifact—a rumor of an historic hidden treasure. And for a cruelly formidable media rich person with a penchant for tomb-raiding, the elephant is little short of valuable.

Annja needs to make her stream fast, touring throughout a number of continents with simply the help of her awesome sword—purportedly an identical sword wielded by way of Joan of Arc—and a mysterious temple monk. It's a perilous conflict of wits, and one unsuitable circulate may possibly suggest online game over.

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Cyclops (Dirk Pitt Adventures)

By Clive Cussler

Clive Cussler’s bestselling Cyclops is one other swashbuckling NUMA records event! while a financier became treasure hunter vanishes mysteriously, merely Dirk Pitt can hinder a world incident that threatens to begin a war.

A filthy rich American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an vintage blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts towards Florida with a workforce of useless men—Soviet cosmonauts. Dirk Pitt discovers a stunning scheme: a covert workforce folks industrialists has positioned a colony at the moon, a mystery base they'll guard at any price. Threatened in area, the Russians are approximately to strike a savage blow in Cuba—and in simple terms NUMA’s Dirk Pitt can cease them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the chilly ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse a global conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth!

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Dead of Veridon

By Tim Akers

An exhilarating not easy boiled experience set in a steam-punk global. Jacob Burn, outcast scion of a noble family members grew to become petty felony - and lately his ungrateful city's savior - is hurled right into a maeltstrom of conflicting loyalties and lethal alliances because the useless of Veridon start to upward push again.

Trouble reveals Jacob Burn. Kicked out of his apartment, out of his cozy lifestyles, out of every little thing that's commonplace, even grew to become clear of his circle of felony pals and engaging enemies. years after he stored an ungrateful urban from a mad angel, thwarting the plans of each robust faction in Veridon, Jacob continues to be attempting to pull his existence jointly. And nonetheless hassle reveals him.

A undesirable task is going worse, and shortly previous enemies current themselves as allies, and previous neighbors set themselves opposed to Jacob as he attempts to place the useless to relaxation and the residing to justice. every little thing will get more challenging whilst he’s appointed by means of the Council to enquire the increase of the cog-dead, whereas a few carry him individually dependable, and others within the urban paintings to take advantage of the chaos to their virtue.

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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia)

By C. S. Lewis

A mass-market paperback version of Prince Caspian, e-book 4 within the vintage delusion sequence, The Chronicles of Narnia, that includes hide paintings by way of Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white inside illustrations by means of the unique illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.

The Pevensie siblings go back and forth again to Narnia to aid a prince denied his rightful throne as he gathers a military in a determined try and rid his land of a fake king. yet in spite of everything, it's a conflict of honor among males by myself that may come to a decision the destiny of a complete world.

Prince Caspian is the fourth publication in C. S. Lewis's vintage myth sequence, which has been drawing readers of every age right into a magical land the place animals speak and timber stroll for over sixty years. this can be a stand-alone novel, but when you need to learn extra of Lucy and Edmund's adventures, decide up The Voyage of the sunrise Treader, the 5th e-book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

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The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow

By A. J. Mackinnon

Really hilarious books are infrequent. Even rarer are these in keeping with genuine occasions. subscribe to AJ Mackinnon, your captivating and kooky consultant, on an grand voyage in a ship referred to as Jack de Crow. outfitted together with his joyful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea - 4,900 kilometres over salt and clean water, lower than sail, on the oars, or on the finish of a tow-rope - via twelve international locations, 282 locks and various trials and adventures, together with an stumble upon with Balkan pirates.Along the way in which he studies the kindness of strangers, will get very misplaced, and perfects the paintings of sluggish trip.

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A Gypsy's Tale (Volume 2)

By Julie Sandilands

Story sequence ebook 2 Take an motion packed experience, upload a sprinkle of magic, a pinch of Cumbrian myths and legends, and a smattering of beasties - the outcome: A Gypsy's story! Ryan is a tender Gypsy boy: the 12 months is 1967. After being banished from Tyndale via the indignant villagers, he and the opposite Gypsies head north and organize camp in Appleby, usually a secure haven for the traveling group, specially in June whilst the once a year Horse reasonable is held. Ryan befriends Hawkeye, a neighborhood gamekeeper’s son and is readily made acutely aware that whatever sinister lurks within the nation-state surrounding the quiet city. Forming an not likely alliance with Ed and Ollie, (two neighborhood badgers), the men locate themselves misplaced in an international of intrigue and suspense. among them, the comrades need to discover the genuine secret in the back of the evil, and check out to forestall it sooner than it threatens not only the nation-state, however the population of Appleby itself. A cracking sturdy learn for either adults and youngsters.

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The Spirit Rebellion (Eli Monpress Book 2)

By Rachel Aaron

Eli Monpress is really good. he is incorrigible. And he is a thief.

He's additionally nonetheless at huge, which drives Miranda Lyonette loopy. whereas she's been kicked out of the Spirit court docket, Eli's had lots of time to plot his subsequent event. yet now the tables have grew to become, simply because Miranda has a brand new activity -- and a chance to trap a undeniable thief.

Things are approximately to get interesting for Eli. he is picked a winner for his most modern heist. His goal: the Duke of Gaol's well-known "thief-proof" fort. Eli understands Gaol is a capture, yet what is existence with out demanding situations? other than the Duke is likely one of the wealthiest males on the earth, a wizard who ideas his duchy with an iron fist, and an obsessive perfectionist with just one pastime: Eli.

It turns out that everybody is attempting to find Eli Monpress.

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Noah Barleywater Runs Away

By John Boyne

Eight-year-old Noah's difficulties appear more straightforward to accommodate if he does not take into consideration them. So he runs away, taking an untrodden direction during the forest.

Before lengthy, he comes throughout a store. yet this can be no traditional store: it is a toyshop, packed with the main remarkable toys, and brimming with the main awesome magic. And the following Noah meets a truly strange toymaker. The toymaker has a narrative to inform, and it is a tale of experience and beauty and damaged delivers. he's taking Noah on a trip. A trip that may swap his existence.

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Little Fuzzy

Little Fuzzy is the identify of a 1962 technology fiction novel via H. Beam Piper. It was once nominated for the 1963 Hugo Award for top Novel. the tale revolves round deciding upon no matter if a small hairy species came across in the world Zarathustra is sapient. alongside the best way a gradual type of libertarianism that emphasizes sincerity and honesty is endorsed.

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